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!)
Love this bright and happy card Wanda! Those sunflowers are gorgeous and the plaid paper is the perfect compliment to the bright colors!
Beautiful bright happy yellow!!!
Everything works on the card! The card is so bright and beautiful♥
This card sure makes me happy! Thanks for the inspiration!
Such a fun, bright card, I love those alpha dies, I don’t think I have ever seen them in use!
Oh my, I’m loving this bright and cheerful card, Wanda! MFT is one of my favorite companies as well.
It’s got plaid….ahhhh….life is good!
Awesome card!
A very sunny card !
What a sunny cheerful card Wanda! Love it
Oh I love how
cheerful and
bright your
card is!
Carla from Utah
I adore this beautiful, cheery card! Yes, it made me start my day with a smile!
Such a bright and cheery beautiful card!!!
What a beautiful and cheerful card–love all the stitching details!
LOVE this card!
SO PRETTY, WANDA! Your card DOES make me SMILE!!! ;) I LOVE seeing you use different products/brands to make us aware of what is in the store. Sometimes, I just miss some of these products. THANK YOU for sharing your talent with us Wanda! ;)
So gorgeous and cheerful!
Such a happy card!
Love this card! It’s so bright and cheerful!
Such a sweet card! Adore the pretty flowers.
Such a true HAPPY B-day card!
LOVE the colors!
Happy, and over the top colorful!
Looks really happy)
Happy colorful card. Perfect for the beautiful sunny day we are having today!
Such a beautiful card, Wanda! I just love these MFT stitched dies! The stamps and coordinating dies look fun too. They all just got added to my long wish list! The colours also work well together! Thanks for sharing :)
I love this fun spring card!
Love your bright & happy card.
I’m really enjoying the look of the plaid paper layer, and those rounded stitched dies!
Love this card! Yellow always makes me happy so I am giddy right now. lol Thanks for sharing.
What a fun, happy card! Love the flowers!
This card makes me happy!
I love this card!!! So bright and beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
I love seeing your work each weekend! Your card put a huge smile on my face! It’s so bright and cheery! Thanks for the inspiration!
What a bright, fun and happy card!
So cheerful and bright.
Such bright and happy colours. So perfect for the sentiment.
Wanda, this card is gorgeous love the bright colors
Really cheerful card! Love it!
This is so sunny and bright! Love your card!
What a fun and sunny looking card. I love those bright yellow die cut letters!
Love those die cute letters
Oooh fab happy card Wanda, I’m lovin your bright colour theme :)
Love this card, I am so getting those stamps, stamp pads and dies!!!!
Happy card–Wanda has such a distinctive style.
Absolutely love the colors you used, Wanda. Your card exudes happiness!
Wanda, this card is lovely!!!
Wow! I would be so happy if someone give me a card like this for my Birthday wishes!!! I love the colours and these fantastic sets!
What a happy spring card!
This is a very happy Happy Birthday card.
What a beautiful, bright, sweet card!
I love this fun and pretty card. I love the plaid with the flowers! Great job.