Hope you're feeling special today

Happy weekend crafters.  Look what I stamped this morning.  Lots of fussy cutting but it didn't take long :)

This is a take on a card we made in class last week, which I'll share with you later as I still have three more classes where we will be making the original card.

First I stamped the striped background in Hello Honey using the new Brushstrokes stamp. Then for the flowers and leaves I used the beautiful, photopolymer Garden in Bloom stamp set. A very pretty, three-step, water colour look.

The flowers (and greeting) were stamped in Soft Suede, then filled in with the solid and accent stamps in Hello Honey and Blushing Bride.  I 'stamped off' the solid stamp once first to get the lighter colour, then stamped the accent in the same ink without stamping off, hence the two-tone petals. The leaves were stamped the same way using Mossy Meadow and Pear Pizzaz.

As you can see it's one of my tent style folds, sitting on a custom made envelope as the card measures 4 1/2" x 5". I used the Decorative Label punch for the greeting and popped it on Hello Honey card which I cut using a die from the Chalk Talk set. 

I finished off with a bow in Very Vanilla.  Sadly the seam binding ribbon is no longer available in the vanilla but you can get other SU ribbon in that colour, like very lovely 5/8" satin ribbon.

Product List

Garden In Bloom Photopolymer Stamp Set [139433] £23.00	Brushstrokes Wood-Mount Background Stamp [138952] £18.00	Brushstrokes Clear-Mount Background Stamp [139533] £13.00	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £7.25
Hello Honey A4 Cardstock [133685] £6.50	Hello Honey Classic Stampin' Pad [133643] £6.00	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [126978] £6.00	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [133645] £6.00
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [131180] £6.00	Decorative Label Punch [120907] £16.00	Chalk Talk Framelits Die [129983] £22.00	Envelope Punch Board [133774] £18.00
Simply Scored [122334] £27.00	Clear Block Bundle [118491] £61.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] £3.75