Gallery Blooms for Stampin' Fancy Friday

This month at Stampin' Fancy Friday, our inspiration is a sketch. 

I love a sketch challenge because they're great springboards: when you see the shapes and layers the mind starts filling them with options. 

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I used the new Gallery Blooms bundle because I'm still playing with pre-order items. This lovely bundle will be available from 6 May.

I stamped two floral sprays in Secret Sea (one of the new In Colors), then coloured them with Stampin' Blends in Peach Pie, Calypso Coral, Petal Pink and Lost Lagoon. Once coloured, I die cut both sprays out and layered them over a circle cut using one of the Spotlight on Nature dies.

The Gallery Blooms dies have lots of extra bits and bobs, so I cut some leaves and flowers from scraps of Calypso Coral, Petal Pink and Lost Lagoon and tucked them in around the main floral sprays. 

 
The sentiment, stamped in Secret Sea, is from one of the Online Exclusive sets, Textured Notes - as is the die used to cut it out. 

Slightly harder to see in the photo is that the Secret Sea card front has been embossed with the new Damask Designs embossing folder that is part of the Beautiful Gallery suite.

The embellishments are from the Petal Pink and Pretty Peacock Foil Gems - which you can get right now from the Last Chance section of the store. 

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