Story of Elegance
It’s finally Friday – Whew! It’s been a busy week. But you get no complaints from me. Although busy – it was filled with lots of fun, including three surprise birthday deliveries from UPS and FedX, and a Stampin’ Up order coming with supplies for my new Virtual Stamp Club. Woo hoo!!
Stampin’ Up is so much fun for me. Recently I added our annual conference which was held virtually this year. (No shock there, right?) And my team leader hosted a virtual after party. It was a ton of fun too. During the after party we all shared cards that we made from a sketch that our leader provided. Here’s the card I made and the sketch is below it.
A Little Note from a Sketch
As you can see, I took a literal approach to the sketch. But you don’t have to do so. I like sketches because they make it easy to get the creative juices flowing, or if you’re short on time as I was when I made this card, you can just use the design as it is shown.
Stampin’ Up! has so many beautiful Designer Series Paper and this sketch was a perfect way to showcase them. I chose to use one of the papers from the Peony Garden Designers Series Paper set. This set is one of my favs and I use it a lot. Don’t you think this paper is gorgeous?
Here’s are steps to create this card:
1: Use the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder to emboss a 4″ x 5 1/4″ panel of Whisper White card stock and adhere to a card base made of Thick Whisper White card stock.
2: Cut two pieces of Basic Gray card stock and one piece of DSP 3 7/8″ x 1 5/8″ and adhere to the embossed panel as shown.
3. Use the Layering Ovals dies to die cut an oval in Basic Gray card stock and a smaller oval in Peony Garden DSP. Adhere the DSP oval to the card stock oval and then to the panel.
4. Use Basic Gray ink to stamp a sentiment onto a 2 1/2″ x 3/4″ piece of Whisper White card stock. I used a sentiment from the Butterfly Gala stamp set. Adhere the sentiment panel to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
5. Use a glue dot to add a Beaded Pearl embellishment to the sentiment.
6. For the inside of the card: Use Basic Gray ink to stamp a peony from the Prized Peony stamp set on 4″ x 5 1/4″ panel of Whisper White card stock and adhere to the inside of the card.
I love the way a papered envelope flap pulls the project together!
Look at the beautiful texture embossing folder! Isn’t that embellishment the cutest?!
Find Your Elegance
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Here are the items I used for today’s card:
Live Graciously!
