SSS Bold Flower

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I'm sharing a couple of Marimekko inspired cards today.  I love their prints/bold florals, so thought i would try and recreate them with my Bold Flower dies.

There are five layers to the flowers in this die set, although you can mix and match and use then in different ways.  

For the card on the left, I used the smallest petal layer along with the larger flower center die to create a bunch of flowers, and then adhered them to a white panel to create a print.  I tried to mix up where the flower centers were placed within the petal piece as well as the orientation of the flowers on my panel.

I added a black mat, and a sentiment strip which was popped up with foam adhesive.

For the next card, I pulled out my old square punch, and cut a bunch of 1" squares using white, dark gray, and black cardstock.  These were randomly arranged on piece of scrap paper that I ran through my Xyron machine, and trimmed down to size.

I created three flowers using the largest flower piece and flower center and adhered these over my background piece, trimming off excess areas.

I again finished things off with a reverse sentiment strip.

These were lots of fun to make and din't involve any stamping!

SSS Moments in Time Release, Bold Flower

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Happy Thursday!  It's a release day at Simon Says Stamp.  I'm really excited about this Moments in Time release as I have several new products in the mix: Happy Cover and coordinating stamp, Poppy Pods, Snake Plant, Ribbon Quilt, and the Bold Flowers dies that I'm showing off today.

I love how just by switching up the colors you get totally different looks.  This really is the exact same card, but I went more subtle and traditional on the right and bold on the left.

I started by clear embossing the Thank You Text background onto my background panel.  I used three shades of yellow to create the flowers for the card on the right, along with black centers and light green petals. The flowers were all adhered to the background panel with foam tape, but I used one layer for the smaller flowers and two layers for the center flower.  The leaves were then nested around the flowers.

For the sentiment, I used the new Giggle Hello die, cutting the shadow piece from black and the sentiment itself from white.  This was popped up with two layers of foam tape.

For my bold card, I used hot pink, bright yellow, orange, and red for the the flower layers, mixing up the order from flower to flower.  I went with black for both the flower centers and leaves.  The placement on the card is essentially the same as the first card.

For the sentiment, I used red for the shadow and black for the sentiment itself.

Which do you like best?

Be sure to head over to Simon to check out the full release.  I'll see you back here tomorrow for a fun hop!