Sometimes you don’t know exactly where you are going with a card idea, or what you thought of doesn’t work out very well, yet in the end, something works out and you come up with a card you are happy with like this Flowing Flowers Trio Birthday Card!
The card base, which is difficult to see in the photo is Petal Pink with a layer of Melon Mambo, and then Basic White for the card front and flowers. The Flowing Flowers Stamp set is a beautiful one! This is a Distinktive** stamp set; it has a special texture that gives added depth and dimension in a single step, creating photo-realistic images. **Patent pending. In other words, the stamp does all the work and will stamp surprisingly beautiful! If you look at it after inking it, it will look like you missed some areas. You can stamp on scrap paper just to make sure and then reink it for your card or project. Some areas will be darker, some lighter, and some blank. It’s a surprise when you stamp it and see how pretty the image is!
For this card, I stamped several Flowing Flowers but ended up using just three of them. One is Highland Heather, one is Melon Mambo, and one is Mango Melody. I stamped them and then cut them out with Paper Snips. If I had known for sure how the card would come together, I could have stamped the two flowers on the ends straight onto the card front and then added the separate middle flower. But I didn’t know that at first! The flowers may look complicated to cut out but you don’t need to cut right on the lines and in some spaces, there aren’t any lines so just cut it out free and easy! I usually like to leave a tiny margin of white around the stamped image anyway so you don’t have to be precise.
The middle flower is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the other two adhered right on to the cardstock. There are no leaf stamps in the stamp set, so I just used the Sprig Punch to quickly punch out a bunch of leafy sprigs. I used three different green cardstock – Granny Apple Green, Pear Pizzazz, and Soft Sea Foam. I just tried to scatter them around tucking them underneath the flower edges.
There wasn’t much room for a greeting, but I stamped the “Happy Birthday” on Basic White and die cut it with one of the Tailor Made Tags. It seemed to fit best tucked in the upper right corner, just barely tucked under the Melon Mambo flower. It also has a piece of the Petal Pink 1/8″ Cotton Ribbon Combo Pack.
For some sparkle and glimmer, I colored over all three flowers with Clear Wink of Stella and also added a few Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels.
Check out the Flowing Flowers Stamp Set. There are no dies, so you can just buy the stamp set and not worry about spending extra money on the dies! With that Distinktive style, you will stamp beautiful flowers on your cards and projects. Here is another card I made recently with the other major flower stamp in the set.