Lily of the Valley, Sweet Words & Labels, Get Well Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a get well card to share with you. This isn't exactly what I had in mind when I started. Kind of like yesterday's card. I'm thinking I may need to take a day off and come back fresh!  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 and textured it using the "Eyelet Blooms" die. I think it's a very pretty die but it takes a lot of time to clean out all of those little dots not only from the card stock but from the die itself.  But it's SO worth it. 

I colored the center area using the new "Peaceful Pine" ink but I think I should have went with Old Olive instead, this just looks to green. I added little dots of glue to the flat spots around the large "flowers" and set it in place on the front of the card.

Next I cut a 5-1/4" x 1-1/2" strip of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Valley in Bloom" 12" x 12" package. I glued it to the left side of the card (on top of the die cut piece).

I added a leaf that was cut from the same DSP using the "Lily of the Valley" dies. A Basic Beige lily of the valley was cut and both were glued to the front of the card.

The words are from the "Friendly Foliage" bundle and were stamped using Peaceful Pine ink on Basic White card stock. I cut them out using a die from the "Sweet Words & Labels" die set. Using the next size larger die I cut out the layer on Peaceful Pine card stock. I taped the layers together. Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set in place on the front of the card. 

I'm not sure what I could have done to improve this card. I tried Garden Green on the die cut piece and it looked way too light. Then I used the Peaceful Pine ink thinking it was better but it's still too green. Maybe I should have went with the Darling Duckling ink.  I don't know. I got frustrated that I wasn't getting the color I was hoping for and thought I'd just put the card together and maybe it would all come into focus. All I can focus on is that center bright green area.  UGH.   But it was a learning experience and I'm going to give this another try in a few days with different DSP and different colors because I like the concept!

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