This Card Fit For the River Oaks Garden Club Azalea Trail 2019 in Houston was inspired by our annual visit to the Azalea Trail of homes and gardens this weekend! My husband and I have gone to this every single year except one in all the years we have lived here in Houston. There are a number of private homes that show off their gardens and sometimes even part of the inside of their house and every one has beautiful flower arrangements inside and out. No photos are allowed inside the homes, unfortunately, but I take lots of them outdoors! Yes, we do have flowers and azaleas blooming in Houston, Texas! No snow!
I thought this Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper represented some of the beautiful flowers we saw on the Azalea Trail, not to mention some of our own azalea bushes at our house that are bursting into bloom!
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This card was very quick and easy to make! The card base is made from Blushing Bride Cardstock. The greeting is from the Forever Lovely Stamp Set and is stamped with Blushing Bride Ink on Whisper White Cardstock. Make sure your ink pad is well inked when using light colored inks like this one. Also, do a couple of practice stamps with the ink on scrap paper, especially with the photopolymer stamps. It usually makes them stamp the image better. And using the Stamparatus® is good, too, because you can stamp the image again over and over if necessary since the paper and stamp do not move in between! Purchasing the Stamparatus plus “something else” will get you a FREE Sale-A-Bration item, too, once you reach $50!
After stamping, the greeting is die-cut with one of the large ovals in the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies and then layered on a die-cut scalloped oval in the same set. I just adhered it flat on the card with Snail Adhesive, but you could also use to pop it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I couldn’t leave well enough alone, I had to add some Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins to the greeting and around on the card! They are so fun, especially with the adhesive already on them, and I find that the Take Your Pick tool is helpful to use in moving the sequins over to the card.
Here are just a few photos from the Azalea Trail the other day!
I hope you enjoyed these pictures of just one stop on the Houston Azalea Trail put on by the River Oaks Garden Club! The homes, especially this one, are just amazing. This one was worth the price of the whole ticket itself! You just cannot imagine the size of the lot and the home. I think we should move right in because they had doormats with an “F” printed on them! Just for us! Besides the main house, there is a guest cottage, a playhouse, a treehouse, an inground trampoline, a putting green, outdoor courtyards, and verandas – just spectacular! The previous owner of the house had probably every celebrity and famous person come to a party or “houseguest” in her home, back in the day! It was really interesting to tour this home and garden on the Azalea Trail.