The design of this card came from the layout of one I saw online, but it’s the paper and products that I used that makes it different. All I had to do was look through one of the floral papers and the exact idea came to me for this Floral Impressions Yellow Daisies Thank You Card. You will find this paper in the Online Exclusives, one of the new May 2025 additions.
The card base is Garden Green with a layer of paper with foliage designs and a few smaller flowers. This Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper has many pretty images to choose from in lots of different ways. I chose this particular pattern because I hoped that I could also use the large flowers on another one of the papers to make the focal point of the card. Do you like it or is it too busy? I think I like it.
To help the large yellow daisies stand out, I die cut one of the long shapes in the Nested Essentials Dies. It is cut out of Garden Green cardstock although I also tried other colors too. I thought maybe the generic side of the yellow flowers paper would look good but it would have gotten lost with all the background foliage and being mostly covered by the flowers.
The large yellow flowers, I presume they are daisies or something similar, are hand-cut (fussy-cut) right out of the paper using my Paper Snips. When I do this, I try to choose something near the edges of the paper because, of course, we hate to waste any bit of our beautiful designer papers! Don’t try and cut out one flower out of the entire sheet of paper. Cut roughly around what image you want to cut out, and then more precisely cut out from the small piece of paper with only that image. Move the paper instead of your scissors, as they say! If you hate cutting images out of paper, you can get the Impressions Abloom Bundle or just the Impressions Abloom Dies, also in the Online Exclusives. Or get the entire Floral Impressions Suite Collection. Then you’ll have everything!
After adhering the foliage designer paper to the card base and the Garden Green diecut to the left side of the card, I played around with placing the flowers I had cut out, some little flowers also, and a few leaves. Finally I decided on this placement, took a photo with my phone so I would remember the layout, and then glued everything to the card. Two of the yellow daisies are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, the rest are glued down flat on the card.
The greeting is in the More Messages Stamp Set. Honestly, I took the lazy way out on this one! I decided on the “thanks a lot” greeting, but I didn’t want to mount the entire stamp on the largest block just to get that one phrase. So instead, I inked up the words I wanted with the full ink pad, laid the strip of Basic White cardstock over the inked words and hoped I was getting it fairly straight. I tried holding it in place while also rubbing it to get the ink transferred. I got lucky because it worked on the first try and I only had to trim the ends by hand. Using a Stampin’ Write Marker for those words would have worked also, but I just grabbed the ink pad. A Stampin’ Ink Spot would be perfect, too. But I went for the quickest way and then just wiped off the stamp, still in the case, with my purple Simply Shammy. I got ink on my fingers but it worked out!
Here is another card I made with the Floral Impressions Designer Series Paper. As you can see, I don’t mind cutting out flowers from the designer paper! At least as long as I have my trusty Paper Snips!
