Hello, Stampers!

We have a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Crafters – “April Showers Bring May Flowers” and is hosted by our Sistah Darlene. I chose the May Flowers part of that lovely expression because I don’t enjoy the rain LOL! Although it’s very necessary, I sure prefer the sun and results that showers bring us. So, for my card today, I came across the Jar of Flowers stamp set while reorganizing my craft room for the new catalog stuff last week and knew that it needed to get a little love. Luckily it survived the retirement cut so it’s still available if you’re interested.

Once you finish here, I hope you visit our Sisterhood of Crafters Design Team gallery for some great inspiration and play along before the deadline of May 8th!

• Firstly, I created the card base with a 12″ x 6″ piece of white cardstock, then scored at 6.”
• After that, I cut off the right side of the card front at the 3″ score line.
• Then, I cut a piece of the pretty Symbols of Fortune DSP to 5-1/2″ square and layered it onto Smoky Slate cardstock and adhered it to the inside of the card.

Now, the FUN Part!

• After the card base was complete, I stamped both the tulip bouquet and jar stamps. Then, I began to color the flowers and leaves with Stampin’ Blends (all listed below except the new In Color Sweet Sorbet) till they were a nice bold color to make them pop off the background.
• Then, I fussy cut the flowers and punched out the jar with the coordinating punch.
• To make the background, I first cut out the Ornate Layers rectangle and then layered it with more of the designer paper.
• Before I popped the flowers and jar down with dimensionals, I wrapped the jar with Smoky Slate baker’s twine and tied a sweet little bow.
• Then, for the sentiment, I chose two from Peaceful Moments stamp set and inked them up with black ink. After that, I cropped them out with the Scalloped Contours die and popped it up with dimensionals, also.
• Finally, I added Classic Matte Dots to the tulips in black and and Smoky Slate to the sentiment.

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Jar Of Flowers Photopolymer Stamp Set [152515] $23.00	Peaceful Moments Cling Stamp Set (English) [151595] $21.00	Basic White 12 X12 (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Cardstock [159231] $7.75	Symbols Of Fortune 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [157652] $15.00	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131202] $8.75
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00	Pool Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154894] $9.00	Soft Succulent Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155521] $9.00	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154885] $9.00	Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154884] $9.00
Ornate Layers Dies [152726] $37.00	Scalloped Contours Dies [155560] $35.00	Jar Punch [152703] $18.00	Classic Matte Dots [158146] $7.00