Friendly Blossoms

I have used a beautiful stencil set from Simon Says Stamp and from their latest release, In My Heart, to make a thank you card, and a birthday card... 

I opted for a trio of colors for my flowers that ALWAYS go together... yellow, orange, and pink.  I did spray one of the stencils with Pixie Spray to keep the stencil adhered to the cardstock a bit better, so the details of the flower would be brushed on accurately.  I brushed on the colors and added the green leaves with the darker accents.  I cut it down a bit, and added a die cut and layered silver sentiment.  Unlike what I do 99.9% of the time and pop up my panels on the card, I chose to adhere the panel right onto the card.  

Here's a close up... 

The second one, I used the yellow flowers that I had done before the one above, but had errors with not having the stencils fastened down or didn't like my coloring on the other two flowers, so I recycled the yellow flowers, using the dies for these stencils and die cut two of the yellow flowers...

My two daughters decided on the flowers having the middles of the flowers on the ends of the panel, rather than together in the middle.  I liked it both ways, but opted for their decision.  I added a sentiment that I thought was really cute, between both flower halves, and colored in the hearts with a yellow marker.  I layered the flowers and the sentiment and adhered them to a panel that I had embossed flowers on, to give a little interest and connect with the sentiment.  I popped up the panel on the card, also framing the bottom and top with a black edge.  Here's a close up...

These cards were so much fun...I really do love creating cards with stencils...they make me feel like I can  color!  Hope you are having a great week!  Please take care!  Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa