Spellbinders | "You're the Best" feat. Wendy Vecchi's From the Garden Collection

Spellbinders sent me Wendy Vecchi's new From the Garden Collection to play with and I must say that I'm madly in love with the Garden Party Stamp & Die Set and Stencil Bundle! It's true, I started in this industry as a colorer and while I still enjoy colouring occasionally, I prefer not to colour these days. LOL

I thought these roses would make the prettiest "just because" card. I could easily use this as a Valentine's card, too. There are five layering stencils for the roses and small flowers and the other two are for the leaves and berries. I used Polished, Apricot and Buttercream inks for the roses, Matcha and Wintergreen for the leaves and Skylight for the berries and centres of the small flowers.

Next, I stamped one of the "Dymo" label-style sentiments with Jet Black ink and die cut both the roses and sentiment with the coordinating dies. You could cut up the individual words and stack them, depending on where you want to place the words. I love that each sentiment string is a single stamp since it's hard to line up a bunch of tiny stamps if you wanted to place them on a single line like I did here.

To create the background, I cut two 4" x 5.5" panels. On the first, I used the Flowers & Foliage 3D Embossing Folder on Alabaster cardstock and the second was cut from Dahlia cardstock, which turns out to be a perfect match for Polished ink. For more inspiration, I also used the same embossing folder in my last post HERE.

I trimmed the dry embossed panel on an angle and glued both panels to the card base. Then I used foam tape to attach both the roses and sentiment strip. Since the card base is 4" x 5.5", I was able to overhang the leaf 0.5" and it would still fit into an A2 envelope. To finish, I embellished the card with three Oyster Pearls.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I'll see you again soon!

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