DAISY SMILE

There is such a pretty pack of 6X6 Designer Series Paper in the Annual Catalog called Flowers for Every Season. It can be found on page 148 of the Catalog. There really are papers in this pack that can be used for every season throughout the year, even a Christmas pattern with poinsettias.

Then, to coordinate with these pretty papers, there is a stamp set in this year's Make Beautiful Things brochure. Found on page 5 of this brochure, Four Season Floral contains a handful of good-to-have sentiments as well as four flowers that can be used throughout the year. And this st is only $14.00!!

I stamped the daisy from the set in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto a scrap of Whisper White cardstock and colored it in with Stampin' Blends. Since I wanted my daisy to echo the daisies on the DSP I was using for my card, there wasn't a whole lot of coloring to do. 

The Stampin' Blends don't come in the Bumblebee color (darn), which is the yellow featured in the DSP, so I colored the center of my daisy in Dark Daffodil Delight. I used Dark Just Jade for the stem and leaves.

I fussy cut the daisy leaving a narrow margin of white around it. 

Since the design in my paper was soft and not too overpowering, I chose one of the frilly dies from the Ornate Frames dies set (page 182 in the Annual Catalog) to back up the fussy cut daisy. I cut this from Just Jade cardstock and adhered the daisy to it. The size was perfect. 

After cutting a piece of the DSP to 4" x 5 1/4", I popped the matted daisy onto this with Stampin' Dimensionals.

To finish off this simple card, I stamped the word "smile" from a retired stamp set (that I am so glad I hung on to!). It is an outlined word stamp, which enables me to color it in with Stampin' Blends. I used the Dark Just Jade Blend to color the word.

A bit of advice when coloring in images that have varying widths such as this word: Use the brush end of the pen for the wider portions, while the bullet tip works well with narrower areas, such as the downstrokes of the letters.

Once all this was finished, I added the panel to a card base of Just Jade cardstock. 

I plan on featuring the other three flowers from this stamp set against other coordinating DSP from the Flowers for Every Season Designer Series Paper pack. Lovely stuff to work with! Stay tuned.

Flower-y

Smiles.