This weekend begins the River Oaks Garden Club Azalea Trail 2020 that we always like to go to so I made this Beautiful Friendship Pink Flowers Card to commemorate what we will likely see on the Trail. Actually, our yard is looking like this with our azaleas and even our Bluebonnets blooming. However, our home and garden aren’t quite like the ones we will see on the Azalea Trail! Those homes and gardens on the Azalea Trail are beautiful and today the weather should be beautiful!

Some people have been dusting off a stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog that I hadn’t seen in a while but makes beautiful cards really with just stamping unless you want to make it fancier. Sometimes I forget if I actually own it or wish I had it! It’s on my shelf, I own it, thank goodness! It’s the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set and has beautiful flower images and very nice sayings. It made me think of the flowering azaleas in our yard with various shades of pink (even on the same bush somehow!) and the bluebonnets blooming in the backyard.

For this card, I started with a card base of Melon Mambo, with a layer of Blushing Bride underneath the Whisper White top layer. I simply stamped the large grouping of blooms in Blushing Bride a couple of times in two rows. You can also overstamp, with the single flower stamp, in the same color to add more layers on the flower as I ended up doing to fill in some of the white space in between the petals. Then I stamped that smaller flower image in Melon Mambo because our azalea bushes sometimes have a few blooms of a different lighter or darker color than what the bush is supposed to be! For the bluebonnets, I stamped the springs of tiny flowers in Gorgeous Grape ink. The leaves are stamped in Granny Apple Green ink. With one of the smaller stamps, I added a bit of So Saffron to the centers of some of the flowers. I like the look of a bit of yellow on the card.

The sentiment is from the same Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set. I cut it out with the Layering Ovals Dies as well as the Melon Mambo scalloped oval. Before I added the sentiment, I colored in the background very lightly with my Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blends marker just to look a little like blue sky, although I think it washed out in the photo.

If you wanted to add anything to this card, you could color over some of the flowers with the Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to add a little bit of shimmer. You could also, or separately, add a few pretty sequins mixed in with the flowers.

Here’s a card I made last year, even simpler, with the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set. Add this stamp set to your Stampin’ Up! order and get closer to earning Sale-A-Bration rewards!

I hope this Beautiful Friendship Pink Flowers Card makes you think of spring wherever you live, whether you are experiencing it or not because spring is coming!