This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon!
Hi friends! The moment that the Daisy Oval Frame came in the mail to me, I was absolutely entranced by its delicate scallops and symmetrical design. I am a great lover of symmetry, in case you haven’t noticed, and this beautiful die is right up my alley. I used it with a few light, airy designs during the release, but I couldn’t get the notion of a vivid, color saturated design out of my head. As we head into summer, I find myself reaching for more vibrant colors, emulating the vibrancy of the colors outside my window. This shocking pink, aqua, and black color palette has stolen my heart! I created a pair of coordinating projects with a pink daisy theme running through both of them, so let’s get started with the details!
Both of my projects feature the unbelievably gorgeous Concord & 9th Dragonfruit cardstock as the main color for my floral accents. I think this color is one of the most unique amongst the Concord & 9th color palette; even though the sampler pack is currently out of stock on the Simon website, you could easily recreate this color by ink blending with the Dragonfruit inkpad, some white cardstock, and a blending brush!
I started my first project by die cutting the beautiful Daisy Oval Frame from some pale Sea Glass cardstock. I layered them in the center of a crisp Pitch Black cardstock A2 card front using liquid adhesive. I die cut the daisy accents from Dragonfruit cardstock and some deep teal leaves from a scrap in my scrap pile, layering them in the appropriate spots on the outer daisy frame. I popped them up with some thin foam adhesive for a bit of extra dimension.
Taffy Pawsitively Dazzling Gems
For the greeting, I wanted to keep things simple and on a larger scale, so I die cut the Scripty Happy Birthday from some glittery aqua cardstock in the Altenew Shimmering Shore glitter cardstock pack. I layered the detail layer on a vellum shadow layer, then popped it up with some thin strips of clear foam adhesive. For a final sparkling touch, I added a few Taffy Pawsitively Dazzling Gems, tucking them symmetrically amongst the die cut frame arrangement. The simplicity of this card and the vivid color palette allow the gorgeous details of the die set to truly shine!!
For my second card, I continued the vibrant color palette, this time creating a bright and graphic stenciled background using the Tiled Posy Stencil and some lovely aqua cardstock. I started by adhering my A2 panel of aqua cardstock to my sticky mat, then, using blending brushes, blended the different layers of the Tiled Posy Stencil with Pawsitively Saturated Inks in shades of Surf, Ocean, and Taffy. Harkening back to my elementary school art class days, I made sure to avoid mixing the tones of the blue background with the transparent pink Taffy dye ink by first blending a layer of white pigment ink with a blending brush dedicated to white pigment ink, then zapping it with my heat gun to ensure that it was completely dried, then blending the Taffy ink over the top. The opaque white pigment ink acts as a barrier between the pink and blue, keeping the pink a true pink rather than a deep lavender.
After I had created my vibrant background, I used some of the smaller accents in the Daisy Oval Frame to create the focal point for my sentiment. I die cut the small scalloped oval from some more black cardstock, then die cut the large center frame from the main daisy frame and adhered the black scalloped frame in the center. I also die cut a large standalone pink glitter daisy from Altenew Pink Brilliance glitter cardstock. I stamped a greeting from Best Year Yet using Obsidian Black pigment ink and clear embossed it to make it nice and crisp against the blue background, then die cut both sentiments with the coordinating dies. I arranged the different die cut components on the vellum oval, accenting the greeting with the glittery flower and some teal foliage, then adhered them with foam adhesive. I added small dots of liquid adhesive behind the solid die cuts to keep the vellum nice and clean, then added a smattering of Taffy Pawsitively Dazzling Gems for a bit of added sparkle!
Well, that’s all for my projects today. I can’t believe we are already almost to June! The year is definitely flying by. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!
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