Fussy-Cut Floral Card with Watercolour and Oil Pastel Pencils

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Create a beautiful card featuring stamped daffodil and blossom designs, coloured with watercolour or oil pastel pencils, then fussy-cut around the flowers and mounted onto a white card base with sequin embellishments. The result is an elegant card with dimensional detail and sparkle.

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Step by step

1. Stamp the daffodil design onto white cardstock using the make memories stamp set. ▶ watch 30:30
2. Stamp the blossom design onto a second piece of white cardstock. ▶ watch 32:00
3. Colour the first stamped design using watercolour pencils, scratching colour onto the petals and leaves, then blending with a wet brush. ▶ watch 33:15
4. Colour the second stamped design using oil pastel pencils, laying down a light colour first, then adding darker shades and blending with circular motions. ▶ watch 36:30
5. Draw two faint pencil lines down either side of the coloured flower design to mark your cutting lines. ▶ watch 40:45
6. Cut along the pencil lines using scissors, keeping the lines as straight as possible. ▶ watch 42:30
7. Fussy-cut carefully around the flower petals and details, twisting the card rather than the scissors to maintain a neat edge. ▶ watch 44:00
8. Stamp a sentiment from the set onto the coloured panel. ▶ watch 47:30
9. Glue white sequins onto the coloured panel for sparkle and dimension. ▶ watch 50:00
10. Mount the decorated panel onto the white cardstock base using glue. ▶ watch 51:30

Tips from the show

• When using watercolour pencils, scratch a small amount of colour onto the card first, then drag it out with a wet brush—a little colour goes a long way.
• Oil pastel pencils blend beautifully when you layer a light colour, add a darker shade, then go back over with the light colour using circular motions.
• If you don't have a die-cutting machine, simply use scissors to cut out your design—fussy-cutting around the flowers creates a lovely dimensional effect.

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