Floral Display Window Box Card

Another special birthday for another special lady, my husband's mum and my love of the Flower Patch set continued. I have had a previous 3D project I made with the Hardwood background stamp sitting in my craft room since I made it. If you have been following a while then you may remember that I made a little wooden window box using the Hardwood stamp which I then filled with flowers. You can see the original post here. It was the inspiration for this card as I loved the little wooden box and re-used the idea for the base of my flowers. It worked really well as the layered card gave this rather large card the stability it needed to stand confidently in pride of place.

If you would like to give this a try yourself, I stamped my Hardwood background onto Baked Brown Sugar (retired) card, but you could easily use some current tone of card from from the Neutrals Collection. I then cut my strips, picking out any of the design with knots of wood to make it a bit interesting. Next came some sponge daubing with the little sponge daubers from SU. Sponging the edges of the strips makes such a different to giving it a more authentic wood look. I also ran the sponges lightly across the wood design too for added effect.

The little grass is made with the fringe scissors. Great for adding texture and perfect for grass-effects. I am keeping these away from little hands as I am sure they are going to find their way into the kiddicraft box otherwise and there will be fringed edges everywhere!!

You must know by now from my previous posts the colour combinations on this one as I have found the combo that worked for me and this card was a continuation of the same colour theme. I layered my flowers up, some stuck with dimensional foam pads, on the card front and then carefully trimmed round the shape once done to give my card front the layered stacked effect. 

The Chalk Talk sentiment is retired unfortunately, but the die set is still in the current catalogue for the label shape. My sentiment was embossed in white onto black card, but there are now fabulous chalk marker pens chalk effect if you wanted to free-hand (yes I know, without stamps!??!). Otherwise there are other stamp sets in the current catalogue which co-ordinate with the chalk talk dies.

This card was a work of love so the back had the wooden window box finish on it too. The flowers look lovely stamped inside to finish it off too. You just cannot have too many flowers. I am starting to feel like the Summer sun is really going to start too with all these sunny colours!

I'll be back soon with something less flowery I think..........

Suzanne
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There is a big long list here of products I used. Where there were retired items I have substituted for suggested alternatives (such as the Soft Suede card/colour instead of the retired Baked Brown Sugar).The list is longer as I have listed colours individually, but some belong to the same colour family so if you have the collection already you will have them already. The Chalk Talk set is retired so remember to look for something to put into your label if you choose to use the dies.

Hardwood Wood-Mount Background Stamp	Soft Suede A4 Cardstock	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad
Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad	Rose Red A4 Cardstock	Whisper White A4 Cardstock	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad	Bermuda Bay A4 Cardstock
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad	Daffodil Delight A4 Cardstock	Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder	Pear Pizzazz A4 Cardstock	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad
Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad	Fringe Scissors	Basic Black A4 Cardstock	White Stampin' Emboss Powder	Chalk Talk Framelits Dies
Sponge Daubers	Bermuda Bay Sequin Trim	Rhinestone Basic Jewels	Flower Patch Photopolymer Bundle

Amazing You!

I hope you are enjoying your weekend and despite some of the wet weather you have managed some time in the garden. Sadly my planting is way behind schedule, so much so that I think my spring flowers may be surfacing sometime at the beginning of Autumn! It is about the normal schedule for planting for us. I always buy the bulbs with all the good intention of planting and having a beautiful display of flowers, only to find the bulbs looking lost and forgotten some time later in whichever storage area they have been left neglected in.

In March there has been no neglecting the ones I love and care about as it brought about a flurry of cards to share with them. I am finally sitting down with a much needed relaxing cup of tea, post children's party at the local soft play facility, to share these with you too.

I have been busy layering lots of lovely products for this card, but the background you can just see peeking behind is Shimmery White Cardstock with an overlay of Whisper White embossed with the Happy Heart Embossing Folder. There is also the stunning floral designs of the Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper to admire. If you haven't seen these papers in the Spring/Summer catalogue they are beautiful. One of the sheets could be framed alone to make a fabulous home decor piece!

I love the Vellum hearts paper as a semi-transparent layer in the On Film Framelits Frame. The sentiment on it was stamped using the ' You are amazingly Amazing' which comes in the coordinating Painted Petals Stamp set. This set is making me look like a professional water colour artist without any brushes in sight!

What better to make a special handmade card than to add some special embellishments too and here you can see the Paper Doily just softening the card at the bottom and the Clothespin with the Thick Baker's twine at the top edge too.

I love it when you finish one card and you love the design so much it immediately makes you want to craft another projects.  So here is another design with some of the same products.  This time, more of the Painted Petals stamping and I layered the saying on to the Chalk Talk dies labels.

These cards are all designs for my Mother's day flurry. I know, I needed three cards for this occasion! Luckily it meant more time playing with my goodies.  The final card was a folding layout I have wanted to try for a while.

I really started to get the colour combinations working for this one. It was my favourite by the time I finished.

The papers were such a great inspiration for the colour combinations and made such an easy card backgrounds for all three projects. It works so well you can make a card just with a simple stamping with it. These papers however are in the Spring/Summer catalogue which finishes soon, so don't delay in ordering them if you like them too.

Don't forget that the Sale-A-Bration only has a few days to go.  It finishes on TUESDAY this week (30th march) so if you have an order ready make sure you get the additional benefits during this fantastic offer time. Please check out the weekly deals too as the Envelope Punch Board is on this week and some colour cardstock, grab it whilst you can!

Suzanne

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I will put the products lists below as usual, but I will have to confess that I have been bad and not noted everything down before sending the cards away to their recipients and it is difficult to be sure of everything without the cards in front of me, especially the colours.


For the On Film Frame card:

Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper	Painted Petals Photopolymer Stamp Set	Happy Heart Textured Impressions Embossing Folder	Shimmery White A4 Card Stock	Pool Party A4 Card Stock
Silver Fancy Foil Designer Vellum	Tea Lace Paper Doilies	Clothespins	Strawberry Slush Thick Baker's Twine	Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack
Confetti Hearts Border Punch	Whisper White A4 Card Stock	Jet Black Stazon Pad	On Film Framelits Dies

For the Chalk Talk label card:

Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper	Painted Petals Photopolymer Stamp Set	Happy Heart Textured Impressions Embossing Folder	Confetti Hearts Border Punch	Whisper White A4 Card Stock
Chalk Talk Framelits Dies	Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad	Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad	Crisp Cantaloupe Classic Stampin' Pad	Strawberry Slush Classic Stampin' Pad	Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad	Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock
Rose Red A4 Card Stock	Soft Sky 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon

For the Folding Card:

Painted Petals Photopolymer Stamp Set	Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper	Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock	Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock	Whisper White A4 Card Stock
Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad	Hello Honey Classic Stampin' Pad	Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad	Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad
Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad	Crisp Cantaloupe Classic Stampin' Pad	Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad	Basic Pearls Jewel Accents

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