Easter Blessings

Hello again!  

If you're like I am, your projects are most often fairly fast and easy, often even clean and simple, but every once in a while it just feels right to make some extra effort to make something a bit more special.  Today's card is one of those projects.  It is a little bit fussy to put together but imho, the end result is worth it.  

The card begins with a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch piece of card stock scored at 2 1/8 (yay for using some paper scraps!).  When I made my card I mistakenly thought that I could glue the mat and designer paper layers onto the card base and then cut through the entire thing with one pass of the circle die.  WRONG!  So I will advise you to do as I say and not as I did!  Carefully measure and die cut the separate pieces before glueing them together.  While you do need to accurately measure so that everything will align properly, doing it this way should be much easier and neater in the long run!  

One more word of wisdom!  It would be a good idea to use heavier card stock or even cut and glue an additional layer for the gold "frame" and for the flowers to give them extra strength.  That will help prevent bending when this uniquely shaped card is opened/closed.  

I mentioned that I wrestled with cutting through all those layers! The inside edges on mine looked a little ragged, so I found a way to neaten them and make them a little more presentable.  I really love how green and full of life this designer paper makes this card feel!  I also enjoy putting that little trio of pearls onto the card front...threes are repeated here in a couple of places and it feels so right to include a little symbol of the Trinity on an Easter card.  ❤️❤️❤️

If you have been visiting my blog for a while, you might know that this is one of my favorite Stamp Simply stamp sets!  One of the reasons I wanted to make this card with this stamp set was because the graceful curve of the daffodil stems looks so lovely against the edge of this card's circular window.

Stamp Simply