Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Die Cut Florals + Little Details
Hello crafty friends! Nina-Marie here with you today and it is Monday once again! Which means, it is time for a new Studio Monday video! I love putting these together for you each week and hope you have as much fun watching as I do creating them!
This week I wanted to feature one of our newest stamp and die set combos, the Forget Me Not Trio. I was so excited to design these products, which can be either on their own, or together. No matter how you pair them, there are many different things you can do with these products! In the Forget Me Not Trio collection are the Forget Me Not floral dies, the Friends of Life stamp set and the coordinating Friends of Life dies. I’ll also be touching on adding many small details to your cards; little details go a long way in making a card look truly unique!
The Forget Me Not floral dies allow you to build die cut flowers and leaves into beautiful arrangements. I cut mine from Simon cardstocks, but you could easily cut them from white cardstock and color the petals and leaves with inks, or cut from watercolor paper and watercolor them in. Or, if stamping is more your style, you can use the flowers from the Friends of Life stamp set and color in the outlines, or do some stamp layering with the solid images. The coordinating dies give you the versatility to cut anything you want from the stamp set.
When I die cut the flowers and leaves, I used coordinating ink colors to add just a touch of shading to the edges of each flower and to certain areas of the leaves. This is an optional step and the results are subtle, but I think it adds a nice finishing touch to the final card.
I also swapped out the die cut centers of the flowers for a more embellished look. With a few yellow buttons from 28 Lilac Lane and a bit of Nuvo Jewel Drops, I was able to decorate the inside of the flowers very easily that created a very pretty effect. If you want something a not quite so bulky, you could use the flower center dies that are included in the Forget Me Not floral die set.
For detail on the leaf branches, I added some brown shading to the stems and a bit of green to the “centers” of the leaves. Again, these are small details, but look perfect when combined together with all the other details in the card.
With some Simon inks, I stamped the word “friend” and one of the smaller supporting sentiments (from the Friends of Life stamp set). I also added a few pink half-pearls from 28 Lilac Lane in between my floral arrangement, as well as some more Nuvo Crystal Drops.
After all those embellishments – yes there are quite a few! – I added one more. With a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen, I brushed the edges of each flower and certain areas of the leaves to add a hint of sparkle. There isn’t a ton of sparkle all over, so the little hints actually make you take a second look at the card because you *think* you saw something shimmer! This is a very effective way to make your card just a bit more interesting without being over the top. With all that we have going on in this card, having just the hint of sparkle makes more of a statement.
I hope today’s video not only gave you inspiration for creating beautiful florals with the Forget Me Not Trio collection, but also provided some helpful ideas and tips for adding small details to your card to make the perfect statement. Be sure to stop back next week for my newest Studio Monday video, and subscribe to our YouTube channel to catch all of our weekly videos!
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Beautiful design, such vibrant colors and fantastic florals! This is a WOW card for sure!
Great card! :)
Cute card! I like the bright and bold colors.
Beautiful card!!! Love the pretty flowers!!!
Wow! This card is as gorgeous as a garden in full bloom! Very beautiful.
Such a fresh bright spring card, well done!!!
Beautiful card, Nina-Marie! I love all of the extra details you added!
I am not much of a stamper but the more I watch your videos, the more I am thinking that I need more colors!!
Wonderful to look at. The cardstock looks almost like foam.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautiful spring card any friend would love to receive.
I like how you framed this card and the beautiful colors you chose for the flowers. Gorgeous card!
Such a pretty card! Thanks for the video.
That’s so pretty!
Beautiful card. Love the added touches with buttons and sparkle.
I love the pretty flowers. Gorgeous card!
Beautiful card. Love the colours.
Love these flowers!! And the colors, perfect for the summer!! Great card!!
So loving the purple and green combo
Amazing card…love the shadow box look layout. Awesome colors too!
Thanks for video! What a fun and bright spring card!
Great card!
The leaves are what drew me immediately in. I never thought about coloring the stems brown but it makes a huge difference and adds to the dimension. Great inspiration.
Very pretty card, I sometimes struggle with how many embellishments to add.
Gorgeous card with gorgeous colours!!
Wonderful card, great tips and video.
One of my favorite color combinations! Love this card!
Lovely card! I love your added details, like the shading of the flowers and the Nuvo drops on the buttons. TFS
Beautiful design! Love the colors and the tiny details.
Beautiful! Love the colors, the leaves are great!
Love the colors! Wonderful card!
Beautiful card. I like how Nina-Marie added inking to the flowers and colouring to the leaves to make themmor realistic.
These flowers are gorgeous!
Gorgeous card, love how you created it!
These flowers and leaves are so pretty. Great colors.
Great design with pretty color combination.
I love the gorgeous flowers!
I have to say, the decorations around the buttons are genius!!!!
Really Pretty!! Love the colors!!!
This is so precious! Beautiful ink match up and love the layers!
Beautiful card!! I love the effect of the flowers and greenery crawling up the side of the card and coloring in the greenery was genius! Love the card!! Thanks for sharing .
It sure looks like spring. I need some of that spring goodness in my cold state of Wisconsin
Beautiful, lovely colors!
Great embellishments for this card! Unique and Beautiful!
Beautiful Spring card, love the colours you used :)
I love that frame card, especially the color drops.
Beautiful job Nina , love the buttons ? !
Such beautiful flowers!
I like the rich purple and the leaves are beautiful.
What a gorgeous card!
Such a pretty card design, and the bright colors are perfect for Spring!