Aloha, all!
"Geometrical," of course, is the name of one of Stampin' Up!'s newest stamp sets from the 2014 Occasions Catalog. I shared one of the stamps with you earlier in the week, and now I've got another card that I definitely had some fun making with another of the stamps!
After Thank You cards, my favorite card to make is a Get Well card. And with Stampin' Up!'s stamp collection, I get a lot of different ways to express that sentiment. "Cheer Up Buttercup" was just perfect for today's card, as it was a CASE (Copy And Share with Everyone) challenge for one of my online Stampin' Up! Demonstrator groups. The key to this card was the fun flower. OK, it's not a buttercup – I understand that buttercups are yellow. But I had enough yellow on Monday with that Summer Starfruit card, so I was ready for something a bit more on the orange side. Co Calypso Coral it was!
This was a really quick and easy card to make. For the polka dot layer, I just embossed a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Naturals White Cardstock with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, and then sponged it with Pacific Point Ink. That made those Polka dots stand out nicely!
I cut the flowers out using Calypso Coral Cardstock and one of the flower dies in the Secret Garden Framelits Collection. I offset them a bit and adhered them together with some Stampin' Up! SNAIL. I used the eraser end of a pencil to push the center of the flowers in a bit and curled the edges of the petals to distress them just a tad. I stamped the sentiment from the stamp set using Pacific Point Ink, and added a strip of Calypso Coral Cardstock to the bottom and adhered this group to the card front with more SNAIL. Finally I threaded a Pacific Point Button with some Calypso Coral Baker's Twine, then adhered it to the center of the flower using Mini Glue Dots. I also adhered the flower to the card using the glue dots.
In no time at all I had a fun Get Well Card! And I still haven't used any of the geometrical shapes from this stamp set! Soon, though. I'm sure I'll have fun with them once I get started!
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Love the idea to sponge the color on the embossed dots piece instead of using colored cardstock. I'll have to try that. I just got your newsletter and couldn't find a place to comment to tell you thanks for the tutorial and for the list of links for projects with the punch board. I'll be visiting some of those sites for sure.