Ornate Garden Suite

I know with the current shut down, my family seem to find that one day flows into another- weekends are the same as the weekdays but for me still working I still so look forward to the weekend when I can squeeze a few minutes to do something for myself.

I am missing my stamping friends and get togethers which used to relieve the stresses in my life.  so I took out my stuff and forced myself to make a card that had been swimming in my head using the new Ornate Garden Suite (an early release from Stampin Up available now)

The base is Whisper white with a melon mambo embossed with the Ornate Floral embossing folder.  Then a layer of Old Olive diecut with the Ornate Layers dies.  I cut a piece of whisper white to fit inside the dots (otherwise it was too dark a background for the flowers)
The sentiment is from Tags in Bloom (SAB set).
I took a retired Stampin' Up newsprint  DSP and cut it into 3 " square and folded it to make the flower wrap, tied the Ornate Garden Ribbon around it.

I stamped the daisy from the Ornate Style Stamp set seven times (odd numbers always look better)

in versamark and embossed it with white embossing powder and heat set it. I watercolored the flowers with daffodil delight, melon mambo and old olive with aqua painter.
I cut the flowers out (while watching our governor Gavin Newsom give an update on the COVID situation)  and leaves separately so I could arrange them as I wanted and mounted them with dimensionals to pop it out.

I am forwarding a picture of this to my stampin' sisters to let them know I am thinking about them.

Stay safe everyone!  Lynda