Falling Flowers

Welcome to Punchin' Up! by Cathy

Falling Flowers Tea Dyeing

Today I want to share with you a card I created from the Falling Flowers Stamp Set and May Flowers Framelits.  My inspiration came from a gift bag that was made for an example in the Annual 2017-2018 Stampin' Up! Catalog  (pg. 143)  The minute I saw this gift bag, I knew it had to be made into a card.

What do you think?

 I change it up a bit and added my own spin on the card.  Can you believe all the cardstock on the main part of the card is all Very Vanilla? This was a technique I came up with to change some of the color of the cardstock to add more color.  I call it Tea Dyeing, because it comes out like the color of Tea Dyed muslin. (Something I did way back in the day when I used to make country dolls and animals.)

Products Used:

Stamp Set:  Falling Flowers, Touches of Texture

Cardstock:  Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla

Ink:  Soft Suede, Early Espresso

Accessories:  May Flowers Framelits, Corrugated Elements, Basic Pearls, 5/8" Burlap Ribbon

 

Ok... so how did I do these flowers and leaves?  

Well here is what I did.

The largest cutout flower is Very Vanilla, left the original color.  I stamped the two part flower with Soft Suede and then stamped another flower with Early Espresso all on Very Vanilla cardstock. I stamped over the Soft Suede flower with Soft Suede, stamping off once, using the stamp set Touches of Texture. (I used the stamp in the set that looks like splatters.) I used the May Flowers Framelits to die cut the flower. I used Soft Suede to sponge the middle of the Early Espresso flower and then fussy cut out just the center.   I stamped the leaves with Early Espresso on Very Vanilla and used the framelit to die cut the leaves, saving both the leaves and the cardstock that the leaves were die cut from. This will be your stencil that you will used later.  Then I sprayed each the Soft Suede Flower, Early Espresso flower and the leaves with a mixture of 3 drops of Soft Suede Reinkers with rubbing alcohol in a Stampin' Spritzer, filling it to the top. This is your "Tea Dyeing" mixture.  While still wet, I crinkled the flowers in a ball and carefully unwrapped the cardstock being careful not to tear it, let it dry.  I curled up the sides of the leaves while still wet and let them dry. The backround of the card is Very Vanilla, (cut at 3 3/4" x 5") sponged with Soft Suede around the edges.  I used the stencil from the leaves and sponged the leaves on the card with Soft Suede. The "swirly leaf/flower" is stamped using Soft Suede. The leaves at the bottom are stamped with Early Espresso.  The splatters are stamped with Soft Suede, stamping off once, then stamping onto the card. Layer all your base pieces of your card first and then add your die cut leaves and layer your flowers.  I curled up the edges of the large Very Vanilla flowers after all was glued on to the card.  The small corrugated flower is cut from the Corrugated Elements (pg. 196) using the flower in the May Flowers Framelits and glued on.  Add Basic Pearls and the 5/8" Burlap ribbon. 

Now you have a beautiful card that looks harder then what it is to do.  Enjoy!!

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Thank you for allowing me to do what I love...Creating and Sharing with all of you.

Thanks,

Cathy