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This week I’m sharing some #SimpleStamping with Flowers of Beauty; one of the new stamp sets in the Annual Catalogue. I thought it’d be a great set for the theme of this month’s #SimpleStamping challenge from Stampin’ Up!… love or sympathy. Sadly I actually need a sympathy card so that’s the theme I picked. The other piece to this month’s challenge is that we can only use stamps, ink, paper and an embellishment. So a little something extra this time!

I quickly thought of using the 2023-2025 In Colour Opaque Sparkle dots for my embellishment. So that helped with my colour combination; Boho Blue and Wild Wheat. I’m using Wild Wheat for my card case and Boho Blue for my card mat. Then on my card mat I did some tone on tone stamping with one of the flowers from the Flowers of Beauty stamp set. I also stamped my sentiment with Boho Blue ink. It comes from the Something Fancy stamp set.

Next I made a smaller card front than usual and I framed it with some more Wild Wheat cardstock. This way you can see the Boho Blue flowers on the card mat. On the smaller card front I stamped some of the taller foliage using both Wild Wheat and Boho Blue ink. I popped this up with a few Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then to finish it off I added a few Wild Wheat dots.

When you do #SimpleStamping with Flowers of Beauty, or other stamp sets with great images, your cards can turn out just as pretty as those with lots of layers and die cuts, etc.

Check out another simple card I made using the Flowers of Beauty stamp set here.

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This month’s challenge from Stampin’ Up! is to create a #SimpleStamping sympathy card, or love themed. The #SimpleStamping challenges are always similar in that you can only use stamps, ink and paper. Sometimes though they offer a little something extra to use. This month we could also use a punch. At first I thought of making a love themed/Valentine’s Day card with the Heart Punch Pack. I just love how these two punches coordinate! But then I thought I’d make a sympathy card instead. It’s the kind of card you need to have, but usually never feel up to making… or at least I don’t.

So for my card I decided to pair up the Quiet Meadow stamp set and the Daisy Punch. I know it’s not the most likely combination, but I love the images and phrases from Quiet Meadow and I love layering the daisies to add more depth and layers to my cards. My colour combination is also not the most obvious either; Pale Papaya and Crumb Cake.

I did a little tone-on-tone stamping with Pale Papaya. And then used Crumb Cake to stamp some ink splatter on both the card front and the cardstock for my daisies. I layered the two daisies on top of each other and then pulled up on the petals gently. Then I popped them up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals along with the phrase.

I really like how this #SimpleStamping sympathy card worked out. Bright but not too bright. Usually I add some bling to the centre of my daisies but couldn’t this time. But then I forgot to stamp one of the small flowers in the centre. I think that would have looked nice!

Check out one of my other recent #SimpleStamping projects here. And you can grab the Quiet Meadow stamp set or Daisy punch from my online store. Don’t forget there’s still a few days left to earn FREE Sale-a-bration products!

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#SimpleStamping with Flowers of Beauty

#SimpleStamping Sympathy Card