Peace and Comfort Magnolia Card

A fellow member of my weekly Bible study recently lost her grandpa, and I wanted to make a special sympathy card for her. I die cut Altenew's Craft-A-Flower: Magnolia flower out of 5 shades of blue cardstock and then die cut the pieces for the leaves from the set using 3 shades of green cardstock. The flower center was die cut out of a few layers of fun foam and then out of cardstock I had painted gold using acrylic paint. I adhered all the pieces using a combination of Art Glitter liquid glue and Altenew's new 1/4-inch wide and 1/8-inch thick foam tape. 

I created a watercolored and splattered panel that is 5X7 inches using Prussian Blue from Altenew's Palette Perfection Artists' Watercolor Tube Set for the background of this card. I love Altenew's new Petal Palette and used it for this project. 

I felt the magnolia needed something behind it to break up all the blue, so I again used the cardstock I had painted using gold acrylic paint. I die cut the second largest of Altenew's Ornate Nesting Die Set and adhered it to the bottom left side of the card as a background for my magnolia and leaves. Then I added the flower and leaves to the card. 

To finish the card, I used a press plate from the Beautiful Butterfly Press Plate set and stamped the "sending peace and comfort" sentiment onto some cardstock I had painted and splattered with some of the leftover Prussian Blue watercolor. I used Altenew's new 1/4-inch wide and 1/8-inch thick foam tape to adhere the sentiment in place. 

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Challenges I'm entering:

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (4/5 for the week; 4/10 for the challenge; ends 3/26/25))

 As You Like It Challenge: Favorite: Monochrome or Colorful and Why: I hope it's ok to love both! In this case, I love monochromatic cards for the way they can convey emotion so well. Blue is a soothing color, so I choose it for this sympathy card.  (2/3; ends 3/19/25)

Ellibelle's Corner: Ellibelle's Garden Party: ATG with things found in a garden (2/5; ends 4/7/25)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with optional twist of weather related  (4/6; ends at the end of the month)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges**********: ATG (1/3; ends 3/24/25) C10

Crafty Catz: ATG with optional twist of add a sentiment (4/5; ends 3/21/25)

Double Trouble Paper Crafting: Thing 1: 3 + colors of cardstock (8 total with 5 blue and 3 green), 2 colors of paint (Prussian Blue watercolor and gold acrylic), 1 flower   Thing 2-3: I entered my card in Beautiful Blossoms Challenge (1/4; ends 3/30/25)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (1/6; ends 4/12/25)

AECP Homework for Clean & Simple Boutique Cards: Lesson 3: Add foil or other metallics to your card (I used cardstock I had painted with gold acrylic paint for the magnolia center and the Ornate Nested Die)