Three Little Maids

#stampinup  The sketch at the Freshly Made Sketches blog is quite simple…which makes coming up with a design a bit difficult for me. So many choices. The design team made some FABULOUS cards–you should visit the site and take a look. My card kind of created itself as it went along.

I started with a Mint Macaron card base. I added a strip of Whisper White, backed with a Basic Black mat. This matched the sketch exactly…but I was stumped for a bit trying to figure out how to fill the white space. 

I also decided I needed a bit of texture on the card base, so I embossed it with the Zig Zag Embossing Folder.


I stood in front of my stamp shelves and looked and looked and decided to use the “Petite Petals” stamp set. I haven’t used it in a while (I went on a “Petite Petals” “fast,” because if that was the only set I had, I’d be happy to use it all the time. I love it that much!!), so it was a good choice for this card.


I stamped three flowers in Memento Tuxedo Black onto Mint Macaron scraps and punched them out with the matching Petite Petals Punch. I lined them up and liked how they looked on the bottom right of the white space, but what sentiment would I use?


I went back to staring at my stamp shelves. I spotted the wonderful sentiment from the “Choose Happiness” set and stamped it in Tuxedo Black, using my Stamp-a-ma-Jig to align it properly. 


The flowers were just a little bland. I tried punching a smaller flower with one of the Teeny Tiny Accents Punches, but that didn’t work. Then inspiration struck (finally!) and I got out my 1/4″ Circle Hand-Held Punch and punched three circles from Mint Macaron. I attached these to the flowers with Glue Dots and the flowers to the Whisper White piece with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
 

Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.00	Glue Dots [103683] $5.25	1/4″ Circle Handheld Punch [134364] $9.00	Petite Petals Wood Stamp Set [133152] $16.00
Zig Zag Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [133738] $7.50	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [100730] $8.50	Basic Black 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [121045] $7.00	Mint Macaron 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [138337] $7.00
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00	Choose Happiness Clear-Mount Stamp Set [134198] $18.00	Petite Petals Punch [133322] $13.00	Stamp-A-Ma-Jig [101049] $12.00