To A Wild Rose Thank You Card

This week I challenged myself to use the new In Color Evening Evergreen. It is such a beautiful dark green and will be perfect for Christmas cards. In the mean time though I was trying to think how I could use it for an everyday card. I used the To A Wild Rose stamp set and unfortunately it is a retired set now but I wasn't done playing with it and this is what I came up with.

Supplies

1 - 8 1/2" x11" sheet of Evening Evergreen cardstock

1 - 5 1/4" x4" piece of Basic White cardstock

Scrap Basic White cardstock

To A Wild Rose stamp set (retired)

Hand-Penned Petals stamp set

Evening Evergreen ink

Memento Black ink

Crumb Cake Blends

Soft Succulent Blends

Forever Greenery Gold Trim (retired) 

Instructions

Take the 8 1/2"x11" sheet of Evening Evergreen cardstock cut it down to 8 1/2"x5 1/2" and score that at 4 1/4" on the long side.

I took the piece of Basic White cardstock and I wanted to stamp the sentiment three times along the right side of the layer. So I used the thanks stamp from the Hand-Penned Petals stamps set and I used Evening Evergreen to stamp the sentiment. I just stamped this by hand but if you are worried about everything being lined up you could use the Stamparatus and the hinge step technique.

I then took my scrap piece of Basic White and I stamped the outline for the rose and leaves in memento black. I then took my Crumb Cake blends and started coloring the flower. I started with the dark blend and just drew along some of the lines where I wanted dark spots or shadows and then I just finished coloring it in with the light blend, make sure you blend out any harsh lines you might have from the dark blend. I did the same thing for the leaves and then I just fussy cut these images out.

The leaf image has three leaves on the stem and I actually cut the leaf on the left side off the stem so I could have a larger cluster.

I then took my gold trim and wrapped it around the Basic White layer two times. I then adhered the layer to the front of the card. I then used Stampin' Dimensionals to adhere the rose to the card. I placed it over top of where the trim criss crossed on the front. Make sure when you place the dimensionals on the back of the rose you put them far enough in that you slip the leaves underneath the rose. I just adhered the leave flat to the front of the card.

You could easily use the large floral cluster from the Hand-Penned Petals stamp set instead. This is a new stamp set in the annual catalogue that has a coordinating suite. I encourage you to take a peek at the Hand-Penned Suite, I have totally fallen in love with the stamp set but you can take a look at all the matching products.

Happy Paper Crafting!  

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