My Cards and Tags: Botanical Tags using Paper Rose's Wildflowers 2 and Baby Blue Leaf Small Dies

This week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog theme is Beautiful Botanicals.  I used some fabulous floral dies from Paper Rose and Sizzix to make these cards.

I started by cutting these floral shapes and finger-painting them with acrylic paint.  I also cut some rectangular cards out of some patterned paper (Reminiscence).

While the paint was drying on the flowers, I did some stenciling and splattering on the patterned paper.  I used Seth Apter's Izink Glaze with the stencils and splattered some Dina Wakley Gloss Spray onto each card.

All that was left was the assembly part!  I glued the floral cuts onto the cards using my trusty UHU glue stick.  The die below is Wildflowers 2, which I think is stunning and which has been very versatile.

For the flower on the card below, I combined Paper Rose's Baby Blue Leaf Small die with a die from Sizzix's Stackable Florals set.

One thing that I like to do is outline my die cuts with black Sharpie to make them stand out better.  That's what I did on each of these floral elements.

Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

Paper Rose Wildflowers 2 Die	Paper Rose Baby Blue Leaf Small die	Sizzix Stackable Florals Thinlits dies	Elizabeth Craft Designs Reminiscence 12x12 paper	Izink Ice Greenland Glaze
Izink Ice Glacier Green Glaze	Dina Wakley Mineral Gloss Spray	Dina Wakley Carnation Gloss Spray	Tim-Holtz-Layering-Stencil-HALFTONE-THS144	Dina Wakley Lime paint
Dina Wakley Ocean Paint	Dina Wakley Marine Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Fuchsia Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Eggplant Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Ranger NIGHT acrylic paint
Dina Wakley Tangerine paint	Dina Wakley LEMON Media Acrylic Paint	Dylusions Tropical Sangria	Dylusions Mango Punch paint	UHU Glue Stick
Sizzix Big Shot	Black Permanent Sharpie Marker

We're anxious to see your beautiful botanical creations this week!  Upload your project to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.