Thank you for inspiring me: a simple and powerful statement to express gratitude.

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Thank You for Inspiring Me Card Recipe

Stamps: Blessings of Home*

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black Memento, Basic Grey Fresh Freesia, Garden Green Stampin’ Blends: Cinnamon Cider, .

Cardstock/Paper: Basic Grey, Garden Green, Heart & Home 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper

Accessories: Gray Granite 1/4″ Ribbon, Classic Mat Dots, Flowers of Home Dies, Scalloped Contours Dies Seasonal Layers Dies, Pretty Flowers Emboss Folder, Wink of Stella (almost dried up), Heat Tool, Stampin’ Clear Emboss Powder,  Stampin Up Cut & Emboss Machine.

Basic Supplies: Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Stampin Dimensionals , Glue Dots

*purchase the stamp and die as a bundle and save 10%.

Cutting Measurements

Basic Grey: 5-1/2″ x 11″, score at 4-1/4″ and burnish with Bone Folder, 4-1/4 x 5″.

Heart & Home 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper (use one of the woodgrain papers) – 3-1/4″ x 4-1/2″, scrap for sentiment.

Fresh Freesia – 3″ x 4-1/4″

Garden Green – scraps for greenery.

Basic White – 4″ x 5-1/4″ (inside panel). scraps for flower focal image.

Gray Granite 1/4″ Ribbon – 3-1/2″

Create the Card

• Use the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss machine and the the Scalloped Contours Dies (largest) to cut the Basic Gray panel.  Attach to card front with Dimensionals.
• Emboss the Fresh Freesia panel with the Pretty Flowers Emboss Folder.
• Stamp the smaller flower bunch from the stamp set on Basic White with Tuxedo Black ink..
• Using the almost dried Wink of Stella brush, pick up  Green Garden ink from the ink pad and paint the leaves.  Do the same with the large flowers using Fresh Freesia ink pad and the tiny flowers using Petal Pink ink pad.  You will now have a glitter effect on the flowers.
• Die cut the greenery sprigs from Garden Green cardstock with the leaf die cuts from the Flowers of Home Dies.  Use die that matches the flower bouquet and die cut the flowers.
• Attach the greenery sprigs behind the flowers with Liquid Glue and attach to embossed Fresh Freesia panel with Dimensionals.  Adhere the panel to the printed woodgrain DSP (Designer Series Paper),
• Cut a strip of DSP (3″ x 7/8″) and stamp the sentiment with Basic Gray ink.  Quickly heat emboss with Clear Emboss Powder and heat gun. Cut each end of strip with the die cut from the Seasonal Layers Dies.
• Thread ribbon under the sentiment and through the cuts.  Attach ends to the back of DSP panel with Tear & Tape, and the ribbon with Glue Dots.
• Attach 2 white Classic Mat Dots to either end of the sentiment strip.

Don’t forget the inside of your card.

Stamp a sentiment  with Basic Gray ink on the Basic White panel and attach to the inside of the card.

Each customer who orders through me on my ONLINE STORE in December will receive a card like this one as well as the tutorial in January. I live in Canada and can only fulfill order for addresses in Canada. Need help? Email me at karen@simplysaidwithkaren.com