Flower Shoppe Sympathy Card

Well I have had one lonnnnng week.  But I finally got to spend some quality time in my craft room this evening.  I spent most of my time playing around with my new Flower Shoppe cartridge.  It took a while to really get the hang of it, but I think I have it figured out.  I started cutting out the full flower, but realized in order to give it the dimension I wanted I needed to use the flower with one leaf cut out.  I cut four of those out in graduated sized, and for the center, I cut out one of the swirl cuts and used my quilling tool to wrap it together and then hot glue all of it.  I have a blister on my finger to prove that I am still not terribly savvy with the hot glue gun.  When will I learn.  Sigh.  Also, the center swirl needs to be cut out at a larger size than you would think.  This flower is four layers, the biggest is a bit over 3 inches and it goes down to about 1.5 inches.  The center is actually 3.3 or 3.5 inches, but when you wrap it up it reduces the size drastically.  Just a tip for those of you who have or are thinking about getting this cartridge!  


So, onto a project I go. I have an acquaintance that unfortunately lost her father recently so I need to make her a sympathy card.  The design is fairly basic.  I printed the papers from my Imagine Audrey cartridge (first time ever, go me!), added  the Flower Shoppe flower and added a Papertrey Ink stamp.  I wanted to keep it fairly simple, given the nature of the card.   Here it is:

Recipe:

Paper:  Cricut Imagine - Audrey

Cartridges:  Flower Shoppe

Punch:  Martha Stewart

Stamp:  Papertrey Ink

Ribbon:  Papertrey Ink

Twine:  The Twinery

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