Make a Stamped Bouquet

Have you ever wanted a large stamped bouquet of flowers for a card you were working on but didn't have a stamp that would work.  Well that happened to me recently so I decided to work a little masking magic and make my own bouquet!

Here is the finished card....

Stamp Credits: Floral Arrangement, Jean Pocket - Deep Red Stamps

"Hi" Sentiment - Paper Smooches

I started off with this Floral Arrangement stamp from Deep Red Stamps.  It's very pretty but much smaller than I needed for my project.

So I started off by stamping it twice on scrap paper ~ these two images will become masks to create the bouquet.

I stamped the first image on the cardstock so that the flower sprigs that are located on the bottom of the image above were pointed to the left.    I covered that image with the first mask then turned the stamp 90 degrees so the flower sprigs were pointed to the top of the cardstock.  I then covered that image and stamped additional flower sprigs to the top left and the bottom center.

I knew I was going to "tuck" the flowers into the jean pocket so I started off by stamping the leaves (under the rose) along a straight line - I covered those with a mask and stamped the jean pocket over the leaves. 

I then fussy cut around the bottom edge of the flowers and die-cut the upper portion.  I also cut out the jean pocket which was adhered to my card base.  I used double stick foam tape to mount the grand flower bouquet slightly above the jean pocket so the stamped leaves were peeking out below the flowers.

I am very pleased with how the bouquet turned out...

I hope this gives you a spark of inkspiration to take a stamp you already have

and breath new life into it.

Ink on my friends...