TGIF – Mixing Florals with Dawn

It’s Friday! That means it’s time for some inspiration from the Inspiration Team…

Dawn is up today and she is going to town mixing florals in her classic style. Just wait until you see the beauties she has created for you today! Let’s see what she has to tell us about these gorgeous projects…

Hey Friends!  So it’s time for another TGIF and I thought this was the perfect time to dive a little deeper into something I ran out of time and didn’t get to show you during the last release.  I wanted to specifically highlight the leaves from the Botanicuts Rose die set! 

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Even if you never used the flowers from this die set (…which of course you would never do, because that would just be crazy since they’re so pretty!  Ha!), the leaves from this die set are totally worth the price of the dies!  The leaves are not only gorgeous and super easy to work with, but they go with literally every floral image you may already have in your stash!  And I’m going to attempt to prove it with my cards today!  🙂 

I pulled from my stash of die cut florals to create these cards….these flowers are from a variety of stamp sets.  With them, I put together three different cards, all with these same leaf dies from Botanicuts Rose!  I die cut the leaves from white card stock and then quickly and easily blended ink on them with blending brushes.  They were colored in minutes!

  Whether the florals are all the same color palette or a variety of colors, whether they’re watercolored or stamped, whether they’re roses or wildflowers or even a wheat stalk, these leaves are the perfect accent for all of them!  And not only that, but if you’re like me and you keep a stash of extra die cut florals on hand, adding in some of these leaves makes for a fast and easy pile of cards whenever you sit down to create!

Aren’t Dawn’s cards amazing? She is so good at combining lots of elements and pulling them all together in her classic Dawn style. So beautiful! Here’s the shot of all three of them together one more time…

Before I go, I wanted to update you on restocks. Unfortunately we are a bit behind schedule as to what I have been telling those who’ve emailed to ask about restocks, but they are coming soon (hopefully sometime today)! The first batch of stamps and dies are here, and we’re working on getting them checked and packaged up. We have another large wave of dies scheduled to arrive early next week. Many of you have enquired about the items from the latest release that are out of stock – the dies are included in next week’s shipment, but the stamps won’t be back in stock until mid February.