This may be a simple floral thank you card, but it is no less striking. It is my project this week for the new Festive Friday Challenge.
Our Celebration for #FF0084 is National Gardening Week, which is the first week of June. The celebration is what inspires our Inspo List.
The Inspo List is 10 items you can choose from to create your project in our card making and paper crafting challenge. Incorporate THREE of the items in your project and link up! And guess what? Your project doesn’t have to be about the theme at all! The selected festivity is just a unique way to come up with a fun and interesting inspiration list!
My project used: plants, green, sunshine, flowers, dirt, twine
My Project
It is very apt to be celebrating National gardening Week, as I am currently working hard to reclaim my garden from the wasteland it had become. It is slowly beginning to take some shape and I am enjoying researching flowers and shrubs that I can plant.
My card features a simple, single flower blooming in the sunshine.
- Stamps: Color & Contour
- Tools: Blending Brushes,
- Paper/Card: Thick Basic White; Basic White: 2021-2023 In Color Designer Series Paper
- Ink/Pens: Evening Evergreen; Soft Suede; Fresh Freesia; Pool Party; Crushed Curry
- Embellishments: 2021-2023 In Color Jewels
| A4 Metric | Imperial Lettersize | |
| Thick Basic White Card Base | 10.5cm x 29.7cm Scored at 14.9cm on the long side. | 4 1/4″ x 11″ Scored at 5 1/2″ on the long side. |
| Fresh Freesia DSP | 14.4cm x 10cm | 5 1/4″ x 4“ |
| Basic White | 13.4cm x 9cm | 4 3/4″ x 3 1/2″ |
Instructions
- Fold the card base along the score line and stick the DSP mat to the base.
- Using blending brushes and ink,create the background on the Basic White card. Add Soft Suede ink across the bottom for the dirt; add Crushed Curry in the top left for the sun and fill in the sky with Pool Party.
- Using the spotty stamp from the Color and Contour set, add dirt details with Soft Suede ink.
- Stamp the flower with Evening Evergreen and stamp the flower detail with Fresh Freesia.
- Stamp the greeting in Evening Evergreen
- Wrap some twine twice around the bottom of the card and tie a bow.
- Attach this panel to the card front with dimensionals. Finish with some of the In Color jewels.
- Stamp a flower on the bottom corner of the inside of the card and on the envelope. Add the Fresh Freesia detail.
Let’s Hop
I hope you have enjoyed my project. Do leave a comment if you can, because it certainly makes my day. Then it is time to hop around all the other projects
For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the Festive Friday Challenge Design team.
Helen Jennings – You are here
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Stay safe and stay well
Helen xx
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Beautiful! Love the soft background you made, it really is the perfect thing to accent the flower.
So pretty Helen! I love the dirt with the twine, sunshine, all the details with the soft beautiful flower! Have a great weekend! 🙂
That’s a wonderful card, I really like the style of that stamp and the font of the sentiment. Perfect in those soft colors too!
So soft and beautiful, Helen! I love the shaded background and the spotty soil. So many great details!