Layered Watercolour Rose Card with Sentiment

Select white cardstock and choose your colour palette—pinks for the rose petals and greens for the leaves.

Ink up the first layer (numbered layer one) with your chosen pink distress ink, applying it to the flower portion of the stamp.

Ink the green distress ink onto the leaf portions of the same stamp layer.

Spray the inked stamp lightly with water to create a watercolour finish before stamping onto your white cardstock.

Clean your stamp and ink up layer two with a different shade of pink and green, then stamp directly on top of layer one, aligning carefully.

Spray this layer lightly with water again for consistency.

Ink up layer three (the detail layer) with a darker shade such as mahogany or festive berries for the flowers and a deeper green for the leaves.

Stamp the final layer on top, aligning it carefully to create the shadow effect that gives the rose dimension.

Place the coordinating die plate around your finished rose image and run through your die-cutting machine to cut a decorative border with approximately one millimetre around the artwork.

Adhere the rose to a white top-folding card base using foam pads for dimension.

Stamp your chosen sentiment (such as 'Be the reason someone smiles today') onto a contrasting cardstock in gold ink.

Heat-set the sentiment with an embossing gun, then adhere it to the card with foam pads, positioning it to complement the rose.