Star Fold Birthday Card - SUO Challenges #328

 I made this star card for a challenge with SUO Challenges  the theme for which is "flowers".  I love a pansy as it is the first cheerful face I see as the arrival of spring . I used the Pansy Patch bundle and the retired  coordinating DSP to make the card. 

 I couldn't decide on a size, so I made 2 star cards - one made from a 6 by 6" piece of card stock and the other a 12 by 12".  The smaller card will make a great tag on the bag I will make for the present.

Here are the two cards:

There are many tutorials on how to make a star card.  The one I used is here

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Pansy Patch

Inks:  Merry Merlot

Papers:  Merry Merlot, Silver Foil, Pansy DSP, Basic White, Highland Heather, Soft Succulent, Mint Macaron, Scrap of Daffodil Delight

Accessories:  Pansy Patch Dies, Clear Wink of Stella, Ornate frame dies, 2021-2023 In Color Opal Rounds, Dimensionals

Virtual Team Make and Takes and Videos

 One of the activities of  the  July 20 team meeting, are virtual make and takes.  I designed 3 different different projects which were converted to kits and mailed to each team member.  A PDF for each project was included with each kit.  To assist in the completion of the projects a video was also made for each project. You can see them on You Tube or below each project.

Project 1:  Shimmer Vellum Embossed Card

Stamp:  Elegantly Said

Ink:  Gray Granite

Paper:

Measurements:

• Thick Basic White 4 ¼ by 5 ½”  - card base

• Basic White 1 ⅝ by 5” -to punch for sentiment

• Expressions in Ink DSP 1 by 5”

• Pale Papaya shimmer vellum 3 ¾ by 5” - emboss

• Gold Foil: 1 ⅝ by 3: - mat for sentiment piece

• Gold Foil ⅛ by 5” - adhere next to DSP strip

• Expressions in Ink DSP 3 ½ by 5 ¾” - envelope flap

• A2 Basic white Envelope

• Image from DSP to fussy cut

Accessories:

Ornate Flowers Embossing folder,  

⅜” Pale Papaya ribbon

Elegant Tag punch

Project 2: Sweet Strawberry Card

Stamp:  Sweet Strawberry

Inks:  Black Memento, Versa Mark, Stampin’ Blends (Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive). Colour your image with a medium of your choice and fussy cut.

Papers:

Measurements:

• Flirty Flamingo card stock 4 by 8” scored at 4” to make a 4 by 4” card

• Basic White 3 ½ by 4” with image stamped on it. To be coloured and fussy cut by recipient.

• Basic White scallop circle 2  “ - die cut - for sentiment

• An envelope to fold and adhere together

                  Accessories:

         .Layering Circles Dies  (2 ¾)

                     .White Embossing powder

                     .Stitched So Sweetly Die

        . ⅜”Bumblebee Gingham  ribbon 3"                            :

                      . Clear Wink of Stella

                      . Elegant Faceted dots

Project #3: Pansy Tag:

Stamp:  Elegantly Said

Ink:  Soft Succulent

Papers:

Measurements:

• Soft Succulent 2 by 5” - punched with Delightful Tag punch

• Basic White 1 ¾ by 3” - die cut with Scallop Contour die

• Pansy Petal DSP (green stripe) ½” by 3”

• 2 pansies and 2 leaves to fussy cut from DSP

Accessories:

• Delightful Tag Punch

• Scallop Contour Die

• ⅜” Jade Gingham Ribbon

• Misty Moonlight Baker’s Twine

• Genial Gems or embellishments of your choice

Pansy Patch- Casing the New Catalogue

 My pre-order arrived yesterday and as you can see I wasted no time playing with one of the new stamp sets, making a card using the new In Colors.

This catalogue goes live May 5 and contains some gorgeous stamp sets, dies, coordinating DSP and so much more.  Pansy Petals with its coordinating Pansy dies are one of them.  

This stamp set has coordinating DSP, the images in which can be die cut using the Pansy dies.  This is what I did to create this card.

I used many of the new In Colors (which will be with us until 2023) making this card which I cased from the new catalogue. The colors I used were Soft Succulents for the base, Evening Evergreen for some of the leaves, Fresh Freesia in the DSP and Pale Papaya in the flower centers.

The new Pansies are arranged on a Vellum doillie which is carried over from the about to retire catalogue. This doillie is adhered to a Soft Succulent card base.  These pansies are die cut with the Pansy dies directly from the Pansy Petals DSP, as are the leaves around the flowers. The flowers are adhered to the doillie with dimensionals.

These flowers are at the left edge of two of the patterns of DSP, cut in 1/2" strips adjacent to each other.  The sentiment, stamped with Gorgeous grape ink on a 1/2" piece of Basic White card stock has the edge punched with the Doubled Labels Pick a Punch.  And finally, a tiny gold bumble bee is hovering on the pale pink Pansy.  This tiny bee is part of the Pansy Petals suite

No card is complete without bling, so Clear Wink of Stella is applied to both flowers.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Pansy Patch

Inks:  Gorgeous Grape

Papers:  Soft Succulents, Petal Petals DSP, , Vellum doillie, Basic White

Accessories:  Pansy dies, Bumble Bee  trinket, Doubled Labels Pick a Punch, Dimensionals, Clear Wink of Stella.