Thanks so much for stopping by today! We are ready to kick off a busy few days here at The Greetery! Today we’re sharing our first peek at our newest collection coming to the shop on Wednesday, April 28, called Spring Market…
Here’s a little peek of some of what’s to come! School is almost out for the year, but we’ll have your crafting abc’s and 123’s covered with these pretty new products…
I can’t wait to share more – I’ll be back tomorrow with another sneak peek and we’ll kick off the full reveals on Monday! Our new Spring Market collection will be available to purchase in the shop beginning at 10am EDT on Wednesday, April 28.
Now for some TGIF fun…Keeway is here with a springy project that will brighten your day right up!
Hello friends! Keeway here to add some bright and happy inspiration to your day! We’re in the
middle of Spring and flowers are slowly blooming all around me. That got me inspired to bring
together a field of colorful flowers.
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I started by die cutting all the variants of daisies with the Oopsie Daisy Die. I already had in
mind to create a slimline sized card, so I used the die cuts to figure out my arrangement across. I
also picked out 5 colors I wanted to stamp the daisies in: blue, purple, pink, orange, and
turquoise. With my arrangement planned out, I then started to stamp the flowers with the Oopsie Daisy set, making sure to vary them so that no same color is next to each other and spread out across the card to good
balance.
I also love, love, love to add dimension to my cards with foam tape. However, these flower
stems are thin and can be quite laborous and difficult to cut your foam tape into super thin strips
to add behind it. You can also opt to layer it with more die cuts, but that is also laborous and talk
about waste of good paper! To solve this issue, I decided to die cut a frame using the Crimped
Slimline Die. I die cut the larger frame out of white card stock and then the smaller frame,
leaving me an open frame to work with that will have provide good support underneath the
stems.
I like to add a touch of ink blending to my projects, and so I did just that for the background.
This was ink blended with Broken China and Tumbled Glass distress oxide inks. I then added
my frame next with foam tape and my stamped daisies thereafter.
The last piece is to add a sentiment, and I wanted to pick something bold that can stand out in
front of this colorful field of daisies. The Greetery has so many options to choose from, but I
ended up decided on using the Birthday Blooms stamp set. I stamped the sentiments in black ink
and used the Birthday Blooms Die to cut out the large ‘birthday’. The ‘happy’ was die cut out with
the fishtail banner from Crimped Slimline Die using partial die cutting technique to shorten the
length of the banner. I added these to the bottom right corner of the card to finish this card.
I really loved how this card turned out and hope you do too!
Thanks for joining me today and I hope you have an incredible weekend!
