Momenta Lemons and Blossoms

I made these 3 cards using the Momenta Lemon die set.

Here are the dies included in this set. You can see the solid dies emboss texture and diecuts the shapes.

I used watercolor paper because it has a similar bumpy texture as a real lemon. I sprayed the paper with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Spray Stain and Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Spray and misted it with water to get a variation of color and some water spots.

I cut the leaves from paper colored with Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron Distress inks. There is a layering leaf die to give the leaves some dimension, a nice touch.

I used a stylus and a foam pad to give some shape and dimension to all the blossoms, the buds and leaves.

I attached all the leaves, buds and blossoms with glue. I only added glue to part of the diecuts, for example, on the blossoms only the center of the flowers, letting the petals pop up. On the lemons I used some foam to the back.

I used the Momenta printed cardstock for the backgrounds on the cards with lemons. The pad has 48 sheets of paper that looks inked, some have gold metallic accents. I usually ink my own backgrounds but this made it easy and just as beautiful. I added a few gemstones to the cards.

For my last card the flowers and leaves look beautiful on their own. I took the slimline die with the embossing plate included with my machine, I used the die to emboss the cardstock. It left a raised impression but didn't cut the paper. I then placed the die back onto the cardstock (easy to line up since it's raised.) I used low tack tape to keep it in place and partially die cut the embossed panel, first on one end, then turned it to partially die cut the other end. 

To partially diecut, you place everything down on the machine as for regular diecutting but  the top plate is only placed where you want to cut. As you can see above, the blue top plate is only placed over the bottom of the paper so when it is run through this is where it will  cut. I turned this around and repeated it on the other end. 

I attached the leaves and flowers just as I had done on the first 2 cards.

The lemons make me think of Spring!

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Thanks!
Susan