Roses and Peonies in Blooming Grace | Anne Fiene

Hi everyone! Today, I'm sharing a card I made with Pinkfresh Studio's new Blooming Grace stamp, stencil, and die sets for lovely pink blossoms. Then, for some whimsy, I tucked in a few large pink vellum leaves, using the Cherry Bliss stamp and die sets.

Arranging bouquets or flowers on a smaller panel centered on your card is a timeless design that always looks lovely. The card base provides a border to frame your work of art perfectly. Let's get started.

1. For the flowers, stamp one of the two floral stamps provided in the set using white cardstock and light pink ink. Then, stamp the floral image onto two panels for double the bouquets.
2. I colored in the stamped images using pinks and yellows for the flowers and Bay Leaf and Spanish Moss for the leaves. I tried to color my flowers randomly (I didn't fill in the bloom entirely in one shade of pink) so that they might look more like watercolors. I ended up not using stencil #5 in the stencil set.
3. Die cut the flowers and set them aside.
4. I cut two rectangles out of cardstock, one slightly larger than the other, in a color to match the leaves. I taped them together and adhered them to an A2-sized cardstock base using fun foam.
5. I arranged the flowers how I liked, then used two layers of foam tape to adhere them to the center of the card—and used scissors to cut off any parts that went over the edge.
6. I used the Basic Sentiments stamp and die sets for my sentiment. I glued both parts of the sentiment straight onto the flowers.
7. For my "whimsy," I used Pinkfresh's Cherry Bliss stamp. Before white heat embossing the image, I grabbed my Sparkling Rose ink pad and ran it over an area of vellum. Then, I had to use my heat gun to jump-start the drying process, as ink doesn't dry on vellum very quickly.
8. I used the Cherry Bliss die set to cut out the image, cut off a few leaves with my scissors, and glued them into my arrangement.

This classic layout and design will work with many of your floral stamps. I hope you've been inspired to make something new today! Thanks so much for stopping by.

-Anne