This is my first card using the newly released set from Flourishes called Fantasy Floral Garden. What a set!!! It is filled with so many pretty flowers and words — 23 stamps in total. I just wanted to use them all, so I tried — LOL!!! I made this card in the tent topper style that I’ve been just hooked on lately. The card base is 4.25″ square. The topper (blue piece) is 3.5″ wide x 3.75″ high. All credit for these fun tent toppers goes to Michelle Wooderson, who will be linked, along with many others, in my sidebar real soon!

To create my main image panelI started by arranging the floral image stamps onto a 4 x 4 acrylic block into a pattern I liked. I ended up getting 13 of the stamps on the block! Now, it is so easy to stamp the entire panel at once! I stamped in Versa Mark and embossed in light blue. I then colored all the little flowers with my SU markers, working with a paper towel at hand to wick up any marker ink from the embossing (any ink that gets on the embossing will not saturate into the paper, it just sits there — waiting to be touched and smeared). I carefully patted the paper towel onto each flower as soon as I was finished coloring it.

The background was the exact same 4 x 4 block loaded with stamps that I used for the main image, stamped with So Saffron on So Saffron paper. Main image panel is sponged with blue, and Safron panel is sponged with Saffron. The word *flower* is black embossed and a ticket corner punch was used on that little panel, along with brads. The blue dotted grosgrain is from Michaels. I used a piece of Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware to hang the bow on top. A really fun card to make.

Hint: Once arranging all your stamps onto a large block to make a pattern as described above, before you clean and put them away, stamp your pattern onto cardstock and save. The next time you want this same pattern, pull it out, place your stamps face side down over their printed images, then just lay your acrylic block on top of them and pull them up — and there you have your pattern all set and ready to go on your block!!!

And I just want to add that I am very displeased with this photo — the main image panel is not coming across very well — IRL the coloring in the embossed areas looks very soft and nice — it looks anything but that in this photo — but there is only so long one can fuss with a photo! That main image panel is so beautiful IRL, this is just so truly disappointing.

• Stamps: Fantasy Floral Garden by Flourishes – www.flourishes.org
• Paper: Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Whisper White
• Ink: Same plus Versa Mark
• Markers: Same plus Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst, Cameo Coral, Creamy Caramel
• Accessories: Black and Light Blue EP, Ticket Corner Punch, Brads, Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware, Ribbon, Sponges