Flowers and alcohol inks

Hiya!  I'm back with another project for you featuring products from Scrappy Tails Crafts!  There are so many great new dies in their latest release.  I was having a really hard time deciding which one to use...so I used three of them in one project!  Here's a quick peek at part of my project.  Then I'll tell you about my process and show you the rest of my project.

I was feeling in the mood to play around with alcohol inks to make some fun papers.  I didn't have any real plans.  I grabbed some colors that I thought would mix well to make a coral.  I ended up using salmon, ember and sienna alcohol inks.

When it was almost dry, I grabbed a gold foil and rubbed it in some of the still sticky places on the panel.

Then I made a green panel using aqua, laguna and mojito alcohol inks.

Now it was time for lots of die cutting using the Outlined Rose Assortment dies and the Assorted Leaves dies.

Roses layered together.

I also cut all of the solid flowers and leaves out of a matching cardstock.  Then I glued them to the back of the alcohol ink pieces.  I didn't want the white of the paper to be super distracting.  Plus, it gave the pieces more stability.

Next I cut out all of the pieces I needed to create a flower base vase using the Flower Vase Pop Up card dies.

And now for the fun part  I created the vase and started adding all of my flower and leaf pieces to fill it up!  Here are the views of the rest of the sides.

And in this picture you can see that I added a simple "For You" sentiment using word dies from the Slimline Pop Up Box Gift Card dies.  Oh, hey, I guess that means I used FOUR different die sets!  I cut the words out of cream colored cardstock.  I glued them to gold foil cardstock and hand cut them out.  I attached them to strips of clear acetate and added them to the vase arrangement.

And let's take a close look at those gorgeous flowers!

I also wanted to show you that it still collapses down fairly flat.  It doesn't appear super flat in the picture but that's only because I couldn't hold it flat AND take the picture at the same time.  This will fit into a 5"x7" envelope.

Whew.  Still with me?  This is not a hard project at all.   I just kept playing around until I found an arrangement I liked.  The dies make the whole process nice and easy!

I hope you have found a little bit of inspiration today.  Don't forget to check out all of the awesome products in the Scrappy Tails Crafts store. Use the code STCBLOG10 for 10% off your order! 

Toodles!

~Kristina

Supplies used:

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Salmon alcohol ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Sienna alcohol ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Aqua alcohol ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Laguna alcohol ink Shop at: SBC | EH
Teflon bone folder Shop at: EH	Assorted Leaves dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT	Outlined Roses Assortment dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT	Slimline Pop Up Box Gift card die - Scrappy Tails Shop at: SCT
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Ranger Alcohol Blending Solution Shop at: SBC | EH	Yupo paper Shop at: SBC | EH	Tonic Studios-Retractable Craft Pick Shop at: SBC | EH
Zig 2-way glue pen Shop at: SBC | EH	Natural White Neenah cardstock Shop at: EH	Gold Shattered Glass foil - deco foil Shop at: SBC | EH	Ember Alcohol Ink Shop at: SBC | EH
Mojito Alcohol ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Cutter Bee Scissors - EK Success Shop at: SBC	Gold metallic cardstock - Lawn Fawn Shop at: SBC | EH	Flower Vase Pop Up dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT