Dainty Delights and Paper Florist trellis/fence cards

I had a ton of fun a few months ago with a new-to-me card design called a fence card and I recently revisited this card design! It’s the PERFECT use of my stash of 1/2” strips of card stock and I had enough of these strips to make several cards… The perfect stash buster of strips for sure! 

I started with the Paper Florist Dies. For the first card, I chose pastel colors including Balmy Blue, Fresh Freesia and the retired Mint Macaron. For all of my fence cards, I added a layer under the card front so that any writing inside the card would not show through the slats! The softness of the color scheme suggested that a get well message might be well suited for this card:

And similar to this one, I created one in Petal Pink and Balmy Blue, and added a bit of background texture using one of then designs in the Foursquare Decorative Masks set and a blending brush with Balmy Blue ink. And some edging color using Sponge Daubers on the petals before I curled the petal edges slightly.

Here’s a closeup of the mask:

Still with the Paper Florist Dies but choosing a different, BOLD color scheme, I chose red! Poppy Parade to be exact. Between the red and the Garden Green leaves, it initially looked very Christmasy, which wasn’t the look I was going for. So I added a die cut in dotted black on top, and under the fencing, I added some paper from my stash that had irregularly drawn black stripes. And to get more depth and a shadow effect, I die cut the leaves in Garden Green, then topped them slightly offset in Mint Macaron. (I really miss that color…). To prevent the black twine from slipping off the edge of the sentiment piece, I clipped a tiny half-hole punched and wound my twine in the depression to keep it put.

For the next two cards, I used the Dainty Delights bundle of stamps and dies. I stamped, colored and die cut two of the stamp images, and added a die cut of the angled stem underneath them. I used another one of the stencils in the Foursquare Masks set for a bit of background color and texture. I added a little more color this time compared to the blue in the Paper Florist card.

And then I created a card using only die cuts from the Dainty Delights set and cut them using Daffodil Delight card stock. I used the same green angled stem but cut it in two to create two shorter stems. I then decorated the stems adding the cheery little daisy like flowers (brown eyed Susans?). And I used yet another of the Foursquare Decorative Masks (there are 4 in the set):

Oh, the inside of this card is stamped: …You’d be better already!

Time to get on with the day…I’ve loved making these fence cards and I can imagine that when my stack of 1/2” scraps pile up again, I’ll be stash busting and making a bunch of these! Hope you enjoyed this post…have a wonderful day!

Alternate Designs Paper Pumpkin December 2023 Kit All The Best

It took me a while to start with this kit but once I did, it created sooooo many cards! Here’s the 6 different designs I’ve made so far, with still some components left to use!

Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Alternative Designs

I’ll start with the bottom row since those are most like the kit’s original designs. The bottom left card is a Z-Fold. The original card base was cut into two, trimmed down slightly and mounted on Balmy Blue card stock. Then it was adhered to a Basic White card base that was folded into a Z-Fold base. I made 5 of these cards and gave them away with the original printed envelope. 

Alternate design: Z-Fold Dec 2023 Paper Pumpkin All the Best

In the center card design, I cut the card base in half again, trimmed 1/4” off each side and mounted it on a standard A2 card base. I made 2 or 3 of these pretty much as the kit intended, except for the sentiment and being mounted on a white card base!

I remembered seeing a Pinterest pin where someone had used the Deckled Circle die on the envelope to partially cut the flower from the envelope front. (At this point I had 4 envelopes to play with.) I thought that it looked neat and a bit different. I opted to add a stamped and adhered sentiment instead of stamping directly on the circle panel. The card base was again cut into two and trimmed down slightly to be glued to a Basic White card base.

Alternate Design Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Deckled Circle

By this time, I was a little “done” with the blue and white cards, having made 8 or so of them. So the cards on the top row purposely didn’t use any blue! If you’ve been counting, I had 3 envelopes left at this point. The flower was die cut from one envelope using the Deckled Rectangles dies. I put that on an Old Olive mat one rectangle size larger, added some twine, and adhered it on a Daffodil Delight panel that had been dry embossed with the Exposed Brick embossing folder. A few light green gems finished off this card design and I made 3 of these!

Paper Pumpkin Alternate Card design Dec 2023

I loved the gold panels that came with this kit and purposely left them for last. I decided to adapt them to an Asian theme and cut each of the three panels into two. Then I chose two different patterns of Japanese Washi paper to be the background for each card:

 

Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Alternate Designs Asian

I couldn’t quite decide if I was going to angle the Distressed Gold mats or align it straight with the gold flower panels so I did both on the black Washi panels, but decided to only angle it on the red Washi design. There were 3 red cards and 3 black ones in the end. Oh and I embossed the gold flower panels with the Textured Textile embossing folder. Here’s a closeup:

Paper Pumpkin Dec 2023 Alternate Design Asian

And believe it or not, I thought the embossing on the actual flower itself didn’t look great so I used my bone folder to gently flatten out some of the embossing!! I left it on the background though as that’s what I wanted…a little bit of texture!

And I have extra pieces still left that I can create more cards with! But I think I need to stop here and move on to the many projects I want to work on next.

I hope you are inspired… Thanks for stopping by…have a wonderful day