I apologize for this photo. It was night time and my desk was very messy. I just wanted everyone to see that I created each piece in an assembly line process. I used the "Fresh Florals Die" three times to die cut all these pieces out of white card stock. I then went to town stamping. I used TWENTY-ONE ink colors for all these pieces!!! It took me quite a bit of time to do all this so after I stamped, I decided to go to bed and sleep on how I wanted to use all these pieces.
For the first card, I pulled out my "Mega Gracious Vases" Die from Paper Trey Ink and die cut two vases out of white card stock. I knew I wanted to use these on a card but wasn't sure how or what colors I was going to choose for the background.
The white vase was just looking too austere to me so I looked around my house for inspiration. I remembered the sunflowers my friend had brought for me when she came for a visit that were sitting on my counter in a milk glass vase.
I decided that embossing the vases was the key. I went through my embossing folders and chose a thin one I had by Cuttlebug.
I loved how it came out!!! Using foam adhesive, I layered the vase over a die cut piece of pink patterned paper that I had already adhered to my card front. Then I played around with how I wanted my flowers to be. When I was happy with the arrangement, I used a mixture of dot adhesive and foam adhesive to layer the flowers.
I added a bow and some diamond Stickles to some of the flowers, stamped a sentiment and the card was done. So easy!! (However it took a while of layering and digging out products before I came up with this. I am a slow designer!!) I just noticed that the corner of the card in this photo is a bit deformed. I hate when that happens!!
Supplies:
Ink-Stampin Up!-Almost Amethyst, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Forest Foliage, Lavender Lace; My Favorite Things-Sour Apple
Paper-Echo Park-Splash by Bella Road collection-"Journaling," Little Yellow Bicycle-Baby Safari Collection-"Geometric Green," and Fresh Print Clothesline Collection "Cornflowers"
For my second card, I used pink as the background for the card. Instead of using an embossing folder, I used a score board to make the pattern in my vase. I then layered the vase, using foam adhesive, over a strip of patterned paper scrap and some blue twine.
I then arranged the flowers how I wanted them and adhered them to the card with dot and foam adhesive squares.
I then used some midnight blue Stickles for some of the flowers middles and added some blue gems to complete the card.
This is close up of the vase. I had to ink it because somehow I got a little bit of dark ink on it. To cover it up, I took Vintage Photo ink and just touched the sides with a sponge.
That is all for now. I have a couple more projects that I will share tomorrow with the same stamps. Thank you for stopping by!!!
Nora
Supplies:
Ink-Stampin Up!-Almost Amethyst, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Forest Foliage, Lavender Lace; My Favorite Things-Sour Apple
Paper-Echo Park-Splash by Bella Road collection-"Journaling," Little Yellow Bicycle-Baby Safari Collection-"Geometric Green" and "Cornflowers"from Fresh Print Clothesline Collection.
