Hello, my stamping friends! It's still hot as can be around here. It feels like I'm going to melt if I stand around outside for too long. These temperatures in the high 90's are really taking a toll on us. I guess that means we need to find more things to do inside the house rather than outdoors. I made some simple cards the other day to send out to the shut-ins at church. They turned out so pretty, I thought you'd like to see them and maybe try these quick cards for yourself.
These happen to be the only ones I have left. When making them, I had actually used two other prints from the Floral Impressions Designer series paper along with this one to make a nice variety of cards.
For all of the different cards, I started with a Basic White Thick card base that measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". This is scored and folded in half to make a basic card.
For this card, I cut a piece of the Floral Impressions DSP that measures 3" x 4". Watch the direction of the design so it is cut in the proper direction. The wider measurement is the width of the paper's design.
A layer of Petunia Pop was also cut for these cards. This measures 4 1/4" x 3 1/4".
Holding the DSP with the front facing you, rip approximately 1/2" from the bottom edge by pulling it towards you. Take the top part of the paper and attach to the Petunia Pop layer. Do not attach along the bottom edge. With the strip of DSP that you ripped off, flip over so the back side shows and tuck the unripped edge underneath the 1st piece and attach to the Petunia Pop cardstock. This will make both of the ripped white edges of the paper show when it's layered to the Petunia Pop. After layering together, this was attached to the center of the folded Basic White Thick card base using adhesive.
There was a veritable garden of flowers stamped for accents on the cards. For this one, the solid daisy type flower was stamped with Peach Pie ink that was off-stamped, then stamped on Basic White Cardstock. Then the detail stamp was stamped with Peach Pie ink full strength over this. The plummy flowers were stamped with the solid smallest flower with Petunia Pop ink that is off-stamped first. Then the detail stamp with the same color was stamped over this. All the flowers had centers stamped in using Gray Granite ink. After stamping, all the flowers were die-cut with coordinating dies. The extra detail dies fit into the outline dies on the flowers and gave the flowers lots of added detail.
Leaves were die-cut from both Old Olive and Garden Green cardstock pieces. There were two different sizes cut also.
The sentiment is from the Everyday Greetings stamp set. It is stamped on a label that is cut with a die from the Greetings of the Season die set. The sentiment for this card was stamped with Timid Tiger ink. Other inks were used on the different cards depending on the colors in the DSP prints.
All three of the flowers are attached to the corner of the design using Dimensionals. The sentiment label is tucked in partially under the flowers and attached flat with adhesive. One of the larger leaves and two smaller leaves are tucked in around the flowers. I used both greens on each card for added interest.
I had some retired sequins in a peachy tone that went nicely with this design. On some of the other cards, different gems were used that matched the other DSP print colors better.
The ladies that have been joining me each month to put the cards together had no problems with the ripping and tucking on the DSP piece. They were all impressed with how easy these cards were to put together and they looked so bright and cheerful. Hope all the recipients of the cards will enjoy them too.
Hope you're inspired to get out some of those leftover pieces of DSP that you don't know what to do with. Maybe this technique would be the perfect solution for using some of that DSP that you have sitting around. I know I'll be considering this idea again when I'm looking through my stash of DSP.
Happy stamping and creating,
Sharon
sharoncarr50@gmail.com
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