This Painterly Pear Hello Card introduces the new Painterly Pears Suite Collection which was released in the Online Exclusives on July 1st last week. This is a beautiful set. The Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper has all kinds of pear images in a soft, vintage kind of look, plus blossoms and foliage. It is similar to the Mediterranean Blooms Designer Series Paper which had lemons and oranges along with pretty blossoms and foliage also. (The Mediterranean Blooms DSP is still available in the Online Store, by the way.)
This card has an Old Olive cardstock card base. I used to use Old Olive a lot, but it seems I am into other greens now. However, Old Olive is still a very useful color and is one of the coordinating colors in the Painterly Pears Designer Series Paper. The layer of designer paper on the card is similar to what we have had in other papers. The whole 12″ x 12″ paper has a large border of the Painterly Pears with a blank center area. You can cut the paper into 4″ x 5 1/4″ pieces to have pears on different sides of the paper to make a multitude of cards. Or it would be like a ready-made page background for scrapbooking. This piece I used was cut from the bottom left corner of the designer paper.
Here you can see what I used to make this card. The pears were stamped and diecut with the Perfectly Pears Bundle in the Suite. Of course, you can purchase any of the products separately if you do not want the whole Suite. The stamp really does most of the work for you giving the pears different colorations even with just one stamp or you can play around with inking up the stamp with one color and then kind of rounding the edge of the stamp in the ink pad with a second color. You can also stamp an outline around the pear as you see in the bottom pear. The dies leave a white margin around each pear so I just trimmed that off because I didn’t want that on this card. The leaves on the yellow pear were stamped in Old Olive and on the green pear the leaves are stamped in Mossy Meadow ink. Both pears are layered on a Petal Pink diecut circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies. This is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To greeting on the card is from the Perfectly Pears Stamp Set and is stamped in Mossy Meadow ink. It is diecut with the smallest banner die in the Stylish Shapes Dies. To add a little embellishment, I used the new Low Profile Sparkle Dots in the Suite. They come in three colors: Darling Duckling, Mossy Meadow, and Secret Sea. Low Profile means that they don’t poke into the envelope when mailed which is really nice!
Check out this Painterly Pears Suite in the Online Exclusives along with many other newly released products!