Make & Tell: Print Shop Fresh Floral with Dawn

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We’re doing something a little different for today’s Make & Tell Tuesday. We have a special guest that I think you’re going to love! Dawn shared these fabulous cards with me the other day and I asked her if I could share them with you here today! I’ll let her tell you all about them and her fun process for creating them…

So, during a release, there always seems to be a product or two that I fall especially in love with, and I end up with more ideas than time to create with it!  The Print Shop: Fresh Floral collection was one of those collections that I just didn’t want to stop creating with!  I had so much fun pulling it out again, to make this pile of cards! 

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I started out by just playing….I chose a color combo to work with that included five main colors, and then I set about stamping a pretty pile of die cuts and papers, all with those five colors. 

Once I had a pile of pretties to work with, I turned on my video camera to film a time lapse video for you and started making cards with no real plan in place.  I didn’t have any rules for myself or any expectations….I just wanted to see what sort of cards I could make out of the pretty embellishments and papers I’d stamped, whether it was three cards or ten.  Honestly, I think that because the video camera was running, it helped me to not think too much about things, and to commit quicker as I worked!  In the end, I’d made five cards…..in 70 seconds, according to the time lapse!  Ha!

I mixed and matched all the elements and used only white card bases, to make it a little faster.  I cut patterned papers apart and piled embellishments on, not worrying about the next card, or stretching the elements to go farther.  I just started gluing things together, and I couldn’t be happier with how it all turned out!

You might notice that I took one of the patterned papers I’d stamped, and cut it into strips.  This allowed me to use that same sheet on a couple of different cards. 

I have to say that I can’t wait to do this same type of thing again, because I sure do love a pretty stack of coordinated embellishments and I love, love a pile of coordinating cards!!  Can’t wait to use these to send out some encouragement to loved ones!