Weekender with Wanda – My Favorite Things Spotlight – Flowers!
Hi crafty friends! Welcome back to the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp blog! So happy to have you here for a part of your weekend. Did you have a great week? What are you working on in your craft room right now? I’d love to know! I am busy trying to re-stock birthday cards in my stash. I seem to have used them all! So this weekend I thought I would share a birthday card idea and feature one of our favorite companies – My Favorite Things. I combined some florals, a pretty alphabet font, and plaid all into one bright and cheerful birthday card creation!
I used the gorgeous Modern Blooms stamp set and dies to make a pretty handful of sunflowers. Normally, when I use this stamp set I make all different colors of flowers. I was thinking it might be cool to make them all the same this time. I used the largest bloom in the set and used traditional sunflower colors of yellow, orange and brown. When I layered my paper I thought the plaid was a perfect match!
I stamped and die cut my flowers out of the Modern Blooms stamp set (with matching dies) and set them aside. I love this new Rounded Rectangle set of stacking dies so I used that as my white layering piece. I die cut out some bright yellow Stitched Alphabet letters to spell H-A-P-P-Y! I stamped my sentiment in Intense Black Ink for some contrast. The sentiment is from the Adorable Elephants stamp set. I thought the font matched the die cut letters nicely. (Fun tip – combine die cuts and stamped sentiments together for a graphic look)
My leaves were stamped in two different colors of green and layered underneath the flowers with foam tape.
You know I always love some twine and enamel dots for an accent! This twine is from Lawn Fawn and the enamel dot is from Doodlebug! You can also see my paper layers here – White A2 card base, a bit of yellow, then plaid. Delicious!
Here is a close up of my flower cluster on the top. I used three of the sunflowers and then tucked in some leaves behind.
I hope this card made you HAPPY today! These bright sunshiney colors make me smile! Hope you have an amazing day and I’ll see you soon right back here! (FYI the next three Weekender with Wanda posts will be on Sunday!)
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FABULOUS flowers and WONDERFUL card Wanda, SO CHEERY!!!
LOVE your colour combo and pretty layers, a DELIGHTFUL design!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your CREATIVE INSPIRATION :)
So pretty! Such a bright happy sunshiny birthday card!
Wow. It’s send lots of hopes and brightness .love the color combination.
Such a happy card. Love, love, love the yellow colors!
Wow! So bright and cheerful!
oh your card is so bright and beautiful!
Cristina
thehouseoftheblackbirds.blogspot.it
What fun colors-they do just make you smile! Great card-
I love this card! So bright and cheerful. Those stitched letters are going right on my wish list!
Very pretty cheerful card!
Cute Card! This week I don’t get to craft as we are getting ready to leave for Maui! No complaints there… Thanks for sharing your adorable card!
Great card. Very cheerful and colorful. Love it!
Such a Bright n cheerful card !
Love the bright colors, pretty card!!!
Such a happy card!! It certainly does make me happy too! Love the bright colours and those fabulous stitched letters!!
Gorgeous card, Wanda! I like those flower stamps a lot!
Fabulous bright Springtime card!!
Yes, this card has certainly brought sunshine to my life. What a gorgeously sunny card:)
Such a great card! Love the colors and now that stamp with the die set are on my “got to have it” list!
Live those bright yellow flowers, they make me happy
What a bright and cheery card…would make anyone HAPPY!
I love that textured HAPPY. Your card is so bright and cheery. Thanks for brightening my day today, Wanda.
super beuaitful card!
Sunshiny cheerful and bright.
What a cheerful card! I love all of the layers and details.
it’s a dreary, wet, chilly Saturday morning.
Bah Humbug.
Then I saw this beautiful card that brought
sunshine into the room.
thanks for making the day better.
So bright and cheerful! Love the Modern Blooms stamps and dies!
The floral birthday card is sure to make someone Happy. Have a BEE-utiful day!
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Such a bright card, really eye catching.
This is definitely a “happy” card. The colors are awesome.
I like your “happy” happy birthday card–very cheery.
i’m working (well i was) on a couple of birthday cards myself ;-) finished some cards I had stamped but because of a hand injury I couldn’t watercolor and now i’m going to “play” with Wow melt it powder and the rose mold…great card btw i don’t gravitate to yellow naturally, but i even found my yellow narcissessses (?) in the allotmentgarden gorgeous today, not sure what’s wrong with me lol
I love how bright the colors are on this pretty card! Thank you
Yes, what a happy card and so many lovely colors and flowers – I love flowers! You are very talented Wanda. Thanks so much.
So sunny and happy! Beautiful card!
Such a beautiful and indeed happy card! Lovely! I want summer now :-)
Such a bright and cheerful card, it’s sure to make someone’s birthday happy!
Love this bright, cheery card! Beautiful sunflowers with plaid. Who could ask for more?
Love the spring colors on this card!
A beautiful card and I love the plaid paper too. Goes great with the yellow and green spring colors.
Such a happy and sunny card. love the layered flowers.
Awesome card, love it!
Wanda, always something pretty to brighten the weekend!
Wanda, this is SUCH a happy card–and, as always, beautifully executed. At the moment, my craft room is full of FLOWER power–I make cards for my mommy friends for Mother’s Day–a little tradition I started last year as a way to do a fist-bump via snail mail for my fellow mamas and comrades in car-pooling, latte-drinking, laundry-folding and all the rest of the many things moms bond about. :)
Love this pretty, cheerful card. Perfect for the beginning of Spring and those who have Spring birthdays!
You just can’t go wrong with plaid – cute card!
Beautiful card. I have the Modern Blooms stamp and dies. I think I may CASE this card.
Beautiful Card! Thanks for sharing this wonderful inspiration.
LOVE this bright and colorful card!!!!
Hi Wanda – this is such a cheery card! I love the dotted sentiment and the bloom yellow flowers – nice layout – TFS
This is such a happy card. Wonderful work, as always.