Category: Flowers

  • Sending Hugs | by Rosemary Dennis

    Sending Hugs | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello everyone! Rosemary here on the blog today with a sunny card that would brighten up anyone’s day. Let’s have a look at what I made.

    There are so many pretty flowers in the new Block Print line that it is hard to decide which one to use! For this card I decided to use the Block Print Fun Floral die set. One of the things I noticed about this set of dies and the resulting flowers is that they would be perfect for a wreath!

    I started by diecutting a circle using a die set from Poppystamps (our sister company) from bright yellow cardstock from the Memory Box Sunshine. The rest of the pieces were die cut from various shades of yellow from the same pad.

    I then assembled all the flowers by alternating colors. When I was done I had lots and lots of flowers to use for my wreath. Below is a photo of my pile of flowers.

    I die cut some cream Memory Box woodgrain cardstock for my background and then adhered the die cut circle to the panel. I flowers were arranged with the large flowers at the top, bottom and sides and the smaller flowers in the gaps that were left.

    To break up all the yellow I added some bright green leaves that I cut with the leaf die from the Block Print Stems and Berries die. I finished off the card with the sentiment from the Rainbow Days Lingo Note stamp and die set that I surrounded with lots and lots of clear Fairy Jewels.

    I love how my fun and bright wreath turned out! I hope you enjoyed learning how I created it. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.


    Supplies


    cl8159 Rainbow Days Lingo Notes clear stamp set
    57599 Block Print Stems and Berries
    57603 Block Print Fun Floral
    sh44002 Cream Woodgrain Paper
  • Buzzworthy Bees | by Toni M Maddox

    Buzzworthy Bees | by Toni M Maddox

    Greetings, friends! I love this time of year when it’s warming up, flowers are blooming and bees are happily buzzing along. Heavenly!

    Thus, I was so excited to receive the latest release which is all about the bees!

    I think my favorite is the Honeycomb Cut Out die. Just imagine patterned paper or sponging different colors–swoon.

    I used Memory Box Golden Wheat cardstock behind the cut out, sponging some Catherine Pooler inks and spattering white for added interest.

    To coordinate with the background honey colors, I used Memory Box Key Lime for the Abundant Branch with sponged Golden Wheat flowers. The way the branch pops is amazing.

    I colored up the Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee with Copics. I applied a bit of Clear Wink of Stella to the vellum wings.

    I used the same vellum for the backer behind the embossed Vintage Everyday Greeting.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!

    Supplies

    57594 Honeycomb Cut Out

    57598 Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee

    57575 Abundant Branch

    8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings clear stamp and die set

    SH44019 Golden Wheat Paper Pack

    SH44005 Key Lime Paper Pack

  • Tapestry Thank You | by Rosemary Dennis

    Tapestry Thank You | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello and happy May! Rosemary here on the blog today with a fun and some what elegant thank you card. Let’s have a look at what I made.

    For this card I used the super pretty Block Print Tapestry Blooms die and the elegant Thank You Scripted die set. I went with a light blue and green color combo for this card.

    To keep things simple I die cut all the flowers from a light blue Memory Box cardstock and the stem from the dark green. Then I assembled my flower stem. The sentiment was also die cut from the same light blue.

    Time to figure out my layout and it was at this point I decided to pull out the Linear Lines stencil and create a simple partial diamond pattern on my white cardstock base. I used a light blue ink that coordinated with the blue cardstock I used for the flowers and the sentiment.

    Now it was time to put the card together. I used cardstock in the same blue for my card base and adhered the background panel with thin foam squares. I then adhered the flower stem with liquid adhesive. Finally I added the sentiment. I purposefully only added glue to the main part of the sentiment to allow for some appearance of movement in the swirls on the sentiment.

    I really like the slightly monochromatic look of the card and the simplicity. I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!


    Supplies


    42041 Linear Stripes
    57545 Thank You Scripted
    57590 Block Print Tapestry Blooms
  • Block Print Garden Heart | by Crystal Komara

    Block Print Garden Heart | by Crystal Komara

    Hello friends and happy Monday! I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful weekend. It has been incredibly rainy here in the Northeast where I live (Massachusetts). This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today sharing my first card made using the new Block Print Garden Heart dies.

    The base of this card is made with 110 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock.

    Let’s make this card:

    1. I cut a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock and used Layer A of the Viola Plate Layering set as a stencil. I stenciled directly over the steel die using Ranger Distress Oxide ink in the color Twisted Citron.
    2. I die cut the Block Print Garden Heart itself from white cardstock. I die cut the leaves of the heart from green cardstock .
    3. I die cut various pieces of the flower from three different colored pink cardstock.
    4. I die cut the center of the flowers from yellow cardstock.
    5. I adhered the flower pieces together using a fine-tip liquid glue.

    Once both flower hearts were assembled, I adhered them to the card front using 3M foam adhesive for added dimension.

