Earthen Elegance Vase Ensemble Gratitude Card

 Greetings!

This past week I've been busy making and writing personalized notes and sending thank you cards out.  I hit the big 6-0 last weekend, and hosted a lovely day of music, food and games to celebrate with friends and family.  Now I have to replenish my stash of thank you cards so I can quickly pull one when needed. 😄.

The Earthen Elegance Collection is filled with so many of my favorite things!  With the beautiful sentiments and messages all having to do with gratitude, it was the perfect set to reach for to make a thank you card. Lots of texture, earthy colors, beautiful sentiments in a fabulous font style, and gorgeous plants and vases.  It's like this collection was made just for people like me! Haha.  

Isn't it beautiful!  All the rich colors and gorgeous textures of this collection are fantastic!  Notice the texture on the tall Gray Granite vase - that's from a die included in this Earthen Textures Bundle and is just the perfect size to add texture to the vase.   To create the coffee cup, I simply used one of the vase dies, cut it off, added the handle, and voila, now it's a cup.  There is limitless versatility with the collection. 

The Earthen Elegance Designer Series Paper is 15% off through June 30, as are many of the Designer Series Papers, so get them while you can take advantage of this great savings! 

Gather Your Supplies:

• Earthen Textures Bundle (Save 10% when you purchase stamp set & die with bundle item#)
• Pretty Peacock cardstock 
• card base 4-1/4 x 11 scored & folded at 5-1/2    OR    5-1/2 x 8-1/2 scored & folded at 4-1/4
• 4 x 1-1/4
• Gray Granite cardstock
• 3-1/2 x 1-1/4
• 5 x 3-3/4 for inside panel
• Crumb Cake cardstock
• 3 x 1-1/4 for stamped twig
• 1-3/4 x 1/4 for sentiment
• Copper Clay cardstock
• 3 x 3/4 for grassy sprig
• Early Espresso
• scrap for handle of cup
• Earthen Elegance Designer Series Paper 
• 6 x 4 leafy plants on splattered background print (make sure to use the half that has the light colored background for the spotted texture back side)
• 2 x 1-1/4 lined Early Espresso/Copper Clay print
• 1-1/4 x 2 dripping white on deep browns print
• Moody Mauve Classic Stampin' Pad
• Neutrals Adhesive-backed Sequins

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Product List

Earthen Textures Bundle (English) [161514]	Earthen Elegance 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [161503]	Pretty Peacock 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150880]
Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119686]	Copper Clay 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161721]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953]
Gray Granite 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146983]	Moody Mauve Classic Stampin' Pad [161649]	Neutrals Adhesive Backed Sequins [161627]

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Here's How It's Made:

Cut 1/2" off top of 6 x 4 DSP panel (this will be a strip of splattered background print). Tear off 1-1/4" of bottom of DSP print (this will be flipped to use the light spotted texture for the bottom of the front panel).  Adhere DSP print to Pretty Peacock folded card front with even border at top and sides. Adhere spotted texture torn piece to bottom of card front, with torn edge overlapping printed panel.  Adhere 1/2" splattered print strip 1/4" up from bottom edge.

Ink twig with Moody Mauve, stamp onto Crumb Cake cardstock, die cut.  Die cut grass cluster from Copper Clay cardstock, palm frond from Pretty Peacock and tall vase from Gray Granite.  Place embossing die over Gray Granite die cut vase and emboss.  Top and bottom edge will have ends of embossing piece showing.  Die cut shorter vase from lined DSP print, and die cut same vase from white drips on browns print.  Cut off vase at bottom to look like a cup, then cut off approximately 1/4" off the top of discarded part to use as a base for cup to sit on.  Die cut handle from Early Espresso cardstock and adhere to back of cup using a mini glue dot.

Adhere Gray Granite vase 1/2" from left edge of DSP panel, with bottom on top edge of 1/2" spotted texture print.  Apply 2-3 strips of adhesive to back of striped print vase, attached stems of palm frond and stamped twig to back of vase, adhere grass cluster to back of stamped twig.  Adhere to card front with Stampin' Dimensionals, with bottom edge a little lower than Gray Granite vase and left edge overlapping Gray Granite vase.  NOTE: Adhere a Stampin' Dimensionals behind the stamped twig piece, and to create similar pop-up for palm frond, roll 2 or 3 mini glue dots and place behind center strip of palm frond. 

Adhere cup by placing a Stampin' Dimensional on back left side only, and a mini glue dot on the back right side and adhere as shown.  Cut a Stampin' Dimensional in half, an place side by side on back of small base piece to adhere at bottom of cup.  

Ink "WITH GRATITUDE" with Moody Mauve, stamp onto Crumb Cake cardstock.  Adhere to card near right edge on top of spotted texture DSP strip.

Embellish with Brown and Copper Adhesive-Backed Sequins.

Here's what the inside looks like:

Ink message with Moody Mauve and stamp onto Gray Granite cardstock panel.  

Ink twig stamp with Moody Mauve, stamp near lower left edge with some of stem showing.  Re-ink twig stamp and stamp again, lower and to the right of other twig.  Adhere stamped panel to inside of card.

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Product List

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Paper Trimmer [152392]	Grid Paper [130148]	Clear Block Bundle [118491]
Simply Shammy [147042]	Paper Snips [103579]	Take Your Pick [144107]	Bone Folder [102300]
Stampin' Seal [152813]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Mini Glue Dots [103683]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]

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Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you're inspired to gather your supplies and get creative!  

Have a beautiful day!  😊  

Beverly J