Garden in Bloom set sampler

One day last week I came home from work to find a box filled with Stampin' Up! goodies on my front porch. Yippee! One of the things I was excited to try out was the new Garden in Bloom stamp set. Originally I wasn't going to get this set because I have so, so many flower stamp sets. But I love flowers and flower stamp sets, so ... I caved.

I wanted to try out some different colors and layouts with the Garden in Bloom images, so I made a little set sampler: four one-layer cards that also use the sentiments from the set Four You and the Simply Scored tool.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Garden in Bloom, Four You
Paper: 110-lb white card stock (Recollections)
Ink: Hello Honey, Delightful Dijon, Pear Pizzazz, Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede
Accessories: Simply Scored tool, Vintage Photo Distressed Stickles (Ranger), gold sequin trim, Glue Dots

I think this card is my favorite of the four; I love this combination of colors. I added a little sparkle by applying some Stickles glitter glue to the middle of the flowers and adding three gold sequins. With the Simply Scored tool I made a debossed (indented) border on this card. I used the stylus to make a score line 1/4" from the edge all around the card, skipping over the parts where the stamped image crossed the score line.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Garden in Bloom, Four You
Paper: 110-lb white card stock (Recollections)
Ink: Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, Pear Pizzazz, Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Suede
Accessories: Simply Scored tool, Blushing Bride sequin trim, Glue Dots

For this card I used the same flower as the first card, but without the outline part of the image. I also used the flower bud image to fill in the white space. (Both layers of the flower bud are stamped in Calypso Coral; the bottom layer is stamped on scratch paper first to get a lighter shade.) I added three Blushing Bride sequins around the sentiment and used the Simply Scored tool to add an embossed border 1/4" from the edge all around the card.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Garden in Bloom, Four You
Paper: 110-lb white card stock (Recollections)
Ink: Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz
Accessories: Simply Scored tool, White Perfect Accents

This layout would work for just about any occasion by changing the sentiment. In fact, it would make a quick and easy card set by doing a group of cards with a variety of colors and/or sentiments. For a simple embellishment I added the new White Perfect Accents as the flower centers. For the border on this card, I made the score line across the top of the card and then partially down each side, stopping about 1-1/2" from the bottom of the card.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Garden in Bloom, Four You
Paper: 110-lb white card stock (Recollections)
Ink: Hello Honey, Calypso Coral, Marina Mist, Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Suede
Accessories: Simply Scored Tool, pearls

For something other than flowers, I used the butterfly image to make this birthday card. I stamped the first layer of the butterflies in Hello Honey, Calypso Coral, and Marina Mist. Then I stamped the darker layer in Baked Brown Sugar and the outline in Soft Suede for each one. A couple of pearls, a sentiment, and an embossed border are the finishing touches.

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