It’s Thursday and time for our Create with Stamping Friends challenge!  This week is a fun soft color combination!  We hope you play along!

THANKFUL GARDEN

Thankful Garden is one of the NEW Online Exclusives now available for everyone to order on March 4th!  It’s so easy to color but also looks nice stamped monochromatic!  I just did some light water coloring with a little different cut card base!

Stampin’ Details:

• The base is 4-1/4 x 9-1/2 Thick Basic White cardstock, scored at 5-1/2 and folded so the short end is on the front.
• The Thankful Graden greeting was stamped with Memento Black Ink towards the left on the front flap.
• I used the Peach Pie Marker and a Watercolor Painter to color a light background on the front flap towards the right side.
• The hydrangea from Thankful Garden was stamped with Memento Black Ink on scrap Basic White cardstock and colored with Pool Party, Old Olive and Peach Pie Stampin’ Blends.  It was cut with the Thankful Garden Die and added to the front flap with Stampin’ Dimensionals over the watercolor background.

• A 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Peach Pie Unbounded Beauty DSP was added inside the base card.
• The three-leaf cluster was cut with the die from Old Olive cardstock and adhered inside over the DSP with Stampin’ Dimensionals so that it partially peeks through the front under the hydrangea.
• A portion of the Hydrangea was stamped and colored again the same as above and the small floral die used to cut away a portion, then adhered next to the leaf cluster inside.
• A trio of Party Dots were added to the background.
• Some beige Baker’s Twine Essentials Pack was tied in a bow and added to the stem.

A little different look on this card!  OK, go check out what the rest of the Challenge Team did with this challenge over on Create with Stamping Friends.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Thankful Garden
Ink:  Memento Black, Peach Pie Marker
Blends:  Pool Party, Peach Pie, Old Olive Combos
Cardstock:  Basic White, Thick Basic White, Old Olive
Designer Paper:  Unbounded Beauty 12×12 Designer Paper
Accessories: Thankful Garden Dies, Watercolor Painter, Baker’s Twine Essentials Pack, Party Dots, Adhesives

---

Use HOST CODE:

SCY3JE4P

---

Have fun growing your own paper garden with Stampin' Up!'s STORYBOOK GARDEN PATCH BUNDLE!   Stamp the fun vegetable and fruit images, pots and gardening tools to create garden theme cards, tags, scrapbook pages and more.  Use your favorite coloring tools to color the line-art images or stamp directly on colored cardstock and cut them with the STORYBOOK GARDEN PATCH DIES.  Our STORYBOOK GARDEN PATCH COLLECTION includes step-by-step tutorials for THREE cards (one a special fold) and a useful home decor project!  See more details HERE!

Spring is just around the corner and that means flower gardens start to show off their beautiful blossoms in many parts of the country! Stampin' Up!'s new Online Exclusive, THANKFUL GARDEN BUNDLE, can be used to create flowers all year long!  This bundle is blooming with line-art floral and leaf images that are easy to color with the coordinating layered THANKFUL GARDEN STENCILS and ink, then cut with the THANKFUL GARDEN DIES.  Or use your favorite coloring pencils or markers to bring them to life!  Our THANKFUL GARDEN CARD COLLECTION includes step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT cards we know you will love to create and share!  See more details HERE!

Bring on Springtime with Stampin' Up!'s new STORYBOOK FRIENDS family of fuzzy-tailed critter stamps and dies!  These well-dressed rabbits and other animals will bring a smile to your face and the recipient when creating your cards, scrapbook pages, or other paper projects!  Add a stone wall, or garden of carrots and a sweet greeting to finish it off.  Our STORYBOOK FRIENDS COLLECTION includes step-by-step tutorials for SIX projects...four cards and TWO cute favor boxes for your spring table or to give as a gift!  See more details HERE!