Hydrangea & Butterfly Handmade Card | Workshop Inspiration

I had colored a piece of watercolor cardstock with pink and blue watercolor. The colors blended beautifully, and once I added the ink, they turned into all those lovely lavender variations.

And instead of hydrangeas, I used flowers from my Craft-A-Flower: Forget-Me-Not Layering Die Set, die cut them from this watercolored cardstock and layered them together to create my own version of the flower.

And honestly, I really like how that turned out. It gives the card a slightly different look while still keeping the feeling of Ishani’s original design.

This card is also much fuller than I would normally make it. I usually like giving my elements a little more room to breathe, but this time I decided to keep the fullness of the original design.

There was a good reason for that.

I made this card for a crafty friend who absolutely loves butterflies, and I wanted to make her something that felt like a big, colorful bunch of happiness. So for this card, I wasn't trying to make it fit my usual style. I was making it especially for her.

And I think that is something I am learning more and more: inspiration doesn't always mean changing everything until it looks like me. Sometimes it means keeping what works, changing what I don't have, and knowing why I'm making the choices I make.

Ishani's workshop gave me the starting point, and the forget-me-not flowers and a whole lot of layering made it mine.

And yes… this card is definitely full.

But sometimes a card for someone special is allowed to be a little extra.