I wanted to create a congratulatory type card for a friend of mine and whilst my sister was over last month, I played with her Stampin’ Up! Pictogram Punches set. It was finally appropriate to send the card last week, so I can now share it.

The vase and stems are on the same stamp so I used the Stampin’ Write markers to colour the stamp and then breathed hard on it to moisten the ink before stamping on very vanilla card stock. I got the colour combination of rich razzleberry, pear pizzazz and tempting turquoise from the Colour Coach and played around with various variations before deciding on this one. After stamping the flowers in rich razzleberry, I stamped another on a piece of scrap paper and punched it out using the coordinating punch from the Itty Bitty Accents punch set. I popped this up on the middle flower using a little piece of a stampin’ dimensional.

The sentiment is a single stamp also, so I again used the markers to colour it in. A very short post today, but it’s a very simple card (although no less effective for that) so there’s not much to say. And I’m trying not to procrastinate too much today and get out of the door for a run. There’s not much point waiting because the temperature isn’t going to get much above the current 34!