Graceful Anemone Hugs by Anne Thompson

There's so much to love about the 2024 JANUARY ANEMONE Collection! You can find it here. For today's card I chose the Graceful Anemone and the Hugs Debut Script dies and a paper from each of the new paper pads--Anemone Plaid and Anemone Grove.

materials used

ANEMONE PLAID PP1025
ANEMONE GROVE PP1026
GRACEFUL ANEMONE 94764
HUGS DEBUT SCRIPT 94776
Hero Arts Shadow Ink Tide Pool mid-tone, fingertip dauber

to make this card

trim a piece of Anemone Plaid paper 4 X 5 1/4 and add it to the front of an A2 note card--I chose a top-fold card and a pale blue/lavender plaid paper
die cut the Graceful Anemone from white card stock and from one of the Anemone Grove prints that coordinates with the plaid chosen--I chose a blue/white leaf print paper
I added Tide Pool ink shading on some of the white card stock blossom pieces (save the Anemone Grove print blossom for another project) and then assembled the flower using Glue Dots and a glue pen

layer the print stem and leaves on top of the white card stock ones
audition the placement of the anemone blossom and the stem and the leaves so you'll know where you want to attach them (I just realized that the orientation of my flower and stem is opposite that on the die envelope--I tilted my blossom to the right edge of the note card and turned the stem upside down to have it curve to the left bottom corner)
I glued down the flower first, tucked the stem underneath, lifted up the stem and glued down the leaves, and then glued down the stem over the leaves
die cut the Hugs Debut Script background from white card stock and the detail letters from a scrap of the print used for the stem and leaves
assemble "Hugs" using a glue pen and then glue it to the front of the note card