Thank You – Page 5

This is one of the prettiest stamp sets and once I saw it had a little kitty (which I didn’t use for this card) I had to have it. The gate options and different flower groups are just so adorable.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Soft Sky card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Crumb Cake card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Grace’s Garden stamp set and dies (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Jet Black StazOn ink
Soft Sky ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Lemon Lime Twist (Stampin’ Up)
Blending Brushes
Brick Embossing Folder (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Paper trimmer
Corner Rounder
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

For you card base cut a piece of Soft Sky card stock to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” the use a corner rounder to round the two corners at the fold which then mimic the gate a bit. Cut two pieces of white card stock to 4” x 5 ¼” and round the top two corners on both of them to match your card.

Take one of your cut white pieces, your Soft Sky and Lemon Lime Twist inks and your blending brushes. With the Lemon Lime Twist, lightly ink the bottom 1/3 of your paper with the blending brush. Then lightly do the same to the top half in the Soft Sky.

Now take some scrap white paper and your Jet Black StazOn and stamp three of the climbing rose, two of the tall hollyhocks and two of the daisy and hosta group and two of the small gate pieces. Take your inside piece of white you cut and stamp a hollyhock on the left side and a climbing rose on the right. Then also take a small piece of Crumb Cake card stock and emboss it with the brick embossing folder to use for a path.

For the climbing roses I colored them with the Bubble Bath Light Stampin’ Blend and the Old Olive Light. For the hollyhocks I colored them with the Highland Heather Light Stampin’ Blends and the Lemon Lime Twist Dark Stampin’ Blends. The daisies I colored with the Limon Lolly Dark Stampin’ Blends and the Hosta with the Pale Papaya Dark Stampin Blends and used the Lemon Lime Twist Light Stampin’ Blends for the leaves. Use your dies to cut all of these and also the arched gate. I did have to cut the gate in half so it would open, though the die looked like it should have done it.

Now let’s put it all together. Adhere your white card stock piece that you colored with the blending brushes to the front of your card. Then adhere the arched gate in the center with the bottom at the bottom of your white colored piece. Adhere one of the gates on each side so they will stick out in the background of your flowers. For the climbing roses I did cut the but of the top of one just to make them look slightly different, then adhere to the edge of your gate climbing the arch. Put a hollyhock to the far edge of each side. For the daisy and hosta pieces I cut them apart and adhered the daisy to each side in the front on pop dots to stand it out a bit. Then I put the path down on the inside of my gate and then put a hosta on each side overlapping the path and then cut the last climbing rose in half and put one on each side of the path as well.

Not with your Jet Black StazOn ink and the “With all my heart” greeting stamp in the center of your gate.

For the inside adhere your white piece with the colored flowers to the inside of your card. With your Jet Black StazOn and the “I thank you for all the kindness in yours” greeting stamp toward the top center.

That is all there is to making this lovely thank you card. I am looking and thinking I could have stamped the littly kitty looking up at the hollyhocks on the inside, so there is a suggestion you can add.

If you are interested in seeing other card ideas, please visit my blog at www.daisychainfun.com. Also, if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up products, please visit my website at https://www.stampinup.com/?demoid=2269501.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Magnolia Mood Rustic Thank You Card

I felt like going a bit rustic today with this Magnolia Mood card. This set is so lovely and so detailed that it really doesn’t even need any color. I gave the leaves a bit of color but otherwise just let the stamp do all the work.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Early Expresso card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Sahara Sand card stock (Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Magnolia Mood stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
Soft Suede ink (Stampin’ Up)
Old Olive Dark Stampin’ Blends
Woodgrain embossing Folder (Stampin’ Up)
Two label dies that layer
Rustic Metal Adhesive-Backed Dots (Stampin’ Up)
Sponge
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

Start with taking your Early Expresso card stock and cutting into a card base at 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Then with your Sahara Sand card stock cut two pieces to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” and a third piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. Cut a piece of white card stock to 4” x 5/14”.

Take the Sahara Sand piece cut to 4” x 5 ¼” and your woodgrain embossing folder and emboss. Take your Soft Suede ink pad and lightly run it over your embossed piece to highlight the wood grain. You can also use a brayer to ink if you want it to only ink the grain and be a bit more neat, but I like the more rusticness of running the ink pad instead for this one.

With some scrap white paper and your Soft Suede ink stamp one of the large magnolias and one of the small single flowers. Use your Old Olive Dark Stampin’ Blends to color the leaves and then cut them out with the dies. Then take your cut piece of white card stock that you cut to 4” x 5 ¼” and stamp another of the small single flowers slightly off the card in the lower left corner. Find the “just a not no let you know that you are loved” greeting and stamp toward the top center for the inside of your card. With the “Thank you for being you” greeting stamp onto a piece of scrap white card stock.

Take on of your pieces of Sahara Sand and adhere your wood grain piece to it and then adhere that to the front of your card base. With pop dots, adhere the large magnolia in the slower left of your card and then the small flower to the right side with the stem hidden slightly under the large magnolia. With your “Thank you for being you” greeting use the smaller of two label dies to cut that out greeting. With a scrap piece of Sahara Sand and the larger label die cut out a piece. I used a sponge to sponge the edges of both labels, then adhere together and then with pop dots adhere to the upper part of your card front. Adhere a few metal embellishments around your label.

Take you stamped white inside piece and adhere to the second piece of Sahara Sand card stock and adhere to the inside of your card.

That is all there is to making this rustic Magnolia Mood thank you card. I was really happy with how it turned out and can’t wait to give it to someone.

Grace’s Garden Thank You Card

Magnolia Mood Rustic Thank You Card