from my ink pad to yours: Blossoms in Bloom

May 27, 2020

Blossoms in Bloom meets the Paper Craft Crew Challenge

It's Wednesday and there is a new sketch challenge up at the Paper Craft Crew:

I decided to play again with the Many Layered Blossoms dies and came up with this little number:

I chose to keep my colors simple and soft with only Soft Sea Foam and Very Vanilla and started with making the bolder large die cut and gluing it to the Soft Seafoam 1/4 sheet with Multi-purpose Liquid Adhesive applied with a sponge. I lay the die cut upside down in the negative outline while I do this which helps keep the front of the die cut from acciently getting any adhesive on it.
I used a guillotine style cutter to cut through the double layers of die cut and background layer. Be firm yet, gentle with it.
Attach the Soft Sea Foam layer to a top fold Very Vanilla card base.
The Stitched Shapes circle gets a Soft Sea Foam greeting from the Blossoms in Bloom stamp set - there are a few that would fit on here. Fill in some of the empty space with the smaller flowers from the die set. I cut a few out from both Sea Foam and Vanilla and played a bit.
Add the ribbon and gold trim to your card base before attaching your circle.
Fill in with any extra die cuts and embellish with a few pearls.

Here is another view from the other side:

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May 12, 2020

Introducing the Blossoms in Bloom Bundle

I decided to take the soon to be released Blossoms in Bloom Bundle out for a ride with this week's Color Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers. Barbara chose these fiery colors: Lovely Lipsitck + Daffodil Delight + Calypso Coral with "Thinking of You" for dessert.

Since I like a little white space on my cards, I was able to get 2 cards from one layered blossom.

The Many Layered Blossoms Dies (#153582) have 2 large dies that can be layered and 4 small blossom dies that could also be layered. They coordinate with the stamp set, Blossoms in Bloom (#152684) which I used for both of the sentiments. I will show off the Distinktive stamps from this set in a future post. The stamps and dies will be available as a bundle (#154123) when the 2020-21 catalog is released in early June.
For this card I cut the finer die from Daffodil Delight and one each of the thicker die from Lovely Lipstick and Calypso Coral. I set aside the Lovely Lipstick outline and used the "negative" pieces which were cut out to fill in the pieces that were cut out of the Calypso Coral. There is a way to use a kitchen storage product, Press 'N Seal to do this more easily but I did not have it handy. Without this, you will want to have a half sheet of cardstock to set the Calypso "frame" on while you fill in the pieces. When you have it filled in you can place a second half sheet of cardstock over this and carefully flip it over so that you can remove what started as the bottom half sheet and then apply your adhesive. I used Multi-purpose Liquid Adhesive applied with a quarter round sponge.
Think carefully about how you want your image placed, then lay your half sheet of white cardstock over the die cut and press gently but firmly. Turn this over.
Apply adhesive to the back of the Daffodil Delight piece and carefully place this over the Lovely Lipstick, Calypso Coral piece.
Cut this into two half sheets or as desired. I cut one of mine down to 3 3/4" wide so that I would have a Lovey Lipstick border on two sides. You do need to take care in cutting these. A regular trimmer did not cut all the way through so after making the initial cutting line with the cutter I hand cut it.

I'll be honest. Though enjoyed doing it, it did take some time. So, I used my Stamp-a-ratus to stamp the greeting. No way did I want to take a chance on messing that up!

I trimmed a little extra off of this half to - to get the look I wanted. After attaching the flowered piece up to the folded edge of the card. I added a strip of Lovely Lipstick plus a few metallic pearls that I had colored with a Lovely Lipstick Blends Marker (#147028).
All Lovely Lipstick products retire with the 2019-20 catalog on June 2 - or as supplies last.
I'm anxious to try layering these dies over the stamped image that is part of the bundle. So many more ideas with this exciting bundle...

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