Beautiful Gallery, Peaceful Pier, Thinking of You Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a card to share with you that I found on Pinterest. I just loved this layout and had to give it a try. You can see the original card by clicking here. Please read on to see how the card was made.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Mossy Meadow card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left. I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White and taped it to the inside.

Next I cut the floral image from the "Beautiful Gallery" using the oval die from the "Impressions Abloom" bundle.

Then I cut the outline piece using Basic White card stock. I used a double sided sticky sheet on my piece of Basic White card stock so I could make that piece a sticker. It can be glued in place but it's a bit missy. I tried that before and learned that using the double sided sticky sheet was the best way to go for me.

The background that the floral image will be taped to is another piece of Designer Series Paper (DPS) from the "Beautiful Gallery" 6" x 6" stack. It's cut at 3-3/4" x 4-7/8". The Basic White layer behind it was cut at 3-7/8" x 5". 

The words are from the "Peaceful Pier" set and were stamped on the die cut piece that is from the "Countryside Corners" dies. It's a solid die so it was difficult to line up the die on top of the words. What I did was I die cut a blank, then I taped it to a piece of grid paper in my MISTI (Stamparatus) and using a little bit of removable tape I set it in place on the grid paper. Then I traced around it. I lined up the stamp inside that traced area, inked up the stamp and gave it a try. I got it straight the first time! So I put the blank back over the traced area and stamped the words using Mossy Meadow ink. I think this was about the most difficult part of making this card. I did luck out getting it straight the first time. It could have ben moved a little to the left but it's close enough and I didn't want to try that again! 

To put the card together I taped the floral oval on the center of the other piece of DSP. Then the white oval boarder was set in place. Then the piece was taped to the Basic White layer. And then that was taped to the card base.

I took three strands of some gold thread I had and tied a bow. I used a glue dot to set it in place. I cut my tiniest Dimensionals in half and put them on the back of the word strip and that was set in place over the knot on the bow and the card was done.

I like how this turned out, even without any embellishments. The colors are so pretty! Soft and elegant looking.

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's thinking of you card,
Wanda