a thank you card set...

I made a little card set just for fun today! It felt good to make something just because I wanted to and just because I felt creative, not for any assignments. :) I didn't get a chance to play with the new Mini Blooms stamp set and dies as much as I wanted to when they first arrived, so I wanted to sit down and play with them a bit.

On my first card, I used the banner from Papertrey Ink's In Stitches dies and wanted to layer it over the Mini Blooms flowers, so I cut some of the Mini Blooms and stamped them in Melon Berry, Pure Poppy and Sweet Blush inks. The leaves are stamped in New Leaf and Spring Moss inks. You can even layer the blooms like I did here by the banner.

I cut the "you" from the Wonderful Words dies with a dark gray cardstock from my stash and stamped "thank" from the Wonderful Additions Words in Soft Stone ink. I backed the Aqua Mist banner with Hawaiian Shores cardstock for more of a shadow effect on the banner.

The second card is very similar in that I used almost all of the same products, just a little bit different placement of them. I stamped "thank" in Hawaiian Shores and Aqua Mist inks (stamping them twice, not re-inking in between) to get the different shades of blue, starting at the bottom with the darkest color.

A few Mini Blooms flowers were added over the top and another "you" cut with Pure Poppy cardstock.

"So Much" is from the Mini Blooms set. When finished with the front, I added a little strip of Pure Poppy cardstock and a Melon Berry patterned paper card base. Hope you enjoyed these today!