Morning all!
I’m over on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today with a clean and simple-ish card project featuring an unlikely pairing.
Paper: Carta Bella – Summer Market (r), Jen Hadfield – Reaching Out (r)
Stamps: The Greetery – Curio Labels, The Greetery – Sentiment Suite: Birthday
Dies: The Greetery – Sentiment Suite Basics, The Greetery – Crimped Circles, The Greetery – It’s a Wrap Mini Posy Pocket, The Greetery – Winter Medley
Christmas in July may be over, but it doesn’t mean that your Christmas and winter supplies can’t be put to good use all year round.
The It’s a Wrap Mini Posy Pocket die from The Greetery has been languishing in the “New Supplies” bin on my craft desk far too long. I had great intentions of using the pocket die with some of the Botanicuts Wildflower florals, but they were just a bit too big for this mini version of the larger It’s a Wrap die.
So, when I also spotted the Winter Medley dies in my “New Supplies” bin, I got to wondering… would they be the right size for the mini posy pocket?
And the answer is a resounding YES!
In fact, they may just be the perfect pairing!
The great thing about the Winter Medley die set is that it provides a good amount of greenery to build up your bouquet. And as you can see, the flowers are really neutral – they will work for all seasons.
I cut some of the leafy branches from dark green cardstock to bulk out the bouquet and to contrast against the branches and stems I cut from white cardstock and coloured in with the foam daubers that I use with my Distress Oxide inks.
The flowers were also cut from white cardstock and are just coloured in with the dye inks that were already on some of the detail brushes I use for stencilling.
You can add dimension to the flowers with a rounded stylus and detail with Nuvo drops, black and white pens, or pencils.
I needed a neutral background to let that bouquet sing, but also a pop of colour to add contrast. So I cut a piece of watercolour cardstock using one of the Crimped Circles dies and added some blue watercolour and splatter.
Once that was dry, I stamped a sentiment from the Curio Labels set on the crimped circle.
I finished off the card with another stamped sentiment, this time from the Sentiment Suite Birthday stamp set, and cut it out using one of the labels in the coordinating Sentiment Suite Basics die set. Such a handy die set that works with loads of sentiments, not just the Sentiment Suite series.
And there we have it – card complete!
Until next time, happy crafting!
 The Greetery – Curio Labels stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Sentiment Suite: Birthday stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Sentiment Suite Basics dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Crimped Circles dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – It’s a Wrap Mini Posy Pocket die Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Winter Medley dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 Distress ink pad – Speckled Egg Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Versafine – Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Bazzill Cardshoppe – Pale Rose Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
 Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH |
 Jen Hadfield – Reaching Out – Over the Rainbow paper (r) Shop at: MISC |
 Arches cold pressed watercolour paper Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH |
 Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops – Duck Egg Blue Shop at: AZ (UK) | SHC (UK) |
 Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops – Simply White Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Tombow – Mono-Multi liquid glue Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH |
 Lawn Fawn – Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC |
 Waffle Flower – Mini Media Mat Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Royal Langnickel – Zen watercolour round wash brush set Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Sizzix – Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
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