Hi Folks! You saw the adorable critters in the Essentials by Ellen Backyard Party set from yesterday, now let's take a closer look at the gorgeous wildflowers in Mondo Wildflower that are yours to stamp and brighten someone's day!
If one bouquet of wildflowers makes you happy, than what happens when you put FOUR bouquets on a card?! Why not? I love that Brandi Kincaid drew this bouquet so there's no real top or bottom to it. This allows you to rotate the bouquet to make it look like a completely different group of flowers each time. For this card all I did was stamp the bouquet once in each corner, rotating the image each time. So easy to layout a card full of flowers this way!
The Altenew Watercolors are gorgeous, as always, and make me happy. For each of the four bouquets I used the same colors to keep things simple. Otherwise I end up spending too much time picking colors. Once all the flowers were colored I used a light blue wash to color the negative space. I like not having any white on the panel for a change.
For the sentiment I used "you" from Letterboard Script 2 in gold, and then embossed the rest of the sentiment on black cardstock strips.
For this next card I only featured one bouquet, and instead of stamping it in black ink, I embossed it in white. Completely different look! One nice thing about embossing when you're watercoloring, it sure makes it easier to stay inside the lines. Especially for small areas.
Kind of like bowling with bumpers in the gutters.
I folded a piece of paper in a cone to "hold" the bouquet, and then tied it closed with some ribbon. The background of the card is sponged, ink spattered, and stenciled in Catherine Pooler's Aquatini ink. The stencil is one I made from the Skinny Stripes die by Julie Ebersole.
The sentiment is from this set. I'm going to use this as a graduation card and think the sentiment is perfect for that (without even saying "happy graduation").
You really can't go wrong with this set ... no matter how you use it you've got the makings of a gorgeous card.
Don't forget, these sets are NOW AVAILABLE at Ellen Hutson.
Thank you so much for stopping by!
- Kelly
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Oh dear--I told myself I don't need any more flowers--haha! Gorgeous cards, Kelly!
ReplyDeleteWOW and WOW, these are beautiful Kelly!!
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are so beautiful, Kelly. I love the tall card. I often forget to make cards a different size and shape and that added so much to the design, especially when you added the cone wrapper.
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