Teacher Thank you cards

It's been forever since I've posted anything and honestly I haven't had a chance to work on much since April.  The end of April and all of May are usually busy, but this year was insane!  Filled with Birthdays (two of the littles plus mine), a girls trip, our Anniversary, Mother's day, a Wedding, a graduation party, football and baseball.

So that brings us to June.  My kids have a day and a half left of school.  As in, 11:45 Thursday, they are done for the summer!  So nothing like waiting until the last minute to make some Thank you cards for their teachers.

This was my current desk situation today. 

Since I'm still fairly new to stamping, I like to practice before I stamp directly onto my project.  I'm actually really glad I did too, because I'm still figuring out which color is the best to stamp first the lighter or darker.  Plus it helped to season this new stamp set.  This is what I came up with and I really like it!  

 First, the card is 5 1/2" x 5 1/2".  I cut the base yellow piece 5" x 5".  The white stamped piece is 4.75" x 4.75".  For the stamping I stamped the lighter, petal colors first.  Then stamped the outline in black.  I love the look of this it almost reminded me of the way water colors look.  My stamping was a little off on the pink but improved with the other ones!

To make the outline stamping easier I would look for a point that stands out to you and focus on that.  For me it was the curved tip on the bottom petal.

I used a small bit of liquid glass behind the knot to keep it in place.  Then foam adhesive to pop it off the background.

Hope you enjoyed this!

Supplies I used for this project:

A Budding friendship                           Have a Happy day                    Glacier

       

Canary                                                      Pixie                                               Black

    

Glacier Extra Thick Twine