Papertrey Ink Blog Hop 9

The theme for this month's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop was make your own flowers. I knew right away what I wanted to try out for my project. I love using "ghost" shapes on my project and wondered if I could successfully make my own using some supplies that I already have on hand. Here are the results.

I started with a piece of acetate. I cut it in half to try two different things. On one piece, I stamped some of the dot images from Polka Dot Basics using Fuchsia Pink StazOn ink. While that was drying, I ran the other piece of acetate through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dot embossing folder.

Now that my acetate was ready, I used the new nested flower dies from Nestabilities to cut out some flower shapes. It worked great! Here, I used one medium size flower, embossed with the Swiss Dot folder, and one small flower, stamped with dots in Staz-on, to build the floral embellishment on this card. I attached the pieces with dimensionals. To hide the foam pieces, I knotted a small piece of Sweet Blush satin ribbon and attached it to the flower's center.

I wanted the flower to be the focal image on the cardfront, so I kept the rest of the card simple. A small sentiment from the Faux Ribbon set, stamped on a Sweet Blush panel, some machine stitching along the bottom, and a paper pieced Dark Chocolate strip were assembled on a kraft card base to complete the project.

Materials Used:

Polka Dot Basics and Faux Ribbon stamp sets, Dark Chocolate Palette ink, Sweet Blush and Dark Chocolate cardstock, Sweet Blush satin ribbon (Papertrey Ink); Kraft cardstock, mat pack and paper piercing tool, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); Fuchsia Pink ink (StazOn); Swiss Dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug); nested flower dies (Nestabilities); sewing machine; acetate