Painterly Pears, Simply Said, Friendship Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I thought I'd make a friendship card instead of a Halloween card. Though I am going to be making a few more Halloween cards, so stay tuned! I found this card on Pinterest and I just loved the simple layout. You can see the original card here. I made it with the products that I had on hand. Please read on to see how I made this card.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic Black card. I'm sure the original card used the Secret Sea card stock, which is SO close to black. My card opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

I cut the Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Painterly Pears" 12' x 12" package. I cut the bottom piece at 4" x 4" and the top piece at 4" x 3".  I cut the bottom piece at an angle. I started at the upper right corner and cut down to 2-1/4".  I didn't cut the top piece, I just taped it to the top of the card and then added the angled one over it. I wasn't concerned if I had any small gaps because I covered it with a 1/2" wide and 5" long strip of Basic Black card stock. I had to trim the ends. I found that a little difficult since I had already taped the DSP down. I just a little line with my fingernail across the strip where it needed to be cut. I taped that strip over the area where the two pieces of DSP overlaped.

The circles are from the ""Spotlight on Nature" die set. I cut the 3-1/4" one of Basic Black card stock and the Basic White one is 2-3/4". 

I stamped the "hello" from the "Simply Said" set using Mossy Meadow ink. 

The pears and flowers were fussy cut from a piece of DSP in the pack. The pears were set in place on the white piece using Dimensionals and the flowers were set in place with a little dot of glue.

The white circle was taped to the black circle. Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set in place on the front of the card. It's about 3/8" from either side and 1" from the top.

I used some retired Candy Dots on the front and a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock was added to the front and the card was done. After I looked at the picture of the card on here I decided to add tiny pearls to the little yellow flowers, they just looked like they needed something.

This was a very fun card to make and the fussy cutting doesn't take long, just "fussy". Especially those little flowers. But it's SO worth it.

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