Thought you might like some details on the cards I did for the Creative Circle design team blog hop a few days ago. Here’s a close up of the first one. (the image will expand by clicking on it…)
This is a tent fold card that began with an 11 x 4 1/4″ base of Basic Black folded in half. The first layer is from the Botanical Gardens DSP pack and it is 5 1/4″ x 4. The banner is a 2″ wide strip of the same DSP, just flipped over and punched with the Banner Punch. Gotta love how easily this stuff coordinates!! The 3″ x 3 1/2″ Whisper White panel was stamped in Mint Macaron with a greeting from Birthday Blooms and layered onto a 3 1/8′ x 3 5/8″ piece of Basic Black cardstock; that panel was adhered to the card front with dimensionals. The flowers and leaves were die cut with the Botanical Builder Framelits Dies, and I sponged a little Hello Honey ink in the centers. Rhinestones were used for the flower centers and to underline the greeting – gotta have a little bling going on!
My daughter needed a last-minute card for a wedding, so I pulled out my Botanicals For You Sale-a-Bration set and added the phrase “…on your special day” to the inside and stamped a few of the flowers from that set in Hello Honey. Quite non-traditional for a wedding card, but the bride loved it!
Speaking of Sale-a-Bration, did you know that ordering the Botanicals bundle (Stamp set, coordinating framelits set, and DSP pack) from the Occasions catalog qualifies you for a free stamp set? Did you also know that the Botanicals For You stamp set was specifically designed to coordinate with the Botanicals bundle – and that you can get it for FREE?! But you gotta hurry – Sale-a-Bration ends this month. Get your list together and collect those freebies!
I’m off to enjoy our first 70 degree day of the year. How wonderful that I can have all the doors and windows open – I even heard Mr. Brown pull up with a box of new Stampin’ goodies!
So sorry. …in my previous comment I said those centers were black.
Yours are colours matching the flowers, ie. Gold and white.
Evelyno
Hi Evelyn – All of the die cuts were done with the Botanical Builder Framelits dies from the 2016 Occasions catalog. On this card, I used two of the largest stamen – one in yellow by itself, and one in white on top of a flower. Hope that answers your question – if not, please feel free to get in touch via e-mail!
Your cards are beautiful. I have one question. The center of some of your flowers has a black die-cut piece that looks like the stamen of the flower.
Where can I find d a die to cut that center. I have the die set for the flowers but there isn’t a center like that one. Yours is a bit larger than what is in the die set. Your help would be greatly appreciated . Thank you
Evelyn