Stampin’ Up! Rose Wonder Joins Grateful Bunch

It’s Friday again!  Whoo-hoo! I’m almost back to being “on” Eastern time – which is good for the morning, but bad for my evening stamping sessions!  When I’m still on Mountain or Pacific time, I get a lot done in the evening!  Not so much when the old bod realizes where it is!! 🙂

Thanks to all who came by yesterday for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop – it means a lot to all of us to have you see what we put together for you each week!

Today’s share is the last card I made in Arizona.  I combined flowers and flowers and flowers – all from the fun Grateful Bunch bundle with a couple of great sentiments from Rose Wonder.  This one went out to my friend who’s fighting a battle with cancer.  I purposely made it a little over the top – cheery and warm.  I wanted the flowers to be abundant – to look like a cottage garden overflowing with beautiful blooms.  Take a look-see:

I started with a piece of the Wildflower Fields DSP from the Sale-A-Bration flyer, matting it on a panel of Blackberry Bliss card stock.  Then I built my window by cutting a piece of White Corrugated Paper and running it thru the Big Shot in my Brick Wall TIEF.  I ran it back thru, this time with the third-die-from-the-center of my Ovals Collection Framelits in place to cut my window.  Then I sponged the edges lightly with Hello Honey.

The sentiment – which I think is really perfect for this time in my friend’s life (okay – always!) – is from the Rose Wonder stamp set.  I stamped it in Blackberry Bliss ink (and then wiped my hands, my fingers, my chin, … my left big toe… to be sure I didn’t get that darned ink all over the place!) on a piece of the Perfectly Artistic DSP (don’t be mad – it was still available when I made this card last week!).  If you don’t still have some of this paper, use a piece of So Saffron card stock, or even some Very Vanilla would be okay, too!

I SNAILd the sentiment in place on the card front, then SNAILd the corrugated paper window over that.

Then I started stamping and punching flowers with my Grateful Bunch stamp set and the coordinating Blossom Bunch punch.  Here’s the colors:  flower outline in Calypso Coral, color it in with Pumpkin Pie (did you guys know about this combo?  This is the first I’ve used it and I love it!!!); flower outline in Blushing Bride, color it in with Pink Pirouette; Hello Honey outline, color it in with Daffodil Delight; and flower outline in Daffodil Delight and left white on the inside.  I also stamped some Old Olive leaves from Grateful Bunch and fussy cut a few of them.  I just kept stamping and punching and stamping and punching….  When I got what looked like a big ole basket full of flowers, I started laying them out.

Dry fit.

Dry fit.

Dry fit!

When I got it where I thought it looked balanced and bountiful and overflowing, I carefully moved the flowers away from the card front – trying to keep them generally how I had them in my final dry fit.  Then I put some Glue Dots on the Corrugated Paper in each corner, and wound some Gold Metallic Thread around in big loops at each corner.

Then I used Glue Dots and the occasional Stampin’ Dimensional to adhere the flowers over the thread.  I tried as best I could, but I doubt I got everything exactly back where my final dry fit ended up – but I think I’m close!

I gave every single flower a Rhinestone Basic Jewel – and moved to the inside…

The inside liner is a piece of Whisper White card stock, that I stamped in Blackberry Bliss from another of the nice sentiments from Rose Wonder.  I also added some Grateful Bunch Flowers next to the sentiment.  These are the Calypso Coral/Punpkin Pie, Blushing Bride/Pink Pirouette and Hello Honey/Daffodil Delight flowers.

I SNAILd that to a piece of Blackberry Bliss card stock and then SNAILd that into my Smoky Slate card base.  I also used SNAIL to adhere the card front on – just to not add any more thickness!  And that was it for the card.

The envelope is simple.  I started with a Whisper White Medium Envelope and added a Calypso Coral/Pumpkin Pie large Grateful Bunch flower to the front…

…And then I added a liner from another piece of the Wildflower Fields DSP, cut with my Envelope Liner Framelits!

Et Voila!  I was going for a cheery, uplifting card, with a message of faith and love and caring.  I hope that I achieved that – and that my friend enjoys it and gets a smile when it arrives! 🙂

Here’s a sneak peek about an upcoming opportunity – I’m going to be starting an Online Host Club here in the next few days!  It’s an awesome way for a like-minded group of folks to all garner a lot of host benefits!  Six people (don’t even have to know each other!!) – each committing to buy at least $25 a month in SU! product – for 6 months.  Everyone gets a turn to be the host and earn Stampin’ Rewards points (a minimum of $15).  And – at the end of the 6-months, I’ll be giving all the participants a free stamp set!  Add in Peppermint Reward Points and it’s a pretty easy way to feather your stampin’ nest!  More details will follow in the next couple of days – so stay tuned and be thinking about whether you might like to participate!

TTFN

Mary

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