Pressed Petals Card

Today I am sharing with you my beautiful Pressed Petals Card that I made for a friend’s birthday using the Pressed Petals Suite. I love how the Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper has photographic images of real pressed petals. So, I thought it would be appropriate to have a piece of vellum overlay like you would when you pressed real flowers in a book.

For the beautiful flower, I used the Pressed Petals Specialty Washi Tape to peel-and-stick flower petals together. What a unique and beautiful product! One tip is to use the Embossing Buddy on the back of the petals once you have created your flower. This will alleviate any stickiness that remains from the washi tape. I used the Perennial Essence Floral Centers for the centre of my flower, but I wanted it to match the centres of the flowers on the DSP. So, I dabbed it onto my Early Espresso Ink Pad to make it dark brown before adding it to my flower. A Mossy Meadow leaf die cut from the Wild Rose Dies completes the flower.

I couldn’t resist making a double bow with the Mossy Meadow Linen Thread from the Magnolia Lane Ribbon Combo Pack and some Linen Thread to string a leaf from the Bird Ballad Trinkets. A strip of the other washi tape from the Pressed Petals Specialty Washi Tape and a piece of Very Vanilla Scalloped Lace Trim line the top of the card. A scattering of pearls adds a nice finishing touch! 

Supplies:

Stamp:  Beautiful Bouquet Photopolymer Stamp Set (Photopolymer 143666)

Ink: Merry Merlot Classic Stampin’ Pad (147112), Early Espresso Classic Stampin’ Pad(147114)

Paper: Mossy Meadow (133676), Very Vanilla (101650), Merry Merlot (146979), Crumb Cake (120953)

Accessories:  Big Shot (143263), Petal Labels Dies (149635), Wild Rose Dies (149547), Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper (149500), Vellum Cardstock (101856), Pressed Petals Specialty Washi Tape (149585), Perennial Essence Floral Centers (149442 ), 1″ Circle Punch (119868), Magnolia Lane Ribbon Combo Pack (149485), Very Vanilla Scalloped Lace Trim (149593), Bird Ballad Trinkets (150457), Pearl Basic Jewels (144219), Embossing Buddy (103083), Bone Folder (102300), SNAIL Adhesive (104332), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Mini Glue Dots (103683)

Measurements: 

• Crumb Cake: 8 ½” x 5 ½”; scored at 4 ¼” 
• Merry Merlot: 5 3/8” x 4 1/8”
• Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper: 5 ¼” x 4”
• Vellum Cardstock: 5 ¼” x 4”
• Mossy Meadow: 2 pieces at 3 ¼” x 2” (for frame) and 2” x 2” (for leaf)
• Very Vanilla: 2 pieces at 2 ½” x 1 ¼” (for sentiment) and 1 ½” x 1 ½” (for flower base)

Instructions:

1. Stamp the sentiment in Merry Merlot on Very Vanilla.
2. Cut it out with the Big Shot using the oval die from the Petal Labels Dies.
3. Using the Big Shot, die cut the Mossy Meadow card stock with the matching Petal Labels Die.
4. Adhere the sentiment and frame together.
5. On the Big Shot, die cut the leaf from the Wild Rose Dies in Mossy Meadow.
6. Punch the smaller Very Vanilla piece with 1″ circle punch.
7. Using the punched circle as the base, layer 9 washi tape petals to create a flower.
8. Add the die cut leaves to the bottom of the flower with glue dots.
9. Take a floral centre from Perennial Essence Floral Centers and dab it into Early Espresso Ink Pad to colour it. Place in center of flower.
10. Take Embossing Buddy and tap it to the bottom of the flower to remove any unwanted stickiness.
11. Attach the vellum to the Pressed Petals Specialty DSP at the top with snail.
12. Add a strip of washi tape to the top of the vellum.
13. Add the Very Vanilla Scalloped Lace Trim underneath the washi tape.
14. Fold the piece of Crumb Cake card stock in half to form the card base.
15. Attach the Merry Merlot piece to the front of the card base.
16. Attach the Pressed Petals Specialty DSP with vellum to the Merry Merlot.
17. With dimensionals, attach the sentiment to the front of the card.
18. Add the flower with glue dots to the vellum.
19. String the trinket from the Bird Ballad Suite with the Mossy Meadow Twine and Linen Thread and tie into a bow. Tuck in trinket under flower with glue dots.
20. Scatter 5 pearls on the front.

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Hope you like my Pressed Petals Card!

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