Floral Phrases Archives - My Elegant Cards

As promised yesterday, here’s a card using another of my new sets, Playful Backgrounds. As the name says, the set’s purpose is to make fun backgrounds and although I have done that today, I’ve made it the main interest on the card – since this is the first time that I’ve used it.

The colour scheme comes from The Paper Players’ challenge this week – here’s the banner which inspired my choice

The set consists of 4 different patterns and I’ve used two of them to create my fun background using cherry cobbler and dapper denim. The outlines stamp is purposely made not to fit perfectly over the solids. So after making my own DSP, I glued my piece of whisper white to a dapper denim base. For the sentiment, I reached for the set Floral Phrases which was still out on my desk and stamped it in dapper denim. I used the retired ovals collection to cut it out and intended to have a larger oval in cherry cobbler to frame it. It was too big (I need the new layering ovals thinlits) so I used a sponge dauber and added just a hint of cherry cobbler to the edges to soften the look.

To make my envelope match, I used the Playful Backgrounds stamps on the flap as well. Perfect coordination!

Today marks my sister’s 100th blog post and she’s offering blog candy (although only to UK addresses). It would be great to get her a lot of visitors today, so if you have the time, please pop over to see her blog. And yes, for those of you that thought I’m in the states, I am. I’m in NJ. She and are live quite a way apart.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Friday! And apologies to those who tried to order Paper Pumpkin yesterday using the amazing 31 hour deal where new subscribers pay only $5. The 31 hours started on Thursday at 5pm MT and hence was not active yesterday morning. I was in training this week for 4 days and I was so focused on yesterday being the last day of it, that somehow it felt like Friday. And so yesterday’s blog post encouraged you to sign up. Well now you can! Just click on the Paper Pumpkin button in yesterday’s post and use the promo code of ONEDAYDEAL.

It’s even more of a happy Friday for me because me Stampin’ Up! order arrived yesterday evening so I got to play. Not as much as I was planning due to last minute birthday drinks with a friend from work and then my brother playing The Magnificent Seven which distracted me. But I did complete 1.5 cards. Here’s the one that I completed using the gorgeous Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies and their partner, the Floral Phrases stamp set:

The Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies consist of three pieces – I used the two main pieces to create this beautiful top panel for my card in very vanilla. Once I’d cut those out, I used the accompanying set, Floral Phrases to stamp the sentiment in sweet sugarplum. This piece was then adhered to a sweet sugarplum card base. It’s an incredibly easy card to do and looks even better in person.