Thinking of you! Tulips

Just as I promised, a new card project.  Yeah!.  I saw the idea of making these tulips in several places and i have even thought of it before but today they inspired me.  It was a really quick and simple card using almost all scraps.  So it is economical and green too.  And as always, I will be sending this card to Operation Write Home for our heroes in  Iraq and Afghanistan to use to keep in touch with their love ones.  If you have time, I highly recommend that you check out this great organization and maybe make a few cards for them.

Recipe:
Ingredients:

• Real Red classic ink #103133
• Yo Yo Yellow classic ink# 102717
• Pixie Pink classic ink # 105212
• Scraps of Green Galore card stock #101325, Real Red card stock # 101190, Yo Yo Yellow #101608, Pixie Pink card stock #105236
• XL Two Step Bird punch #118073
• Scallop Edge Punch #112091
• Word Window punch #105090
• Real Red  3/4" Polka Dot ribbon #115608 6" long
• Whisper White card stock #100730 cut 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" scored and folded at 4 1/4"
• Brilliant Blue card stock #100691 cut 5 1/4" x 4"
• Three Little Words stamp set #113254
• Snail Adhesive#104332
• Bone Folder #102300
• Stampin' Dimensionals #104430
• Paper Snips #103579
• Stampin' Sponges #101610

Direstions:

• On the Brilliant Blue card stock use the Scallop Edge punch on one of the long sides being careful to line up the punch correctly.
• Using the Snail Adhesive on the back of the ribbon, glue down the Real Red 3/4" in Grograin ribbon close to the scallop edge on the Brilliant Blue card stock. Tuck in the edges on the back.
• Take the scraps of Pixie Pink card stock, Real Red card stock, and the Yo Yo Yellow cardstock and punch 3 of each color of the wings from the XL Two Step Bird punch.
• Then edge each wing with the matching color using a Stampin' Sponge cut down into 8ths.  Just dip the sponge into the corresponding ink and rub it on the edges of each wing.  These are your tulip petals.Take the scrap of Green Galore and just cut thin strips for the stems of the tulips.  I did gentle curves to look like fresh cut flowers.
• Glue the 3 matching petals together using the Snail adhesive.  Just a click on the very bottom works. Then Glue the stem to the  bottom of each tulip.
• Place a Stampin' Dimensional to the back of each tulip.
• Glue each tulip stem with Snail Adhesive and the tulip itself with the Stampin' Dimensional  and tuck it into the top of the ribbon.  Repeat for all 3 tulips.
• On a scrap piece of Whisper White card stock, stamp Thinking of You (or any of the messages) and punch it out with the Word Window and use the Snail adhesive to the card just above the ribbon.
• Glue the Brilliant Blue to the Whisper White card.  

Enjoy your card.  I hope you enjoy this card.

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Happy Stampin'
Misti