Mandala and Flowers- Thinking of you

I’m back with another fun Craft Roulette Card. I actually had to dig out a stamp for this one. These are the parameters…

And this is how I met the parameters… It is a “Thinking of You” card, I think pastels are pretty fairy tale colours. Garden gnomes have ears and can hear. And I stamped the mandala on the background of the front.

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So it has been a while since I’ve got to play with my stamps, I actually had to find where they were packed and dig out a few.

1A- I used this large Mandala background stamp (retired Stampin Up) and I stamped it on to white cardstock. I inked up the different sections with different coloured inks. I used my Stamping Platform to line the stamp up so could get perfect alignment.

B- I wanted some shimmer so I stamped a a layer of Pearlescent Embossing paste on top. In retrospect I would have used something different. It took a few minutes to clean up the stamp when I was done.

2A- cut the card base and panel as shown.

B- using the large rectangle (not crosshatch) from the Crosshatch Rectangle and Labels cut out the Mandala panel

C- layer the pieces as shown.

3A- I ripped a piece of vellum as shown.

B- add it to the front of the card as shown. I added the glue where I knew the flowers would cover so the glue isnt visible through the vellum.

C- I added flowers from my of precut stash (I will list them at the end of the post)

D- I diecut thinking of you from Word set 1 Greetings from 2 shades of pink, layered them together and added to the card front.

I have to thank Sandy Diller for her inspiration for the inside

4A- I cut out the mechanism for the Little Twist Label (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️) and gave it a little trim.

B- I forgot to take measurements but I put down 2 white strips approximately 6 3/4” x 4” and added it to the inside on both sides coming up from the the middle. Add the mechanism over these panels then I cut 2 panels to fit so it covers where the mechanism is attached. I started adding leaves.

C- I added more flowers from my stash and a few Tiny Gnomes. I cut 2 strips of each pink to 7” x 1/4”, layered them and added as shown.

D- I layered 2 Labels Crosshatch and added some flowers as shown.