Spring Bouquet Cards with Marine and Waleska

Hey crafty friends! Marine here, back with more flowers to brighten your day! Today's card features Spring Bouquet, a beautiful layering stamp set that includes three types of flowers: daffodil, hyacinth and iris. 

I decided to go with hyacinths only in order to create like a field of flowers, and the first thing I did was to stamp six of them on Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock using distress oxide inks. Here are the color combinations I picked for each flower & greenery:

Pink: spun sugar + kitsch flamingo + picked raspberry
Orange: dried marigold + carved pumpkin + ripe persimmon
Yellow: squeezed lemonade + mustard see + fossilized amber
Green: shabby shutters + mowed lawn + rustic wilderness
Blue: tumbled glass + salty ocean + blueprint sketch
Purple: shaded lilac + wilted violet + villainous potion
Greenery: mowed lawn + rustic wilderness

Because Spring is coming soon, I decided to add a few bees. These are from Sunflower Fields, and again, I used distress oxide inks to stamp the different parts: mustard seed for the body, black soot for the dark details, and lost shadow for the wings. Once the flowers, leaves and bees were done, I cut everything using the coordinating dies, and moved on to the background.

To be able to fit the six flowers on my card, I went for a slimline design. I cut an 8,5 x 3,5 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel, and I did some stenciling using distress oxide inks. On the lower part, I created a hill border using shabby shutters + mowed lawn. And on the upper part, a cloudy sky using tumbled glass + salty ocean. Next I cut another 8,5 x 3,5 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel, and cut a slim grass border out of it using a die from Picket Fence Border and I colored that grass border using shabby shutters + mowed lawn oxide inks.

Next I stamped my "I'm so thankful for your friendship" greeting from Words Of Gratitude on the grass border using black ink, I attached the border at the bottom of my slimline panel using foam squares, and then the hyacinths, leaves and bees using foam squares again. And finally I added highlights and details on the images using a white gel pen.

And that's it! This card definitely calls for Spring, and I can't wait to see cute bees buzzing and flying from one flower to another in a few weeks! Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!

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Hello there, Waleska here! Today's card is very colorful and brings you spring feel using Iris flowers from the Spring Bouquet Stamp from the latest release.

To start this card I stamped all the Iris flowers with the following inks: Lawn Fawn Fresh Lavender, Lawn Fawn Juice Box and Lawn Fawn Blue Joy and for the center of the flower I used a yellow copic marker,  I search for real Iris colors and this turned out exactly like the ones I like. I then stamped the leaves with Lawn Fawn Jalapeno Ink. I wanted a very contrasting background so I decided to use Oxide Inks in Colors Picked Raspberry and Wild Honey I added water splashes and some sparkle watercolor for more interest too.

I wanted my card to look like a field with Irises so I arrange them in a harmonic way and adhere them to the inked panel.  Finally I added the sentiment from the Big Bold Greetings.  This beautiful flowers look so realistic with all the layers and can be stamped with all kinds of different colors!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful rest of your day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Words of Gratitude Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunflower Fields Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunflower Fields Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Bouquet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Bouquet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio