Basket of Blooms Greeting Card

Hello, Crafters.

Yesterday I took some relaxing time to do some fussy cutting for today’s card! It wasn’t my original plan because I was hoping to use the small flowers that can be punched out with the Small Blossom Punch. It’s the one that was carried forward from Sale-a-bration earlier this year but I decided I preferred the flower that has a stem attached to it.

It means that I now have six Gorgeous Grape punched flowers for both of the designs! I’ll be using them in future projects so they won’t be wasted! I used my Stamparatus and the step technique to stamp all the flowers. I mounted the two stamps and inked them both at the same time and because they are less than an inch wide, I was able to move the plate along one notch at a time and stamp again.

Using this technique meant that within a couple of minutes I stamped twelve flowers perfectly. When I realised these flowers weren’t really what I had in my mind for today’s card I took another plate and attached the other two stamps and used the step technique again but this time I had to move the plate along two notches each time.

I stamped the basket and coloured it with Light and Dark Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends. After painting all over using the Light Blend I used the Dark Blends on all the areas where the artist had put shadow lines. After giving the ink a few seconds for the alcohol to evaporate I coloured the darker areas. Again, after the alcohol had evaporated I went back with the Light Blend to blend the light and dark together.

After I had the basket out, to arrange my flowers and leaves, I used some temporary adhesive along a small part of the reverse side of the basket and put it in position on the Whisper White Cardstock (CS) oval I had prepared earlier. It was very easy to adhere the fussy cut leaves and flowers in the positions I wanted them to be, once the basket was stopped from moving around!

I chose the sentiment OF ALL THE BLOSSOMS IN LIFE’S GARDEN, FRIENDSHIP IS THE MOST FRAGRANT which is from Grace’s Garden Stamp Set. After stamping it onto a piece of Whisper White CS I die-cut it using the no 2 die from the oblong stitched dies in the Hippo & Friends Dies. By the way, I used the no 4 oval die from the Stitched Shapes Dies for the Whisper White oval I mounted the basket of flowers onto.

I embossed the top Gorgeous Grape layer using the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder and put my card and layers together. To decorate the front of the card, I put some Shimmery Crystal Effects in the centres of all the flowers and then painted all the flowers and the leaves using my Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Pen.

I found some retired Gorgeous Grape Glitter Enamel Dots in my stash so I added three of different sizes in a vertical line in the top right-hand corner and three more the same in a horizontal line in the bottom left-hand corner. Finally, I added three of the smallest size in random positions on the image oval. Both the image and the sentiment have been adhered to the card front on Dimensionals.

I haven’t decorated the inside of the card except for adding a middle layer of Whisper White CS – the jury is out on what I want to do! That’s it from me today and I look forward to being back with you tomorrow. In the meantime, take care and stay safe. Happy crafting.

JanB. xx

 Products used for this project: please click on any of the links to be taken to my 24/7 online Stampin’ Up! shop. The Hostess Code for AUGUST 2020 is GP4JNSXV. Thank you. xx

Gorgeous Grape A4 Cardstock [147011] £8.25	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £9.00	Basket Of Blooms Photopolymer Stamp Set [153305] £16.00	Grace’s Garden Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [151513] £17.00	Subtle 3D Embossing Folder [151775] £9.25
Hippo Happiness Bundle (English) [154080] £45.00	Stitched Shapes Dies [152323] £28.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] £5.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Refill [133456] £4.75	Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack [154882] £8.50
Brights Stampin’ Write Markers [147157] £27.50	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] £7.50	Shimmery Crystal Effects [150892] £4.75	Stamparatus [148187] £46.00	Simply Shammy [147042] £7.50
Paper Trimmer [152392] £23.00	Paper Snips [103579] £9.25	Take Your Pick [144107] £9.00	Bone Folder [102300] £6.50	Grid Paper [130148] £11.75
Small Grid Paper [149621] £6.00	Silicone Craft Sheet [127853] £5.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £4.50	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] £3.75	Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals [144108] £3.75

Cardstock Layer Sizes: A4

Card base 8¼” x 5¾” scored and folded at 4 1/8”

Middle layer: 2 pieces 3 7/8” x 5½”

Top layer: 2 pieces 3¾” x 5 3/8”

Cardstock Layer Sizes: Letter-size

Card base 8½” x 5½” scored and folded at 4¼”

Middle layer: 2 pieces 4” x 5¼”

Top layer: 2 pieces 3 7/8” x 5 1/8”