Floral Smile

A flowery, all occasion card for a friend or relative featuring beautiful dies & paper w/ a short tutorial showing how I did the partial die cut edge.

A big congrats to Diane, the newest Featured Stamper (FS856)! She has a really lovely gallery & after much browsing, I chose THIS card to case. I loved the fancy lower edge & layout, so I kept those, but I used different dies, colors & papers.

For my card, I did something I don’t usually do..I picked the floral paper first & die cut it. I wanted to make sure it would stand out enough behind the top panel. Then I cut a smaller white panel & used an oval die to do a partial die cut edge.
Here’s how I did that:

I placed the large stitched oval where I wanted the edge to be (shown above).

Then I placed the top plate over just the area I wanted to cut. (I’m using the Big Shot here so you can see it, above). The machine will only cut what the top plate covers.

All cut & turned out perfectly! Now I have the curved edge I wanted.

I then die cut the fancy oval & the envelope of flowers out of white & trimmed off what I wasn’t going to use. I placed the section of the fancy oval under the curved edge & the flowers/leave of the flower envelope I trimmed to fit on top. I cut some pieces of 2 different dusty pinks to place behind the 2 big flowers & 2 small buds. The greeting was stamped in black & heat embossed. I didn’t have the right color of gems, so I used a Copic marker (RV34) to color the clear stones. The greeting circles were popped up just a bit.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Rubbernecker Stamps: Petunia Blooms set (greeting)

Paper: Staples 110# white, lt pink, dusty pink, Rubbernecker Stamps: Welcome Spring paper pad

Ink: Versaclair nocturne

Accessories: Rubbernecker Stamps : Nested Stitched Rectangles, Letter Full of Flowers, Petunia Blooms, Decorative Floral Circle, Stitched Circles, Stitched Ovals dies , Crossover II, embossing powder ,rhinestones