Waffle Flower February release Blog Hop

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the Waffle Flower February Release Blog Hop! I’m happy to be hopping with the folks from Waffle Flower to show you all the fun new stuff awaiting you on the Waffle Flower website! Be sure to check out each stop in today’s blog hop for fun, inspiration, and chances to win some of these new release goodies!

  I have a  lot of cards to share with you today. This month is all about Card Designing and we will share some card designing tips and we have a lot of new fun products to make the card making process much easier. The first one is - Designer Template 1 Die Set. 

TIP. Build a background 

  When I'm struggling with what and where to put on the card I always look for a card sketch and the basic shape dies help a lot! And now we have a perfect die set series to build quick and easy card backgrounds. The only thing you will need is a sentiment or other stamped image. 

  I made a few sketches that work with this die set and below you can find my card samples. 

On my dirst card I combined Designer Template 1 Die Set with our new flowers - Daffodil - March Birth Flower Stamp Set.

And on the second with a large sentiment - Oversized Happy Word Die and heat embossed Daffodils. 

    Daffodil - March Birth Flower Stamp Set comes with coordinating stencils for coloring and all my flowers I colored with inks in seconds. Only on the next card I used a red alcohol marker to add a border on the flower's centre. I embelished the card with green enamel dots and for the card backgrouind I used white and pattern paper with lines from - .

 TIP. Make a pattern.

  Besides the new floral stamps we have a new small flower die - Layered Flowers Die, that can be used as focal point near the sentiemnt or can be used for creating floral frames or simple patterns on the cards. 

  Another must have product for easy card designing is border die. Any kind or any shape :) But it has to be with an open edge like our new dies - On the Edge Trio Die set. The open edge will allow you to create any size panels with a shaped border vertical or horizontal. 

  For my first card I cut out a vertical panel with tiny envelopes from a regular white cardstock. I foam mount it on a leftover paper piece with alcohol inks. I stamped my sentiments and embellished the card with a few black enamel dots. 

TIP. Color Combo

On the next card I cut out the same panel but for a horizontal A2 card. I adhered small pieces of a black glitter cardstock behind the envelopes. I applied black ink through the Random Tiny Dot Stencil on a card panel to balance the black envelopes. 

TIP. Use clear embellishments on a busy background.

  On my third example I used another border die from the On the Edge Trio Die set. I cut out small white stripes to embellish the top and the bottom of my ink blended card. To create this card background I used Abstract Stencil Quad and distress inks.

   I embellished the card with clear enamel dots just to add some almost invisible accents on the card, they make a difference for sure! 

Next on the hop is JJ Bolton! 

Giveaways:

For today’s hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners. You can leave a comment on this blog and along the hop by 11:59pm EST on Monday February 21, 2022 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts in this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower Blog on 2/23/2022.

Specials:

From now till Thursday February 17th, 2022, all orders placed at waffleflower.com will receive a mysterious gift (No code required!).

For those of you who are new to Waffle Flower, they have a Last Chance section on their website that lists many goodies for 25% off until they are gone! This would be a great place to start your collection! 

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