Flowers

 Flowers

Flowers are on the agenda for this post along with making envelopes.  This my January card for my local card swapping group that meets once a month.  Theme was flowers.

stamps/dies/supplies used:  Altenew Dancing poppies stamp/stencil/die set

What I like about this Altenew set is ... everything!  It has a stamp, coloring stencil, and what I call an all in one die.  I call the die that because it is one big die that cuts out all the flowers at one time.  The coloring stencils makes it easy to do all one color or multiple colors for the multiple poppies.  I mounted the poppies with foam tape onto a kraft card layer, then a light olive card layer.  Layered all the layers onto a 5" x 7" kraft card.  Now if you know me I don't do big cards, but I just couldn't resist making a 5" x 7" card, so I could fit all the poppies, and leaves on a card.  By making a big 5" x 7" card I had to make an envelope to fit the card, so this meant dusting off an old tool.......the envelope maker.  Took me a couple of seconds to remember how to use it ... but after I did ... it was EASY to make the right size envelope.  Don't forget to use those old tools you bought in the past.

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