Happy Monday!  I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend.  I did some (ok…a lot) of stamping over the weekend and finally started to really delve into some of the new sets in the Annual Catalog.  One set, which I was not initially that excited about, turns out to be one of my new favorites.  The Plentiful Plants bundle is a lot of fun and sparked so many ideas. I am a plant lover, both inside and outside, so I shouldn’t be surprised that I was inspired by this set.

For today’s card, I once again created a mini slimline….

Materials & Measurements

• Basic White Thick card stock:  6″ x 7″, scored @ 3 1/2 on 7″ side
• Gray Granite card stock:  5 7/8 x 3 3/8″
• Bloom Where You are Planted DSP:  5 3 /4″ x 3 1/4″

Details

• Glue DSP panel to the Gray Granite card stock.
• Using a die from the Layering Circles dies, cut 3 circles through both panels.
• Create a Gray Granite frame around each cut out circle.
• Adhere this panel to the Basic White card base using dimensionals.
• Stamp a variety of flower pots from the Plentiful Plants stamp set.  I stamped mine in Cinnamon Cider, Night of Navy and Merry Merlot ink.
• Cut the flower pots using the Perfect Plants dies.  These could also be easily hand cut.
• Using a dimensional, adhere each pot inside a circle.
• Cut a variety of plants from the Bloom Where You’re Planted DSP and add to the pots.  I cut a whole page of these plants while watching TV to have for more projects.
• As a little extra touch, I added a few water droplets on the leaves using Nuvo Drops.  You could also get the same results from Clear Crystal Effects.
• The sentiment is also from the Plentiful Plants stamp set and is stamped in black ink heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I hand cut it out and popped it with dimensionals.

• I did something a bit different with the envelope by using a piece of DSP.  I really like this brick pattern and thought it would make an interesting envelope.

I’ve had a few questions about the envelopes I use for slimline cards.  If you’re interested in making your own slimline envelopes, please stop back tomorrow as I will be posting a tutorial and template for both a regular and mini slimline card.

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