If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. And that’s what I’m going to do….try again with the Varied Vases Stamp Set and the three columns. I found a different card layout…still had three columns, but also a another box across the bottom…so a little different than the first one. Maybe this would be it!
So after trying to figure out a few things, this is what I created:
I was planning on making a card with each color in the 2018-2020 In-Color Designer Series Paper, but thought I’d try something similar, since I wasn’t really liking the stamped flowers or maybe it was just my bad coloring. I remembered that there is a tulip on the Vases Builder Punch, so thought I’d try that. So I made one of each color and decided that would work. So I cut all my paper, gathered my supplies and set up a little assembly line….I find that’s faster than doing one at a time. Here’s all my supplies…ready to go!
But I got carried away when I was stamping the stems for the flowers and actually stamped more than I wanted….I was just going to put one flower in each vase on the side panels. When I laid it out to get an idea of the look before attaching everything, it was looking a little busy.
I thought maybe something simpler would be better. Maybe laid out like this instead?
Don’t scroll up too fast or you’ll see the next picture….which one do you think I went with? I didn’t want to cover up the Polka Dots that I embossed on the cardstock….because, well, I LOVE polka dots. Since I started off with an old adage “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again”….I thought I should finish by using another adage: “Less is more”; and went with the one second card.
Here they are all done. But the more I looked at it and the more I looked at that vase, it looked like it needed something….maybe a bow?? But it didn’t look right with a bow on the vase and a bow next to the sentiment. But, the bow did give that vase a little bit of a finishing touch….but what to do all the left over vases since I had only used one on each card?
I made little cards. Little 3” x 3” cards….what I call gift enclosure cards. You know those little cards that you tuck inside a gift bag or small treat when a regular size card is too big. Here they are:
Did you notice that there are two of every color (Lovely Lipstick, Grapefruit Grove, Call Me Clower and Blueberry Bushel) except for the Pineapple Punch Color? That’s because I wasn’t paying attention to where the top of the tulips were when I was cutting them down and I accidentally cut off the top of the flowers. (I did tell you that I had a black thumb in an earlier post…guess that applies to paper flowers too!)
If you’d like to make the 5 1/2” x 4 1/4” cards, you will need the following supplies:
Please note: Because I have been an avid scrapbooker for over 15 years, I have lots of crafting supplies that are not Stampin’ Up! brand. I have listed what I used as well as a Stampin’ Up equivalent)
- Varied Vases Stamp Set
- Vases Builder Punch
- Whisper White Thick Cardstock: Cut 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”; scored at 4 1/4”
- Whisper White Cardstock: Cut 1 1/2” x 2 3/4”. I rounded the corners with a Creative Memories Corner Rounder (=Stampin’ Up! Detailed Trio Punch)
- 2018-2020 In-Color 6×6 Designer Series Paper (for vases)
- 2018-2020 1/8” grossgrain ribbon In Lovely Lipstick, Call Me Clover, Pineapple Punch, Grapefruit Grove and Blueberry Bushel
- Cardstock: Lovely Lipstick, Call Me Clover, Grapefruit Grove, Pineapple Punch and Blueberry Bushel – Cut 5 1/4” x 4” and them embossed with Cuttlebug’s Seeing Spots Embossing Folder (=Stampin’ Up!’s Polka Dot Basics Embossing Folder)
- Snail Adhesive and Multipurpose Liquid Glue
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Happy Stamping!
Patricia
