It’s so funny to me sometimes how cards end up coming together.  I saw a card in a Papercrafts magazine (not the most recent issue, but the one before that) that had flowers that had been either punched or die cut (not sure which) from a newsprint-type paper, and each flower had a button in the middle.  I thought it would be fun to try and do something similar especially because Stampin’ Up! now has a newsprint-type pattern as part of their new Night & Day Specialty Designer Paper collection. I had planned on using the Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery buttons from the Sherbet Designer Button collection and creating a nice soft card.  Somehow though, as the card came together I found that it looked too washed-out.  As I played around with different color combos this is what emerged – totally opposite from the look I had initially been going for *lol*.

Here’s how I made my card:

1. Cut a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Basic Black CS and fold it in half with your bone folder.  Set it aside for a moment.
2. Cut a 5 1/8″ x 4 3/8″ piece of Pumpkin Pie DP and scallop the bottom edge with the Scallop Edge punch.  Pierce a hole in the center of each scallop using a paper-piercing tool and foam mat.
3. Stamp your greeting in the bottom right corner of the Pumpkin Pie DP with Basic Black ink.  I used a greeting from Best Yet – a retired level 1 hostess set (and my favorite greeting set by far).
4. Take a 7″ piece of striped Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon and lay it across the top of the Pumpkin Pie DP about 1/4″ down from the top edge.  Bring the ends of the ribbon around to the back of the DP and stick them down using Snail adhesive.
5. Mat the Pumpkin Pie CS piece onto your Basic Black card.  Take a 4 1/2″ piece of the ribbon and tie it in a knot around the first piece.  Slide the knot so that it is towards the left side of the card.
6. Die cut a swirl out of Basic Black CS using the Swirly Sizzlit Decorative Strip die and your Big Shot.  Position the swirl on your Pumpkin Pie CS on an angle and stick down with 2-way glue.
7. Punch a flower out of the newsprint-type pattern of DP from the Night and Day Specialty DP collection using the 5-petal flower punch.  Die cut two more flowers out of the same DP with your Big Shot – I used the Stampin’ Up! Birds & Blooms Sizzlit 4-pack die for one flower and the Birds with Leaves and Flower die for the other flower.
8. Use the Boho Blossoms flower punch to punch out the two smaller flowers out of Basic Black CS.  Center the 2 smaller flowers on two of the newsprint flowers using 2-way glue.
9. Pierce a hole in the center of the two flowers onto which you glued the small black flowers.  Insert a small Pumpkin Pie corduroy brad into the center of one and a large orange rhinestone brad into the center of the other.  Take a small orange button from the Sherbet Designer Button collection, create the look of “faux” thread with a sliver of Basic Black CS and then stick it to the center of the third flower with a mini glue dot.
10. Position and stick the flowers to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals. You’re done!

I hope you enjoyed this card.

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Stamps: Just Because I Care (retired hostess level 1 stamp set)
Ink: Basic Black Classic ink (101179)
Paper: Basic Black CS (102851), Pumpkin Pie DP (112159),  Night & Day Specialty DP (116768)
Accessories: Bone Folder (102300), Paper snips (103579), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Snail adhesive (104332), Orange Circle Fire Rhinestone brads (109110), Pumpkin Pie striped grosgrain ribbon (110715), Sherbet Designer Buttons (116312), Pumpkin Pie Corduroy Buttons (114342), Scallop Edge punch (112091), 5-petal flower punch (109041), Boho Blossoms punch (110711), paper-piercing tool (116631), mat pack (105826), Big Shot (113439), Swirly Sizzlit Decorative Strip die (113456), Stampin’ Up! Birds & Blooms die (113485), Bird w/Leaves and Flower die (113465)