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Thursday, June 20, 2024

Flamingo Friend

Hi everyone - I'm here with a card using May Spellbinders for the June We Love Stamping Challenge where they're celebrating 15 years - congrats!! The theme is Fabulous Florals or Anything Goes.


Supplies: Paper - Paper Studio A2 card; DCWV striped;
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; scrap of navy striped
Stamps with Dies - Spellbinders Let's Get Together (dies HERE)
Other - Copic Markers;
Creative Expression Wordies - Friendship

My crafty friend Hilary (Fiddling About) inspired me to enter this challenge with her fabulous set using a turnabout stamp. I didn't have any turnabouts with me but I did have my May Spellbinders box that included the gorgeous flamingo stamp set. The die just cuts the right outline so I decided to give the front a shaped edge. The narrow striped paper is on the inside of the card as is the sentiment. 

To make the card, I simply trimmed the front of a prefab A2 card down to 1.25". The white A2 panel on which I stamped the flamingo had a 1.25" strip of white left which I covered with a scrap of navy/white striped paper from the snippets bin. Colored the flamingo scene with Copic markers - quick and easy. Isn't the little parrot among the leaves the sweetest? I googled parrot images and found a cutie to replicate.

My card has a couple of flowers on it but the eye goes to the flamingo so I guess I'll claim the WLS theme of Anything Goes... I'll also add my flamingo to Darnell's June NBUS Challenge #63 since that stamp with the die got first play today.

That's it for today friends. I'll have my normal post for Die Cut Divas tomorrow so I hope you'll stop back! Thanks for visiting!!



8 comments:

Lisa Elton said...

What a fabulous tropical design! Love the flamingo peeking out. Great card, Linda!

brenda said...

Lovely tropical blooms for our theme at We Love Stamping Linda, many thanks for joining us.

B x

Dawn T said...

Just so cute Linda. Such a fun card with the partial die cutting and of course the florals look stunning!

EmmaT said...

Gorgeous card and image, love the shaped edge. Thank you for joining us at We Love Stamping. Emma

Jean said...

A wonderful design that beautifully showcases that stamp!

Cat Craig said...

Cool stamp, great design Linda. Love that peeking flamingo.

Rosemary said...

Gorgeous tropical themed card, Linda! Love, love, love that fabulous flamingo.

Greta said...

Beautiful coloring and love that you made a shaped edge with the image!