Stop and Stamp the roses: Peony Background Mother's Day cards

Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing 2 cards from the Let's Celebrate collection by Yana Smakula for Spellbinders. It's a lovely collection with BetterPress plates, floral dies, stencils and even a wax seal! I love every bit of it and will be sharing cards using the entire collection over the next few days.

PEONY BACKGROUND AND LET'S CELEBRATE SENTIMENTS PRESS PLATES

My cards use 2 BetterPress plates from the collection, the lovely Peony Background and the Let's Celebrate Sentiments Press Plate. Each card uses the Peony plate in slightly different ways, which gives 2 different results.

For this card, I inked up the plate with the Black BetterPress ink and pressed into Porcelain cotton card. I colored the images with my Zig Real Brush Markers and popped up the sentiment on layered circle die cuts. I layered 2 ribbons underneath the circles to give some grounding. I needed a few flower accents, so I used the Vintage Florals die set.

This background plate has the peonies in the reverse, meaning you ink up the solid plate and the peonies are the open areas. I love this because you can get color on the background easily with ink instead of coloring the background.

For my second card, I inked the plate with CP ink All That Jazz and pressed into Porcelain cotton card. I kept the peonies white for a fun monochromatic look. Even though I kept the layout and sentiment the same, with the turquoise ink and no coloring, this card has such a different feel!

Supplies used on these cards:

Let's Celebrate Collection by Yana Smukula

Peony Background Press Plate

Let's Celebrate Sentiments Press Plate

Everlasting Circle die set

Vintage Florals die set

Porcelain BetterPress cotton card

Zig Markers

BetterPress black ink

Catherine Pooler ink in All That Jazz

Black twill and black and white striped grosgrain ribbons from stash

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