This Hello Card With Floral Frost and Varied Vases came about from thinking I would get away from the holidays and look in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog for something with a stamp set that maybe I hadn’t used since the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog came out.
I stopped on page 45 of the Annual Catalog and got some ideas from the samples for the Varied Vases Stamp Set and the Vases Builder Punch. When I looked at my designer paper in case I wanted to use some, it was the Frosted Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper that caught my eye! So I didn’t avoid the Holiday Catalog after all, but it does show you that you can use this beautiful paper for projects other than holiday ideas!
Somehow or other, this card turned out! It starts with a card base of Mint Macaron cut at 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ folded in half so that you end up with a 4 1/4″ square card. Kind of fun to make a different size card once in a while! The little floral pattern of this shimmery paper is cut at 4″ x 4″. The Shimmery White Paper is punched with a 2″ Circle Punch and layered on a scalloped circle in the Layering Circle Framelits Dies.
The little vase is stamped in Berry Burst ink and punched out with the Vases Builder Punch. Once you place it where you want it on the circle you can see where to stamp the flower stems with Pear Pizzazz Ink right on the circle (remove the stamped and punched vase firs!). I also stamped the narrow leaves on scrap paper and punched those. The flowers are stamped on scrap Whisper White and punched out. I even colored them a little with the Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush. Everything except the leaves and stems is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, the regular size, and the Mini Dimensionals. The tricky part was stamping the word “Hello” because if I messed that up……..well, there are no mistakes in stamping so I just would have had to stamp it on paper and adhere it over the messed up stamped word. I got lucky, though, and had no problem stamping the greeting! I thought just a little strip of the Berry Burst 3/8″ Metallic Edge Ribbon was just enough under the circle (also popped up on Dimensionals).
I have two pieces of advice for making this card: 1:) If you don’t know what you want to make, look through the Annual Catalog for ideas and 2:) Buy the Frosted Floral Designer Paper! It’s SO pretty! You must have it!
Wouldn’t this Hello Card With Frosted Floral and Varied Vases make a friend’s day to find this card in her mailbox?!