Gold Embossed Cherry Blossoms

Hello, Gemma here today sharing a card using the beautiful new Cherry Blossoms stamp set and coordinating dies.

I wanted to create a background using the flower images, and add some dimension with layers.

Two of the flowers in the set work really well layered, so I began by stamping and gold heat embossing the larger of the flowers, along with the leaves. I set the stamps up in a cluster on one stamp block, making it quicker to stamp the background.

On a seperate piece of card, I stamped and gold heat embossed lots of the smaller cherry blossom flower, then die cut them with the coordinating die. I chose two colours of Zig clean colour real brush markers – 071 flesh colour and 026 light pink – and coloured in all the smaller die cut flowers. I love how these markers blend so easily without water.

Next, I adhered the embossed panel to a card base, and rounded two opposite corners with a 1/2 inch corner chomper.

I added the die cut flowers to the card base with foam tape, over the top of the larger flowers.

I chose a sentiment from the Everyday Sentiment stamp set, stamping on to white card then trimming down into a flag banner. To help it show up on the card, I added a black card banner underneath, slightly larger so it shows at the edges. I finished the card with some sparkling clear sequins.

Thanks for joining me today.