Hibiscus Mercies with The Greetery

My heart has gone out to the town where The Greetery is located.  All around that Iowa, SD area faced unrelenting rain storms a few weeks ago and its created significant flooding issues.  And while I can’t fix a flood, I can create with some beautiful designs from The Greetery with my hopes and prayers for a full recovery.  

This beautiful set of Botanicuts Hibiscus dies is gorgeous to layer up and feels like summer sun to me!  After I had cut all the flower dies up I added some coloured pencil detailing to them.  It happened that  our daughter was over and she suggested a navy background - and wow was she ever right!  I love the deep drama of the dark colour against the pops of the hibiscus blooms.  

I chose to use a background die from Concord & 9th called Plaid Card Front Thick Die.  This created some strong texture.  I also embossed the whole plaid die cut with clear EP which not only deepened the colour, but added some shine too (but a doozy to photograph!  :) )

The embossed sentiment uses The Greetery’s sentiment set called New Day.  And that scripture passage is a beautiful encouragement.  

Thanks for joining me today - I hope you are enjoying the sweetness of Summer!  

 

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Hibiscus Mercies with The Greetery

Cherry Blossom Scripture with PTI

It’s that beautiful season of Cherry Blossoms!  I know someone in Japan who is showing pictures of the beauty of the Sakura blossoms right now, and I wish I could see it!  Instead I pulled out some cherry blossom beauty from Paper Trey Ink called:  Into the Blooms:  Cherry Blossoms.  It’s a beautifully detailed die!  

I started with ink blending the layers, and assembling the flowers and leaves on stems which look so beautiful together!  Next I embossed this beautiful Bible verse called Psalm Reflections: December Mini in silver, and then ink blended around the die cut circle in soft pink.  

To coordinate with the cherry blossom theme, I also used PTI’s So Cherry Sweet Stencil for the background of the card.  

Then I surrounded the verse with beautiful blossoms and a few silver enamel accents.  Soft and so pretty! 

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Cherry Blossom Scripture with PTI

Golden Glow Petal Die Cuts from PTI

Hello and Happy Monday!  I’m popping in with a design from Paper Trey Ink that celebrates their beautiful Into the Blooms: Gerber Daisies dies.  These are such detailed layering dies that are so fun to use!  I cut out several layers of flowers on heavy white cardstock, and ink blended some golden warm shades for the layers, and glued them up.  

Meanwhile, I foiled one of my fancy Spellbinders dies onto whitc cardstock, and embossed this beautiful Psalm from Psalm Reflections:  February Mini Set to continue that golden glow.   I arranged the flowers on a card that’s 5 x 6 1/4, a little larger than I normally work with, but it needed some extra real estate for all those pretty flowers.  Some watered down gold Lunar Paste is splattered across the layers, and over the card base to give a shimmery but weathered look.  Golden-shabby-chic!  

A lovely flowery start to the week!  Thanks for joining me!   

 

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Golden Glow Petal Die Cuts from PTI