When I was making a card with my Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper and the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set, I decided it might be fun to just stamp a bunch of flowers on a card front. This is how I ended up making my own magnolia designer paper!

I’ve always found just doing random stamping all over a piece of paper to be a very relaxing and therapeutic experience! The block and stamp just feels good in my hand and doing the repetitive motion is calming. Then it is fun to go back over and color in the images unless you are doing just a colored outline and not coloring in.

This card wasn’t even planned! I just thought of it as I was making another card and had stamped some extra images on some scrap cardstock in case I wanted to use them somewhere somehow. I decided to stamp the flower images in Memento Ink randomly over a card front layer of Whisper White. Sometimes you have extra white space when you do random stamping as I did on this card. Since there was a single leaf in the stamp set, I just used the stamp to fill in some space in between the flowers.

To color in my card, I used my Stampin’ Blends, my favorite method of coloring right now! I used Light and Dark Petal Pink for the flower buds and Light and Dark Mossy Meadow for the leaves. The greeting is from the Good Morning Magnolia Stamp Set, stamped in Petal Pink, and then die-cut with the Stitched Nested Labels Dies. The ribbon I used across the front of the card is Old Olive and comes in the Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack. It’s not a perfect match, of course, to the Mossy Meadow leaves, but I think it looks fine. It’s a pretty ribbon and makes the card look a little bit elegant.

This is basically an easy card but of course it does take time to color in the flowers. If you aren’t crazy about coloring, this might not be the card for you! But I enjoy it and love using my Stampin’ Blends.

You will see the Good Morning Magnolia Bundle on the Last-Chance retiring list but the stamp set and dies will be in the new catalog. If you want this Bundle and want to save 10%, order it now to save that 10%, otherwise in the new catalog you will purchase each for full price.

I love the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper and have made many cards with it. But if you want to do some random stamping and get the feel of that stamp in your hand and like the repetitiveness of stamping for a card front, try making your own “designer paper” with stamping!