Hello there! It’s my turn to share some inspiration, so today I’m sharing something near and dear to my heart! We have some vintage galvanized wash tubs — one is round and one is more rounded square — that are vintage tubs that my hubby’s Grammy used back in the day. We’ve used them for various things over the last several years and this year, I think I’m going to plant some flowers in at least one of them. More specifically, I should say that I’m going to attempt to propagate some flowers in them!
Did you know that (supposedly!) you can easily propagate lots of things like geraniums, petunias, verbena, marigolds, etc?! I’ve recently learned this and I’m excited to give it a try! Who doesn’t want MORE flowers, especially if they’re free?! Haha! We’ve propagated coleus for years now — it really is as easy as cutting off a stem and sticking in in dirt! It’ll grow roots and settle in, in no time. Amazing to see! But I’m so hopeful that I’ll be able to do the same with lots of our flowers that are all growing in pots out on our deck! How fun to be able to multiply the plants that we have without having to go buy more!
SO, back to the subject at hand…..today’s card. 🙂 I decided to use the new Garden Tub die and fill it with flowers, much like how I hope our real life garden tubs will look soon!
That background. What’s not to love, I ask you?! I used my favorite new Woven Cane Background die to add a red layer of card stock over the pinky background. Seriously, so cute!
Next, I pulled out a set that I love but haven’t used in a long time. I was just missing doing some good old stamping and this set let me do just that! I die cut and stamped two of each of the flowers from Budding Beauties Summer (roses, black eyed Susans and hydrangeas) and loaded up my garden tub! I also added in some sprigs of greenery using the Large Leaves: Fern die.
PRO TIP: I like to approach “arranging flowers” on cards in the same way that I would if I were arranging flowers in real life. I always like to add in some filler greenery of some sort, to break up the sea of flowers. It helps to create the feel of a sort of “white space” where the eye can rest between each of the flowers. It also allows each of the flowers to really have a moment to shine. So when it comes to card making, I like to tuck in some greenery of some sort and in this case, the new Large Leaves: Fern die did the trick. It’s a great choice because you can cut those big sprigs apart and use them in smaller sections, but you only have to do one big pass through your die cutting machine to get all those little sprigs!
And just like I shared during the release last month, be sure to have some of your leaves spilling out and over the front edge of the tub, for a more realistic feel! The sign is the Little Labels stamp + cut combo and I used a couple different shades of green there….both of which can also be found in the bouquet.
PRO TIP: Unless I’m using black ink, I always like to use ink colors on my sentiments that are also found somewhere else on the card. It just helps with color cohesion!
Head over to my blog today, for a few more PRO TIPS! I hope they’re helpful to you as you sit down to do some crafting of your own!
Have a great day!
Dawn
