Secret Garden cards

I'm a sucker for just about anything floral, so when I first saw the Stampin' Up!^® spring catalog, I knew right away that I would be getting the Secret Garden stamp set and the coordinating Framelits dies. This weekend I made two cards with these items and a few other new goodies.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Secret Garden
Paper: River Rock, Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple, Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green card stock; Print Poetry Designer Series Paper (DSP) stack
Ink: Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple, Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green
Accessories: Secret Garden Framelits dies, rhinestones, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Two-Way Glue Pen, Dimensionals

I love how quick and easy it is to make a paper bouquet with this coordinating stamp set and dies. I've made cards similar to this many times in the past, but I've always cut out the flowers by hand. I don't mind doing that -- in some ways "fussy cutting" is sort of calming for me -- but it definitely takes a lot more time. And here's a little trick: The two light pink flowers on this card are actually one flower that I cut in half. Since I was tucking it under the larger flower, I decided not to "waste" it by leaving half of it hidden.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Secret Garden
Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green, Primrose Petals, Very Vanilla card stock; Print Poetry DSP stack
Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green
Accessories: Secret Garden Framelits dies, Honeycomb embossing folder, Gumball Green stitched ribbon, pearls, Essentials paper-piercing pack, paper-piercing tool and mat, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

I did do some fussy cutting for the flower on this card. Using Raspberry Ripple ink, I stamped the largest flower image three times: twice on Primrose Petals card stock and once on Raspberry Ripple card stock. I used the Framelits dies to cut out one of the Primrose Petals flowers. Then I hand-cut the center out of the other Primrose Petals flower and the middle group of petals out of the Raspberry Ripple flower. I used Glue Dots to layer the center pieces on the large flower so it has a little bit of dimension.

The piece of Print Poetry DSP on this card was one of the scraps leftover from the card above. I also had a long, skinny strip, which I adhered along the bottom of the inside of this card.

Come back tomorrow for more cards featuring new products from the Stampin' Up! spring catalog. Thanks for stopping by!