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 | | I used the Try a Sketch on Tuesday challenge sketch from September 14, 2025, for my card design.
I had the die cut background panel left over from another project. It's been sitting on my desk, & I decided to use it finally for this card. I cut a piece of white cardstock to 4x5-1/4" (the size of my panel) & glued the die cut panel to that. I wanted it to be there, but subtle, hence the white-on-white. Then I die cut an octagonal window in the panel. To make a narrow frame for that, I die cut another octagon from green cardstock with the same die. Without removing the die, I traced around the outer edge. Then I was able to cut around that with scissors. Finally I glued that around the window in my panel & adhered a piece of patterned paper from my scrap stash behind the opening.
I decided to go with peachy-orange for the large flower, & used blue on the smaller ones, since blue is the complement of orange. After stamping the flowers & leaves, I die cut them & glued them to my card front. I used a bit of foam tape to pop up the main flower.
For the greeting, I pulled out one of my new favorite stamp sets, "Sentiment Strips: Birthday." I stamped it on a scrap of green cardstock & die cut it into a banner with one of the "Sentiment Strips" dies. I glued it to my panel so the banner end slightly overlaps the bottom blue flower, just to make the design more cohesive.
To assemble my card, I trimmed about 1/16" off each side of my background panel so it was slightly smaller than 4x5-1/4", and adhered it to a 4-1/8x5-3/8" mat. Finally I adhered that to my white card base. |
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Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 GMT
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Additional Info
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Keywords: birthday floral flowers feminine
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Stamps: Altenew Vintage Flowers; Pretty Pink Posh "Sentiment Strips: Birthday"
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Paper: Hammermill white 100 lb. cover cardstock; white, green, yellow
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Paper Size: A2
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Ink: Altenew Frayed Leaf; Memento Bamboo Leaves, Summer Sky, Tangelo; Hero Arts Moss, Orange Soda, Cornflower; Lawn Fawn Forget-Me-Not, Peach Fuzz
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Accessories: Dies: Altenew "Vintage Flowers," Pretty Pink Posh "Sentiment Strips," Creative Expressions "Octagons," Die-Versions "Garden Panel"
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Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 2
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