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Hi friends! This week on my blog, I thought I would take a moment to share some new inspiration using some of my favorite floral stamps which I designed for Simon Says Stamp. I feel extraordinarily lucky to have had the opportunity to turn some of my illustrations into stamp sets, and I never cease to be thrilled and amazed when a new illustration-turned-stamp set is released. All good things must come to an end at some point, sadly, and some of my favorites have been discontinued. I wanted to share some new inspiration using some of my older stamp sets that are still on the Simon website, so this week will be a throwback week, dedicated to inspiration using these older sets! First up is one of my favorites: Mother’s Day Tulips. When I originally illustrated this set, I intended for it to be used as a corner for a slimline card, but as all trends do, slimline cards have become less prevalent. That doesn’t mean that this stamp set can’t be adapted to fit a different sized card, though! I decided to do some no-line coloring to create a vibrant pop of peachy color on this 5×7 card front. Let’s get started with the details!
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To begin my project, I stamped most of the Mother’s Day Tulips floral arrangement on a panel of white cardstock using Altenew’s Permanent Gray ink, which is an excellent ink for use with no-line alcohol ink coloring. I used some gorgeous peach and spring green tones from OLO Markers to do some vibrant no-line coloring. Tulips come in such an enormous variety of color palettes, and this pretty peachy-coral is a color that I love but haven’t used for this particular stamp set. (At least I don’t think I have, ha.) Once I had finished the detailed coloring, I used the coordinating die to cut out the image; I just love how very detailed this die is, cutting super close to the edges and also getting in between the leaves to create this intricate cutout.
Those intricately-colored tulips needed to be the star of this card, so I decided to add some monochromatic texture behind them. Because most embossing folders come oriented to fit A2 cards, I used another of my favorite techniques to add some texture behind my bouquet of tulips: tone-on-tone foliage die cuts. I die cut several of the Fine Textured Leaf dies from white cardstock to arrange them behind the vibrant tulips. I also die cut the A7 Nesting Frames from white cardstock, nestling two of them together and popping them up on my white A7 card front using foam adhesive. I snuggled the tulips into the corner of the frames and popped them up with some more foam adhesive, then arranged the leaf die cuts behind the tulips, creating some lacy, botanical texture to enhance the vibrant tulips.
After I had arranged all of the die cuts on the large A7 card front, I heat embossed a greeting from Mother’s Day Tulips onto some more white cardstock using shimmery metallic embossing powder. When creating this stamp set, I wanted to add lots of options for names, because my own children call my mom Mimi, and it can be difficult to find things with that particular name on it. One of the perks of designing stamp sets!! I used my scissors to fussy cut the sentiments and popped them up on the card front with some more foam adhesive. Finally, I added a few Peachy Pawsitively Dazzling Gems to add some more sparkle to the card.
Well, that’s all for my project today. It was such fun to delve into my stash of sets that I’ve illustrated and breathe some new life into them, and it is a great way to add some color into this arctic blast that we will be having this week. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!
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