How often have you thought and thought about how you wanted to do a card design and NOTHING came to mind…no matter how much time had passed? Sometimes the ideas come fast and furious and at other times I feel like I’m in a design drought. Arghhhh!
I knew which stamp sets I wanted to use. I knew I
wanted my card to be elegant. That’s all I knew and yet NOTHING.
So, I said to myself, Tammie, just go start doing something and it will come. Guess what, that voice was absolutely correct. I started getting different elements out and in no time things started coming together.
This is my card and I’m in love! I’ve created this card for my first in-person Club party, since February. I’m taking all precautions that I know to keep my ladies safe. We’ll do distancing, hand sanitizer, cleaning, masking…whatever it takes to move on in this new way of doing things since the dreaded virus has seemingly tried to take over our world.The stamp I’m using is from Poinsettia Petals. I’m using the bundle because, why wouldn’t I?! The sentiment is really the only thing we’ll stamp, as I’m using the dies to cut and emboss the silver poinsettia.
In keeping with my desire to make this elegant, I used the Metallic
Mesh Ribbon, Whisper White cardstock layered with Feels Like Frost DSP and
Vellum and then accented with the Beaded Pearls, as well as some of our Basic
Pearl elements.
I stamped in blue with Seaside Spray, and then added an inner
sentiment with an additional stamp from For Unto Us.
The stitched rectangle dies were the perfect way to cut everything,
bringing my theme of elegance to the forefront.
I appreciate your time in coming to my blog to check out my projects!
Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Have a great day!
Supplies
Stamps-Poinsettia Petals, For Unto Us
Card Stock-Thick Whisper White- 5 ½” X 8 ½”, 1 ¾”
X 2 ¾” (unless you use the stitched rectangle die, then cut a little bigger)
-Vellum- 2 5/8”
X 4” (unless you used the stitched rectangle die, then cut a little bigger)
Specialty Paper- Feel Like Frost DSP- 3 ¾” X 5 1/8” (if
you’re using the stitched rectangle die, cut bigger and use the largest die)
-Silver Foil- 3
½” X 3 ½”- use the largest petal die and coordinating embossing die and run through
the machine together to cut poinsettia flower
Ink- Seaside Spray
Embellishments- Beaded Pearls (1) and Basic Pearls
(3), Metallic Mesh Ribbon- 5”
Adhesives- Stampin’ Seal, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin’
Dimensionals, Multipurpose Glue
Layer your card elements without adhering them, yet. Adhere the DSP
to the center of your card front using Stampin’ Seal. Then figure out the
position where you want your poinsettia on your vellum piece. Then place your
ribbon and adhere the poinsettia on top using a dimensional in the center of
the flower. Once the flower is adhered to vellum, turn vellum over and place
remaining dimensionals where the petals of the poinsettia will cover them. Now
adhere the vellum piece to your DSP.
Stamp your card front sentiment on the piece of Whisper White and using
the Multipurpose glue, apply the glue to the upper left corner of that piece
and adhere it to the vellum.
Finish your card by adding your Beaded Pearl to your flower and the
Basic Pearls as desired.
Add an inner sentiment, if you wish.
In my second card shown I stamped with Versamark on the Gold Foil and embossed in gold and then fussy cut the bells. How do you feel about fussy cutting? Some people hate it with a passion, but I actually LOVE it. Never did I think I would. It's tedious, time consuming and patience is a must. But to be honest with you, when I started doing it, fussing cutting all those pieces for my, then, Christmas cards in 2003, I found that I was able to relax and enjoy some much needed downtime from my career as an RN. And I still feel that way today. 
