Hello friends! What day is it? It's Friday! I'm excited to have a project over on The Greetery Blog today! I'm posting here too because sharing is caring! Every Friday on The Greetery Blog there is a feature called TGIF = The Greetery Inspiration Friday = and one of us on the design team shares a card or project with everyone. Well, today is my day! Yeah! I'm sharing a bright and cheerful card for you this Spring Friday! As the season changes to Spring I am always inspired to use vivid and happy colors in my crafting. Right now I am making everything with yellow! I guess we can all use a little sunshine, right? And I know I could use a squeeze! (I'm definitely a hugger)
I'm featuring one of my very favorite The Greetery stamp sets - Lemon Blossom. So fresh and pretty, and so many different ways to use this stamp set. I combined it with the beautiful Windowpane Background Stamp. Reminds me of a pretty tablecloth with a big bowl of lemons. I even made my husband go out in the backyard and get some lemons to use in my photo shoot! LOL! The finished card is an A2 kraft card base.
I used a MISTI to stamp and heat emboss the background in white embossing powder onto a sheet of teal cardstock. Then I die cut that layer out with the awesome Crimped Dies. Then I added a layer of vellum, die cut from the smallest size of the Crimped Dies.
I wanted to try something a bit different with the lemons, leaves and flowers stamps. So I stamped the images onto colored cardstock instead of white! I used a slightly darker shade of the same color to stamp onto the paper. I used the matching dies to cut out everything.
The Lemon Blossom stamp set has the word "squeeze" in it! I paired that word with the "sending a" word dies. At this time, I know I miss squeezing my friends...so this is the perfect card to send.
I finished off the card with a few clear gems in the flower centers. I also used white paint to splatter white ink onto the die cut pieces and the background. That is one of my favorite techniques!
Wishing you a beautiful weekend full of happiness and creativity! Take care friends. I'll be back on Monday with a pretty water color card I made with Altenew stamps and dies! XOXO
Please head over to THE GREETERY BLOG to share some love and look around at all the other inspiration there! I'm so blessed to be part of this creative team!
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This is so bright and cheery! LOVE it
Posted by: april r driggers | 05/13/2020 at 05:51 PM
Wanda! Love the colors! ( I say that on every card you make I believe!). So pretty and springy! I like idea of using colored cardstock. Will give that a try!
Posted by: Jules | 04/18/2020 at 11:18 AM
Love this so much. The yellow and aqua just look so fresh together. I am going to try that trick of stamping on like colors. The Greetery is one of my most favorite companies. Betsy is such a great lady. Thanks for sharing this and healthy and safe to your household!
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 04/18/2020 at 06:57 AM
Wanda, this is adorable and love all the details. Those lemons really stand out against the teal tablecloth. I’m a hugger too so that sentiment is perfect. In fact, several of our parishioners said they miss my hugs. Melted my ❤️! Stay healthy!
Posted by: Kathy Mc | 04/17/2020 at 08:18 AM
Pretty! Love the part about going outside to get a lemon since we have about 6 inches of snow!
Posted by: Melanie K Shellberg | 04/17/2020 at 05:11 AM