Kick up your card design with some bright metallic flowers. Use the same die to create two different card looks for Spring.
Our designer, Julie, loves this big floral die cut because of how much she can do with it. Julie said, “I tried a new technique on the little glittery orange flowers. The best part about these projects is that you only need a couple of die sets to make these cards (other than 1 plain rectangle die). The colors look very tropical to me; like a vacay to Hawaii!” We love her creation and hope you feel inspired by this awesome creation. Follow along as Julie shows off how to make bright metallic flowers two ways.
How to make this card:
- I started by using a glue stick to attach a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil to plain card stock & die cutting a bunch of the little flowers.
- Then I found some glitter orange nail polish & gave the technique a try. I brushed the nail polish onto the back of the flowers, waited for less than a minute to let the polish thicken a bit, then slowly drug the brush across the open areas. (The tutorial for the nail polish flowers is HERE.)
- I ended up doing 1 section at a time. If you get it correctly, the polish will form an almost transparent bubble across the opening. Let it dry a minute, then add another coat for more color. I tried, but just could not get it to work on the larger flowers & ended up only painting the frame of the larger flower (on the 2nd card).
- For the large floral, I die cut it out of purple lava mirror card (it looks really cool in person), pushed out all the inside pieces, then attached it to a piece of white card board.
- I die cut it again out of a piece of glossy, brayered background I had in my stash, & pieced all them into the purple outline.
- The 2 white layers were die cut w/ the dot dash rectangles & attached to more of the purple mirror card.
- My little nail polish flowers were added as accents on the first card.
- On the 2nd card, The purple mirror card already had the floral cut out of it, so I cut it again using the biggest Dot Dash Oval & put the rainbow colored outline inside it.
- I used a white pearl card stock to put behind it then a narrow border of the rainbow brayered background before attaching it to the largest purple mirror bg.
- I had the outline of the little flower left, too. It was painted w/ the glitter nail polish & since I wasn’t able to get the nail polish to fill in the petal openings, I cut some petals from the left over rainbow bg.
