Floral Cross Easter Card

Happy Easter weekend to all my friends and family! I wanted to share this card that I made with the Angie Blom Digital Designs Floral Cross set. We had a lovely time today with family at the lake and I gifted this card to my sister-in-law. Scroll down for creative details and some tips that I have for working with digital images in Microsoft Word. 

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I love making religious cards, particularly around significant holidays. I haven't bought any new Easter stamp sets with a religious theme in awhile, so I thought I would go digital with this card. I picked it up on a 40% off sale going on through this weekend at Angie Blom Digital Designs.

Isn't it just beautiful?

Once I downloaded the images, I used the png files and created my scene in Microsoft Word. 

My best tip for working with digital images in Word is once you insert your image as a picture, right click on the image and select wrap text, then scroll over and select "in front of text". Then you'll be able to move your image around where you want it. When you add additional images, you'll need to do this for each image. You may have to select images to go behind the text as well. I always put my main image in front.

I added another Angie Blom digital image from the Mixed Media Elements called Smear, at the base of my cross. Actually, I added it twice, to give a shadow effect. I also changed the color to print in gray under the Format Picture settings.

Once I added these images, including the sentiment, I had to make sure and bring the cross forward again so my cross would be on top of the images. Once you get the hang of rearranging digital images in Word, it's super easy. I love having the ability of re-arranging and re-sizing my images.

I colored my flowers with Copic markers and emphasized my center stems with a white gel pen. My images were printed on Neenah heavyweight cardstock which is ideal for coloring with Copics. You can always print on mixed media paper for watercoloring, just be careful not to oversaturate as your printed image can bleed, depending on what kind of ink your printer uses.

Here are the Copic markers that I used:

Cross: E37, E33, E31, E00

Flowers: V15, V12, BV000, BG13, BG11

Leaves:YG11, YG 17, YG25

I layered my panel on an A2 sized white card and had some lovely kraft envelopes in my stash that really went well with my card.

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Thanks so much for popping in. I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend! He is risen!

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