As a design team member of Diemond Dies<\/a><\/span>, I was super excited to see as part of their newest release a die that had a string of flowers in graduated sizes. It’s called Pretty Petals Flower Set<\/a><\/span>, and I wanted to take full advantage of this unique design.<\/p>\n

<\/a>This is not a nesting die set, nor is it a die set with separate flowers in varied sizes. This was an actual single die that had the flowers all connected together. How cool, right?!<\/p>\n

I made the first card into a shaker card by cutting out two card stock card fronts, layering in a piece of plastic to create a kind of sandwiched window. Then I cut two fun foam layering pieces to adhere to the back of the card front assemblage to add enough depth to create little floral wells for shaker pieces. To make a rainbow of flowers, I filled each flower well with different colored seed beads, confetti pieces, vase fillers, well, you get the idea–little bits and pieces of whatever I had on hand in the right colors. After all the flower wells were filled, I adhered a card stock card base, careful not to disturb all those shaker pieces from their positions.\u00a0For the sentiment, I used a Lawn Fawn stamp from the “Color My World” mini stamp set, and used the MISTI to make sure that I got good, solid ink coverage.<\/p>\n

<\/a>For the second card, I basically took advantage of the design of the die and cut out a card front and a single layer of fun foam to make floral windows in ascending size order. I thought about backing each flower window with a different colored patterned paper in rainbow order again, but then I came across a scrap of watercolor paper that I had in my scrap box that had some lovely mottled blues and blue-violets splatters. I backed all the flower windows with this one scrap, which just fit to cover all the openings. Then I adhered the whole front to a card base. For the sentiment, I stamped a simple phrase from the Cardz TV “Just Saying” stamp set that reads, “Just saying…” Then for the inside sentiment, I used an Inkadinkado “Kids Quotes” stamp set that reads, “If you’re feeling blue — try painting yourself a different color.”<\/p>\n

Easy peasy, clean and simple floral cards and will be nice additions to my handmade card stash — ready to go when I want to send a little uplifting note to someone. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

<\/a>Diemond Dies SALES:<\/strong> My readers can get 15% off and free worldwide shipping at Diemond Dies<\/a><\/span> through June 19, 2017 by using the coupon code spring15 <\/strong>(no minimum purchase required). Additionally, if you are interested in buying the whole May 2017 Bundled New Release<\/a><\/span>, there is a special bundled sale price of just $59 (which is lowered to $50 if you also use the spring15 code — that’s 44% off the individual die prices!), good through June 25, 2017. After June 19, 2017, you can use my coupon code thankskristina<\/strong> for 10% off and free worldwide shipping on all orders of $35 or more.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

These cards are being entered into the following challenges:
\nLil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nSimon Says Stamp Monday Touchy Feeling Challenge<\/a><\/span>:<\/a>\u00a0shaker card
\nCreatalicious Anything Goes Challenge with Optional Die Cuts or Punches<\/a><\/span>
\nWord Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nCards Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nNot Just Cards Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\n613 Avenue Create Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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