The May challenge colors were inspired by a visit to the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park located in San Francisco by Jaycee Gaspar. Jaycee is the Inspiration Challenge Host. The colors are Parrot: Tropical Garden, Marigold: Golden Sunset and Purple Wine: Rose Petal.

My card was created using the beautiful inked color combination for the three die cut layered flowers and accent leaves, a debossing plate for the background and a mini sentiment banner. The photos highlight how I created the card.

PHOTOS AND SUPPLIES FOR THE CARD

• Altenew Craft A Flower-Epiphyllum layering die set
• Altenew Crisp Inks-Pink Diamond, Rubellite, Orange Cream, Sunkissed Razzleberry and Pinkalicous
• Altenew ink cubes in yellow and orange
• Altenew ink cubes in shades of green for the leaves
• Altenew debossing plate
  • Avery Elle Clear Shimmer Spray

PHOTOS OF THE CARD AND DIRECTIONS

Altenew ink pads used to create the shades of inked card stock starting with the lightest color on white card stock, I continued to ink white card stock to create the darker shades for the layered petals.

Altenew has a paper pad of shades of green card stock, I used inked paper instead for the leaves.

Here are the inked layering petals I inked for each layered piece, the leaves and the tiny pieces for the center of the flowers.

I inked the leaves and then used the lightest shade of green ink to create the background and then debossed the paper.

I used wet glue to create the layered flowers. Each flower had a small die cut key in the center of each piece as a guide to create each flower. I used foam tape to adhere the flowers to add dimension and tucked the leaves behind the flowers. The background piece was inked using a light shade of green ink, debossed and a rounded corner die on a half sheet of white cardstock. A finishing touch, I sprayed the card front using Avery Elle clear shimmery spray. The shine is a great accent for the layered pieces. flowers. Inside sentiment -Take Time to Smell the Flowers from the Hero Arts and Altenew Craft Your Life stamp set.