Garden Whispers Card, Bookmark, and Envelope Set

I had the pleasure of cheering on one of my fellow Altenew crafters today during her Level 3 AECP workshop. Carol Pope did an amazing job in her workshop today teaching a class on creating a coordinating card, bookmark, and envelope set. 

I used Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Garden Whispers project kit to create this set of coordinating card, bookmark, and envelope. Inks were from Altenew's Sun-Kissed Delights and Whispering Woodland. 

For the card, I embossed 2 panels of white cardstock with an old Richard Garay sweater pattern embossing folder from my stash. Then I trimmed one panel to 4 by 5 1/4 and left the other one at 4 1/4 by 5 1/2. I splattered both panels using Altenew's Enchanted Gold Shimmer Relief Paste spritzed with a little water. I set them aside to dry.

I trimmed a piece of orange cardstock to 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 and added it to a top folding A2 card base I created out of yellow cardstock. 

I stamped both floral images from the Garden Whispers kit and ink blended them with the inks listed above. I stamped extras and used part of one of the extras for the inside of the card. I die cut the florals after ink blending them and added the larger one to the white panel I had trimmed to 4 by 5 1/4 inches. I trimmed off some foliage that hung over the side and added it to the top right of the card. I added the embossed panel to the orange A2 panel on the card base. 

The "hugs" sentiment on the front of the card and the "lots of love" sentiment on the back of the bookmark are both from Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Magnificent Magnolias project kit. I stamped and die cut the word "hugs" and then stacked a few more die cuts behind it for dimension after blending a bit of Golden Honeycomb ink over the stamped layer. I adhered the sentiment to the card front to finish the front of the card. 

For the inside of the card, I added a white panel that was trimmed to 4 by 5 1/4 inches. I adhered just the bud from the top of the largest floral in the Garden Whispers kit to the bottom right of the white panel and then stamped Papertrey Ink's Reflections stamp of Numbers 6:24-26. You may recognize that as the verse I add at the end of all my blog posts if you are a regular visitor to my blog. It's a beautiful blessing, and I was so delighted to see Papertrey Ink make a stamp of it. 

For the bookmark, I trimmed the embossed panel so that only the center portion was left and then trimmed a panel the same size out of the same orange cardstock I used as the layer behind my white embossed panel on the card front. I added the smaller floral stamp from the Garden Whispers kit to the front of the bookmark and then added the "lots of love" sentiment (with a little ink blending over the front with what was left on my blending brush from ink blending the florals) and stamped the Philippians 1:6 verse on the back of the bookmark. I punched a hole at the top of the bookmark and added some floss through the hole to finish the bookmark. 

For the envelope, I stamped the smaller floral image onto the side of a kraft envelope using Versamark embossing ink and added clear embossing powder over the image before heat setting it. I then ink blended it with darker colors of the same ink collections as I used for the card and bookmark (Sun-Kissed Delights and Whispering Woodland ink collections). 

If you're interested in doing some crafty shopping at Altenew, I'd be so grateful if you used my affiliate link here: Carrie's Altenew Link.  I receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Altenew carries many wonderful Craft-Your-Life sets like the one I used here. 

Challenges I'm entering:

Allsorts challenge blog: In the Garden (1/3; ends 4/24/26) I'm entering the card in the challenge since I need to choose only one of the projects

Cut It Up: Colors of Spring (1/3; ends 4/27/26)

simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/: Bright and Cheerful (1/5; ends 4/20/26)

Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog: Favorite Color: I'm finding I really love the look of shades of orange with florals! (1/3; ends 4/24/26)

613 Avenue Create: ATG with twist of April showers (3/8; ends at the end of the month)

Paper Rocks Scissors: ATG with paper and/or scissors (I used several kinds of papers and cut my foam tape with scissors) (5/5; ends at the end of the month)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge ...: ATG (1/3; ends 5/3/26)

We Love Stamping: Spring or ATG with stamping (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

Classic Design Challenge Blog: ATG (unlimited; 5/12/26)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (1/6; ends 5/12/26)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (unlimited; ends at the end of the month)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 1/10 for the challenge; ends 4/29/26)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with option of die cuts (4/4; ends at the end of the month)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (4/4; ends 4/27/26)

Craft Rocket Challenges: Layer it up: my card has several layers on the card front (unlimited; ends at the end of the month)

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG (1/3; ends 4/10/26)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (4/4; ends at the end of the month)

As You Like It Challenge: Simple or Fussy and Why? I definitely am a fussy crafter! I struggle with clean and simple and love to add more die cuts, embellishments, splatters, and embossing! I just really enjoy adding all those extra details! (3/3; ends 4/22/26)

Ellibelle's Corner: Ellibelle's Garden Party: Anything in or from a garden (2/5; ends 5/11/26)

Ellibelle's Corner: I spy with my little eye: Spring Flowers or Showers (3/10; ends 5/17/26)

A Cut Above: ATG with die cuts with option of using pastels (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start: ATG with option of ombré (2/8; ends at the end of the month)

fourseasons: ATG spring (unlimited; ends at the end of the month) 

Daisy Chain Challenges: no design paper (2/3; ends 4/29/26)

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: Watercolor and/or Spring + a sentiment (2/5; ends at the end of the month)

Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Inspiring creativity 8-ways each week: Middle row across: pastel colors, free, stencil and bottom left to top right diagonal: Encouraging sentiment, free, and floral/foliage (2/3; ends 4/23/26)

Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game!: ATG with stencils (I used stencils to color the floral stamps) (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

Can You Handle The Pressure?: ATG with an embossing folder (2/3; ends 4/22/26)

I'd like to leave a blessing for all the lovely visitors to my blog: 

 The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you;

The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.

--Numbers 6: 22-26