I made this Garden Poetry Thank You Card a little while back, but don’t think I posted it. It’s a slightly different design and certainly easy to make. It has a top fold with a shorter card front for a different look. This paper is quite colorful and beautiful, and the patterns are in many colors! You’ll find it in the Online Exclusives when you shop at Stampin’ Up!
The card base is Crushed Curry cardstock, a color I don’t use very often. Start with a piece of cardstock cut at 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. Score at 5 1/2″. The interesting thing to do is to cut off 1 1/4″ from the bottom of the front of the card. Adhere a 4″ x 4″ piece of designer paper to the card front. I used the Garden Poetry Designer Series Paper. These papers have vibrant florals and greenery in really rich colors, and the “other side” of the paper has the colors but not the images to use as beautiful backgrounds. This paper is part of the Garden Poetry Suite Collection.
For the greeting, I stamped the “Thank You” from the Paradise Garden Stamp Set and added a few flowers as well, all with Crushed Curry ink for that watermark look. On the inside, I added a Basic White 4″ x 4″ piece to the inside of the card, lined up so it wouldn’t show from underneath the card front. I stamped one flower on it. You can write a note or stamp some additional message inside the card.
The ribbon is some retired white ribbon. It is just wrapped around the card front. If I had thought of it before I adhered the designer paper on the front, I would have wrapped the ribbon just around the designer paper and then adhered the paper. But the way I did it is okay, too! You could add a few gems among the flowers.
Another change you could make would be to add a Basic White strip where the stamped greeting is, which would be 1″ x 4″ or even just 3/4″ wide. You could stamp the greeting on that.
You can make this style card for almost any occasion! And it’s a little different, so that makes it extra-special!
