TGIF – BotaniCuts Bouquet with Norine

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TGIF everyone! Norine is here with us today, but before we get to all of the details of her beautiful project (a work of art, really!), just a couple of quick notes…

First of all, thank you all so much for your overwhelming response to our sale and latest release! We are so grateful for you!

Please note that due to the volume of orders, it’s taking us a bit longer to get through them. We’re working through them in the order they were received and are doing our best to get everyone’s orders out as quickly as possible, but the wait may be a little longer than you’re used to for our typical releases. Thank you for your patience! 😊

Also note that today is the last day of our 2nd Anniversary sale! Our sale ends tonight (4/30) at 11:59pm EDT. The whole shop is 15% off, with select items HERE an additional 15% off!

Now for Norine’s beautiful TGIF project that is going to inspire you to pull out your BotaniCuts dies!

Hello Greetery friends!  Did you enjoy the Spring Market release this week?  I hope you were able to order all the stamps and dies your hearts desired!

I have another card to share today that started as a Spring Market reveal card but quickly grew out of control, with more variety of dies and stamp sets on one card than you would think even fits!

It’s a card that reminds me of what my counter looks like when someone gives me a bouquet of pretty flowers – with all the jars and vases out to see what fits and suits best.

Of course, I started with some BotaniCuts Tulip flowers and went from there.  I knew I wanted to make a (news)paper wrapped bouquet but then I got thinking how much nicer it would be as a bouquet of several of the different BotaniCuts die sets.  So I added a yellow BotaniCuts Rose and coral BotaniCuts Lily to the mix.  I love the added variety of leaves in the bouquet as well.

For all of the large flowers I die cut the shapes from white cardstock then inked the individual parts with ink blender brushes.  Before assembling the bouquet I put each bloom together temporarily, to make sure they were properly shaded in the right spots and that each petal showed up against the petal it lay next to.  Differently to the larger flowers, the Wildflower Mix die cuts are Copic colored to give them a pale blue green tint, like Baby’s Breath.

The next step was to stamp the layers and die cut the vessels.  I used the Bottled Up, Pitcher-esque and Just Mason Around stamp and die sets to create the sealer jar, green bottle and pink pitcher with floral decorative design.

To create the paper wrapper for the bouquet, I cut a piece of kraft tissue paper approximately 4” square, and stamped on it with a text stamp.  Then I folded it corner to corner with the text showing on the outside, and with the short triangle tip pointing down, placed the bouquet on the tissue and folded the two side points across the stems and upwards, then folded the right side corner down.  I wrapped some thin jute twice around the folded paper and taped it in place on the backside so it won’t slip.

To assemble the card, I die cut a panel from white cardstock using the Crimped Slimline Frames die and positioned all the containers and flower bouquet on the panel, overlapping the edges in places.  I cut a card front from blue textured cardstock to cover the front of a folded card base and adhered all the layers together.  

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I would be completely delighted to receive an actual bouquet like this, but also, equally delighted to get one in paper form!  Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!