Gallery Blooms – On My Mind

Got together with a new friend and we did a shoebox swap.  This is where we each create a card, add the supplies, swap boxes and create.

I designed my card for Stampin’ Up!’s Creativity Challenge for May: Recreate a Suite card in a different color.  I created a hybrid A2 card from two Slimline cards featured with the Beautiful Gallery Suite Collection on page 53 of the Annual Catalog.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Cloud Cover cardstock.
• Background Panel: (4” x 5¼”) Cloud Cover Splatter patterned piece of paper from the 2025/2027 In-Color Collection Designer Series Paper pack.
  • The Botanical Queen’s Anne Lace image was randomly stamped with Cloud Cover ink.
• Frame: (4¼” x 5½”) Misty Moonlight cardstock die-cut with the Double Frame die from the Gallery Blooms Dies set. Choosing the smaller Frame.
• Inset: (4¼” x 5½”) Cloud Cover cardstock also die-cut with the same die and dry-embossed with the Damask Designs Embossing Folder.
• Focal Image: (2¾” x 4¼”) Basic White cardstock.
  • The Rose/Peony image from the Gallery Blooms stamp set was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Stampin’ Blends Markers.  Colors chosen: Entire image – Light Cloud Cover; and Blooms – Light Misty Moonlight blended with Dark Cloud Cover.
  • The Flowers were then die-cut with the coordinating die, also from the Gallery Blooms Dies set.
• Sentiment Circle: Basic White cardstock scrap.
  • The sentiment, You’ve been on my mind, from the Beautiful Motifs stamp set was stamped with Misty Moonlight link and die-cut with the (1¼”) Stitched Circle die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set.

All elements were adhered to the card base to reflect the combination of the two cards selected.  A length (6”) of retired Misty Moonlight Ribbon (still in my stash) was added under the Sentiment which was popped up along with the Flowers with Dimensionals.

Looks pretty in blue…

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

I am sharing this card with Krafty Chicks (#770) for their Anything Goes theme.

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