3 Cards and Hugs you get to keep!

Playing with color pallets and getting creative with backgrounds keeps me in my happy place. This arched sentiment set from The Greetery will keep you creating for hours! (Product links below) For the bonus, I’ll share how each of these card backgrounds are different and how you can create your own.

Inspiration

I love arches and use them a lot in my designs so this set was perfect. Where do you get your color and inspiration from? Most of the time my inspiration comes from photos. My son takes the most beautiful pictures and a lot of them, so I have a never-ending supply of inspiration to choose from. After all, God‘s color pallets are perfect. 😍

Creation

These are A6 cards (my new favorite size) and the stamp/stencil/dies are available at The Greetery

Texture really adds interest to these cards so for your panels start with any kind of watercolor card stock. The more texture the better. Mine was a medium weight.

2. Choose your color palettes and stencil the beautiful florals on a watercolor panel with the included stencil.

3. I used the floral die to cut out the floral panel. For the second and third card, I didn’t use the die, in case you don’t own it!

4. On a separate piece of watercolor stock, stamp the arched frames with their background sentiments included in the set. We will put these behind the front panel for dimension.

5. Creating the backgrounds: using the arched die that is included in the floral die set, I cut an arch from the center of a clean watercolor panel. For the second and third card, you would cut this from the center of the stenciled panels. Every panel has dimension added by using frame dies as embossing elements. Just use an embossing mat vs a cutting plate. The impressions are deep because I used watercolor paper.

6. Center your stamped arch behind the main card panel. I popped mine up with narrow foam, but you can layer it flat as well. Liquid glue is fine for this. I glued the panel to a white card base at this point.

7. With small foam strips, I glued them to the back of the floral cut out and fixed it to front of the panel.

8. Now stamp, die cut and layer your sentiment and glue to the center arch element. I do several at a time to have some on hand. In this case, I didn’t heat emboss the sentiments, but you certainly could.

9. Finishing touches: I used a corner rounder to punch the corners of the card (for grins and giggles 🤭). Beware, this takes a lot of strength! Then I used my Nuvo Crystal Drops – Ivory Seashell to add tiny pearls here and there.

Would love to know if you gave this a try!

Hugs all around – Kathy

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Floral Arches Stamp and Stencil

Floral Arches Dies

Floral Arches Stamped Sentiments

2 responses to “3 Cards and Hugs you get to keep!”

mediffey

Jul 30, 2025 at 4:56 am

Such a beautiful card Kathy – and you are right – God’s colour palettes are always beautiful!

Unfortunately I cannot find a ‘Greetery’ stockist here in New Zealand, and the postage from USA is horrific now, so I will just have to ‘use what I have’.

Blessings

Maxine

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1. Kathy Day
  
  Jul 30, 2025 at 6:03 am
  
  Hi Maxine!
  Sorry to hear that. I think it’s achievable though. And truthfully I rarely buy sets like this. All you need is a floral stamp, nesting arch die and if you have a small strip sentiment that you can bend you can do it. I’d stamp and color the floral then cut a small arch from the center. On a separate sheet, use one die smaller and lightly trace or emboss the shape with it. Bend the sentiment to the shape, add a large sentiment cut-out and follow the rest of the instructions. I might try one myself❤️! Hugs!
  
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