Hello! Today I am sharing two CAS Thanks cards (slightly different designs) featuring the My Favorite Things Simply Thanks sentiment die paired with the Flower Explosion stamp from Simon Says Stamp.
When I designed these cards, I envisioned wedding Thank You notes using the colors from the wedding (there is no significance to the gold and teal, it’s just a combination I like). One of my favorite things to do is look at wedding mood boards; I love to see the different color combinations and themes. The colors for my own wedding, a small affair held outside at someone’s home, were Cornflower blue and yellow.
For the first card, I stamped and heat-embossed the Flower Explosion background stamp with gold embossing powder on Robin’s Egg cardstock. I created a band on which to adhere the gold letters. I used the negative piece from diecutting the letters as a guide.
On the second card, I stamped and heat-embossed the Flower Explosion background stamp on Audrey Blue cardstock. I die-cut the panel the sentiment from the panel and taped the gold letters into the knockout (inlaid technique). I added the panel to a card base.
One of the reasons I chose this particular background stamp is that it doesn’t have a strong direction, (up and down or side to side), which meant that I didn’t have a strong vertical or horizontal on which I had to line up the letters. Die-cutting directly into the panel was stressful enough!
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These are beautiful. I LOVE that color combination. I never would have put these together and I don’t know why. I LOVE the idea of looking at wedding mood boards. I am going to have to try that. Thank you for the inspiration!!
Cool cards and they do have a wedding feel to them.
They are beautiful. You suggested wedding so they feel that way! Love that “thanks” die, the N is really unusual. My favorite is the inlaid die letters and you did it perfectly!