This card, Hand-Drawn Blooms Birthday Card For July 4th, could be a birthday card for someone this month or you could think of it as a birthday card for our country while we celebrate Independence Day on Saturday. Do you know someone with a July 4th birthday?
This new Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set comes with an amazing large die plus a few small flowers and I had played with the die and greetings a little bit, but I hadn’t used this stamp of a lovely flower bouquet. The bouquet is actually two parts, the main bouquet and then the bottom part with a bow and the flower stems.
I stamped the two pieces of the bouquet with Memento Ink and then colored in the flowers and leaves with Stampin’ Blends. Actually I was going to use my Watercolor Pencils but I couldn’t find the set I wanted to use! But I love using the Stampin’ Blends. I primarily tried to use red and blue flowers for the 4th of July with a little yellow. I didn’t try at all to be perfect in my coloring, and you would be surprised how quickly you can actually color in most of those flowers. Since they are so small they look difficult, but since they are small you only need a dot or swipe of color to color them in! I just kind of drew over the stems with a swipe of Granny Apple Green with the small tip of the marker. Again, not perfect, but overall the whole thing looks fine!
The birthday greeting comes in the stamp set. Both lines of words are on one stamp, so just stamp it and then cut it out with the Banner Blooms Dies. Since you really only want to cut out the words, use a smaller piece of paper that fits right where the banner area is, otherwise, the die will cut all of the paper you put under it.
This card has a Real Red card base with a layer of Pacific Point blue. I just made narrow margins on this card so it is more difficult to see in the photo. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I added two red Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Dots (retired) from the Holiday Catalog last year. I couldn’t stop myself so I added some of the smallest Gold Glitter Enamel Dots around the bouquet. Be careful, once you use one of those Gold Glitter Dots, you can’t stop!
Be sure to check out the Hand-Drawn Blooms Bundle with both the Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set and the Banner Blooms Dies. Here is a card I made with the Banner Blooms Die and the new Rainbow Glimmer Paper.
Of course most of the time that you would make this card you probably wouldn’t be thinking about the 4th of July! But you can use these floral bouquet for many occasions and in many color schemes!
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