Impressions Abloom, Peaceful Pier, Friendship Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a quick and fun layout to share with you. Please read on to see how it was made.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White 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 card stock for the top layer.

I took a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock and textured it using the "Exposed Brick" embossing folder. I cut a strip from that folder that measures 1-1/2" x 4-3/4". I cut the ends at an angle about 3/4" down from the top. I put it on my paper cutter and cut from the corner to the 3/4" mark. I glued the piece about 7/8" from the fold and about 3/8" from the top and bottom. It's not quite equal on the 3/8" mark so I often tape or glue the piece to the upper part and let the lower part be a hair larger. It's not that noticeable. 

Next, using the "Impressions Abloom" bundle, I stamped the flower using Highland Heather for the solid part, stamping off once. And stamping full ink for the detailed stamp. The center of the flower using Pecan Pie ink. Then I cut it out using the matching die and textured die. The flower petals has some texture but it's not showing up on the pic.

The stem and leaves were cut using the dies in the same bundle. 

The words were stamped next. They are from the "Peaceful Pier" set and were stamped using Mossy Meadow ink. 

I laid the stem in place to where I thought the end would hang just enough over the textured piece to look nice. Then I glued it in place.

The flower was set on next using a Dimensional. Then the leaves were glued in place.

I thought the piece needed something more but I didn't want to add any embellishments because it's going out in the mail next week. SO, since I had some leftover embossed strip I thought I'd add some dots. I cut them out using the smallest circle die in the "Stylish Shapes" set. I set them in place using Dimensionals. I lined up the top two to be fairly centered along the lowest part of the angled strip and the middle one was centered as much as I could by eyeing it. It's about 1/4" from the right edge of the card.

The piece was then taped to the card base and the card was done.

This was a very fun, easy and quick card to make. I like this layout, it's different!

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