It’s not spring here, not even close. It’s below freezing actually but the day looked beautiful – from inside. So I decided to make a spring like wreath using the Stampin’ Up! Wondrous wreath stamp set and the Wonderful wreath framelits to show that they aren’t just for the holiday season. Although it may be a while before I can send this card!

I started by cutting out the centre of the wreath with the tab on the framelit pointing straight upwards so that it would be easy to remember where to put the tabs on the stamp set and also when cutting out the outside of the wreath. It’s much easier to cut the centre first because if you wait until you’ve stamped, you can’t see clearly where the centre is! I stamped the first set of leaves in wild wasabi, stamping off first. The second set of leaves were in wild wasabi also. Then I stamped the flowers in so saffron and perfect plum and cut them out with the flower from the wonderful wreath framelits. I then cut out the happy using the Hello You framelits in a couple of colours so that I could decide which I preferred (adding the runners up to my stash of words). After deciding on the layout, I stamped the Spring in wild wasabi. This is from the Stampin’ Up! Crazy about you stamp set. I then used glue dots to fix on the flowers and popped up the wreath using stampin’ dimensionals. The happy was adhered using the tombow glue giving the glue a little time to set a bit before fixing it so that it wouldn’t ooze. I dry embossed the envelope flap with the plenty-a-petals embossing folder to match the flowers on the wreath.