Hi everyone and welcome to another Stamping cove challenge. This time the challenge was to make something with the theme being 'Spring is in the air', and I just couldn't resist making a card using the daffodil dies, but, making snowdrops with them instead! I don't know about you but I do like to get as much use out of a set of dies as I can, and once I realised the bud die within this set of dies was perfect for making snowdrops, my spring card was in the making!
So let's have a look and see how I did it..........
1. Cut a card base from the evening evergreen CS 10" x 5" score in half to make a 5" x 5" side opening square card base.
2. Cut 2 pieces of the basic white CS 4 7/8" x 4 7/8" and attach to the inside and front of the card base, flat using glue.
3. Cut a piece of the evening evergreen patterned paper, from the new horizons papers 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" and attach this to the centre front of the card, flat using glue.
4. Cut a piece of basic white CS 4 1/8" x 4 1/8" die cut a circle out more to the top section of it but making sure it is central for the sides, emboss this using the Gingham EF. Now out of evening evergreen CS cut a circle the same size as the one already cut out, but at the same time cut the outer scalloped edge, this gives you a frame like piece to attach around the already cut out circle on the white piece of embossed CS. Attach this using glue. 5. Attach a length of the ribbon to the layer at the base using tear n tape on the reverse side to hold it in place. Tie a knot onto the front using another piece of the ribbon.
6. Die cut 5 of the daffodil buds using basic white CS and 1 of the bud top layer. Attach the top layer onto one of the bud pieces using glue. Glue the other 4 bud pieces together in pairs.
7. Die cut some of the leaves, 3 of the stems and 2 of the top layer pieces for the daffodil petals, from evening evergreen CS. Cut and piece together as per the diagram above. Apply dimensionals onto the reverse side of each of the bud pieces and attach them one each onto a stem. Cut the stems and the leaves to be the length required and attach to the reverse side of the circle apperture. Attach dimensionals to the backs of the flowers and the whole of the layer. Adhere to the front of the card centrally onto the paper layer.
8. Stamp the words, I used the 'Happy' from the Daffodil Daydream stampset and the 'Spring' from the Easter friends stampset (but you could use whatever you have), using the black memento ink and then fussy cut each word out that is needed. Attach these using a dimensional off to the one side. I then finished my card off by attaching a few of the pearl jewels.
Hope you enjoyed todays project, I really enjoyed making this one, I love seeing the snowdrops popping their little heads above ground, it just let's us know that spring is really on the way 😊 and what a beautiful time of the year spring is too!
Don't forget to pop over to 'The Stamping Cove' over on facebook to grab some inspiration from all of the lovely cards that the ladies are showing throughout the month of April.
Until next time
Huge Crafty Hugs
Natalie xx
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