    Lastly to create the sentiment, I die cut the Happy Birthday Vintage Sentiment from two different colored pink yardsticks. I adhered the two layers together with a fine-tip liquid glue. Then I adhered the sentiment to the card using 3M foam adhesive.

    I really love this beautiful new Block Print Garden Heart die set and can’t wait to create with it again! Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

  • Layered Floral Thank You | by Toni M Maddox

    Layered Floral Thank You | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, my friends! Toni here with a heavily layered floral thank you.

    I especially enjoyed making today’s card because I used up some leftovers, including the sentiment and the background coverplate, in addition to working with fabulous new dies!

    To start, I adhered the Flora Layer Plate to a white card base.

    Next, I assembled the Block Print Brilliant Butterfly and Block Print Tapestry Blooms using Memory Box Key Lime, Leaf Sprout, Orange Peel, Pool Party & Summer Squash cardstock with Catherine Pooler Inks.

    I decided the bottom of the card needed a bit of filler behind the embossed Vintage Everyday Greetings sentiment. So, I cut out Foliage Bunch from Memory Box Key Lime and sponged it before adhering it to the bottom of the card front.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!


    Supplies


    57596 Block Print Brilliant Butterfly
    57590 Block Print Tapestry Blooms
    57588 Foliage Bunch
    57437 Flora Plate Layer Set
    8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings clear stamp and die set
    CL8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings
    SH44005 Key Lime Paper Pack
    SH44006 Leaf Sprout Paper Pack
    SH44018 Summer Squash Paper Pack
    SH44017 Orange Peel Paper Pack
    SH44009 Pool Party Paper Pack
  • Vibrant Florals | By Christina Rannow

    Vibrant Florals | By Christina Rannow

    Hi, friends! Christina here to share a vibrant card design showcasing the gorgeous Block Print Passion Fruit Flower dies. These blooms are big and make such an impact all on their own that not much more is needed to create a beautiful card that could be used for any occasion.

    To create this vibrant design, I ink blended the Passion Fruit Flower die cuts in bold, bright colors and paired them with a simple background made with multiple Ornamental Branch die cuts. Follow along below as I explain the steps I took to create this card.

    My first step was to die cut, ink, and assemble all the elements for the passion fruit flowers. I die cut everything from white cardstock and then applied ink to each piece with blending brushes. I used Pawsitively Saturated Inks and chose three shades of pink and three shades of purple for the blooms. I wanted a light, medium, and dark shade for both colorways. I left one of the center layering pieces white and then inked the center stamen pieces yellow before coloring the very tips with a black Copic marker. I used a medium green shade for the stems and then moved on to assembling the die cuts. I assembled and secured the flowers using glue for all the layers except the last bottom petal, which I secured with foam squares for extra dimension. 

    Next I created the background. I die cut the ornamental branch four times and inked each one using a light green ink. I arranged them on a white A2 cardstock panel, cutting them and turning them to fill the panel before gluing them in place. I trimmed anything that overhung the edges of the panel with large shears. Then I spattered the panel with a coordinating Distress Mica Stain, Frosty Mint.

    With the background and the flowers completed, I moved on to assembling and finishing the card design. First I attached the flowers with glue. Next, I added a greeting and sentiment. I die cut the Hello greeting from black cardstock twice and stacked them before attaching it to my card design with glue. I heat embossed the small sentiment with white embossing powder on black cardstock and die cut it with a sentiment strip before attaching it under the greeting. Lastly, I added a few black gems across the background panel before attaching everything to an A2 card base.

    Thank you so much for reading about this vibrant card design showcasing the gorgeous Block Print Passion Fruit Flower dies. I hope you’re inspired to try inking some die cuts for your next card design. See you soon!

    Supplies

    57597 Block Print Passion Fruit Flower

    57601 Ornamental Branch

    57201 Big Hello Sugar Script


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    cb516 Sentimental Banners
  • Henna Tattoo Mandala Card | by Toni M Maddox

    Henna Tattoo Mandala Card | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, friends! Toni here again sharing a card inspired by henna tattoos.

    I cut out the Ornamental Branch twice and then sponged each, one on the reverse side, with Catherine Pooler inks. I adhered these as mirror images on a black card front.

    Next, I cut out elements from:

    • Block Print Lush Flower (central flower)
    • Block Print Fabulous Flourishes (pointy blossoms)
    • Block Print Fun Floral (starbursts)
    • Abundant Branch (tiny 4-petal blossoms), and
    • Block Print Star Flowers (starburst middles).

    I used Memory Box Orange Peel, Lavendar Bloom, and Summer Squash cardstock, sponged with Catherine Pooler inks.

    I played around with the layout, a lot, and realized that the card looked great the other way around too. Wow! Just imagine the possibilities!

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!


