Wisteria Wishes Bendy Card

I've been experimenting with my SU! Wisteria Wishes bundle recently, and this time around I used the wisteria dies to create a tree alongside my stamped wisteria flowers and die cut leaves and branches. I think the wisteria stamps and dies from this set work great to create trees when they are turned upside down, and I plan to use the stamps to make a forest background soon.

For this card, I used a cut file called "Bendy Card with Fence" from the Silhouette Design Store to create the card base. I had some woodgrain card stock that I used for the fence section, and then I used some blue card stock for the back of the card and some green for the middle part. 

The 2 cards I made are very similar, but I played around a bit with ink blending on the card on the left because I felt like the first card I made was a little too plain with just the clouds in the sky. I also added a stamped sentiment ("Hang in there") from the SU! bundle to the card on the left and die cut it with a Gina Marie Designs stitched die before adhering it with foam tape. I have a friend going through some very challenging things right now, and I think this card will give her a smile. The card on the right will probably become a birthday card with a birthday sentiment on the back. 

For the purple wisteria flowers, I stamped several sets of them using my MISTI for the large base of the flowers and then used an acrylic block for the darker purple accent stamping. I added some die cut butterflies (you have to have butterflies with flowers, right?😁) and arranged the die cut leaves and branches along the top of the fence. I used Art Glitter glue to adhere the greenery and some of the wisteria flowers. The rest of the wisteria flowers were adhered with foam tape to give them some dimension. On the card with the cut out clouds (which were made using my Silhouette Cameo), I also used foam tape to add the clouds. 

For the first "tree" (on the card on the right), I just used 2 colors of green card stock for the two layers of the tree and then adhered the tree beside the fence with Art Glitter glue. For the card on the left, I die cut a layer of adhesive foam and then glued the 2 different sized "tree" layers which I had die cut from green card stock to the foam after blending some darker green ink onto the green card stock for the top layer. For this section of the card, I also cut some grass pieces out of green card stock using my Silhouette Cameo and then blended some darker green onto the grass pieces. 

For the back of the cards, I used blue card stock and added some brown ink using a blending brush to create dirt for my print and cut bike. I prefer the background I ink blended using 3 colors of blue ink to the one with the white clouds. 

 Challenges I'm entering:

Art Impressions Blog: Don't Fence Me In week #2 (artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com): Don't Fence Me In (1/2; ends 5/11/23)

Butterfly Challenge (butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com): I used straw yellow and sky blue and included butterflies (3/3; ends 5/9/23)

Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #56 (secretstamper.com): ATG with a fun fold (ends 5/12/23)

Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com): ATG (3/3; ends 5/12/23)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 5/18/23)

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite: Spring or Summer. Wow! Tough choice! I love both seasons, but I think I like summer best because I don't have as many commitments in the summer time and can enjoy gardening, traveling, and picking sweet cherries (my favorite fruit!) (3/3; ends 5/18/23)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with option of embossing (3/6; ends at the end of the month)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (3/5 for the week; 4/10 for the challenge; ends 5/10/23)

Crafty Gals Corner (craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com): Easter/Spring (3/3; ends 5/9/23)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG with option of add another thing--I added lots of wisteria flowers (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog (cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge -1st to the 25th every month: Fun folds and/or summer fun (3/5; ends at the end of the month) Top 5 Pick 6/1/23

Scribble Challenge (rabiscochallenge.blogspot.com): ATG (3/5; ends at the end of the month)

Let's Craft and Create (letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com): ATG (1/8; ends at the end of the month)

Crafty Catz (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com): 1/3; ends 5/10/23)

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG (1/3; ends 5/19/23)

Allsorts challenge blog: April Showers Bring May Flowers (1/3; ends 5/14)

Stamping Sensations (sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com): Amything stamped with the option to use a stencil (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

We Love Stamping: Anything stamped with the option of: In the Garden (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

We Love to Create mixed media Challenge Blog...sponsored by Polkadoodles (welove2create.blogspot.com): ATG mixed media/creative (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus with an optional mood board (1/8; ends 5/15/23)