Wildflower Mix with Kelly + Save the Date

Happy Friday! Kelly is here with a couple of gorgeous projects! But first, a little heads up that new products are coming to the shop soon! We’ll start sharing some sneak peeks a week from today. Our newest collection is called Garden Variety and I can’t wait to show you all of the fun things!

Now let’s hear from Kelly and the amazing projects she’s sharing today…

Hello friends, it’s Kelly here today! I’m so thrilled you’ve joined me today as I share a duo of bold
wildflower birthday cards! I can’t decide which layout I like better: landscape or vertical, so I made one
of each! The flower clusters are so much fun to create, so I just kept going and going, which turned out
to be plenty for two cards.

To begin, I die cut all of the flowers and stems twice using the BotaniCuts Wildflower Mix dies. I also had
a few stems and flowers left over from a previous project so I added those in as well. I colored all of the
stems and flowers using finger daubers and Distress Oxide inks. I chose to give each type of stem a
unique combination of inks to really give some variation and depth to the stems and leaves. I chose
traditional colors for the flowers and then glued them to the stems using liquid glue. I was having such a
fabulous time as each new sprig was added to the pile.

For the background, I simply die cut the largest frame in the Nordic Frames collection using black
cardstock. I added some white paint splatter, allowed it to dry, and then added it to the black card base
using foam squares for dimension. Once that was done, I got to work on the sentiments.
I die cut the outline for both the “Celebrate” and “Birthday” words and then stamped them using the
Birthday Blooms stamp set in black ink. The companion sentiments, which are also from the Birthday
Blooms stamp set, are heat embossed in white onto strips of black cardstock. I added the main
sentiment piece to the front of each card using foam squares. I glued the different wildflower clusters
here and there until I was happy with each arrangement. I added the companion sentiment to the card
using additional foam squares.

Once I finished, I realized that I hadn’t added any pen or colored pencil details to the leaves and flowers.
I used a black pen to add centers to some of the flowers and then a few colored pencils for the leaves
and additional flowers. I opted not to add any glitter or sequins, which is surprising for me! Ha ha! There
is a method to my madness, however; I didn’t want any stray glitter specks to fall onto the black
cardstock and make the cards look too busy. I felt it would compete with the ink splatter, so I resisted. If
you can’t live without a little sparkle, you could always use a Wink of Stella glitter pen or something
similar to add glitter where you’d like. Thanks for joining me today!