“Celebrate” card using Lovely & Beautiful DSP and Simply Beautiful bundle, stamped & sponged

At first, the large prints of flowers in the Lovely & Beautiful DSP pack and corresponding Simply Beautiful stamp and die set were so intimidating! The prints were beautiful though so I decided I needed to get over that. LOL

I embossed the background using the floral embossing folder from the Cheers & Sips Suite of products. And then I stamped the large floral and two sets of double leaves on a piece of scrap white cardstock and die cut them out.  I used finger daubers to add color, purposefully making the color uneven in places. The gold strip and gold flower centers all pull together with the gold on the printed DSP. A small “celebrate” message (from the Banner Sayings stamp set and corresponding punch) set the tone for a celebration.

Here’s a close up of the background embossed panel. I love how an embossed background adds a touch of elegance and fills the background without being too busy:

And here’s a close up of the coloring of the focal flower and the sentiment was also sponged to match. I purposely tried to let go and not try to make every petal of the blossom and leaves have an even coverage. I rather like the way the flowers turned out!

And in closing, a second card made in the same way:

I hope you enjoyed these cards…I loved making them! Thanks for stopping by 😉

Cupcake card with Arched Wishes & Everyday Arches dies

A cupcake for a birthday …how perfect is that? Coupled with a new set of dies: arches!! Love them!! So I paired both with different background DSPs. Here’s the first version on one of the beautiful Wildflower Birthday DSP prints. I fussy cut the cupcake out and raised it using Dimensionals. The sentiment was stamped directly on the arch die cut:

And here is the inside of the card where I used the same arch die for the inside panel. The sentiment was stamped using the Everyday Details stamp set:

And here’s the same card with a different background print (from the Bright & Beautiful DSP pack). I also decided to emboss just the arch panel for this version and used a retired folder called Subtle Textile:

Thanks for stopping by…have a wonderful day!

Mini cards: Country Rose and Splendid Day

Here are two more 3x3” mini cards/gift enclosures that I made recently. This time I used Splendid Day DSP and Country Rose DSP:

Here’s a closeup of the Splendid Day DSP card: 

And here’s a closeup of the Country DSP card: 

These little cards are a great way to use up small squares (or almost squares) of pretty DSP!