The Beautiful Thistle bundle in the January – April Mini Catalog features a great selection of stamps and dies that enable you to create a varied selection of thistles. There are dies to cut out the stamped images and detailed dies to build up thistles from the different pieces.

This set will bring spunky elegance to your handmade cards and scrapbook pages. The realistic floral imagery is ready to color using your favorite coloring techniques and tools. Add a sentiment and you’re ready to give a card with words of encouragement, strength, and gratitude.
The stamped images are beautiful line drawings that enable you to color them in a variety of different ways. So whether water coloring, markers or even pastels are your favourite coloring medium of the moment, you will love these stamps.

The project today has been created from a card sketch. Sketches are always a great starting point for your creativity. You don’t have to stick rigidly to the layout, you can always change the shapes and orientations on a sketch if that works better for you.

The Favored Flowers pack was one of the Level 1 Sale-a-Bration choices until the end of February. As well as the beautiful floral designs, there are also some generic coloured prints in this pack, including Blackberry Bliss and Fresh Freesia patterns which are perfect for this project. If you missed out on earning this paper pack for free, try this card sketch idea using paper that you already own.

The card features a Fresh Freesia card base with a Blackberry Bliss designer series paper mat on top. The larger square is a piece of Fresh Freesia designer series paper. The large Thistle has been stamped onto a square of Basic white card. It has been coloured with Old Olive and Fresh Freesia Stampin’ Blends. A Blackberry Bliss Stampin’ Blend has been used to add some highlights to the thistle at the bottom of the petals and at the base of the thistle where it meets the leaves.
The texture image stamp has been stamped around the edge of the Basic White card in Fresh Freesia ink. A bow of white twine is stuck to the thistle with a glue dot.
The sentiment is stamped in Blackberry Bliss ink. Thinking of You is such a useful sentiment, whether someone is having a rough time, or you just want to send a “just because” card.

The card insert features a simple stamped thistle in Blackberry Bliss ink. You could also repeat this on the envelope.
Now is your turn to have a play with this card sketch. Whether you use this Beautiful Thistle bundle or choose different products from your Stampin’ Up! Collection, have fun with it.