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Clean & Simple With a Twist

I stamped and die cut both of the beautiful florals from the set, opting for soft yellows & pinks, by using the lightest colours from both the Sunshine In My Pocket and Cherry Blossom ink families. As accents to these flowers, I stamped several leaves, but kept them as just the outline.

I planned out where my floral arrangement would be on an a2 panel of Neenah 80lb, using washi tape to secure these together temporarily. This was because I wanted to stencil some grey leaves onto the background, but I wanted to be sure that they were in the right place to blend into the arrangement.

Once I had these stencilled on I ran the panel through my die cutting machine in the Waffled Diamond embossing folder; this is one of my favourite background techniques right now! You still get the full image or sentiment but with a ton of extra texture thanks to the embossing folder.

I then attached the floral display with foam adhesive tape, and a small sentiment glued flat onto the flowers.

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Giveaway!!!

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Enjoy our Craft Your Life Project Kit, an exciting monthly package that is sure to get the creative juices flowing! Featuring a 6×8 stamp set, coordinating die set, as well as a stencil and embossing folder to fit the theme, this project kit has almost everything you need to start crafting. Just add ink and cardstock, and you’ll be good to go!

This project kit contains the following exclusive products:

– one 6″ x 8″ clear stamp set containing 24 stamps made in the USA from high-quality photopolymer

– four coordinating dies

– one simple coloring and layering stencil which coordinates with the stamp set 

– one 6×6 3D embossing folder

– one simple coloring stencil set (3 stencils) which coordinates with the embossing folder

Note: These products are NOT sold separately.

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Popped Up Florals

I had so much fun creating this slimline card with lots of soft, gorgeous florals in red & blue. These aren’t the colours that I usually reach for when stamping these layered florals, so I decided it was time to shake things up a bit!

Red Sunset & Glacier Caves families will definitely be ones I reach for more, because I think they look absolutely stunning here!!!

After stamping and die cutting the flowers, I began to add them onto an 8.5 x 3.5 inch panel of Neenah 80lb. I trimmed off any extra that was over the edge and reused that to fill any gaps. (If you’ve not seen me do this technique before, I have a video tutorial of the same technique but with a different Altenew release here.)

This time I finished with a really delicate sentiment die cut, which was from the previous month’s kit, and some clear embellishments from my stash.

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Craft Your Life Project Kit: Lush Garden Release Blog Hop

Don’t forget to leave a comment to be entered into the Giveaway; I’d love to know which of the cards I made for this release is your favourite?

You should have arrived here from the SUPER talented Linda Westfall!

Next up on the hop is the INCREDIBLE Joy Baldwin so be sure to head over and see what she has to share with us!!

I have the full lineup linked below, at the very bottom of the post.

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