Beautiful Friendship Thank You Card

I’m still playing with my Beautiful Friendship stamp set! Previous cards can be seen here and here. This time I’ve used a masking technique with all of the floral images to create a bold thank you card.

Create a Border

The colors I chose are Pretty Peacock, Pool Party, Petal Pink, and Flirty Flamingo. To start things off, I used a long piece of purple low-tack tape and stretched it across the front panel at a diagonal. That gave me my guidelines for stamping and prevented any ink from leaking into the sentiment area.

Ink It Up

Next I went to town with my stamps and ink. Starting with the largest floral stamp, I inked above and below the tape strip. I (sort of) tried to be symmetrical with my images, but you can see that they didn’t end up that way. Still, I was happy with the little differences.

Once I stamped the Pretty Peacock roses, I make a mask with a Post It note. I covered up the roses, then stamped the next floral image with Pool Party. By masking, it looks like some of the images are behind others. I also made a mask of the – let’s call it a hydrangea – image and continued to mask and stamp.

Trim It Down and Glue

Once I was done with the stamping, I removed the purple tape to find a perfectly clean strip for my sentiment! Next I cut 1/4″ strips of Pretty Peacock Card Stock. I glued those to both edges of the white diagonal strip. Last I trimmed the whole piece down to 5″ x 3-3/4″ and glued it to a 5-1/4″ x 4″ piece of Pretty Peacock Card Stock. I glued everything to a Thick Whisper White card base.

Dress the Envelope!

My envelope is fancy! 🙂 The Pool Party curvy strip is cut from Magnolia Memory Dies, and the 1/2″ Peacock strip is from the 6″ x 6″ In Color DSP Stack.

Find a Sentiment

Not being happy with any of the SU sentiment stamps or dies that I own, I went with one that I have from My Favorite Things®. It fit better and had that bold look I was going for. I cropped it from Pretty Peacock Card Stock and glued it across the center strip. This card can be for any occasion, depending on the sentiment you choose to use!

The final bling is six little Iridescent Sequins, top and bottom.

I have thrown a lot of instructions at you, but the card was quite easy to make. I hope you’ll give it a try! If you would like to purchase the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set, you can order it HERE.

Have fun! Now go get inky!

P.S.

A friendly reminder to put in your reservation for my Sample Platter – DSP and Ribbon Shares. Read about it here and email me at karenshallam@gmail.com with your reservation today. Final date for payment is Sept.2. I will order the products on Wednesday, Sept. 4 and ship them out to you within a week after that. It’s an awesome way to sample all the new papers and ribbons! Don’t miss out!

Product List

Beautiful Friendship Photopolymer Stamp Set [149252] $22.00	Pretty Peacock 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [150880] $8.75	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock [140272] $8.25
Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad [150083] $7.50	Pool Party Classic Stampin’ Pad [147107] $7.50	Petal Pink Classic Stampin’ Pad [147108] $7.50
Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin’ Pad [147052] $7.50	Iridescent Sequin Assortment [144212] $5.00