I didn’t even order this Suite when Demonstrators got to preorder select new products in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. The loosely drawn floral images really didn’t appeal to me. But I started seeing cards other Demonstrators were making and then I liked everything about this Suite! This Hand-Penned Petals Hello Card is my first attempt using the stamps and paper! I love it!
This is a very easy card to make! Just stamping and paper….well, and a few rhinestones! The card base is Blushing Bride, one of the coordinating colors of the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper. All the sheets of this paper are beautiful to use for floral cards. It reminds me of old-fashioned wallpaper! But modern! Very pretty!
I just chose one of the papers to use as a layer on the front of the card. I didn’t want to cover it up very much, so I made just a small piece of Basic White on which to stamp the bouquet in the Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set. I stamped it in Memento Ink, fully expecting to color in the bouquet with Stampin’ Blends. But then I saw there were stamps for two-step stamping to fill in the color! They aren’t a perfect fit because that’s not the look you want, but they are fairly close. I used Blushing Bride, Daffodil Delight, and Mint Macaron Ink to stamp the flowers.
The greeting is from the Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set because I needed something small to fit just below the flowers. It is stamped in Mint Macaron Ink also. The Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set “goes with” the Inspired Thoughts Bundle which has the stamp set and Inspiring Canopy Dies. I really like this greeting stamp set but I did not purchase the dies. However, now I have seen some cute cards using those tree dies so who knows if I can hold out on not buying!
In finishing off this card, I layered the stamped bouquet piece on Blushing Bride and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I forgot that in the Hand-Penned Suite Collection, there are the Genial Gems. These are faceted glitter gems in Pale Papaya and Mint Macaron. Instead, I used three Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels for the flower centers.
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