SSS Shine On, Blooming Flower Take 2

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I've got another Blooming Flower card to share with you this week.

This time, I used the stencils to created a patterned paper. I started with a panel of Moonflower cardstock, inking the flowers up using Petunia, Pansy, and Earl ink. Petunia was used for two of the layers, varying the 'weight' of the inking. For that little petal on the layer with the leaves, I used whatever was left on my blending brush from the Pansy inking.

The sentiment die comes in the coordinating die set, and was cut from a dark purple cardstock and adhered to a shadow piece cut from that same Moonflower cardstock. I added a secondary Sentiment Strip sentiment as well as a thin strip of that dark purple cardstock to ground the sentiment elements.

I really love the subtlety of the tone on tone stenciling on the light colored cardstock don't you?

SSS Shine On, Blooming Flower

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Hi friends! Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! Today's card features my Blooming Flower stencils and coordinating die.

The stencil set includes four layers, hree with petals and one with the leaves and one lone petal furthest in the back. I used Peony, Taffy, Iris, and Charcoal. 

Once my inking was done, the flower was die cut. I then pressed my Versamark pad against it and clear embossed the piece as I wanted it to match the sentiment a bit and have a sheen.

For the background, I embossed a dark gray cardstock panel using a Simon Says Stamp embossing folder. This one is retired, but any geometric pattern will do.

The panel was adhered to my panel with foam tape, and I used foam tape to pop up the flower and Reverse Sentiment Strip as well.