Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Floral Spray 🌺


Hi everyone, I mentioned in a recent post that I had bought a craft magazine, which when I opened it contained some unexpected treasures that weren’t really indicated on the packaging as it was a “sale bundle”.  Well, today I have made a card using the stamp set that actually motivated me to purchase the magazine in the first place - a lovely floral spray by Crafter’s Companion.


I die cut a stitched rectangle from white stamping card, then stamped and heat embossed the flower spray in gold. I coloured the image using Zig pens and added some gold Posca spatter. When dry I matted onto a larger stitched square cut from a snippet of pearlescent pink card and onto a 7” x 5” card blank. Finally I die cut the sentiment from snippets of gold and black card, glued together and attached. A fairly straightforward traditional card, but I’m pleased with how it turned out.


Stamps: Crafter’s Companion flower (free with craft magazine);
Media: Versamark; WOW metallic gold embossing powder; Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Posca pen (gold);
Tools: Hunkydory Moonstone Duo- Stitched rectangle dies; Simon Says Stamp Script Thanks die.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Ally’s Angels #96 - Anything Goes
Beautiful Blossoms #31 - Anything Floral Goes (2nd entry)
Crafty Catz #699 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Ellibelle’s Garden Party #5 - Anything In or From a Garden (2nd entry)
NBUS #77 - Use Your Never-Before-Used Schtuff
(floral stamp)
Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes (3rd entry)
Triple B (August) - Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms with optional Mood Board


Word Art Wednesday #710/711 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,

17 comments:

As.I.Do.Rodos. said...

An absolutely stunning card
Thank you for joining us at Crafty Catz Challenge Blog good luck Ginny DT for
Crafty Catz Challenge

Sarn said...

What a find! Nice to discover unexpected treasure. LOVE all the gold embossing to make this pretty and striking card.

Thanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. See you up in the treehouse shortly. xxx

crafty-stamper said...

Absolutely gorgeous card, love the beautiful embossed floral stamp.
Carol x

Aquarius said...

Seems that magazine bundle was a good buy - lovely floral stamp which looks really good gold embossed before colouring.

Chris said...

Can see why you were tempted to buy the magazine bundle, this is a beautiful stamp. Looks gorgeous embossed in gold and so beautifully coloured.xx

Liz said...

Fabulous card, Pauline. The beautiful stamped image looks wonderful embossed in gold.
Liz xx

Darnell said...

It's a classic, Pauline, and you did a beautiful job with the design and with your Ziggie coloring! How fun to open your purchase and find a gift inside! Thank you for inspiring everyone to use their NBUS! Hugs, Darnell

Mrs.B said...

Gorgeous card Pauline, it's a lovely image and looks really good embossed in the gold. Avril xx

Diane said...

Wow, a gorgeous floral and love all the pretty gold!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Triple B!
Diane TB Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
{Triple B}

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

An amazing result and stunning too. I love the colours with the gold embossing. x

Di said...

What a beautiful card Pauline - love the pink and adding the gold really makes it so elegant!
Hugs
Di xx

Angelique Vuur said...

This is absolutely beautiful! I love it! Thank you so much for playing along with us at the Beautiful Blossoms Challenge! I really hope to see another project of you in the next challenge! ❤️

Ellibelle said...

This is so beautiful and I can totally see why you had to have the magazine with this gorgeous stamp! Love the gold embossing and your coloring with the Zig pens looks fantastic!

Jules said...

Hi Pauline
What a fabulous card .. .. your image and colouring is wonderful and the gold embossing looks lush.
Great to find hidden gems in your magazine!
Hope you have had a good weekend.
Love and hugs
Jules xoxo

Ellibelle said...

Me again :) It's so nice to see this gorgeous creation at my Garden Party, thank you for joining!!

Cez said...

A very beautifully designed card! Lovely colors too! Thank you for joining us at the Beautiful Blossom Challenge!

Helen said...

Love the gold embossing - very classy.

Thanks for joining us at Ally's Angels.

Helen x
DT