Would you believe this True Love Red Floral Card is made from the True Love Designer Series Paper except for the vellum and the greeting? This black and white designer paper with all sorts of designs give you all sorts of opportunities to be creative!

To make this card, I decided to copy a sample card in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog on page 10 in the Love You Always Suite. I changed the colors of the flowers and how I arranged them and I put a different greeting on my card. My greeting took up a little extended space since it was longer and narrower than the sample card, so that caused me to move the flowers around a little.

The card base is Thick Whisper White and the striped pattern of the True Love Designer Series Paper covers the whole front of the card base. I didn’t leave any margin. The piece of vellum is 5 1/2″ x 3 1/4″. You could make yours any size. Just don’t glue it down yet because glue and other adhesives show through vellum.

Then I chose another of the patterns in the designer series with these flowers. I decided which ones I wanted as close to the edge of the paper as I could get and cut those out of the sheet. I colored them in with Stampin’ Blends Markers, the Light and Dark Real Red. I wanted my card to be black, white and Real Red! The flower center is just colored with Dark Daffodil Delight. The leaves are Granny Apple Green, Light and Dark, along with a touch of Daffodil Delight. An artist friend I know always said to mix some yellow in with green, so I do!

You can leave the flowers in the group in which they appear on the designer paper or if you need to cut them apart to make them fit on your card you can do that. Some I popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and one flower and one leaf is adhered right on the vellum.

The greeting is stamped in Real Red Ink on Whisper White from the Lots of Heart Stamp Set. It is die-cut with a die in the Tasteful Labels Dies as is the Real Red piece behind it.

If you place and adhere everything on to the vellum before you attach it to the card, you can turn the vellum over and apply adhesive on areas that are covered by the greeting and flowers on the front. That will hold it on to the card front without showing the adhesive through the vellum. I used Stampin’ Seal.

When you are looking for card ideas, if you don’t already have one in your head, think about looking at any of your Stampin’ Up! catalogs! You can copy any of the ideas, and most likely you will come up with your own version once you start creating!

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Be sure to check out the black and white True Love Designer Series Paper so you can have fun either designing with it as is or using different methods of coloring it like on this True Love Red Floral Card.