Make an easy all-occasions card with the Birthday Blooms Stamp Set and some pretty paper and card base. This stamp set just is “pretty” to me! I love the font style and the pretty flower designs. The single flower is just stamped on Whisper White card stock with Black Stazon Ink and punched with the 2″ Circle Punch. This circle then layers on the 2 3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch on a piece of Calypso Coral card stock. The flower is colored with my Aqua Painter and some “ink” from the Calypso Coral Stampin’ Write Marker. I just scribble the marker on my plastic stamp case and pick it up with my Aqua Painter or a Blender Pen. When I am finished, I just wipe off the stamp case with a paper napkin or towel, which I am probably already using with the Aqua Painter. The leaves and stem are colored with Old Olive in the same manner but you could also use Pear Pizzazz or another green of your choosing. If you don’t have the right markers, you can use a drop of ink refill or pick up some ink off your ink pad. So many choices and ways to do things in stamping!
The card base is Crumb Cake. The designer paper is the Wildflower Fields Paper, FREE in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure on page 12 with a $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase. I hadn’t looked closely at all the patterns in the package, but wow, when I did, I fell in love with this pattern of stems and a little bit of color on white! I love the simplicity and easy look of it! I thought it would go perfectly with this simple, pretty single flower from Birthday Blooms. I added a piece of Pear Pizzazz 1/4″ Cotton Ribbon across the top of the designer paper and tied on a small knot. The greeting is also from the Birthday Blooms Stamp Set and stamped on Calypso Coral. I thought I would just keep it simple by not layering or anything else.
At the last minute, I decided to stamp some flowers in Versamark Ink on the top part of the card base, which is not a good idea when you have the bottom paper already adhered. I couldn’t space the flowers out very well and a few overlap as you can see – but, oh well, handmade doesn’t mean perfection! And probably no one else will notice but me! So don’t let your mistakes stop you. There ARE no mistakes in stamping!
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