Extraordinary Flora Gallery

…with a skinny frame over vellum

I recently had a question about a card I used with a similar sketch and after looking back at my Splitcoaststampers Gallery found that I’ve used this numerous times. It is, in fact, one of my favorite ways to feature some rich and lovely designer series papers (DSP) that I’m afraid would overwhelm a card.

I often also use vellum with it since it gives a nice, ethereal look under a richly colored frame.

This card features the recently retired Perennial Lavender DSP along with the Extraordinary Flora Bundle. If you are familiar with my work, this is a lot of DSP for me though most of it is the neutral Crumb Cake gingham. As I said earlier, I prefer to use the richer colors is smaller amounts.

I used the floral stamp with white craft ink on the vellum. I don’t remember that it took too much time to dry. The greeting and floral stamp were also stamped with white and embossed with white on Crumb Cake. Coloring was done with a bit of Blender Pen and finished up with Watercolor Pencils.

It was fun to roll back one corner of the check to give another peek at the back.

The nested arch dies are perfect for making a nice skinny frame though I’ve used rectangles to make other versions of this sketch. I’ll have to collect the other cards I’ve done with this into another gallery.

I bet you have some papers in your stash that would work with this sketch! Go ahead and give it a try!