In the language of flowers, violets mean remembrance. Sometimes there aren’t words to express the comfort a hug can bring when someone is suffering a loss.  This card is meant to be up-lifting and offering comfort and hope.

Using recent PoppyStamps Flower Field Tall Curve Border, Penelope Pinpoint Frame and Sending Hugs Poe Script dies to create this card front, I used the solid green back of a striped A2 card base to be the background to the lattice work. Thin foam squares were used to raise the lattice frame off the green card base. (Dies-R-Us often stocks PoppyStamps dies as well as other name brand dies and stamps at discounted prices. The links under the Materials Used section links to Dies-R-Us.)

Scrap white cardstock was ink blended on both sides to create the die-cut violets. Four times the flower border was cut with the two glued to the front of the white lattice work frame.  The remaining borders were cut apart and the petals were bent to curl upward. These flowers were glued at the center to the base border flowers using a hand-held stylus with a tiny round tip to move and push the flower centers down into the glue. A dot of yellow Nuvo Drops completed the center of each flower.

The “Sending Hugs” was die cut from matte gold cardstock which was found on cookie packaging.

The inside sentiment “Happiness blooms from within” is from a new stamp set by PoppyStamps – Colorful Life. Another sentiment, “Bloom and Grow,” is from the same sent and is stamped in a gold ink on the envelope flap.

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Materials Used:

Dies

• PoppyStamps – Flower Field Tall Curve Border – 2522
• PoppyStamps –Penelope Pinpoint Frame – 2510
• PoppyStamps –Sending Hugs Poe Script – 2527

Stamps

• PoppyStamps – Clear Stamp Set – Colorful Life – CL509

Inks

• Ranger – Jim Holtz’s Distress Oxide Ink – Chipped Sapphire, Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord, Stormy Sky, Prize Ribbon
• Stampin’ Up – Classic Stampin’ Pad – Crumb Cake

Papers

• Lightweight white cardstock
• Matte gold cardstock
• A2 green striped card base and white envelope

Miscellaneous

• Cosmic Shimmer – Specialist Acrylic Glue – 125ml
• Sizzix – Big Shot PLUS die cutting Machine
• Fineline 20 Gauge Applicator & Bottle
• LDRS Creative – Stampendable Stamping Tool
• Tim Holtz – Tonic Studios – Stamping Platform
• LDRS Creative – Stampendable Stamping Tool
• Stamp Cleaning Cloth
• We R Memory Keeper’s Embossing Stylus
• Ink Blending Brushes
• Nuvo Vintage Drops – 1309N – Yellow Brick Road
• Foam Tape