Cross w/Spring Lilies

Hello Blogger Friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with The Charmed Life Blog today. 

It's the day after Easter and I hope your celebration was a good one. We started our day with our church service. Then we had my hubby's family here for dinner. It was a great family time. 

Orthodox Easter is this coming Sunday, so I feel like I am still okay to be showing the cards I made for Easter 2023.

 

I started this card with the layout. I am using a sketch that I had saved on one of my Pinterest boards. I thought it would work great to show off the cross and allow me also to use some background designer paper. This particular sketch gave all the dimensions for the layers so it made creating the card a bit easier.

I just had to select my card colors and I decided on shades of purples since purple is the color of royalty.

For the center panel I used a white dotted tulle and an olive satin ribbon. The olive picks up the stem of the lilies. For the oval panel, I used the 3rd largest CottageCutz Oval and Stitched Oval dies.

I cut my cross using 2 shades of Stampin' Up purple cardstock- gorgeous grape & highland heather. The lilies are cut in a paler shade of Stampin' Up purple -purple posy with old olive for the stem. I thought that color would look better against the white background.

Next, I stamped my sentiment in the heather shade of ink. It's the top layer of the cross color. Attached to the ovals with dimensional adhesive.

Now that all the panels, card base and cross are cut, I am ready to start card assembly. I used double sided tape for all the panels. I secured the ribbons with glue dots.

To complete my card, I secured the oval image panel with dimensional adhesive and attached to the card base with double sided tape. That's it for me for this post. I have 2 more Easter cards to show so stop back the next 2 days and check out my cards. 

card details:

Stamps: Jesus paid it all (SNSS)

Paper: gorgeous grape, highland heather, purple posy, old olive, so saffron (Stampin' Up), Designer Paper (Momenta)

Paper Size: A2

Ink: highland heather (Stampin'-Up)

Accessories: Cross with Spring Lilies, Oval & Oval stitched dies (CottageCutz), old olive satin ribbon white dotted tulle (Stampin' Up)

I am also entering: 

1.  Use Your Stuff has an Easter challenge. 

2.  Crafty Calendar Challenge is to use die cuts. 

3.  Polkadoodles has an Easter challenge. 

4.  Sweet Stampin' wants us to use die or punches + stamping. 

5.  MTTC #505 wants us to use Easter or Spring flowers. I have lilies.