This Easy Floral Thank You Card is made, I think, with one of the most beautiful papers Stampin’ Up! has ever had. The Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper has such pretty prints on every sheet. These papers were designed from handpainted impressionistic images. There will be thousands and thousands of beautiful cards and projects made with this paper!
To make this card I simply choose one of the papers and then chose Petal Pink for the card base. I considered using a purple color as another layer, but for today I liked just the pink card base.
The ribbon around the designer paper is the beautiful Petal Pink 5/8″ Organdy Striped Ribbon. This ribbon is currently on backorder but you can put it on your order anyway and they will mail it separately when it comes in. Or wait and put it on your order as soon as you see it is available. It really is so pretty you will want it in your stash! And with paper this pretty, the sheer ribbon just adds to the design, doesn’t cover up anything.
For the greeting, I got lucky and this Petal Pink circle, die cut from the Stitched Labels Dies, was already cut out and in the bag with the full sheets of cardstock so I thought I would try and use it. It was a good size for this card because I didn’t want much of the paper covered up. Then I stamped a greeting from the Free As a Bird Stamp Set. I needed one that would fit on a fairly small piece. This small circle was die cut with the second smallest circle in the Layering Circles Dies.
And since I usually can’t leave well enough alone, I added some Rhinestone Jewels to the greeting. I wanted them to be pink, though, and I knew I could color the plain rhinestones with Stampin’ Blends markers. The same pink really didn’t show up so I tried Flirty Flamingo. On the rhinestones, it give a pinkish color to them so it was perfect.
As a note, due to the new Big Shot and die situation changing, we don’t use the terms “framelits” and “thinlits” any more, which is fine with me! It is much easier to say “dies”. And since the Big Shot has retired, while we wait for a new machine, we will just refer to any “die-cutting machine” until we get our new one. Stampin’ Up! is working on it and from past experience, they will wait until they have a really good one before putting it on the market.
If you want to hoard your beautiful Perennial Essence Paper, look at THIS CARD and see how you can use just a strip of it to make a lovely card.
After you order this paper, you will be inspired to make lots of cards like my Easy Floral Thank You Card for many different occasions!