Today I’m using one set of flowers from the Pretty Florals stamp and Die Bundle. There are two more sets of flowers in this stamp set that I haven’t even played with yet! The Florals in Bloom Suite is a double stamp set Suite Collection, consisting of the Pretty Florals (image stamps) and the Sweet Blooms (words and images). This would be a perfect set to use the 50% off sale! Purchase one bundle and get the other for half price!

I couldn’t decide which Bundle I wanted to play with today so I decided to include some dies from the Impressions Abloom Bundle which is from the Floral Impressions Suite Collection (you can find this in the Online Exclusive Section). I really wanted to try out the oval dies from this set, so I combined the two.

I like to think of these flowers as Delphiniums. I have a single Delphinium plant and for some reason there is a stinging nettles plant that grows with it. The leaves of the two plants look very similar, but YOW there is a reason they are called STINGING.

This first card uses a Lost Lagoon base with a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of the Delphinium print Florals in Bloom Designer Paper. A Basic White oval die cut from the Impressions Abloom Dies with a Basic Black Frame, creates the window for the images. The center flower and the greeting are popped up with dimensionals.

These flowers were stamped in Pretty Pink, Petunia Pop, and Fresh Freesia inks. The solid stamp was stamped off on grid paper before adding to the outline image. The stems are all done in Old Olive ink. I did trim off the extra white area that the die left on the top of the stem when I tucked the flowers behind the stems.

The greeting is from the Unbounded Love stamp set. This is part of the Unbounded Beauty Suite Collection (also qualifies for the 50% off sale!). I’ve used a scrap strip (we get lots of those when cutting cardstock into 4″ x 5 1/4″ pieces!), for the greeting and flagged the ends by snipping a line in the center of the short end and then making two more snips from each corner to the center cut. The gems are another Suite Collection item from the Florals in Bloom Suite Collection.

My second card also starts with a Lost Lagoon base. This one used the negative space from the oval that was cut for the first card. It’s layered onto a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of the ‘backside’ of one of the Florals in Bloom DSP patterns. I’ve popped up the white layer to create a shadowbox effect. A Soft Sea Foam frame was adhered to the white oval.

These flowers are the same colors as the first card, but instead of stamping off the solid image it was stamped full strength. The outline image was stamped in Tuxedo Black ink instead of using the coordinating colors. I think this gives the flowers a more bold look.

The final card starts with a Thick Basic White base. Another ‘backside’ of the designer paper was used here. The Soft Sea Foam oval was the center from the frame used on the second card. The Basic Black oval is the center from the first card’s frame. The black oval was cut in half and then spread to create a frame for the Sea Foam oval. Both the ovals and the center flower are popped up with dimensionals.

Four of these flowers were done tone on tone ink while the center one was done with a black outline. The center flower was done with Highland Heather ink. The greeting label on these card is 3″ x 1/2″ to line up with the ovals. A small Baker’s Twine bow was added with a glue dot and three more of the In Color Pears were added. Apparently, my favorite pearls are the tiny Secret Sea color because I only have one left!

No greetings were added to the insides of the cards but they did get a little pop of color.

Which card do you like best?

It was fun to play with inks to see how much difference it makes.

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I just got my kit for this event!! It’s all so neatly packaged into pages. I want to open them all and check it out, BUT, I do know how scatter brained I am and IF I open them, I’m sure to misplace parts and pieces, lol. See what is included here.