This Ornate Garden Floral Bouquet Card in Mint Macaron is one that turned out a little differently than I expected. Somehow I thought there was a die to cut out the bouquet and that was my plan as I designed the card. Who knew? There is no die in the Ornate Garden Suite that cuts out the bouquet! I must have made it up in my mind! But no problem! I just grabbed my Paper Snips and cut it out by hand.
Otherwise, this is a pretty simple card. The card base is Mint Macaron, not necessarily one of my favorite colors, but I like it on this card. The floral bouquet in the Ornate Style Stamp Set is stamped on Shimmery White Cardstock in Memento Black Ink so that I could color in with Stampin’ Blends. Coloring is so relaxing during this time and Shimmery White is a great cardstock to color on! If you looked closely in person you could see just a little bit of shimmer on the paper. It’s really nice! I was trying to keep these colors a little on the softer side. I usually use different greens on the leaves and usually a touch of yellow. On the small flowers, I used a blue and a bit of purple. You can use whatever colors you like.
As I said, I assumed that there was a die for this whole bunch of flowers, but there is not! But I continued on with my idea of cutting out the flowers and then popping them up on the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The beautiful layer behind the flowers is die cut with one of the Ornate Layers Dies. This die has seemed pretty easy to use to me. I usually have a few little pieces to poke out but mostly it cuts pretty well. I ran it through my die-cutting machine three times to get a good cut.
I chose not to put a greeting on the card yet or I might just leave it without one. I think the card is fancy enough to stand on its own without a greeting and then I can use it to just write a note or for any occasion.
Be sure to look at the Ornate Garden Suite and check out all the products that you can get in the whole Collection! The good thing is you can pick and choose if you do not want all the products or not all of them at once! But if you do “want it all” you can just put in the one order number for the Ornate Garden Suite Collection #154153.