Lovely Congratulations

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Today’s card is a Lovely & Sweet card. Plus it is a fairly quick one. The mix of Lovely & Sweet with the amazing matching DSP is wonderful.

Papers

The papers are the star of this card. But not for the reason you would think. Generally I pick colors from the DSP. This card was originally designed around the floral image. It is part of one of the Nature’s Sweetness Designer Series Paper prints. Having a matching Die to cut out the image is Fabulous!! And I think one of the best ideas Stampin’ Up! has incorporated into their Suites of products.

The image was Die cut and then colored softly. I didn’t want the colors to overpower the gold outline of the design. And to match the gold, I added the layer of Wild Wheat behind that was embossed using the Crosshatch folder from the Basics Embossing Folders that are an Online Exclusive. This is a favorite background as it works with anything. And finally to pull out the center of the flower, I added a Deckled Circle cut from Berry Burst card stock.

Stamp and Die Bundle

The Lovely & Sweet Bundle is a mix of sweet sentiments and flowers to compliment the DSP. With matching Dies that not only work with the stamps, but the paper as well, it is a keeper. The stamped image of the flower, I cut from paper, has the proper flower name. It looks like Prune in the writing. And since I am not a horticulture person I Googled it. Come to find out this is an Almond Tree. I was surprised as that is not what the name sounded like. But it made it easy to color based on the photo in my Google search.

The simple sentiment is from the stamp set as well. With all of the business of the other components, I opted to keep this part very simple. I stamped with Berry Burst and then just angle cut the ends. It is a little larger than I would normally do that size sentiment. But a smaller one got lost.

Finishes

There are simple finishes for this card as it has quite a bit of layers and dimension. I added Burlap ribbon from the Red & Burlap Ribbon Combo. Then had to add a touch of Bling. There are a scattering of the Gold pearls from the Festive Pearls embellishments. I wanted another gold to match the flower outline.

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Smile and Keep On Stamping,

Jackie