I am always drawn to Stampin’ Up!® stamp sets featuring wildflowers, seed heads and big allium-style flowers, so it was inevitable that I would add Wildflower Designs to my craft stash.
This beautiful stamp set is part of the Wildly Flowering Suite. I thought I could get away with just purchasing the stamp set but no, I have since ordered the dies to complete the bundle at least.
If you’re on the hunt for quick and easy Stampin’ Up!® ideas, then look away now. But if you’re up for a big ole messy craft session featuring lots of ink splashing, then I am here for you!
I began my session by playing around with watercolour paper and Stampin’ Up!® ink refills. I soaked my watercolour paper then laid it in a baking tray ready for colouring with ink in Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green and Lemon Lime Twist.
I love the unpredictability of splashing diluted ink onto wet watercolour paper. The way the colour spread is very pleasing, and you can end up with some beautiful results. You can also end up with some ugly blotches but I would urge you to hang on to these as the next day they may not look quite so ugly!
For instance, the watercolour background on this card had a weird, almost square blotch in the bottom right hand corner. So I used Countryside Corners dies to create a border from the piece and you can no longer see the uneven areas.
On top of the border I stamped in black, then framed the inside with another Countryside Corners border cut from Basic Black cardstock.
This made a pretty frame for a really clean and stark image and sentiment stamped using the Stampin’ Up!® stamp set Wildflower Designs in black on white.
Stamping tip: don’t fret about getting the flower and words in exactly the right position on the card front. Use a separate piece of Basic White cardstock so you can position it where you want it behind the frame, then trim off the excess.
I finished this off with a linen thread bow around one side of the popped-up border.
You know I love a twofer, right? When you get two for the price of one? Well having made the card above, I had the two centre pieces left from my Stampin’ Up!® Countryside Corners frames.
Here you can just see where the weird square shape had formed on my watercolour background, but some stamping on top and a strategically placed greeting label solved that issue.
I stamped my two flowers on the watercolour background, then carefully extended the stem of the one on the right using a ruler and Stampin’ Write Marker.
It’s hard to see from the photo but I coloured the flowers using White Craft ink, slightly diluted to loosen. I gave this a couple of layers so it showed up just enough without losing the black stamped detail. I used the leftover ink to splash across the panel.
Around the edges of the watercoloured panel I stamped the little dotty image from Wildflower Designs in Lemon Lime Twist and Granny Apple Green.
The leftover black die-cut from the previous card is used here as a layer, angling it slightly so it shows, as it’s the same size as the watercoloured panel.
It’s mounted onto a layer of Basic White embossed using the Timber 3D embossing folder, which is my only current embossing folder until my next Stampin’ Up!® order arrives. This is mounted onto Basic Black and then a card base of Lemon Lime Twist.
It’s finished off with a sentiment panel – this is also cut with the Countryside Corners dies –tied with some of my favourite Linen Thread.
My third and final Wildflower Designs card doesn’t use watercolour paper but achieves a similar result using Blending Brushes and ink pads.
I began with a piece of Lemon Lime Twist cardstock which I blended with Granny Apple Green and a little Old Olive ink.
To create a distressed and grungy look, I scrunched up a small piece of plastic bag and used it as a stamp with black ink. The oval splodges are made with bubble wrap used as a stamp. I love creating different textures using household objects.
Next I stamped some of the Wildflower Designs images in black, before perforating a border using the Take Your Pick tool with the rotary perforating tip. This gives the panel a stitched look as well as making it easy to distress the edges.
Once again the border is mounted onto black cardstock, at an angle, and a Timber 3D embossed panel of white, on top of black, although this time I used a Granny Apple Green card base.
This is finished off with a greeting panel with dotted detail stamped in Lemon Lime Twist.
I hope you like my Wildflower Designs projects and are tempted to add this beautiful stamp set to your Stampin’ Up® collection. If you do, don’t make the mistake I did and think you don’t need the dies. Order stamps and dies as a bundle and you’ll save – double savings until the end of June, too!
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