Valentine's Day 2019 is in the books and, other than a few birthdays, we are looking ahead to St Patrick's Day. Especially where I live in St. Paul, MN. So it's time to check out how some of Stampin' Up!'s current line up of stamps do up The Green.
I've had this card in mind for a while now, since it is basically a version of a card I did last fall. Since the weekly challenge, What Will You Stamp, is featuring the stamp set I'd planned to use this morning was the time to get the card done.
This also makes use of my favorite group of papers: the color family 6"x 6" stacks.
I brought in almost all of the elements of my inspiration card, a Wishing You Well thank you card.
- My focal point is stamped on a circle cut with the second largest circle die from the Stitched Shapes framelits. I started by stamping the greeting in Call Me Clover and then stamped the little three part detail in Mint Macaron. I spaced these by first stamping at 12 - 3 - 6 - 9 clock positions. Then I stamped between each existing image and then repeated this. If you make the middle part almost touch the stitching from the die your's will probably be a little more even than mine. I didn't come up with that trick until part way through my circle.
- I colored "Luck" with the dark Mint Macaron Blends and popped the circle onto the corresponding Call Me Clover Scallop circle.
- I stamped the 4-leafed clover with Call Me Clover, colored with Call Me Clover Blends and fussy cut it. I popped a green (Tranquil Tide) pearl from the Artisan Pearls in to the middle and attached it to my circle.
- Though I used the Foliage Frame Framelits for the embossed detail under my circle in the original, I decided to look at what I could use for the same purpose from the Seasonal Layers Thinlets. This is the set I pull out for the waves/scallop border and it didn't seem necessary to use a 4th set of dies. I chose to try the snowflakes. The way this winter is going it is a good bet that St. Paul will still have snow around for the St. Patrick's Day parade. You could also use the detail maple leaf die. March is kind of close to maple syrup time in our part of the country. With either of these you will want to the Big Shot embossing mats or similar sandwich in order to emboss rather than cut with these dies.
- I used the leaf punch and Painted Harvest leaf detail stamp (stamped in Mint Macaron - 2nd generation) for one of the leaflets peeking out behind my circle. The other was punched from a scrap of vellum cardstock.
- I lined my scallops with a second scallop cut from Call Me clover and added striped DSP from the In-Color 2018-2020 pack.
- I wrapped 1/8" Call Me Clover grosgrain ribbon around the card twice before tying a bow at the bottom of the card. I used a mini glue dot to hold the bow at the angle I wanted.
- That's it. Did case-ing my previous card work?
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