Die Cut Flowers for Everyday Cards

When I want to do something creative, but don't have much time or I'm lacking inspiration, I create flowers [or color].  The flowers don't require much thought and often times, the process of creating these pieces inspires me.

Recently, I was visiting with my grandma.  It was the perfect time to create these flowers.  I created the flowers and she glued them to cards to mail to her friends.  Needless to say, I had LOTS of extra flowers and decided to make a few cards of my own.

The Garden Party stamp and stencil set is great for adding some inky accents and fun layers to my assortment of flowers.  I really enjoyed using this set!  I used white cardstock, my favorite inks, and the stencils to create the flower and leaf images.  Then I used the "all in one" die set to cut them out in one pass on the die cut machine.  It's super easy.  The stencils have registration marks to color in with ink.  You then line the die up with those marks to cut the perfect flowers.  I also cut several sets with glitter cardstock for some added sparkle.  After cutting, you simply layer and glue to create unique flowers.

I stamped and cut multiple sentiments from the Sweet Lattice Sentiment set from Waffle Flower.  These are great, everyday sentiments.  I love having lots of these on hand for quickly adding sentiments to my cards.

To finish the cards, I used the Penny Black Background Basics stencil and added an ink blended rectangle to frame in my floral images.  I arranged a few flowers on the card, added a sentiment and finished with a few gems.

 Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you were inspired to get creative.

-Cathy

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