pretty, pretty peonies.

Soooo, we're on spring break over here.... our family was in Vermont for a little fun until yesterday evening (the last 2 posts were scheduled while we were out swimming, running into Sofia's school principal (!), and trying to calm down a hysterically-teething-Maia.)

When we got home, I had new PTI goodies waiting to be played with - so while Daddy played "guess who" with Sofia and Thomas, (which is hysterical, by the way, because Thomas asks questions like: is yours a real human?  is he bald like mine? do you think he has a bow-tie on?) I dove into the Pretty Peonies anniversary set.

I tried my hand at the MIM-look, without the dies, since I didn't have any fun foam on hand.  I figured, in a pinch, scissors could mimic the look if the shape is basic enough...I stamped one of the floppy bows from "bells & boughs" as a bustle onto the large "happy" from the new anniversary set.  Using my cutter, I hacked off what I could and then used scissors to cut around the rest of the bow.

The little felt dot worked so much better than a button - I think it's SU, and a few years old :)

Can we talk about how easy it was to stamp the background on the card-base?  Like, breezy.  I stamped the flower outlines first, in SU's crumb cake ink, and went back in with the solid peonies (in antique linen distress ink).  Then, a few spring moss leaves, and finally the aqua mist baubles (from "bells & boughs").  B-r-e-e-z-y.  The whole card came together in less than 20 minutes, which was perfectly all the time I could spare.

Thanks for peeking!

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