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Flower Garden Inspiration | Be True to Yourself with Ruby
Hi, crafty friends! This is Rubeena from A Rare Ruby, and I’m so excited to be a guest on the Spellbinders Blog today. This post is part of a series featuring the Flower Garden Collection by Sharyn Sowell! You can find my first two posts here and here. The Flower Garden Collection has been fun to work with. I decided to use the frame die from Card Creator Floral Panel Card set again and color it. I started by die-cutting the insert die and the outside die frame at the same time out of textured watercolor cardstock and the Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine. I removed all the negatives pieces using the Tool ’N One. I…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Floral Wreath with Ruby
Hi, crafty friends! This is Rubeena from A Rare Ruby, and I’m so excited to be a guest on the Spellbinders Blog today. This post is part of a series featuring the Flower Garden Collection by Sharyn Sowell! You can find the first post here. There are many possibilities with the Flower Garden Collection! In my last post, I shared a very clean look and rainbow colors. Here, I wanted to go with a darker (but still pretty) look. I started by die-cutting the frame die from the Dimensional Floral Panel four times from black cardstock and once from white cardstock using the Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine. I kept one…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Flower Garden with Ruby
Hi, crafty friends! This is Rubeena from A Rare Ruby, and I’m so excited to be a guest on the Spellbinders Blog today. This post is part of a series featuring the Flower Garden Collection by Sharyn Sowell! The Flower Garden Collection is a beautiful collection of botanical elements and perfect for cardmaking if you enjoy working with florals and ferns. For this card, I did not want to take away from the beauty of the botanical frame die from Card Creator Floral Panel Card set. I started by die-cutting the insert die and the outside die frame at the same time out of thick white cardstock and the Platinum 6 Die…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Soft Floral Cards with Zsoka
Hi there crafty friends, Zsoka with you today with my third and last blog post using products from the Sharyn Sowell Flower Garden collection. If you missed my previous posts, you can find them here and here. I’ve really enjoyed working with these lovely products! I just love flowers above anything and because I only have a son, I can’t go all girly on my scrapbook pages most of the time! So I love that with cards I can do whatever I want! For my first card today I picked the gorgeous Dimensional Floral Panel Die. I was especially happy about this one, because wreaths are one of my favorite things…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Simple Floral Cards with Zsoka
Hi there crafty friends, Zsoka Marko here with you today, sharing my first of three blog posts showcasing cards I’ve created with various die sets from the Sharyn Sowell Flower Garden collection! You most probably don’t know me, so here’s a bit of information in a nutshell. I’m Hungarian but have been living in Germany for 13 years with my Dutch boyfriend and our 9-year-old son. I started scrapbooking in 2015, my main focus has always been 12×12 layouts. These past couple of months I’ve been making more cards, I think I just needed something new! My favourite cards are the ones I can create using patterned papers and dies, so…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Bird On Cherry Branch + Copic Coloring with Cynde. Video
Hey folks! This is Cynde Whitlow and I’m from The Pink Envelope. Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m here today to share a video, where I show you how I make a card using the Bird On Cherry Branch Dies by Sharyn Sowell and Copic Coloring. If you’re interested in seeing what I did with the Botanical Butterfly and the Botanical Dragonfly you can see those here and here. I started by die cutting the entire Bird On Cherry Branch Die Set from alcohol friendly cardstock. I chose bold bright colors for al of my coloring. I knew I wanted the bird to be blue and the cherries red,…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Botanical Dragonfly Card with Cynde. Video
Hey folks! This is Cynde Whitlow and I’m from The Pink Envelope. Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m here today to share a video, where I show you how I make two cards using the Botanical Dragonfly Dies by Sharyn Sowell. If you’re interested in seeing what I did with the Botanical Butterfly you can see that here. I started by ink blending watercolor cardstock with two shades of blue ink. I made sure to concentrate most of the darkest ink in the lower left corner of the cardstock and blend out the lightest. I also made sure to leave the top right corner white. I was pretty sure…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Botanical Butterfly Card with Cynde. Video
Hey folks! This is Cynde Whitlow and I’m from The Pink Envelope. Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m here today to share a video, where I show you how I make two very easy cards using some lovely dies from the Flower Garden Collection by Sharyn Sowell. I simply adore the Botanical Butterfly dies. From the moment I saw it, I knew I had to use gold cardstock. I started by making shaped cards using the frame die from the Floral Panel Card Die Set. Then I die cut the butterfly from the Botanical Butterfly Die Set in gold cardstock. I used stamps to create my the “splatters” on…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Butterfly Gardens Card with Mayline
Hi friends! This is Mayline, thank you for joining me today. This is my last post with projects I made using dies from the Flower Garden collection by Sharyn Sowell. I normally make an A2 sized card using stamps, dies, and inks but today’s project I have made a square card without stamped images. Also, I wanted to make this card playful and interesting. So I layered many die cutting pieces. It was a big challenge for me but I really enjoyed. As I mentioned above, I normally make A2 sized cards, this time I made a 6-3/4” square card. I started by creating a panel 6-3/4” square panel with skyblue…
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Flower Garden Inspiration | Bird Of Spring Card with Mayline
Hi! Mayline here with you again and I am excited to be sharing my second guest post here on the Spellbinders blog. Catch my first post here. For today’s post I’ve created clean and simple style card with the Flower Garden collection by Sharyn Sowell. To start off I created a background using a blending technique with light blue color ink on 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ white cardstock panel. And set aside. Next I used the Bird on Cherry Branch dies to cut leaves, bird, wing and cherry branch from 300g watercolor papers. After that I colored them all using watercolor paints. I then started to create a green…
