Hi and welcome to a post revisiting Uniko's Beautiful Blooms I stamps and matching dies set.
This maybe one of Bev's older designs but is new to me and it has proved very versatile since I got my hands on it!
I've tried to use the stamps and dies here in different ways using different mediums in the hope that it shows how versatile this set is.
My first card uses the smallest flower stamp which I stamped onto MM paper before heat embossing with white EP.
Once the heat embossing was complete, I watercoloured the background with some Prussian Blue w/c and filled in the spaces left by the embossed stamping of the flowers with a pink mixed from the purple and crimson in my paint set. The arc was cut away using an Avery Elle die just for a change and mounted onto an A6 note card. The sentiment from Wonderful Day was stamped with Altenew Starlight ink to match the background.
This second card uses stamping and watercolour to create a softer effect again using some fussy cut masks from Post Its.
The flowers were stamped with Altenew's Razzleberry ink with a little yellow from my Zig watercolour markers. I used water to pull the colour from the stamping over the white areas and blended the yellow with some water too before stamping. The sentiment from Spring Botanicals -Daffodil was stamped and heat embossed with gold EP. Finally I trimmed the stamped panel down, matted it with some gold paper and added to an A6 card on pads. This is a trick to divert the eye from the contrast between the MM paper and off white base card.
These next two cards should really have been just one but I didn't think it through enough before I started to stamp.
The first one is simple stamping and masking but the second is what the first should have been. I realised after stamping that I SHOULD have cut the out the arrangement with dies first then use the openings to place the stamps in the MISTI, SO much easier. Well it is until you realise that you've cut one of the flowers out upside down!!
For the second card, I die cut an arrangement using the small bloom and leaf, then using the top panel as a jig, I stamped the lower layer, masking where necessary. As I said above I accidentally die cut one of the blooms upside down but a judicially placed sentiment from Floral Vines sorted it out!
The die cut panel was then popped up over the stamped layer on pads. The first is simple masking and stamping, then a cut down panel and strip of old sparkly Co're dinations card from my stash that happened to match the flowers!
Why not check out what the rest of the team have been up to with these stamps and dies.
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