Creation Station June Hop--In Colors Floral Frenzy

 

Welcome to the June Creation Station Blog Hop!  Whether you've just arrived from Australian designer Vicki Boucher's blog or you are starting here, I'm glad you are visiting today.  The theme this month is "In Colors Floral Frenzy Mash Up".  We are only using colors from the two current In Color collections plus white and we are creating floral projects for you to enjoy.  Be sure to click on the Next link at the end of each blog post, so you can see all of the talented designers' projects this month.  This is going to be a fun hop!

For the floral frenzy part of my projects, I chose to use the Meadow dies (#155852) and the coordinating Quite Meadow stamp set (#155082; bundled with the dies at 10% off, #155847).  I used the die images three ways: as silhouettes, watercolored, and paper-pieced.  For the In Colors Mash-Up part, I used at least one color from each of the two current In Color collections on each project. 

This is a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" card folded at the top.  The Basic White Thick card base is covered completely by the 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" piece of Pale Papaya dotted patterned paper from the Hand-Penned designer series paper collection (#155499).  Five meadow flowers and leaves were die cut out of Misty Moonlight card stock and adhered to the card front with Mono Liquid Glue.  The greeting was stamped in Misty Moonlight ink on Basic White card stock, then die cut with the label die in the Meadow die set.  Misty Moonlight/Silver baker's twine (Flowers for Every Season ribbon combo pack, #153620) was threaded through the label and tied in a bow.  A splattering of Rhinestone Basic Jewels (#144220) completes the card.

The background on this card was created by painting watered down Misty Moonlight and Soft Succulent ink on a Clear Block "E" (#118484), then pressing it down on a 5" x 3-3/4" piece of Fluid 100 watercolor paper (#149612).  Each of the Meadow flower and leave images were die cut out of the same watercolor paper and then watercolored using a Water Painter (#151298) and the following In Color inks:  Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen, Fresh Freesia, Pale Papaya and Cinnamon Cider.  The greeting was stamped in Evening Evergreen on Soft Succulent card stock.  Three strands of Linen thread (3104199) were threaded through the label and tied in a bow.  The background paper is a Soft Succulent pattern from the 2021-2023 In Color designer series paper assortment (#155641).  It was adhered over a Basic White Thick card base.

The flower on this bookmark was paper-pieced using two die cuts of the same flower--one in Soft Succulent and one in Polished Pink.  The flowers on the  Polished Pink die cut were trimmed off and adhered over the flower shapes on the Soft Succulent piece.  A Bumblebee card stock die cut was added to the center of the flower.  The leaves image also die cut from Bumblebee card stock, was trimmed before adhering it to the bookmark.  "Love" was stamped in Evening Evergreen on Soft Succulent card stock and die cut using the small tag die in the Meadow die set.  

The bookmark is a piece of 2" x 6" an Evening Evergreen pattern from the 2021-2023 designer series paper assortment, layered over a piece of Evening Evergreen card stock.  The top was punched out with the Fancy Tag Topper Punch (#152711).  Bumblebee gingham ribbon (#153658) and Linen Thread were added to the top of the bookmark and Linen Thread to the small "Love" tag.

I loved using these wonderful Meadow dies three different ways for you today.  Now it's time to head over the Dena Rekow's blog to see her In Color Mash-Up. 

To Dena's Blog . . .

Have a great June! 

--Sara Nell