Shaped Flower Card

Hello!

I have to be honest, this week I've had something of a dead week when it came to creativity.  Yesterday I made a card with a watermelon stamp but I decided I didn't like it so today I sat down and finally found some inspiration.  While I wasn't fully in the card making zone (I got glitter everywhere!) I still had enough momentum to complete a card I was happy with.

Materials:

• Purple card, pink patterned paper, very light purple paper.
• Nesting flower dies (Couture Creations - Daisy)
• Dots stamp (Couture Creations) and a 'thanks a bunch' stamp (Rosie's Studio)
• Embossing ink (Versamark), purple ink (Distress - seedless preserve), gold (Ranger) and sticky (Ranger) embossing powder
• Purple glitter (WOW - eggplant)
• Purple flower gem and gold heart sequins
• Purple and gold gel pens

Directions:

1. Cut two of the flowers from the purple card using the largest of your dies.  Cut one flower from the next sized die from the pink patterned paper.  Finally cut one more flower with the third largest die from the light purple paper.
2. On one of the large purple flowers score a line along what will be the top of the card about and inch down.  On the other purple flower, stamp, emboss and glitterfy it with the dots stamp.  Adhere the two purple flowers together but only above the score line you created.
3. Adhere the pink patterned flower to the card base.  On the smallest flower, stamp and emboss the sentiment in gold.  Sponge around the edge with purple ink.  Adhere to the card with dimensional foam.  Glue on the embellishments.  Use the gold gel pen to add hints of gold to the purple card and the purple gel pen to create stitching lines around the pink flower.

For the envelope:

1. Make the envelope from the light purple paper.  Stamp, emboss and glitterfy the dots stamp onto the front.  
2. Cut a piece of pink patterned paper, round the corners and adhere to the front.  Cut a piece of the purple card, round the corners and adhere.  Use the gel pens to add stitching lines around the pink and purple layer.

There you go! This card turned out to be easier to make than I had anticipated which was great and other than the mishap with the glitter, everything went smoothly.

I'm adding this card to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog.  Check it out at http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/

Till next time.

Stacey