How To Make A Lily Arch Easter Card

I’m always on the lookout for different cards to make for Easter. And, the lily arch makes it so easy to make an elegant one.

Lets jump right in to make this one.

Lily Arch Heat Embossing

We’ll begin by heat embossing the image with gold embossing powder. First, we’ll brush an A2 size (4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″) piece of white cardstock with anti-static powder. I like to use a stamp positioning tool when I do this. As a result, I can stamp the image twice to ensure that I get a good one. So, place the cardstock in the stamp positioning tool and pick up the stamp with the lid.

Load the stamp with watermark ink and then lower the lid over the cardstock to stamp the image. And repeat. Remove the cardstock and pour gold embossing powder over the stamped image. Let it sit for a minute and then pour it off. Let your heat tool warm up for at least forty seconds. Then, heat the powder until it’s smooth and melted.

While you’re at it, go ahead and heat emboss the “Happy Easter” sentiment on white cardstock too.

Coloring

Easter lilies are white, but they have the slightest bit of yellow-green in their centers. We’re going to use water-reactive colored pencils to achieve this. These pencils blend beautifully, so we’ll begin with yellow-green right in the center and then we’ll color towards the middle of each petal with yellow. Then, we’ll use a little darker yellow for the stamen, the little things that stick out from the center of the flower. Lastly, we’ll use two shades of green to color the stems.

The Derwent Inktense pencil colors that I use in my card are:

• Sherbet Yellow
• Cadmium Yellow
• Apple Green
• Ioma Green
• Field Green

I like to use a watercolor brush marker filled with water to activate the pigment and blend it.

Die-cutting

The set comes with a coordinating die that perfectly cuts out around all of the flowers and their stems. To get a perfect cut, place the die over the image so that there is even space around the image. And, it will help to get it perfectly placed when you pay close attention to the small spaces that the die will cut.

We need to cut three more using the Lily Arch die from white cardstock. These will be used later to create dimension on our card.

We’re using a simple background that mimics the arch in the design. The Essential Arches die set is perfect for this! Die-cut an arch from fern cardstock using the fifth-largest arch die. Following that, use the fourth-largest one to die-cut one from brushed gold.

There’s one last thing to die-cut, and that’s the sentiment. We’re going to layer it too, so go ahead and die-cut the shadow from white cardstock three more times.

Lily Arch Card Assembly

Fasten the two arch die-cuts together using a tape runner and make sure that the smaller one is centered on the gold one. After that, you can add it to the card front, again using the tape runner and centering it.

Now we can layer up the focal point and the sentiment with the extra layers and liquid glue. It makes it easier to get them aligned if you use three fingers to hold one piece while you add the next. And finally, we’ll use liquid glue to add them to the card front. And that’s it.

Lily Arch Card Supply List