Hello friends! I am back again! This time I’m focusing on this set of stamps from Simon Says Stamp entitled Beautiful Flowers. This set is from a while ago…isn’t it fun to just dive in and use something that you’ve had for awhile and try something with it!
Beautiful Flowers is a great set of stamps and comes with a great set of phrases for general cards.
Here’s a look at the set of stamps that I used.
I loved making this set of floral cards using Distress Inks, Oxide and Distress Spritz, the combo created some beautiful blends with a little sparkle!
I created all the backgrounds first, then coordinated the front of the card phrases with the florals and added some border stitches using my sewing machine.
So, let me show you how they came together…
I started with the backgrounds. I selected my Mini Distress Oxides, Mini Distress Inks and a coordinating Distress Spritz.
This is how I created all the backgrounds and changed up the colors. This first background colors I used were Distress Oxide Weathered Wood, Stormy Sky, Bundled Sage, and Wild Honey, Distress Ink in Bundled Sage and Peeled Paint and Distress Spritz in Peeled Paint. Oxides came out recently in the mini and work so well when they are combined with any of the Distress Line. I just love the depth of colors that this combination makes. Distress Watercolor is the paper that I love to use and typically, I use the smooth side as I have done with these backgrounds.
I smooshed the colors in a random way on my craft mat. Once they were smooshed, I spritzed the colors with some Peeled Paint Spritz and some water, then began using this as the “stamp pad” for my stamp.
Using the colors in this way creates a very watercolored look, it might look messy at first, but as you dry them, the beauty comes into focus. I stamped a flower from the set into the inks, then stamped it randomly onto the watercolor paper.
I did this until I had the background paper covered, then I dried it with my heat tool.
After the flowers were dry, I used a paint brush to add some of the wet colors on my mat, and adding the color into the background to fill in the spaces where I hadn’t stamped.
Then, I used my heat tool to dry the background.
Next, I spritzed the background paper with some Antique Linen Spritz just to add a little more shine.
Then I dried the paper with my heat tool.
I made the backgrounds first, then arranged the card fronts..
..here are the steps for how I created the cards.
I stamped some more of the flowers onto a piece of scrap paper and stamped a phrase for the front. Both the front phrase piece and card background were framed with some stitches using my sewing machine. I tied a bow to the front of some of the phrases and some I left plain..I love them both, but it’s good to change things up a bit.
And here are the rest of the background combos!
Oxide Saltwater Taffy, Wild Honey, Bundled Sage, Evergreen Bough, Distress Ink in Tattered Rose and Peeled Paint and Antique Linen Spritz.
The next was Oxide Bundled Sage and Evergreen Bough, Distress Ink Old Paper, Antique Linen and Peeled Paint and Peeled Paint Spritz.
And finally, Oxide Victorian Velvet, and Bundled Sage, Distress Ink in Old Paper, Seedless Preserves and Milled Lavender with Antique Linen Spritz.
After I had the backgrounds complete, I began arranging and stamping all the card front phrases…then they were stitched and built. Easy, fun and a beautiful set of cards for gift giving!
Thanks so much for stopping by today, I appreciate you all!
Creatively yours, Stacy
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