Good morning! Today is the last Feature Friday of July and we are showcasing the amazing and wonderful must have turnabout that came out this month. It’s called Lovely Blossoms and it’s spectacular. I love how you can change the look and feel of it just by switching colors. Warning you now, you’ll be seeing a lot of this stamp on my blog in the coming months. The coordinating die set features two hexagons, a sentiment, hearts and a flower shape. It will also get lots of use in my craft room.
For this card I stamped the turnabout four times using different inks from Hero Arts. I made this with a particular friend in mind as these are the colors of the nursery for her upcoming baby. I’ve got yarn on order for a blanket, so I decided to make this card in advance. Ha, what a novel concept for me. Once I had the panel stamped I used the large hexagon die to cut this shape. I also used that die to cut the card base. To do that I had a folded card base and aligned the die at the folded edge, but just over it a wee bit, so it would leave the folded edge intact, thereby making a hexagon shaped card base.
I adhered the stamped panel onto that, and then glued down my sentiment and banner. The “welcome” die comes from the City Stacks die set, and the “sweet baby” comes from the Laurel Frame stamp set. I die cut that sentiment four times and adhered them altogether to make a chunky word die. I used Copic markers to color it, and then clear heat embossed it a few times to darken the colors and to make it shiny. I do that quite a bit and it’s one of my favorite things to do. Something about the magic of embossing that will never bore me.
Since I had some of that stamped panel leftover I had to use it, and thought this die from the Lovely Blossoms die set would look beautiful in that subtle pattern. To keep it simple, yet still allow it to shine, I used both hexagons from the same die set to create the vellum panel. I love those stitches in the hexagon!
I adhered the die cut to the vellum using glossy accents, and also the negative space from the die cut, for alignment purposes. Once that dried I used thin strips of adhesive foam on the back of the letters to add this to another hexagon shaped card base. You can see that the vellum is sort of floating on the card base, as it isn’t completely adhered. I love it! A few sequins and we have a sweet little card to tuck in with a gift. I can see myself making hexagon shaped tags for the holidays. I need to file that idea away to use in a few months.
Thank you so much for joining me this month for Feature Friday. I’m excited to announce that the entire Where Creativity Meets C9 design team will help celebrate Concord & 9th‘s third birthday in August by participating in Feature Fridays.
Happy birthday sweet Concord & 9th!
Supplies:
 Lovely Blossoms TurnaboutEH | SSS | C9 |
 Lovely Blossoms DiesEH | SSS | C9 |
 City Stacks DiesEH | SSS | C9 |
 Laurel FrameEH | SSS | C9 |
 Laurel Frame DiesEH | SSS | C9 |
 Soft VanillaEH | SSS | HA |
 Mint JulepEH | SSS | HA |
 Pale TomatoEH | SSS | HA |
 Lemon YellowEH | SSS | HA |
 DandelionEH | SSS | HA |
 Soft GraniteEH | SSS | HA |
 VersaMarkEH | SSS |
 Hero Arts WhiteEH | SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts ClearEH | SSS |
 40 lb. VellumEH | SSS |
 Neenah 110 lbEH | SSS |
 Gina K. CardstockSSS | GK |
 Copic MarkersEH | SSS |
 Sheer FusionC9 |
 Clear Overlay PenEH | SSS |
 Teflon Bone FolderEH | SSS | AZ |
 ATG AdhesiveEH | SSS | AZ |
 Powder ToolEH | SSS |
 Glue PenEH | SSS |
 Glossy AccentsEH | SSS |
 Foam TapeEH | SSS | AZ |
 Embossing GunEH | SSS |
 ScissorsSSS | AZ |
 Stamp ShammyEH | SSS |
 MISTIEH | SSS |
 Rubber BrayerEH | SSS |
 Craft PickEH | SSS | AZ |
 TweezersEH | SSS |
 Paper TrimmerEH | SSS |