Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Botanical Gardens + Happy Birthday Everyone

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Welcome to this week's Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge.

Here are the essentials:

• I wanted to use a bold pattern as my background and have all the other elements as miniature pieces. Botanical Gardens DSP has some amazing patterns and I chose the leafy one for this card. 
• The angled greeting took on a life of its own and became a tag. I used the Gold Glitter Tape and made a faux-ribbon.  
• Use your scraps! I had a doily-cut off, a vellum scrap piece and a gold glimmer butterfly that I had punched but not used sitting in my embellishments case. I threw them on this card and it worked in an eclectic kinda way.  

Here is our sketch for this week:

Card recipe

Stamp - Happy Birthday Everyone

Ink - Mossy Meadow

Cardstock - Whisper White cardstock, Botanical Gardens DSP, Botanical Gardens Vellum, Gold Glimmer Paper

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL, Itty Butterfly Punch, Scallop Tag Topper Punch, Paper Snips
Accessories - Metallic Sequins, Gold Glitter Tape, Doily

I hope you will join in and create a card with us.....and please feel free to leave me and the other CCMC participants some comments! :)

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Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Botanical Gardens DSP

Hi!

Welcome to this week's Artful Stampers Blog Hop and welcome from Leah’s blog.

I took inspiration for this card from the sketch at CASE This Sketch this week (see below).

Here are the essentials.....

• DSP is Botanical Gardens from the new Occasions catalogue. I love this print of mint flowers. 
• I used a retired edgelit die cut to give me the curve, only because I can’t cut with scissors artistically. 
• The DSP panel (prior to slicing in half) is about 4 cms shorter than the base card and 1/2 cm narrower. How short your floating DSP panel is really depends on how much space your sentiment needs in the middle so experiment with scrap paper first. :)
• To float the DSP over the card....you may use dimensionals BUT...you will need a LOT to create a sturdy layer so what I did was this....you know the cardboard backing that comes with the glimmer paper and foil papers?....well I cut that to the same size as my DSP and stuck that on with Fast Fuse Adhesive.....it is sturdy and won’t bend and gives a lovely appearance that the DSP is floating over the card. 
• I used the Botanical Builder Framelit Dies for my flower. Mossy Meadow for the leaves (rule of 3 people!), Rose Red for the flower (sponged around the edges and curled). 
• The middle of my flower is the Crushed Curry paper from the Cotton Paper Assortment (Annual catalogue). It looks AMAZING on flowers. I cut two of the same framelit and layered them. 
• The final finishes to the flower are some Wink of Stella (Clear) on the Rose Red leaves and a Mint Macaron flower from the In Color Blossom Accents pack. 
• Glue Dots hold the layers of the flower together. 
• The sentiment is from Build A Birthday. Unless you already have a curved sentiment stamp, reach for a photopolymer greeting stamp.....curve it onto your acrylic block....stamp. Voila - you have a curved sentiment! 
• Important...stamp your greeting BEFORE you adhere your floating DSP...you may want to put some pencil guide marks in first. 
• Envelope - created using the Envelope Punch Board and the In Color Envelope Paper. I made the envelope slightly bigger than normal to allow for the leaves off the side of the card. I stamped this with the coordinating Botanical Blooms stamps from the Occasions catalogue. 

Here is our colour palette:

Here is the cool sketch this week from CASE This Sketch:

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Stamp -Build a Birthday, Botanical Blooms

Ink - Mossy Meadow, Rose Red, Mint Macaron

Cardstock - Thick Whisper White, Botanical Garden DSP, Mossy Meadow, Rose Red, Cotton Paper Assortment 

Accessories - In Color Blossom Accent, Wink of Stella Clear

Tools - Stampin’ Trimmer, SNAIL, Glue Dots, Big Shot, Botanical Builder Framelit Dies, Envelope Punch Board, Fast Fuse Adhesive

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