Welcome to the Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop for May.
This month"s theme is "Let's Celebrate"! I have many reasons to celebrate this month and the most important reason is my 33rd Wedding Anniversary. I purchased the gorgeous Waterside Retreat Suite as I knew I would enjoy making my husband a card from this Suite. My husband loves relaxing and reading a book, he also loves being out in nature. So the beautiful scene in the background of my card represents nature and I put the little book image on the arm rest of the chair to include his love of reading. My husband would think reading a book in nature would be something to celebrate. We have had our anniversary and my husband loved his nature inspired card.
Below is an image of the design team, and where they live around the world!
I started with a pecan pie card base. I then cut to Matt layers and embossed one with the Lovely Stripes, 3D Embossing Folder. I adhered the two mat layers together. The beautiful scene in the background was cut from the Waterside Retreat Designer Series Paper. There are so many beautiful scenes and images on this paper. I adhered it to the mat layers using glue.
I stamped the chair in Pecan Pie ink and then coloured using Pecan Pie Stampin’ Blends. I stamped the book in Peaceful Pine ink and coloured using peaceful pine. Stampin’ blends. I die cut these coloured images using the coordinating dies. I adhered the chair using Dimensionals, and the book using Glue Dots™ to the background scene and the embossed layer.
I tied a length of Linen Thread in a knot and adhered it across the bottom of the scene and all three layers before adhering to the card base using Dimensionals. I stamped the love you sentiment in Peaceful Pine ink from the Help Me Grow Stamp set on a piece of basic white card stock. I die cut the sentiment using the dye from the Scalloped Blooms dies and adhered it to the bottom right of the card using Dimensionals.
Up next on this month's Blog Hop is the wonderful Rochelle Laird-Smith.
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Thanks for stopping by. I am sure you will find inspiration as you hop around to help you celebrate too!
Waterside Retreat Suite
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