This stunning Peony floral card from Emily is so elegant with gold embossing for the stamps and soft watercolor to color them in, she even added a wash of color to the background. An embossed sentiment and gold gems complete the look. Visit the Altenew blog for more details.
We’ve had a rainy summer where I live so at least the flowers are happy about that and are blooming away and it’s a fabulous time to include them in your card making. Flowers and florals are very versatile and work for so many different occasions like birthdays, congrats, weddings and sympathy and can be used in different styles like fun and funky, realistic or fanciful. Also there are so many different wonderful flower stamps, dies, stencils and papers on the market the design possibilities are endless. So let’s take a look at some fresh and fabulous Floral Card ideas to get you inspired to include them on your next card design.
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This lovely card from Liane uses layering stamps which give you color and dimension with each layer of different colored ink pads without the need to color in stamped images. Stamp platforms help make this process a breeze. Learn more at the Papertrey Ink blog.
There are also layering stencils that will give the same type of look like Tae Eun used on her beautiful card. She also used a coordinating die that cuts the center away to create a fun shaker element in the center. Take a closer look over at The Ton blog.
I’m in love with the color combo of orange, lavender and teal on this card from Anne! She also incorporated gold with heat embossing on the sentiment and flowers as well as using gold glitter paper for die cut leaves and a card edge. Read all about it on the Pinkfresh Studio blog.
Mari used gold in a different way on her fabulous floral card, she used foiling! A pre-printed flower toner sheet was applied and then she used alcohol based Tri-Blend markers from Spectrum Noir (one of my personal fave markers) to color them in. Find all the details on the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog.
This amazing card gives the feeling of standing inside a wonderful glass atrium. There’s a foiled atrium with many layers of green die cut leaves and three bold pink die cut flowers with color and shading added with ink blending. Learn more at The Greetery blog.
As you can tell by now adding gold to floral cards is an extremely popular trend. This card has gold foiled outlines, sentiment and background along with coordinating stencils to add the beautiful blue color to the flowers and green to the leaves. I spotted this idea on the Gina K Instagram page.
This pretty Pansy card was created by Kailash using a wooden fence die and floral rub-ons applied directly to the die and also onto cardstock and fussy cut. Notice how she completed the scene with birds flying in the sky and dimensional die cut butterflies. Visit the Hero Arts blog for more info.
This lovely card from Carol has so much great texture and dimension. She dry embossed the background and added layering die cut flower over top, adding color with ink blending with Distress Inks. I love how she used tiny pearl stickers for the flowers centers. Learn more at the Honeybee Stamps blog.
Two different gingham pattern papers add a summery backdrop to this pretty floral card from Colleen. She used alcohol markers to color her stamped flowers, adding pearls in the center too and lastly added a die cut and stamped sentiment. Find out more on the Picket Fence Studio blog.
These darling, dainty cards were created with layering stencils to created beautiful backgrounds that will put any pattern paper to shame! Add some layers of cardstock behind, a sentiment and some ribbon and you’re ready to mail. I spotted these over at Tonic Studio.
And last but certainly not least is this marvelous mixed media card from Natasha. She used heat embossing, watercolor, glazes, colored pencils and ink sprays for this bold card design. Learn all about it on the Unity Stamps blog.
I hope you’ve found some ideas and inspiration today to include some floral designs into your next card.
-Heather
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