Garden Variety continues.

Today we are back with another blog hop for Papertrey Ink. This time we're introducing two new stamp sets called Garden Variety II and Year of Flowers Titles. Our assignment was to find a photo online, in a garden center, or something in our homes that inspired us. I found this patterned paper by Crate Paper in my scrapbooking stash that really inspired me. I love, love the mix of colors, and the floral pattern is perfect inspiration for these stamps!

I sat down and made two cards with these sets inspired by this one piece of paper! The first one is a card made with Aqua Mist cardstock, stamped with the "roses" saying from Year of Flowers Titles, a sentiment from Garden Variety II, the rose stamp from Year of Flowers and the Turning a New Leaf die. I used a frame from the new Limitless Layers 3.5" Oval dies.

The second project is a gift card holder. I tucked a seed packet pocket into the Card Base-ics #2 die.

First I'll show you how I made these painted flowers.

I stamped the rose from the Year of Flowers stamp set in Fresh Snow ink onto a piece of vellum. Then I embossed it with white embossing powder. I took my plastic paint palette out and put one drop of ink from the Pure Poppy refill, Raspberry Fizz and Spring Moss reinkers into the palette. I started painting in the center with Pure Poppy, then painted the outer petals with Raspberry Fizz.

My paint palette still has a lot of paint on it from previous projects, but here you can see I only needed a tiny drop of ink from the bottle.

Now I used the Spring Moss reinker to paint in the leaves. You can add water if you want a lighter color, or just use it straight from the bottle for a deeper color. (Excuse the messy paint palette! I'm very bad about keeping it clean.)

When dry, I cut it out and placed it on my card. You can back the flower with white cardstock if you wish like I did here and popped it up with dimensional adhesive. White cardstock behind the vellum really makes the colors pop.

On the second project, I cut the gift card holder from the Seed Packet die with white cardstock. I used the new Seed Packet Frame 2 on the gray patterned paper and stamped the front with the Garden Variety 2 frame with Smokey Shadow ink. I added one of these painted flowers over the top.

I put a gift card inside. (A gift card to a garden center would be perfect!) Then I closed the top and tucked it into this larger die called Card Base-ics #2. The little seed packet is cute, but on the small side, so adding it to this more substantial base makes it a little larger.

What a fun (and pretty) way to give a gift card!

You can get these products on the 15th at www.papertreyink.com. Now stop over to see what the other team members made with these goodies:

Ashley Cannon Newell

Betsy Veldman  

Dawn McVey  

Erin Lincoln  

Heather Nichols  

Jessica Witty  

Lisa Johnson  

Maile Belles

Melissa Phillips

Nichole Heady

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Seeds That You Plant card:

STAMPS: Garden Variety II, Year of Flowers Titles, Year of Flowers

INK: Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist, Raspberry Fizz, Fresh Snow, Spring Moss, True Black

PAPER: Aqua Mist and white cardstock, Simply Chartreuse Pattern Pack

DIES: Limitless Layers 3.5 Oval, Turning a New Leaf

OTHER: vellum, Pink Paislee twine, white embossing powder.

For You Seed Packet Gift Card Holder:

STAMPS: Garden Variety II, Year of Flowers
INK: Smokey Shadow, Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz, Spring Moss, True Black, Fresh Snow
PAPER: Crate Paper (floral), white cardstock, Lilybee Designs (gray), Simply Chartreuse Pattern Pack
DIES: Seed Packet 2, Card Base-ics 2
OTHER: vellum, white embossing powder.