One of the very first things that caught my eye in Stampin' Up!'s Spring (aka Occasions) catalog was the yummy Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper (DSP).  While the colors are not generally what I would consider my favorites, they somehow reminded me of rainbow sherbet, and I guess I connect that to warm and fuzzy memories of my childhood.  So maybe THAT's why I was so immediately drawn to this paper and put it on my very first order way back in early December.

Then a couple weeks ago I finally had a chance to work with it a bit – and here's one of the results:

I'm not sure why, but I think a square card is particularly pleasing to the eye.  Well, at least to MY eye, anyway.  And it had been a long time since I'd made a square card (because of mailing challenges, yada, yada, yada…..), so I was looking forward to working square again.

I think the coolest thing about this card is that it actually uses very few products: just the Peaceful Petals stamp set, Basic Black cardstock, Black Stazon ink, a Basic Black marker, Whisper White Organza Ribbon, and various pieces of Watercolor Wonder DSP. (Well, I *did* put a white cardstock liner inside.)

Each flower is stamped directly onto a selected section of DSP and then cut out "fussy cutting" style. For simplicity I cut off the little piece of stem on each stamped flower, and then once they were mounted onto the color-wash layer, I hand-drew the stems back in – in the exact location of the original stems, except extending all the way to the bottom. 

The front of the card is 5" x 5", and the smallest square (yellow color-wash) is 3" x 3".  Border dimensions are 1/8".

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