Good Friday morning. I hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July holiday. My project today was made for the Splitcoaststampers Ways To Use It Challenge to use our own state flower on our card. Although I was born and raised in West Virginia I have lived in Florida for 35 years so I felt it very appropriate to use the Orange Blossom on my card. Here is a picture of my inspiration.
Here’s what I came up with.
I cut the white flowers and formed them using my molding pad and stylus from the accessory tool kit. I hand cut the tiny stamens and rolled them around the tip of tweezers to form them and attached to flower center using glossy accents.
I love using the Impression Obsession Square Shaker Frames. I attached it to the 4.25” card front with mounting tape and cut a smaller square frame using my Spellbinders Classic Squares.
I love how bright and cheery this small card is.
Thanks for coming by today and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I am going to get spoiled having four straight days off from work. LOL!
Paper: White, Yellow, Olive Accessories: Elizabeth Craft Designs Bunch of Flowers 1, Impression Obsession Square Shaker Frames, Spellbinders Classic Squares, Sizzix Susan’s Garden Leaves Garden, Martha Stewart Branch Punch. Sizzix Accessory Tool Kit, Glossy Accents, Mounting Tape, Metal Adapter Plate , Glue Dots , Paper Piercer , ATG , Big Shot , Teflon Bone Folder, Guillotine Paper
Love it, Kitty...Orange blossoms (or mock organge blossom bushes) are my favorite and the flowers look just like this and smell so good...thank you for the card...I am going to make one..I just wish they had the scent..now that would be something...Hope your 4th was great...take care, victoria
Posted by: [email protected] | July 05, 2013 at 01:34 AM
Mmmm orange blossom fragrance - they come to life with your flowers! I love the stamen tutorial too! I have really good friends from West Virginia (Morgantown) but they've all lived in California for 30 yrs or more. So I can 'hear' your accent, too :)
Posted by: Rosy Newlun | July 05, 2013 at 01:43 AM
Beautiful card, flowers are very pretty,I also love the colors!
Posted by: Mihaela | July 05, 2013 at 02:57 AM
So pretty, Kittie. Love those bright yellow frames.
Posted by: Stephanie Bonin | July 05, 2013 at 08:18 AM
Perfect, thanks for sharing how you did the stamen!
Posted by: Conniecrafter | July 05, 2013 at 09:19 AM
This is so funny (not your card) but yesterday I saw a commercial on TV for orange juice. In it, they did a few seconds time-lapse of an orange blossom growing & the orange growing. The flower caught my eye & I thought, "That would be an easy & cute flower to make"......Today I open your Blog and what do I find????..........LOL.......Love it!
Posted by: Lisa J | July 05, 2013 at 11:37 AM
You make the most beautiful flowers, they look so real. Beautiful card.
Posted by: Karen I | July 05, 2013 at 12:27 PM