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Perfect Day

Welcome back, friends! It’s quite the rumbly Tuesday here in our area as another line of spring storms is due to push through. But that’s okay because we’re bringing our own sunshine this week as we make more spring-inspired designs. This week, we’re pulling spring-inspired products from the crafty stash and pairing them up with a daily sketch. Today we’re using our Lovely Blossoms paper and Sketch 538 from the good folks over at Global Design Project. What I love about today’s sketch is it’s a two-for — two cards at once!

We get started with a base of Cloud Cover cardstock. I chose two separate patterns from the Lovely Blossoms paper pack — the Secret Sea diamond pattern sheet and the small white floral pattern. Each pattern piece is cut to fit the card front on its own and then cut on the diagonal. We then mix and match our two patterned halves to create our two card fronts. I used ribbon to add a pop of interest between the two sections and decided to mix it up a bit between the two cards — one of the Cloud Cover wide ribbon and the other is Gray Granite trim. The sentiment from the new Rolling Waves stamp set is stamped in Secret Sea on white cardstock and then cut apart to create our two-part sentiment. I liked the contrast of the white sentiment panel with the darker Secret Sea pattern, so the sentiment stayed with that pattern across the two designs. We finish things off with some embellishments — moody palette glossy dots and opal rounds.

If you’re looking for a great way to turn out a lot of really cute cards for your stash, this sketch should be in your go-to stash! I hope you’ll pop in tomorrow to see what combo we put together next.

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