Flowers & Washi - Simple Floral Card

I hope your weekend went well and you managed to enjoy some of the glorious spring weather around. After a day of gardening I became all floral inspired so excuse me if the following few days are very flower orientated but I hope this gives you plenty of ideas!

I have always loved Washi tape and have collected many rolls of tape over the years and I really have not got round to really making the most of this crafting product - which I aim to rectify over the coming weeks. Washi tape gave me a great basis for this card.

This card was so simple but provided quite an eye-catching finish. The longest part was just cutting out the stamped flowers.

I started with the three Washi tape strips. If you are not going for pinks choose three complimenting colours - one bold colour, one mixed and one geometric seems to work pretty well. I wanted the Washi tape to look like flags but did not want them to be exactly the same length so I placed these first before stamping the flower motif and cutting the stamped images out.

Once I had the flowers cut out I coloured them using Spectrum Noir pens from the pastel collection. I added the flowers at differing points of the Washi tape strips and tried to match the colours of the flowers with a co-ordinating strip.

The adornments were a nice way of adding some sparkle to the card. I added three adhesive sentiment strips and several pink gems and butterflies.

Keeping it simple meant that it was quite a quick card to put together and made use of some of the Washi tape I have collected over the last couple of years.