Etched Meadow Flower and Leaves

I am most happy making clean and simple cards, and I have to say, I am really in a very clean and simple mode of late!  I made a simple, quick and easy birthday card this morning, with the beautiful new Simon Says Stamp Etched Meadow Flower and Leaves die from their STAMPtember® release!...

I had cut out the leaves from paint chips(for another idea that didn't happen...yet, anyway), and colored the stem of the flower and the flower, itself, with markers.  LOVE how the paint chips were the same color as the color of the prismacolor marker, not planned, at all!  I stamped the sentiment from an older Simon set, and adhered the flower and leaves to the card panel with a couple little glue dots on the backside of the flower, and tape runner on a few parts of the stems.  I used the cut lines in the flower and leaves to make folds in them both, that gave them very cool dimension!! I LOVE this about the flower dies in the STAMPtember® release..their etching gives them dimension!!   I popped the panel up on a card, added a few jewel drops, and done!  Here's a close up...

Ahhhh...simply done birthday card....and this beautiful flower die makes it so easy to accomplish that...happiness!!  

Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa