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!)
Lovely bright card.
What a beautiful bright and happy card!!! And the best thing is I have this stamp set and I love it too!!! Have a great weekend Wanda!!!
I love how bright and cheerful this is.
I absolutely love this card. So bright and happy, very cheerful….made me smile the minute I saw it. Thanks for the wonderful card design ideas.
Beautiful…I love the plaid paper, flowers, and rounded frame for your sentiment!!
I love this birthday card because it is full of bright sunshine.
Love this one…
Your card is so cute. Love the bright colours.
love that plaid. . .
Beautiful card.
Very pretty & cheerful card!
Love this card Wanda.It DID make me happy! SO sunny and bright.
Lovely design & cheery colors.
The plaid background is so much fun for the pretty blooms.
Love this bright cheerful card !!! The background and your flowers are so pretty !!!
Super idea – there are so many possibilities for these cute little lights !!!
So springy!
Beautiful, Wanda! Love this bright yellow paired with the plaid and crisp white.
Such a bright and sunny card, love it!
I’ve always rounded corners of rectangles with a punch rounder, however, a little light went on today……can’t do that with stitched dies (which I love). Beautiful card.
Wowee! I love the bright colors on this card! This will sure cheer someone up! TFS
Beautiful and SUPER happy card! LOVE the colors and the design is full of the feeling of Spring. Love this ♥
I always look forward to Wanda’s cards each week! Her cards are always bright & cheerful……a great way to start every weekend!!!!! Thank you Wanda for brightening up our weekends with all your inspiration :)
Beautiful card! I love how cheerful it is!
Lovin those pretty yellow flowers and the stitched letters really caught my eye. Way to go Wanda, another beauty.
thanks for the inspiration.
Your cards are always cheerful and this one is no exception – it definitely made me happy!
This is such a vibrant birthday card. Guess what! Its my birthday today :)
Such a bright & cheerful card!
Wanda – what a beautiful and bright card!
Happy bright card! :)
A gorgeous happy card! Love those beautiful blooms and bright colours.
Very pretty card.
Gorgeous bright and sunny!
Very cheerful… brighten us my day.
Totally love the bright fun colors and the MFT stamps.
Love the bright yellow and the plaid – so bright & cheerful!
Great card…love this plaid paper package. I am also stocking up on Birthday cards so thanks for some more inspiration.
Such a Bold, Bright, and Beautiful card!!
Love the plaid with the yellow flowers.
Lovely, bright card! So cheerful :)
Wow that are real sunny and bright colours!! A perfect way to light-up someones day!
Delightful! Makes me smile!
Bright, happy, colorful and just so pretty!! Love it anytime Wanda creates something – she is so very talented!! You guys sure are smart to have her designing for you!!!
You got me at the plaid. I love this card. Would definitely cheer me up if I received one like this. Well done.
A slice of bright and cheerful happiness!
Wanda, this is so bright and cheerful! I love the sweet flowers with the fabulous plaid!!
So cheery and fun!
Super cute! Love the bright yellow color choice.
Such a bright and happy-making card!
Awesome card! So bright and cheery!