April Showers Bring May Flowers: Copic Edition!

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon!

Hi friends! I am back with another installment of my April Showers Bring May Flowers series, this time with some no-line Copic coloring featuring the absolutely gorgeous sprig from Wild & Free Flowers. This stamp set was one of my favorites when it was released a few months ago, and while I had my Copics out for another project this week, I thought I’d use the same color palette to create a large A7 project, fleshing out the single bouquet with some extra standalone die cuts. I love using standalone foliage dies to enhance my colored bouquets; a full, lush bouquet is a thing of beauty! Let’s get started with the details.

I started my project by stamping the delicate floral bouquet from Wild & Free Flowers using Altenew’s Permanent Mist Gray ink onto some Hammermill white cardstock. This was my first time using the Permanent Mist Gray ink with no-line alcohol marker coloring, and it worked like a charm! I used Copic markers to add lots of vibrant color to the images, creating a lush plummy focal point bloom and adding magenta sprigs, with vivid jewel green foliage. I added some metallic Karin DecoGel pen to the flower centers to add some extra interest and contrast, which showed up beautifully due to the level of opacity for the images. I die cut the finished bouquet with the super detailed coordinating die.

I had originally intended to color an entire background panel stamped with this image, but I have been feeling a bit under the weather the last few days and didn’t feel up to coloring the entire thing, so I decided it would work nicely as a subtly-patterned background for my vivid individual die cut bouquet. I trimmed down the panel and matted it on a slightly larger eggplant cardstock panel, then adhered these two pieces to a full size A7 panel of warm champagne matte foil cardstock from the Floral Elegance foil paper pad. I also added a glittery frame, cut using the A7 Nesting Frames dies and some coordinating warm champagne glitter cardstock.

Once I had created my background, I popped up my colorful bouquet using foam squares, then die cut a Privet Branch die from some white cardstock. I snipped this die cut apart using my scissors, then tucked the individual pieces behind my colorful bouquet, helping to fill it out a bit and allowing it to spill over onto the sparkling textured frames around the edges. There is just enough contrast in the debossed details of the die cuts to allow them to really stand out from the background! I heat embossed a greeting from Wild & Free Flowers using Platinum embossing powder, then die cut the script sentiment and trimmed the strip with my trimmer and tucked the pieces amongst the flowers and foliage. Finally, I added a few Taffy Pawsitively Dazzling Gems for some extra sparkle and a bit of extra pink!

Well, that’s all for my project today. If you find your floral bouquet to be a bit lacking in size for your card front, but don’t want to color an entire second bouquet to fill it out, I highly recommend using your standalone dies to help fill things out and add extra texture. It works like a charm! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!