Spellbinders Through The Arbor Garden Carnation Birthday Card

Today I'm sharing my card I made with the absolutely gorgeous Carnation die set from the Through The Arbor Garden collection by Spellbinders.

A little bit about me is that some of my very first dies were flower petal dies to make shaped flowers.  To this day I find it so fun and satisfying to take plain white cardstock and create beautiful flowers!

I used, for the first time, this specialty cardstock called "Susan's Garden Specialty Cardstock".  I don't even remember when I ordered it, but I surely should have used it a lot sooner! Haha!  I die cut all of the Carnation dies from this cardstock.  These dies have a number etched into them to indicate how many times they should be die cut, which is so helpful.

I used paper pouncers and a small ink blending brush to color the flowers with Cherry and Twirling Tutu inks and the leaves with green ink.  The inks are in the list below for your reference.

For the shaping and construction of the Carnations, I followed the directions on Spellbinders' YouTube.  With the shaping tools and these directions, it's easy to get beautifully shaped carnations!

I embossed the background layer with the Tufted 3D embossing folder, leaving the bottom edge hanging out.  The sentiment is one that I had on hand.  The Always and Forever Sentiment Strips letterpress plate creates 16 sentiments at once!  There's also a die included that cuts them out all together.

If you think you could never create beautiful paper flowers, I would disagree!  I really hope I've inspired you to give this a try.

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