Thank You Card for My Sister

I have been blessed to be part of a very loving and close family. I am one of five daughters to great parents who are not only the best parents but fantastic role models. As I was working last week (I work from home full-time), I saw UPS pull up and was SO excited because I knew that my Gazelle was being delivered. But in addition to the Gazelle box was an even larger box. I wasn't sure what it was considering I am a bit obsessed with tracking shipments. Imagine my surprise when I opened the box that it was a beautiful "vintage dress form" that my sister, Pam, had purchased for my Diva Den. My Diva Den is a guest bedroom that I transformed last year into a room of JUST shoes, purses and jewelry. I will have to post a blog of my pictures of the room. Anyway, it was such an unexpected and thoughtful surprise and gift that I wanted to send Pam a personal thank you card. Just days before it arrived, I had purchased a dress form stamp so I knew my card would have to include the stamp.

Above is the front of the card. I used white note card 5"x6.5" and shiny pink paper (has a silver sheen to it) as the base. I just cut the paper 1/4" smaller all the way around so the white of the card would be as a frame. I wanted to emboss the card because she and I were recently discussing the new embossing tool (Big Shot) that I had purchased. I then used a slightly textured light grey paper to stamp the dress form and Thank You sentiment. I actually embossed both the dress form and sentiment using heat/powder embossing. The dress form is in silver while the Thank You is in purple. To pull the purple sentiment into the color scheme, I made a purple flower embellishment putting three separate sections together and used a purple brad to combine them and then used a glittered purple dot to hide the brad. It really looks as if the flower was a premade flower.

I wanted to keep the inside of the card very simple but with meaning so I could write a longer personal note. The sentiment is also heat/powder embossed in purple directly on the same shiny pink paper that I used on the front of the card. You can see the silver shiny part of the pink better in this picture because I did not emboss it. As on the front, I just cut the paper 1/4" smaller all the way around so the white of the card would be as a frame.

Since Pam purchased the dress form to go in my Diva Den, which stores my collection of heels, I just had to put this cute high heel on the back as my signature. I used my Gazelle to cut this out using the shiny pink paper as well as a metallic silver for the overlay. Adorable!!!

Now that I figured out how to create cute personalized envelopes, I just had to do so for this card. I used textured pink paper to make the envelope and made the liner out of the same metallic silver paper used for the high heel. Just too cute!!

Products used for this card:

5"x6.5" White Note Card
Shiny Pink Paper
Light Grey Paper
Textured Pink Paper
Metallic Silver Paper (Hobby Lobby doesn't show loose paper on site)
Silk Flower Parts
Purple Brad
Glittery Purple (this is a similar dot embellishment because purple wasn't online)
Dress Form Stamp
Thank You Stamp (this is a similar stamp as the one I used is old and no longer sold at Hobby Lobby)
Smallest Things Stamp
Embossing Folder
Purple Embossing Powder
Metallic Silver Embossing Powder
Embossing Ink
Embossing Heat Gun
High Heel SVG (Free)