FMS#680 - Daisy Daydream Thank you Card

It's time for this Wednesday's Freshly Made Sketch  hosted by Narelle Farrugi:

I've been preoccupied this week with the beautiful March 2025 Paper Pumpkin kit.  If you love daisies you'll understand what I mean when I say this kit is to die for!  This kit is filled with artistically designed paper, coordinating envelopes daisy and honeycomb ephemera and accessories like ink, dimensionals, and so much more.  Oh I almost forgot to mention in true Paper Pumpkin style, this spring kit contains two wonderfully coordinated stamp sets.  

While I like the three card styles demonstrated in the kit, I prefer to just play with all the bits and bobs and see what I can come up with.  As a result, I thought it might be fun to use the Freshly Made Sketches design #680 to create an alternative card from this kit.  

 

Here's My Card: 

Supplies:

Stamp Set and Dies:

• Daisy Daydream Paper Pumpkin stamps
• Everyday Arches #164623 and Everyday Dies #164269

Cardstock and DSP:

• Blue cardstock Daisy Daydream Paper Pumpkin kit 
• I cut the original card  base in two at 4" x 5 1/4" on both sides of the base to use as mattes and discarded the center strip that was left.  
• For the front matte I cut an arch  that measures 4 7/8" x 3 1/2".
• For the inside matte I used the 4" x 5 1/4" matte.
  
• Whisper White card base 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" scored at 4 1/4".
• cut one matte for inside measuring 3 7/8" x 5" and stamp sentiment, flower and honeycomb for design
• Lost Lagoon matte 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" first matte layer on front
• Lemon Lolly matte 4" x 5 1/4" embossed with with Hexagon Dynamic Embossing folder (R) #143231

I forgot once again to splatter my background paper before attaching the ephemera but improvised with a white gel pen and a black marker.  I loved the "honeycomb" effect on the Lemon Lolly paper when I embossed it.  

Ink: 

• Mossey Meadow
• Crushed Curry
• White Gel Pen
• Black Marker

Accessories: 

• Dimensionals
• Daisy Ephemera and Bubble Bee
• Hexagon Dynamic EF #143231 (R) - for embossing stack #1 + two #2 plates with Die Cut and Emboss or Big Shot machines 
• Gold Glimmer gems (r) 

I hope you liked today's card.  It was very simple and fun to make.  I was really impressed with the large arched stamp from Everyday Arches.  It was fun to use.  I also was impressed with the Ephemera included in the Paper Pumpkin kit, especially that little bee, it looked so sweet.  Please leave me a comment if you liked this card, I'd love to hear your thoughts. 

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Textured Notes Thank You Card and AHSC#620

Stampin' Up introduced a new suite to the Online Exclusives this month called Botanical Textured Suite Collection. This beautiful suite definitely checked off a lot of boxes for me.  I fell in love at first glance with the Textured Notes 12 x 12 designer paper, then the Textured Notes dies made my heart race, so instead of buying the whole suite, I chose to purchase portions of it.  I got the Textured Notes Bundle, the DSP and Corrugated embossing folder. 

My order arrived this week, and I managed to get a few minutes together to play with the new bundle.  Believe me I wasn't disappointed.  The images are really crisp and clear and the neutral color palette in the papers really struck a chord.  The eight rectangular dies are going to enhance some of my upcoming projects, and I can't wait to use more of them.  For my card I was happy to use the long thin one to showcase the sentiment. 

I based my card design on this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #620, which is open for participation until Sunday March 16th, 2025.  Have you given any thought to participating in a card or scrapbook challenge.  This is such a great sketch, why not play along and have some fun! 

Here's My Card: 

Supplies  Used:

Stamps and Dies:

• Textured Notes Stamp Set #165548
• Textured Notes Die for sentiment #165555

Card Stock and Designer Series Paper:

• Woven Textures 165560 Strip 1 1/4" x  4 1/2"
• Early Espresso for card base 8 1/2 x 5 1/4" scored at 4 1/4"
• Early Espresso Mat 1 1/2" x 4 3/4"
• Pecan Pie Mat 4" x 5 1/4"
• Basic Beige Mat 5 x 3 3/4" and a scrap strip for sentiment 

Ink:

• Early Espresso
• Pecan Pie

Accessories:

• Basic D Textured Embossing Folder for Basic Beige mat
• Dimensionals
• Gold Faceted Gems
• Scissors for fussy cutting leaves 

This card came together quite easily.  The natural design paper is absolutely stunning, and the designs are very realistic.  Although there wasn't a die for the leaves, they were easy to fussy cut.  

The Textured Notes stamp set has some awesome sentiments written in a wonderful script.  I love all of them, however need to do some critical trimming of the red rubber surrounding the writing as they are large and prone to picking up additional ink and causing halos.  After a few failed attempts while using a block, I switched over and stamped with my Mini Misti and the sentiment images were perfect.  At some point I'll have to trim back the rubber edges but for now I'll make them work.   

Hope you enjoyed my card.  I'd love to hear from you.  See you next time......

HAPPY STAMPING!

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Penny Hanuszak, CDN Independent Stampin' Up! Demo since 2006

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