Mixed Florals – Birthday

Design Team Time: This round at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#454) we have a Color Challenge. Such pretty colors…perfect for florals.

Influences: Christmas (or not) Bingo (#11) choosing letter “O” for Rectangle, Stitching, Twine, Patterned Paper and Embossing for my FREE Square; Make My Monday (#242) choosing Numbers 217 (Birthdays), 218 (Patterned Paper), and 221 (Spring Flowers) from 2024 as my themes.  I am also sharing this card with Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday (January) Anything Goes theme.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Petunia Pop cardstock.
• Background Panel: (3½” x 5”) Lemon Line Twist Gingham patterned piece of paper from the retired Glorious Gingham Designer Series Paper pack die-cut with the (3⅜” x 4¾”) Rectangle die from the retired Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies set.
• Focal Image – Flowers: (4¼” x 5½”) Basic White cardstock.
  • The Tulip Flower image from the Mixed Florals stamp set, an On-Line Exclusive Product, was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Stampin’ Blends Markers.  Colors chosen; Tulips – Light and Dark Highland Heather; Posies – Light and Dark Petunia Pop; Foliage – Light and Dark Lemon Lime Twist and then die-cut with the coordinating die from the Mixed Floral Dies set.
  • Using Paper Snips, some interior white spaces of the Floral image were fussy-cut to allow the patterned paper to peek through.
• Sentiment Banner: (4¼” x 1½”) Highland Heather cardstock.
  • The Banner image from the Mixed Labels stamp set, also an On-Line Exclusive Product, was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with White Embossing Powder.
  • The sentiment, Happy Birthday, from the Simply Said stamp set was also stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with White Embossing Powder.  The sentiment is a photopolymer stamp that could be bent (shaped) to fit the Banner.
  • The Banner was then die-cut with the coordinating die from the Mixed Labels Dies set.

All elements were adhered to the card base with the Flowers and the Sentiment Banner popped up with Dimensionals.  A small double Basic White Baker’s Twine Bow was added to finish off the card.

A nice fresh Spring Floral Birthday card!

Looking forward to seeing what you will create with these colors.  Join us at Hand Stamped Sentiments this round.

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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