Rainbow Flowers

Hello again!! It’s time for a brand new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Beautiful Blooms

We are showcasing Paper Rose Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store. You can enter 5 times which means you can make 5 different projects following this week’s prompt and have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! Sounds like a win/win to me!! I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

The products I used to make these two cards made it sooooo easy and quick to pull these together. The “Beautiful Blooms” are from Paper Rose and they’re called Rainbow Twirl 2.0 Die Cuts.

I’ve never used pop out die cuts like this before and they were just so beautiful that I thought this was the perfect opportunity to give them a try!

The package includes 4 A5 sheets of pop out dies so there are many to choose from. Twenty six to be exact, I counted. But they’re all in these gorgeous rainbow colors. Some are wreaths, some are circle (like my 2nd card) and there are even a few heart shaped cut outs.

I popped out the floral die cut and used a small circle die to cut out the center. I paired this gorgeous bouquet with some patterned paper also by Paper Rose called Rainbow Wood. These two products go very well together. I trimmed the patterned paper down to 4″ x 5.25″ so that I would have a slight white border going all the way around.

I used the Simple Hello die from CZ Design for my sentiment. I die cut 3 layers of the smaller die and glued them together to add some dimension to my card. I cut the shadow die out of Black Card Stock and adhered that to the smaller die. That wasn’t enough dimension for me so I also popped the bouquet up with some Foam Squares.

To finish this card off, I added a gold frame using 2 of the A2 Layers Dies from Waffle Flower and I matched that with a couple Satin Gold Sequins. Popped everything onto a top folding card base and card #1 was complete. I think it took me about half hour to make this card.

Now, for my 2nd card I used one of the circle pop out die cuts. The colors are just so vibrant, I love it!

Let’s start off with the background. I used this gorgeous Pierced Blanket Cover Plate Die by Picket Fence and I die cut it using Black Card Stock. I trimmed this down a bit to give me a white border.

I attached the background to a top folding card base and then added the floral circle. I used foam squares again to pop the bouquet up some. I had a Happy Birthday strip that I heat embossed awhile back in my stash and I can’t for the life of me remember which stamp set it came from. It’s one of those things that are going to drive me nuts until I figure it out though. I glued my sentiment across the front of the bouquet.

I liked the gold trim from my previous card so much that I decided to do it again for this card. Except I wanted it to be thinner so I used the Frames die from Simon with some silver glitter card stock. I die cut this out 2 additional times with white card stock to pop it up and make it look more like a frame.