JAR OF FLOWERS

The Jar of Flowers stamp set, found on page 16 of the brand new Annual Catalog -- that went live today! -- is so much fun.

Recently I stamped two of the bouquets in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them in with Stampin' Blends. A few of the flowers, in fact, I stamped and colored twice. After fussy cutting all of the parts, I used Stampin' Dimensionals to pop some of the flowers up over their original counterparts to make a more three dimensional looking bouquet.

The stem stamp was simply stamped onto green cardstock, then fussy cut. After placing the stems onto the bottoms of the bouquets, I added a little bow tied with hemp twine left over from an old Paper Pumpkin kit.

You can see in the photo below that I popped up 

the two larger sunflowers for the 3-D look:

I had found sheets of fairly flat cork at my local Dollar Tree. Snapping up a package of that, I just knew that I would find an awesome use for it.

The cork sheet in action:

To echo the color of the sunflowers in this bouquet, I added the whole thing to a gold colored card base.

The second bouquet I chose to work with was the spring-y looking one shown below. This card is going to be my mom's Mother's Day card.

Once again, I mounted my bouquet onto a piece of the cork, which measures 3" x 4 1/2". It cuts so easily with my Stampin' Up! guillotine paper cutter. I do wish Stampin' Up! would bring that paper trimmer back.

Another common denominator with both of the cards is the Sahara Sand piece embossed with the Old World Paper 3D embossing folder, which is, unfortunately, retired. I don't care; I will keep using it forever because I love its texture so much!

Adding it to a Magenta Madness card base bring 

the pinks in the flowers back into play.

Do you have this Jar of Flowers set? If so, in what creative ways have you used it?

Jarred

Smiles.