Celebrate Friendship with Splendid Poppy Stems and Gilia Stems by Jean Okimoto

Friends and flowers can make any day better...celebrate a lasting friendship with a special card for someone who's always there for you. Hi, Jean Okimoto here with flowers, glitter and bright colors today.

Diecut the Gilia Stems from rainbow-inked cardstock. The diecut section includes blended layers of Distress Oxides - worn lipstick, picked raspberry, abandoned coral, squeezed lemonade, mowed lawn and peeled paint. Cut the flower, add more squeezed lemonade, then color the stem with more mowed lawn and peeled paint.

Cut Splendid Poppy Stems from another rainbow-inked piece and add more of the same three colors.

Cut the green print from the Springtime Bouquet 6x6 Set with the medium-sized Stylish Rectangle Trio die. Stamp a scrap of the same print with the greeting from the Poppystamps Greeting Basics Clear Stamps Set and Shady Lane VersaFine Clair. Quickly emboss it with detail clear powder.

Here's a tip...trim greeting blocks with dies from the Rectangle Basics or Square Basics sets. Some dies are already perfectly-sized for our greeting stamps. If not, just use a die that's slightly larger and trim the excess cardstock. You'll have perfectly-cut greeting blocks or strips - without those wonky lopsided edges that aren't really noticeable...until it's attached to the card.

Lightly ink the edges of the background and greeting block. It's been years since I've inked the edges of my diecuts!

Cut green glitter cardstock from the Twinkling Jewel 6x6 Glitter Pad with the new Poppystamps Grosgrain Bow.

Trim the lower leaf from the Gilia flower (it would have been covered by the bow) and attach it just below the blossom. Attach the diecuts to an A-6 (4-½" x 6-¼") natural white notecard. Accent the flowers with Goldfinch Open Studio Glitter Glue.

Hope you'll have some time to create a card for special people in your life - where would we be without them?

Thanks for visiting - see you again on Thursday...