Pals April Blog Hop: See How My Garden Grows!

Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month, the theme is See How My Garden Grows. We hope to inspire you with our creations today! You will find the lineup at the end of my post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.

With the upcoming new Annual Catalog 2024-25 about to go live, I thought it would be fun to CASE one of the projects from the new catty. All those beautiful layouts and samples are perfect for getting inspiration. I chose the card on the right side of p 40, from the Wildly Flowering Suite (I’ll post a pic later!) It reminded me of a flowerbox on the side of a house, or a flower planter. Here’s my take on it:

I started with an A2 card base of Lost Lagoon. I then took the Heartfelt Hexagon punch, and punched out pieces of one of the Inked Botanicals Designer Series Papers. I adhered the patterns to the front of the card, allowing them to spill off the sides of the card. When they were all pieced together, I simply flipped the entire card over, and trimmed off all the excess. Doesn’t it make a fun background?

Once I had my ‘ferny’ background done, I stamped out several floral patterns from the Painted Lavender Bundle in Moody Mauve and Blackberry Bliss, and cut them out using the Painted Lavender dies. I also cut some leaf dies out of Pretty Peacock.

I used a sentiment from the Simply Zinnia Cling Stamp Set and heat embossed on a pieced of Pebbled Path cardstock using White Embossing Powder. I cut the sentiment out using a Stitched Rectangle die. I then arranged and adhered the flowers and leaves to the back of the sentiment panel. Using a length of Pebbled Path ribbon, I wrapped the ribbon around the card and tied a square knot. I used some Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop the sentiment onto the front of the card.

I finished the card with some 2023-2025 In Color Dots. I hope you enjoyed my project today. All the products used in my cards can be found below the Blog Links.

More inspiration awaits, so use the lineup below to visit the rest of the Design Team. Please mark your calendars for our next blog hop next month, when our theme will be Fun Family Occasions. Until then, have fun in your craft space.

Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop

1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
2. Deb Walker at Deb Stamps Life
3. Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’——-YOU ARE HERE!
4. Windy Ellard at Windy’s Wonderful Creations
5. Debbie Crowley at expressively deb…
6. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
7. Su Mohr at Aromas And Art
8. Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
9. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
10. Rae Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
11. Melissa Seplowitz at The Stamping Ninja
12. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
13. Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping
14. Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!
15. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stamping Habit
16. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose

Product List

Inked Botanicals 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [161157] $12.50	Painted Lavender Bundle [162597] $46.75	Simply Zinnia Cling Stamp Set (English) [163472] $25.00	Heartfelt Hexagon Punch [162888] $22.00
Stitched Rectangles Dies [151820] $35.00	Pretty Peacock 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150880] $10.00	Moody Mauve Classic Stampin' Pad [161649] $9.00	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [147092] $9.00
Pebbled Path 3/8" (1 Cm) Textured Ribbon [161632] $8.00	2023–2025 In Color™ Dots [161620] $8.00	Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $18.00	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $31.00
Versamark Pad [102283] $9.50

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Mary