Say It With a Bouquet

Welcome to Day 2 of the Taylored Expressions April Sneak Peeks! The April products will be released Thursday, April 7 @ 7 AM PST!

This month’s release has several floral offerings – in both stamps and dies – which work for a variety of occasions. My first project features the previously-released Stargazer Lily Bouquet stamp set, which now has a corresponding Stargazer Lily Bouquet Die, paired with a sentiment from the new release Simply Stamped – Peonies stamp set.

I stamped the lily on watercolor cardstock and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder. I colored the image with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then cut it with its corresponding die. I heat-embossed the sentiment onto vellum and adhered the vellum to the cardstock with double-sided sticker paper. I popped the floral bouquet up with foam adhesive and finished the card off with a frame cut with the Frame in Frame Cutting Plate set.

Supplies (items in bold will be released April 7):

Stargazer Lily Bouquet	Stargazer Lily Bouquet Die	Simply Stamped – Peonies	Frame in Frame Cutting Plate
Premium Cardstock – Sugar Cube	Premium Cardstock – Salt Water Taffy	Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers	Zing! Embossing Powder – Gold Metallic
VersaMark – Watermark Stamp Pad

My next project features the Full Bloom die. Because this die does not cut on the edge, it can be positioned in a number of ways on a card front.

I used the full bloom die to cut the blossom three times from an A2-sized panel. I cut the petals (the set includes three petal sizes) from cardstock which I’d colored with Distress Inks. I adhered the petals to the blooms with liquid adhesive. I added a sentiment cut with the Mini Caps Alpha & #’s set.

I attached the panel to a card base and fluffed up the petals a bit.

I created a second card with the same design using colored cardstock rather than Distress Ink-colored cardstock.

Supplies (items in bold will be released April 7):

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Thanks for visiting! Head on over to the TE Blog to see more projects and product information, as well as a complete list of our participating designers!