Today I enjoyed a wonderful day off playing in my craft room!
Inspired by a post by Jennifer McGuire in my email this morning, I decided to do some wreath making. In making my wreath, I used the Gina K. Designs
Wreath Builder Templates. Since I already had these, I decided to not reinvent the wheel by creating my own but there are several tutorials for doing just that. There is one by
Narelle,
Pixie's Crafty Workshop, and
Jane Allmark. All the templates are designed to work with a stamp positioner such as the MISTI or the Stamparatus.
I began by cutting a 4" square of Thick Whisper White and positioned it within my template inside my Stamparatus. I chose the little palm leaf from the Tropical Chic stamp set. A positioned the stamp in the corner of my paper and stamped it in Granny Apple Green. I rotated two places, and stamped again. I repeated this until I had four stamped palms.
After cleaning my stamp, I positioned my paper so that the stamp would now stamp between the existing palm leaves and this time used Garden Green ink.
I liked this wreath as sis but decided that some flowers would b a nice addition. Unfortunately, the flower in Tropical Chic was much too big so I settled on the tiny flower grouping from the Love What You Do stamp set. I positioned them to fall between the palm leaves and stamped them using Calypso Coral. I die cut a circle in the middle of the wreath using one of the Layering Circle Dies but then decided to place a die cut instead of stamping in the centre of the wreath.
I stamped the sentiment from the Darling Label Punch Box using Granny Apple Green on Thick Whisper White and die cut it using the #2 circle die from the Stitched Shapes Framelits. To matte this circle, I used the #5 scalloped circle from the Layering Circles Dies to die cut from Garden Green.
The 4 x 4" wreath was matted with Garden Green. The matted sentiment was adhered to its centre using Dimensionals.
I cut a matte from the Tropical Chic DSP and adhered it to a Garden Green card front. I used a sponge to color the backs of two of the Pearlized Doilies using Calypso Coral. After snipping each in half, I adhered them with a bit of Fast Fuse to the front of the matte and then adhered the wreath on top using Dimensionals.
On a Whisper White matte for the inside, I stamped some palm leaves and then sponged the edges with Calypso Coral before adhering the matte to complete the card.
Though the palm leaves are stamped, not die cut, I think they look almost 3D! Anyway, I like how this turned out. I hope you will give wreath building a play!
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