Stems & Blooms

I made a cool set of basic stems and the blooms that can be attached to them as you see fit. There are buds, small and large blooms plus you can flip the stem to get a lot of variety; of course you can vary the paper you choose to cut to create anything you want. There are lines for the cutting machine to draw and cut. For the card I made, I coupled the stems with a basic leaf cutout and several crafting images are used as blooms themselves in this unique greeting card. Although I haven’t made those crafting images available. Please let know if you want those and I’ll add it to the download zip file.

This was a fun card to make even though there was a lot of working with the stems to keep them from getting tangled together because of the moving mechanism on the card. To get the free svg files: go to the vault on my main page and select stems and blooms.

The cutouts can become custom embellishments for your cards, journals and scrapbook pages.

Making Flowers

Attaching a bunch of petals together to make beautiful, big flowers! I used previously stamped and trimmed flower petals and flower centers. I cut out the stamped petal sections with scissors and the flower centers with a circle punch then used a ball stylus to create and shape the centers. I’ve used smaller styluses to emboss or deboss paper using a stencil, but these were intended for shaping gum paste edible flowers and are the perfect size for these flower centers. This technique for piecing the flowers together can be used to make all kinds of flowers where the petals are individually created. You can make several flowers in one sitting and use them for your cards, journals and scrapbook pages.

Stamp & Inks used: Close To My Heart B1338
Ink colors: Hollyhock, Tulip, Buttercup, Sea Glass, Crystal Blue, Indian Corn Blue

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