More floral cards

I went to a friend's Stampin' Up party a few weeks ago and bought the background sampler stamp set. It came with 4 stamps, an argyle stamp, a line stamp, a dot stamp and a floral stamp. In the new catalog there was a design showing a flower stamp that was an outline that the inside had been stamped with the background floral stamp from this set. I got the set last night from the hostess, so today I decided to play around with them and try the same idea. I used the pre-embossed cards from Die Cuts with a view and colored them with my watercolor pencils.

I used the line stamp, the floral stamp, and the dot stamp to make the background of the petals. I used the "build a flower" set I bought a while ago that is by Autumn Leaves to outline the petals, using one of the stamps from that set. The blue and pink are chalk ink and the purple is dye ink. I stamped the background stamp, then stamped the petal and center stamps on the background and cut them out. I layered the petals behind the center of the flower. 2 of the flowers I popped up with 3d foam tape and 1 flower I adhered directly on the card. The background is embossed with flowers. This card was colored with a pink pencil.

Close up of the pre-embossed card and the background stamps.

This one is the same basic card as the one above, except I used 2 blue flowers instead of the one blue and one purple. I also used a blue pencil instead of pink.

Close up of the pre-embossed card and the background stamps.

This card has a 2 1/4 inch square in the middle that isn't embossed. I cut slits along the top and bottom of the square and layered 3 different shades of blue ribbon over the square. The pre-embossed design is dots on this card. Other than that, it is the same basic card as the two above, assembled the same way and stamped exactly the same way. I used a purplish pink pencil to color the background of this card.

Close up of the pre-embossed card and the background stamps.