Very Flowery Easel Card

I tried out this Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page for the first time, and it reminded me of a cutwork embroidered handkerchief, so I wanted to add flowers to represent embroidered flowers. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough of my favorite discontinued Prima flowers, so I used these Darice ones, which really aren't made for paper crafts, but they work. I couldn't cut the stems off, because the ribbon they are made of would have unrolled, so I coiled it. They'll have to do until I can place an order with Wild Orchid, which carries some roses which look like the same ones Prima used to sell.

The paper is all Core'dinations Pearl, and the bottom and top are the same color, in spite of the fact that I couldn't get a photo where they didn't look different.

I started with pale pink pearl, then punched a white square, and a smaller pale pink square for the card front and base. I then mounted the flowers and added some real half pearls, and some liquid pearls to the punched flower centers, and around the Spellbinders die cut. The flower in the center is from K&Co.

For the base, I added a resin saying I got years ago from Anna Griffin, and used two flowers to support the card when open. Originally I tried pearls, but they wouldn't hold it open.

Floral card using Anna Griffin and Spellbinders

I wanted to try my new Martha Stewart Punch around the Page, and thought it needed a background that reminded me of my great grandmother's handkerchiefs, so I chose an Anna Griffin paper from my stash. The background I mounted the punched paper on is iridescent blue CS. I used a Spellbinders die to cut and emboss the AG paper, then embossed a piece of green CS and cut around it with scissors to frame it. I wasn't planning on using an ornate die, but this one followed the punches so nicely that I used it anyway.

I wanted to use Spellbinders tags three for a saying, and the only saying that fit well and had the right dimensions was this Anna Griffin one. I used to have tons of Anna Griffin stamps with sayings and things, but lost all of my clear stamps a year ago. I think I had every clear stamp she made, but now I only have the rubber ones, so my selection of sayings is quite small. I have always been a huge fan of Anna Griffin.

Anyway, I stamped the saying with Peeled Paint Distress Ink and stenciled around it with Pebbles Cream Chalks. It really needed a background to show up against the floral paper, and Spellbinders Labels Eighteen fit the shape of the tag quite well, so I cut and Embossed that with green paper and mounted it with dimensional tape.

Now that I've been looking at it on the blog, I think I may try adding a bow to it.

This is the same card after adding an offray ribbon and Queen and Co. pearls. The line above the bow isn't on the card, it's a shadow.