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!