Today I’m sharing with you one of the projects I designed for our February Stamp Club meeting.

I think this was the first time I had used the Helping Me Grow stamp set from the 2016 Occasions catalog, which is a shame because it’s a beautiful set.

The card base is Lost Lagoon card stock, and the middle layer is Whisper White CS. The card front is Mint Macaron CS stamped with Lost Lagoon ink. I used a White Stampin’ Chalk Marker to add highlights to the petals.

There are some lovely sentiments in the Helping Me Grow stamp set, but I opted for a sentiment from the Homemade For You stamp set from the Annual catalog.

I stamped it in Lost Lagoon on Mint Macaron CS, then cut it with the Large Oval Punch. I added two tiny Pearl Basic Jewels to the design. I glued that on top of a piece of Whisper White CS that I had stamped in Lost Lagoon and cut with the coordinating die from the Rose Garden Thinlits Dies. I attached this to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I wanted to keep using this flower stamp, because it’s just so pretty, so I stamped the envelope with it in Mint Macaron ink. There’s still plenty of room for the addresses and postage.

About the colors: Some people store their Stampin’ Up! products alphabetically by name, and some by color family (Brights, Regals, et.c) I store mine by color because that’s just what makes sense to my brain. I have all the pinks together, then the reds, oranges, yellows, greens, etc. In this organization, Mint Macaron is next to Lost Lagoon. To me they seem like different shades of about the same dusty blue-green. As I was looking at my card stock for inspiration, I thought these two would look nice together, especially with some crisp Whisper White to break them up. If you like this color combo, feel free to copy this for future reference:

Here’s what I used:

And here’s where to get your:

Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!