Use those scraps of the gorgeous Designer Paper to create a unique background for a single poppy!
Cut Cardstock:
- Card Base: Flirty Flamingo – 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, score at 4 1/4″
- First Layer: Whisper White – 5 1/4″ x 4″, cut two
- Strips for Weaving – Peaceful Poppies Designer Paper– choose five different patterns, cut Five strips at 3 1/2″ x 1/2′ and Four strips at 4 1/2″ x 1/2″
- Poppy: Poppy Parade – 3″ x 3″
- Poppy Outline: Basic Black – 3″ x3″
- Poppy Center: Scrap of Daffodil Delight
- Leaves: Scraps of Old Olive
- Greeting: Whisper White – 3″ x 1/2″
- Inside Decorative Strip: Peaceful Poppies Designer Paper – 5 1/4″ x 1/2″
Assembly:
Emboss one 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock with the Subtles embossing folder and snail to the card base.
Use your paper snips to flag each end of all of the Designer Series Paper strips. To attach the strips in a weave pattern, I found it easier to apply snail to about 1/2″ of one end of each of the four longer strips and adhere to the center of the card front about 1/8″ apart. I started on the right side. The rest of the paper strips are loose so that you can ‘weave’ the shorter strips into the longer strips.
To begin weaving the short strips, apply snail to the back of a strip and slide it up and over every other long strip, pushing it toward the right side.
Take the second short strip and do the same thing, only this time you will be going up and over the opposite long strips to start forming the weave pattern.
Continue attaching the remaining short strips in this manner until all five strips are in place. You will most likely have to add a little snail to the ends of the horizontal strips once you have finished weaving the vertical strips. You should now have a pretty weaved background for the focal point.
Crop one large poppy from the PoppyMoments dies using Poppy Parade cardstock. Crop the large poppy outline from the same die set using Basic Black cardstock. Use multipurpose glue to glue these two pieces together.
Crop the flower center from Daffodil Delight cardstock and glue to the center of the poppy, leaving the tiny spikes loose and curl up slightly by just pushing them up.
Attach a large Gold Faceted Gem to the center of the poppy. Attach the poppy to the card front with dimensionals. See photo for placement.
Crop two of the narrow leaf stems from the Poppy Moments dies out of Old Olive cardstock. Trim the bottom two leaves off of each of these pieces. Using glue or snail, slide the leaves under the poppy attaching them to the card front. See photo for placement.
I chose to put a “Happy Birthday” greeting on the front of my card using the greeting from the Timeless Tulips stamp set. I used Memento ink to stamp it onto the 1/2″ strip of Whisper White cardstock, flagged one end, and trimmed it to fit the card front. I used snail to attach it over one of the Designer Paper strips. You could also not put a greeting on the front and just let the entire weaved background show.
Inside:
Use snail to attach the remaining strip of Designer Paper near the top of the remaining piece of Whisper White cardstock. Use Memento ink to stamp the sentiment from the Peaceful Moments stamp set under the decorative strip. Use Memento ink to stamp the poppy image from the Painted Poppies stamp set to the lower left corner of the Whisper White cardstock. Color with Light and Dark Poppy Parade Stampin’ Blends markers. Attach the completed piece to the inside of the card with snail.
Envelope:
I love to carry the card design to the envelope! It just seems to finish off the project nicely and it is a little something extra that lets the person you are sending the card to know they are receiving a “masterpiece” from you!
Use Memento ink to stamp the poppy on the lower left corner of the envelope and color with the Light and Dark Stampin’ Poppy Parade Blends markers.
Looking for more ideas on using this stamp set? Try these tutorials too!
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