Welcome back! I spent some time after lunch picking blueberries. The heat is well over 90 degrees and pretty unbearable today. Unfortunately, the blueberry bushes are out in full sunlight with not a scrap of shade in sight. Whew it was hot and I was sweating so much my curly bangs were dripping! Can you just imagine? Yuck!! So that means I gave up on picking the blueberries before they were all the ripe ones were picked. I sure didn't want to pass out in the heat! Guess I'll be out picking some more after dinner when the heat might drop a few degrees. That's the plan for now.
Enough of that. Let's get back to stamping, shall we? Yesterday I posted a pretty Highland Heather card using the very new Framed Violets bundle. Today there is another card with this bundle that's fairly different. One of these days I need to do a little playing with the lovely DSP that goes along with this. Can't believe I haven't even touched it yet. But I will soon.
This card is so striking in person with the pretty Bubble Bath cardstock matched up with black and white. The card base is Bubble Bath cardstock that measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". It's scored at 4 1/4" and folded in half.
There is another piece of Bubble Bath that measures 5 1/4" x 4". This is embossed with the Eyelet 3D Embossing Folder. After embossing, a white craft ink pad was dragged across the top to highlight the pretty eyelet lace design. The white ink really makes the design stand out nicely.
The embossed layer was attached to the card front with "green glue" to hold in place. A strip of the black and white polka dot print from the Artisan Sketched DSP was added across the card front and attached with "green glue" also.
Next, the violet bunch was stamped on Basic White cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Then it was colored in with Stampin'Blends:
Petals - Bubble Bath Light & Dark, Fresh Freesia Light & Dark
Centers - Daffodil Delight Dark
Leaves and Stems - retired Call Me Clover Light & Dark
After coloring, they were die-cut with the matching die.
I still love the shape of the Branching Out dies even though it is now gone. The smaller one cut a Basic White layer, and the next size larger cut Basic Black. The layers were attached together with adhesive, then added to the card front with Dimensionals.
A birthday sentiment from the Banner Sayings set was stamped onto a 1/2" white strip of cardstock. It's stamped with the Tuxedo Black ink. Then the ends were trimmed.
A 3/4" strip of Bubble Bath cardstock is layered behind this and the edges were trimmed. It was attached flat near the bottom of the black and white layers. Then the violets were attached to the die-cut layers using Dimensionals. The Dimensionals really make the violets stand out from the card.
A few Rhinestone Basic Jewels were tucked in around the flowers to add a little sparkle.
I just wanted to show you a close-up of the pretty Adhesive-backed Blooms accents. Aren't they darling? They come in a pack of 30 with 10 white, 10 pink, and 10 lavender. I love the teeny tiny rhinestone added in the center of each flower. So pretty! For this card, I used the soft pink ones. There's one on each side of the card.
I've been trying to finish the inside of all my cards as I make them. That just didn't happen with this one, so I have no finished inside to share with you.
That's it for this card. It's sweet and simple. I hope you love this idea and want to try it or make something similar. I just might have mentioned how much I love the pale pink with the bold black accents. 😉
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Happy stamping and creating,
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