I found a real biological specimen (a cicada, not sure I've ever seen one IRL before! photo at the end of this post!) on our sidewalk yesterday, so today's Stamp Simply project is a Botanical Specimen card! I've used several sets from one of our floral bundles to make this card. The daffodil is one of my favorites, and I love this bundle because (besides the beautiful images)/(like so many of our sets) the sentiments work interchangeably so well together. I adore this font combination! And honestly, just about anything Tim Holtz is another favorite!
I wish I would have thought to make the inside of the slide from vellum or transparency. I am gonna have to make another one just to see what it would look like!
And OH! Voice of experience on those little tiny numbers/letters on these TH dies...tape the back side with tape! Do not use glue because it seeps through and makes a mess! I actually experimented adhering them three different ways. Above, I just removed the tiny letters and let a darker piece of card stock peek through.
Next I left the letters in place and glued the whole thing to another piece of card stock. Even trying to use the minimum amount of glue, it seeped through and I had a hard time (with a gum eraser) trying to un-stickify it! I still haven't gotten it all off!
So finally, plain ole Scotch tape to the back side is what worked the best!
The bonus for a card like this is that even though florals are generally thought of as feminine, this streamline no-frills version would really work for a guy as well.
- Floral Bundle #2 (daffodil, thinking of you sentiment; just because from poppy set)
- Baby Bundle (love you sentiment, heart die-cut)
- Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Specimen
- Pearlescent gold card stock
- Memento ink
- Split Pea rhinestones
- Burlap string
- Copic markers
- eyelets!
- crop-a-dile
- button from stash
And just in case you are curious:
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