    Supplies


    57601 Ornamental Branch
    57595 Block Print Lush Flower
    57604 Block Print Fabulous Flourishes
    57603 Block Print Fun Floral
    57605 Block Print Star Flowers
    57575 Abundant Branch
    SH44017 Orange Peel Paper Pack
    SH44018 Summer Squash Paper Pack
    SH44013 Lavender Bloom Paper Pack
  • Creative Cherry Blossoms | by Christina Rannow

    Creative Cherry Blossoms | by Christina Rannow

    Hello! Christina here to share a springtime card design featuring many of the new dies from the Block Print Garden collection. I used one of my favorite die sets in this collection, the Block Print Stems and Berries, and switched out the berries for some custom florals reminiscent of cherry blossoms – perfect for spring! Follow along as I explain how I created these custom cherry blossom flowers in order to transform the Stem and Berries into a beautiful springtime design. Let’s get started!

    My first step was to create the background. I ink blended Twisted Citron and Salvaged Patina Distress Inks on a white A2 cardstock panel. Then I splattered the panel with plain water for a little distressing and thinned white gouache paint for white spatter.

    Next, I die cut and assembled all the elements for my card design. I used white cardstock as well as pink, fuschia, chartreuse, and dark brown colored cardstock for the different elements. To create the cherry blossoms, I used various dies from multiple sets to create the custom florals. Here is a snapshot of the dies I used. 

    My next step was to assemble and finish up my card design. Starting with the sentiment and after the background panel had completely dried, I heat embossed “Thinking Of You” with white embossing powder directly onto the panel. Then I attached the stem from the Stem and Berries set with liquid adhesive down the center of the panel before attaching the cherry blossoms. For some dimension, I used liquid adhesive for some of the florals and thin foam squares for some others. 

    That completes this springtime card design featuring many of the new dies from the Block Print Garden collection. I hope you like my creative use of the dies to create something completely new and different. Thanks so much for reading, and see you again soon!


    Supplies


    57599 Block Print Stems and Berries
    57603 Block Print Fun Floral
    57589 Block Print Garden Heart
    57605 Block Print Star Flowers

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    sh44005 Key Lime Paper Pack

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    cb516 Sentimental Banners
  • Congratulations | by Rosemary Dennis

    Congratulations | by Rosemary Dennis

    Hello everyone! Rosemary here on the blog. I hope your April is off to a good start. We have been having some wild weather here in the Pacific Northwest! Rain and high winds one day, sun the next. Today I’m sharing a card that I created with the gorgeous Abundant Branch die set. Let’s get started.

    My niece recently graduated from the University of Washington-Tacoma and so I actually made this card for her. UW’s colors are purple and gold, so I went in that direction for my color scheme. I die cut the Abundant Branch pieces from white cardstock and then colored everything with distress oxide inks.

    I let everything dry for a little bit before putting the branch together. I pulled a piece of patterned paper from the Memory Box Gladiola Plaid 6×6 pad and trimmed it down into a strip. I had previously die cut a pierced arch from cream woodgrain cardstock (Memory Box) so I added that to the mix.

    I die cut white cardstock with a rectangle die and then layered on the plaid paper strip and the cream woodgrain die cut. I used double sided tape and liquid adhesive to adhere the layers to a white cardstock base.

    Liquid adhesive was used to put the Abundant Branch together and then adhered to the wood grain panel. I made sure to not put the adhesive on the end of the branch and one of the flowers so I could slip the sentiment underneath. The sentiment from the Vintage Everyday Greetings stamp set was stamped in black and then die cut with a label die. I finished with tiny dots of yellow Nuvo drops to the centers of the flower.

    Well, that’s it for me. I hope you enjoyed today’s card. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

    Supplies

    cl8168 Vintage Everyday Greetings

    57575 Abundant Branch

  • Soft Spring Floral Thank You | by Toni M Maddox

    Soft Spring Floral Thank You | by Toni M Maddox

    Hello, everyone! Toni with you sharing a pretty in pink floral thank you card.

    I started my card by cutting out the Abundant Branch mostly in white with the exception of Memory Box Leaf Sprout for the leaves and Summer Squash for the berries.

    I sponged Catherine Pooler inks on the elements to create a really soft watercolor look.

    Next, I cut out the Flickering Fireflies, hand-trimmed them a bit, then colored them with Copics to transform them into bees.

    I added a subtle check pattern on the background using the Linear Stripes stencil with Distress Oxide Salvaged Patina.

    I distressed the edges of the card front and spattered it with Distress Oxide Vintage Photo before adhering the dies to it.

    Finally, I attached the single layer Sugar Script Big Thanks sentiment cut from kraft, which blends in nicely with the mood of the card.

    I hope you enjoyed today’s card and have a great rest of your week!

    Supplies

    57575 Abundant Branch

    57569 Flickering Fireflies

    57142 Big Thanks Sugar Script

    42041 Linear Stripes

    SH44006 Leaf Sprout Paper Pack

    SH44018 Summer Squash Paper Pack