TGIF – Signed & Sealed Florals with Norine + Save the Date!

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Happy Friday! It’s time for our weekly dose of Friday inspiration, but before we get to that, a bit of fun news! We have some new products heading to the shop next week! We’ll be sharing sneak peeks and a day of projects before the new products go up in the shop next Friday, August 13.

And now let’s turn it over to Norine for all of the details of the beautiful project she has for you today!

Hello Greetery friends!  It’s another Greetery Inspiration Friday, and I’m happy to be back to share a pretty little card incorporating bits and pieces from some of the older Greetery products!  My goal was to create a visual of opening an envelope and having tumble of flowers pour out!

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I began with a lightly inked Shiplap die cut background, adhered to a card panel and folded card base.  Then I stamped and die cut an envelope from heavy weight white cardstock.  I stamped the outline in grey/brown ink and a liner in blue, visible only faintly behind the flower bouquet.

I stamped a variety of flower images from the Merry Sprigs, Print Shop Fresh Floral, Simple Things and Print Shop: Floral Frames stamp sets, then die cut them all and used a few to create the bouquet.  (Some left over for next time is always a good thing!)  I used the Pretty Postmarks sets to stamp and die cut the blue postage stamp.  (I notice in the shop, that the Pretty Postmarks stamp set is out of stock, so fingers crossed for it’s return soon)

I arranged the various flowers and leaves into a gracious bouquet and taped them on the backside of the envelope die cut.  With the shiplap planks, and the envelope and stamp positioned at a slant, I wanted at least the greeting to be oriented as close to perfectly horizontal as possible.

To accomplish that, I laid the envelope onto the card front, with all the components lightly tacked in place, then positioned the sentiment stamps on the envelope, lining them up with a T-square ruler butted against the left side of the card.  Then I removed the envelope and put it (with bouquet) into the MISTI, and picked up the perfectly placed sentiment stamps by closing the door of the MISTI down onto the envelope.  I like how it provides a solid focal point in the midst of everything else all tilted and askew!

It’s a pretty basic card design, just a little time consuming to stamp and die cut all the flowers, but if you keep an envelope of leftovers from other projects, you’re already halfway there!

I hope you like my card today; thanks so much for stopping by today and have a great weekend!
cheers, Norine