Card without stamp or dies

Hello dear crafters,

Hope your day is going well. My days are always better if I get to craft the previous night. I have always wanted to do cards similar to those where one uses stamps and dies. Alas, I dont have many stamps and no dies! But don't worry, if you sail in the same boat, today I have step by step instructions on how to make a card without stamps and coordinating dies but still make it look as if you used them. The only stamp I have used here is for the sentiment, which you can always handletter (I love hand lettering, just that I wanted to use my newly bought stamps for this card). The flowers and the leaves are made with resist technique - Emboss resist in this case.

I began with taking a watercolour paper and Perfect medium embossing pen, to scribble flowers on the paper. Because I am not very good at free hand drawing, I decided to do a flower arrangement like a card with free hand flowers that I had made with a similar technique, you can see it here .

I used a white embossing powder (EP) to heat set the scribbled flower. It's a little difficult to make it in the pictures, but as I colour it, you'll be able to see the flowers better.

I made three such flowers and four leaves and heat embossed all of them with white EP .To colour these flowers and leaves I chose the colours of the Muse , at the Muse challenge. I used a wet brush to first coat the flower with water and then picked colours from the Koi brush pen on to my flowers.

Similarly, I coloured all the flowers and the leaves too. I let the colours bleed out as I thought it gave an effect of stamping.

I used scissors to fussy cut the images.

Now that my main elements were ready, I took a card base and put a pretty pattern paper on it. I used Purely sentiment stamps - labeled  from Mudra craft stamps for a contrasting effect and stamped on a piece of cardstock.

Using foam tape I arranged the the flowers, leaves and the sentiment and stuck on a white cardstock and then stuck it on the patterned paper cardbase. I used spectrum noir glitter pen on the flowers for some sheen and embellished with sequins, in similar colour as of the flower arrangement.

Here's the finished card from an angle to show you the dimensions.

I hope you liked this card and would try this easy way to make beautiful cards.

I would like to enter this card for 

Musecardclub  - using the colours, sentiment and arrangement of the Muse.

Theflowerchallenge - embossing

paruscardmakingchallenges - Birthday card

Craftingfromtheheartchallenge

pennyschallenges

Pammiesinkypinkieschallenges

thatscraftychallenges

craftysentiments