Everyday Eleanor Hydrangeas

 

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We are featuring "Fabulous Florals" from the New Catalog 2012-13 for our Preview Week topic!  That includes Stippled Blossoms, Summer Silhouettes, Blooming with Kindness, Betsy's Blossom, Everything Eleanor, and Decorate a Daisy stamp sets.  Each week we will be focusing on a different topic in the New Catalog…next week is Nature!

  

So I pulled out Everything Eleanor again and received my inspiration from my beautiful blooming Hydrangea bushes out front of my house!  They are FULL of flowers and SO pretty.  I need to take a photo of them QUICK while they are so gorgeous!

 

The base of my card is Midnight Muse.  I layered on Baja Breeze that I stamped the swirl design in Everything Eleanor with Baja Breeze Ink.  I added a strip of the butterfly print from Patio Party Designer Paper.  For the focal flower, I stamped the small flower several times with Midnight Muse Ink on Baja Breeze cardstock.  I cut them out and layered them with Stampin' Dimensionals on a scrap 1 3/4" Circle.  I added the flower to a square of Whisper White and layered that on Primrose Petals cardstock that I placed on the front of the card! 

 

Can you tell what I used for the leaves?  Yep!  I punched the Butterfly punch from Old Olive, cut it in half and stamped the small floral image in Old Olive on it, then curled them and tucked them behind the Hydrangea blossom.  I also punched a butterfly (I LOVE that NEW butterfly punch!) from Summer Starfruit, crumpled it up and sponged with Summer Starfruit Ink.  Then placed it on the card with a Stampin' Dimensional and added a trio of Pearls to the body.  FInally, I stamped the greeting from Petite Pairs in Midnight Muse on Old Olive and cut the end in a Flag.

 

Hope you like my inkspired treasure!

 

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