A Z-fold card -You Make Me Happy - SUO challenge #122 & Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge #251

I've always wanted to make a Z-fold card, and I love my flowers, so combining the two just seemed a natural thing to do.  I also combined 2 challenges - SUO #122 - Fun Flowers and Pals Paper Arts #251 which is a colour challenge.  So I made the fun flowers on my card in the following colours:  Daffodil Delight, Melon mambo, and Tempting Turquoise.
To make the Z-fold card, I used a tutorial found on the Too Cool Stamping blog

 

The base of the card is Daffodil Delight, layered with Whisper White.

Two stamp sets were used to make the flowers in the 3 colours mentioned.

The larger flowers are from"Flower Shop". They were stamped with Versa Mark and embossed with their respective colours. The flowers were punched using the coordinating Pansy Punch.  With the 1/2" circle punch, cardstock colours to match the flowers were punched, embossed with the Decorative dots embossing folder and adhered to the flower centers using a dimensional.

The smaller flowers are from "Petite Petals" and they were stamped using the 3 challenge colours, and punched using the coordinating Petite Petals punch.  Some were used as centers for the larger flowers and all of them had rhinestones in their centers.

The flowers were attached to the Z-fold card as shown in the picture.

The sentiment is from "Crazy About You".

Supplies Used:

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I also used Melon Mambo embossing powder and the heat tool.


I missed the deadline for the PPA linky, but I'm posting anyway.

With Sympathy - Petite Petals

Again, I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest.  Pinterest is a really good source for information and for getting your mojo going when you can't think of a thing to make.
I CASED the idea of the card, but I made some changes as well.

The first thing I did was take my top layer of Whisper white and die cut it using the Apothecary Accents framelit.  Then I embossed it with the Fancy Fan embossing folder.

Now, knowing where the space is for my sentiment, I stamped "With Sympathy" from the Bloom with Hope stamp set.  It was stamped using Crumb Cake ink.

I then attached the embossed layer to a whisper White layer underneath, and then added the Sahara Sand Trim near the bottom.  I also added a piece of scalloped Crumb Cake to the bottom.
These 2 layers were then adhered to the Crumb Cake base.

Now I began work on the embellishments.  Using the Bird Builder punch, I punched 4 leaves using Pistachio pudding card stock.  Then I stamped 10 flowers from the Petite Petals stamp set, using Crumb Cake ink, and punched them out using the coordinating punch.

The leaves were glued around the aperture first, and then the flowers were attached using dimensionals.  Little pearls were put in the center of each flower.  Seven flowers were used on the front, and the remaining 3 I put on the inside.

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