Creamy Kissed Christmas Florals with Crafty Meraki

Hello!  I’m delighted to be with you today working with Crafty Meraki’s Christmas Countdown, showcasing beautiful Christmas inspiration.  Today I’m back with a beautiful die called Christmas Flower Layering Die.  This die is designed to be stacked to give beautiful 3D effects to your floral.  I cut the layers of petals and leaves from cream cardstock, and then placed them on a sticky craft mat.  I pulled my stylus across the petals to create veining for more realism.  Then, I kissed the petals with some soft peach ink blending and gave the leaves layers of green ink.  It has such a beautiful effect.  

Next I layered my flowers together with foam dots between the sections to really amp up that 3d feel.  I splashed some pretty gold shimmery mist onto the layers to give it shimmer, as you can see below.  The background texture is created with the cream on cream theme using Crafty Meraki’s Mini Slimline Parisienne Para Dies.  I also inkblended the background to tie it together.  Because its a slimline die, I just ran it through sections of paper, and added in the piece as a design detail.  

The pretty Joy sentiment from Crafty Meraki’s Festive Flora Wreath Stamp Set, and I embossed it in gold.  

Simple gold enamel dots accent the sentiment for more touches of gold.  It has a lot of dimension and I’ll probably need to create a special envelope for it ....but oh so worth it for the effect!  

Thanks for joining me today!