It’s Day 1 of 40 Cards in 40 Days 2023! During the 40 days of Lent I have challenged myself to make 40 cards! (I probably should send some of them too…) Do you want to take the challenge with me? Let’s do it! 40 cards is a lot. If you want to cut that down you could make 1 card a week during the six weeks of Lent and that would only 6 cards. Quite doable. No matter how many you choose to make let’s just create some cards and send some cards!
Today’s card is one I made for my niece earlier this month. It is made with the Two Tone Floral Dies, the Fancy Flora Designer Paper and the Night of Navy 3/8” Border Ribbon. All three of these items can be found in Stampn’ Up!’s January – April Mini Catalog.
The large die-cut piece is my favorite die from the die set. It’s an odd shape. It isn’t perfectly sized to fit on a 5 ½” x 4 ¼” card front. I trmimmed about 1/8” from each side so that the “frame” around the the die-cut flowers would be even and so it would fit the card front better. The “normal” size card in Europe is slightly different than those here in the United States so the die fits U.S. cards top to bottom and in Europe it fits side to side. I thought that fact was quite interesting.
This die looks beautiful over any type of ombre coloring. Ombre means “having a pattern in which colors or tones fade into one another”. This piece of designer paper from the Fancy Flora package works perfectly. Once I trimmed down the die-cut cardstock I cut the designer paper the same size and adhered them together with liquid glue. I then added the ribbon before adhere the designer paper/die-cut image to the front of the card. And yes, I tied an actual bow on my card. 😊 Most of you know that it’s not something I do a lot.
To make my sentiment (from the Happiness Abounds stamp set) pop, I added a strip of Night of Navy cardstock behind it. I also colored a couple of Rhinestone Basic Jewels with my Night of Navy Stampin’ Blends Marker to add to the label.
This card was easy to make as the only thing stamped was the sentiment. Leave a comment and let me know what you think about today’s card. Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!