My husband texted me from work asking if I had a card for a co-worker who has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. When the husband asks you if you have a card, you go above and beyond to justify your every growing stash of craft supplies. So of course I made not one, but 3 cards for him (really, me) to send to his coworker.
Since it was breast cancer, I went with a pink color scheme. I honestly don't think I've ever used this much pink card stock. As things would have it, I just got in the mail this weekend the Altenew Rose Flurries 3D dies (thereby again justifying my expansion of craft supplies).
Honestly, I could not decide which dies by Quietfire Design I wanted to use - SO MANY GOOD ONES - that I settled for these 3. "Brave" and "Thinking of you" would also have been good choices. What else? I'd love for you to leave a comment and tell me.
But on to how I made these cards. I die cut each of the Quietfire Design word die cut in two shades of pink. I also die cut a whole lot of roses. If you don't have these, any flower dies or stamps would work.
Above is my mess of die cuts - I had tried using Copics to color the flowers but decided scraps of pink card stock worked better and faster.
I then arranged them onto 3 white card bases to see how I wanted them and if I needed to die cut any more. (I did need more leaves) I also decided to add a circle frame to the Hope card because the Courage card looked really nice with the Flourished Oval frame.
And here they are all done!
Here's a close up of the other two. I trimmed the roses where I needed to and popped up some for dimension.
The Flourished Oval Frame and Circle Frame were all die cut 3 times and stacked.
So which would you send?
P.S. So there are a LOT of dies that come with the Altenew Rose Flurries 3D set and it got a little confusing when I needed a mid pink of light pink in a certain layer for a specific rose. I came up with this system to quickly identify the dies. The first base layer gets a single dot. The second layer gets 2 dots and so on. Each set of roses got the dots in the same color - kind of hard to see - but paint pens worked great for marking the dies. If you have this set of any layered dies, I found this very helpful.
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What beautiful cards! All the best to your husband's co-worker.
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