Here I have made an All-Occasion Lavender Springtime Card. I will probably make it into an Easter card, but before I put any greeting on it, I liked it so much as is that I just left it plain. Now I can add any greeting I like or need to this card! You might consider making a stack of cards like this that are ready to go for almost any occasion, and then if you need a birthday card, sympathy, congratulations you can simply add a greeting for the occasion!
This lavender bouquet is stamped with the Lots of Lavender Photopolymer Stamp Set that you can get FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase from Stampin’ Up! It’s actually a 2-step stamping process, if you want to do it entirely with stamps. You can stamp over the image to color in the flowers and even to color in the leaves. With the stamps being photopolymer you can see through them for placement. And it doesn’t have to be perfect! Many artistic images are not colored in “completely”.
This simple card was actually made over time! Awhile back, I made THIS CARD and at the same time I was stamping, I stamped this lavender bouquet you see on my card above, but I got a smudge or something on the paper. So I put that aside and made the Easy Easter Card With Lavender. I thought maybe I could just cut out the lavender bouquet on the smudged paper to eliminate the smudge. Then at some point I wanted to color in the stripes on this Springtime Foils paper to see what it would look like. After that I thought maybe that lavender bouquet would look pretty on the Springtime Foils paper! Finally, the whole card came together with the cut-out lavender bouquet and an oval die-cut layer underneath of Whisper White, layered on a Silver Foil scalloped oval die cut. For these oval die-cuts I used the Layered Ovals Framelits Dies. You could add more embellishment to this card, but I liked it simple the way it is.
I used Wisteria Wonder Cardstock for the card base even though I used the Pool Party Stampin’ Blends Marker to color the Springtime Foils paper. I think it has a greenish look to it which goes with the leaves on the bouquet.
The photo doesn’t do this card justice because of the glare from the foils. It’s very simple and pretty in person! I think I should make more to have on hand, as I suggested to you!
There are only about two more weeks left of Sale-A-Bration so don’t let it slip by! Sale-A-Bration ends March 31. Lots of great choices this year!
Today your assignment is go make several cards like this All-Occasion Lavender Springtime Card and leave it plain so you can add any greeting you like when you need a card next time, or add some greetings and send out the cards right away!