Beautiful Gallery Layered Frames Thinking of You Vintage Inspired Card. Smart Stampin International Hops. May 2025

  Good Evening Everyone,

Today I'm taking Part in the Smart Stampin International Hops over on Instagram. This month out theme is 'The Annual Catalogue', and yes you've guessed it - I'm using the Beautiful Gallery Suite. 

I genuinely cannot get enough of the suite, it's so versatile and I just keep getting more and more ideas the more I use it. Today I was feeling very vintage. It was really nice to create all that visual texture and depth with just a few layered frames and the fab flourish stamp which sits behind a softly coloured flower!

What do you think?

Measurements

Pecan Pie Card Stock

1pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4" , scored at 5 7/8"

Basic Beige Card Stock

1pc - 3 7/8" x 5 5/8"

2pc - scrap

Crumb Cake Card Stock

1pc - 4" x 6" approx

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Take the Pecan Pie card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Add the Basic Beige panel to the inside. 

Ink up the flourish stamp in Crumb Cake ink and cover the whole of the front of the card base. I overlapped and roughly stamped to give lots of depth and texture - it doesn't have to be perfect as a lot of it does get covered.

Bring in your Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine and cut the Crumb cake card stock using the Rectangular frame die. You can pop the smallest rectangle out of the way to use on a future project.

Take the same flourish stamp from earlier, but this time ink up in Pecan Pie ink and stamp all around the larger frame. Space this out this time so you can clearly see the detail. 

Load up a blending brush with Pecan Pie ink and add some ink all around the edge of the smaller frame.

Angle the smaller frame behind the larger frame, keeping the larger piece straight. add a small piece of tear and tape to the back to hold these pieces exactly where you want them, then adhere down to the card front.

Stamp the larger floral stem in Pecan Pie ink onto a scrap of Basic Beige card stock. Cut out using the coordinating die. Use Dark Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends to colour in in the stem and leaves. Colour in your flower heads using the Flirty Flamingo and Crushed Curry Watercolour Pencils - I chose these to give a softer colour and finish - but you could use blends if you would prefer.

Add this to the centre of the card front using dimensionals.

On another piece of Basic Beige scrap, stamp the sentiment in Pecan Pie, trim and then add some ink around the edges with your blending brush. Add this to sit over the stem of the flower.

I hope you have enjoyed my card - it was so much fun playing around with these bundles and creating a vintage inspired card.

If you do have a few minutes, please head on over to my Instagram Page to check out the rest of the hop. There is some absolutely fabulous creations - you are sure to get lots of inspiration.

Here's a list of supplies I used in today's project, click on the images to head over to my online store Product List

Beautiful Motifs Bundle (English)

[165206]

Gallery Blooms Bundle

[165213]

Pecan Pie A4 Cardstock

[161726]

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

Basic Beige A4 Cardstock

[164512]

Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[161665]

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

[147116]

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 1

[161700]

Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[150673]

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154882]

Tear & Tape Adhesive

[154031]

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[154974]

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

Blending Brushes

[153611]

 

If you are on Facebook, why not pop over and check out our community group Craft & Banter. If you have a passion for paper craft, are brilliant at baking or a super talented seamstress then we would love to see you there. We share all types of crafting, run challenges and giveaways & generally have a right good natter.

See you soon 

Vickie 

Xxx