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Banner Blooms Colored Flowers Birthday Card

Banner Blooms Colored Flowers Birthday Card

This Banner Blooms Colored Flowers Birthday Card is another example of how I did something different than I planned to! I originally thought I would color this die-cut by sponging on some color, maybe in a very soft look. But when I went to actually color on the die-cut, I grabbed my Stampin’ Blends markers instead and went to town!

When I stamp, I am always, always, always using Grid Paper on my table. It is handy for lining things up and especially for measuring quickly and easily. When I took a decorative painting class years ago, the teacher had us put down a towel on the table and after that, I couldn’t paint unless I had a towel underneath my project! Now you can even choose from several kinds of Grid Paper from Stampin’ Up!, even colorful ones! For coloring these die-cut flowers, I needed a plain white paper underneath (and you always need a paper underneath when coloring with Stampin’ Blends because they do bleed through the paper) so I could see the die-cut well. I simply turned my Grid Paper over to the other side.

This card uses Melon Mambo Cardstock for the card base. I chose it after coloring the flowers. I used Shimmery White Cardstock, my favorite, for the die-cut and also for the card layer, because it is good to color on and it has a very subtle shimmer to it. The paper is very pretty all on its own!

I die cut the flower bouquet with the Banner Blooms Dies. This die is really different from the ones we have had. I found that it works best placing the die cutting side up with the paper on top rather than face down on the paper. I don’t know why, but it does! I also ran it through my machine three times and after that, almost all the pieces popped out on their own and the few that were left I used the Take Your Pick Die Brush Tip to roll over the die cut piece and also over the die to get out just a few pieces of paper that remain in the die.

As I said, I planned to use maybe Sponge Daubers to lightly sponge on ink colors on the flowers and leaves over the die, not really being precise, just adding color. But then I grabbed my Stampin’ Blends Markers and had fun coloring the whole thing! I didn’t try to be absolutely perfect but used mostly the brush tips of the markers to quickly color in the different areas. On the really narrow areas, I used the tip ends of the markers. I usually started with the Light color and also added the Dark for a tiny bit of shading. Since I LOVE coloring with these markers I didn’t find the coloring tedious.

To make the banners going across the bouquet, just stamp the greeting in the Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set on a scrap piece of paper. Then line the die up over the stamped greeting (but you don’t need a full piece of paper or you’ll be wasting it). You will end up with the portion with the stamped banners. Then just trim these off the rest of the bouquet and adhere to the bouquet you have just colored. The greetings in the stamp set are doubled-up to fit perfectly on the banner areas. You could also cut out the banners and use stamps from other sets that would fit.

The banners are stamped in Melon Mambo ink. I popped them up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I added two Magenta Madness 2020-22 In Color Enamel Dots to the banners.

The whole bouquet is adhered to the card with lots of teeny tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. I placed the bouquet on the Silicone Craft Sheet which held it steady and it didn’t matter if a little glue got on the craft sheet.

A good thing to use for delicate die-cuts like this is the Adhesive Sheets which you adhere to the paper before die-cutting and it turns the die-cut into a sticker when you remove the backing paper. I just never think ahead to use it!

Here is another card I made with the Banner Blooms Die using Rainbow Glimmer Paper, another great option if you don’t want to color in!

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Hand-Drawn Blooms Birthday Card For July 4th

Hand-Drawn Blooms Birthday Card For July 4th

This card, Hand-Drawn Blooms Birthday Card For July 4th, could be a birthday card for someone this month or you could think of it as a birthday card for our country while we celebrate Independence Day on Saturday. Do you know someone with a July 4th birthday?

This new Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set comes with an amazing large die plus a few small flowers and I had played with the die and greetings a little bit, but I hadn’t used this stamp of a lovely flower bouquet. The bouquet is actually two parts, the main bouquet and then the bottom part with a bow and the flower stems.

I stamped the two pieces of the bouquet with Memento Ink and then colored in the flowers and leaves with Stampin’ Blends. Actually I was going to use my Watercolor Pencils but I couldn’t find the set I wanted to use! But I love using the Stampin’ Blends. I primarily tried to use red and blue flowers for the 4th of July with a little yellow. I didn’t try at all to be perfect in my coloring, and you would be surprised how quickly you can actually color in most of those flowers. Since they are so small they look difficult, but since they are small you only need a dot or swipe of color to color them in! I just kind of drew over the stems with a swipe of Granny Apple Green with the small tip of the marker. Again, not perfect, but overall the whole thing looks fine!

The birthday greeting comes in the stamp set. Both lines of words are on one stamp, so just stamp it and then cut it out with the Banner Blooms Dies. Since you really only want to cut out the words, use a smaller piece of paper that fits right where the banner area is, otherwise, the die will cut all of the paper you put under it.

This card has a Real Red card base with a layer of Pacific Point blue. I just made narrow margins on this card so it is more difficult to see in the photo. The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I added two red Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Dots (retired) from the Holiday Catalog last year. I couldn’t stop myself so I added some of the smallest Gold Glitter Enamel Dots around the bouquet. Be careful, once you use one of those Gold Glitter Dots, you can’t stop!

Be sure to check out the Hand-Drawn Blooms Bundle with both the Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set and the Banner Blooms Dies. Here is a card I made with the Banner Blooms Die and the new Rainbow Glimmer Paper.

Of course most of the time that you would make this card you probably wouldn’t be thinking about the 4th of July! But you can use these floral bouquet for many occasions and in many color schemes!

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Rainbow Glimmer Banner Blooms Birthday Card

Rainbow Glimmer Banner Blooms Birthday Card

This card began as an experiment to see how this die worked and how it would work with the new glimmer paper and how the banners worked and finally I made this Rainbow Glimmer Banner Blooms Birthday Card!

This is the beautiful floral bouquet die in the Banner Blooms Dies. I thought it would be pretty to die cut the Rainbow Glimmer Paper, which it was! This glimmer paper is not only gorgeous with the ombre effect of multiple colors, but the glimmer doesn’t fall off! And it went through the die just fine! With the older thicker glimmer paper we have had, I often tore off the backing of the glimmer paper so it would be thinner to go through the die-cutting machine. This one worked fine without doing that. I only wish we could get all the colors of the Rainbow Glimmer Paper onto this one die! But you would have to have a 12″ long die!

I adhered the floral bouquet to Whisper White Cardstock with tiny little dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. You can do it if you are patient and really use the smallest dots of glue you can imagine. And work quickly! Then make sure to place it on the Whisper White cardstock in the exact spot you want it as best you can so you don’t get the glue where you don’t want it.

I was puzzled by how to make the greeting banners on the bouquet until I looked back at the die and saw that it would cut out the stamped banner. Just stamp your greeting in the Hand-Drawn Blooms Stamp Set and then place the bouquet die right over it, lining up the words inside the banner areas. You don’t need to stamp the greeting on a full piece of paper, just the area with the greeting because you are going to cut it apart. Using your scissors, just cut off the excess away from the banner greetings. Then glue the banners onto the die-cut bouquet on your card! The stamp will have both lines of the greeting, like this one I used on this card, properly placed to fit the die.

That’s all there is to it! When I make a similar card again, I think I will try to jazz it up a little bit. This card is pretty but in my opinion, I think it needs a little something more but not sure what yet! Just play with your new stamps and accessories and see what you come up with.

If you want both the stamp set and the dies, purchase the Hand-Drawn Blooms Bundle and save 10%. This will be an interesting stamp set and dies to play with, something a little different! A beautiful wedding card could be made with this set, congratulations for an engagement or graduation, or a birthday card, to name a few, like my Rainbow Glimmer Banner Blooms Birthday Card.

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