Fairless Stampin' Flair: CHRISTMAS GREENERY BOUQUET

The technique for today's card uses tissue paper and Ink Refills to create a beautiful background.

The colors I used were Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party and Bubble Bath. I pulled the color combination from the Traditions of Christmas Designer Series Paper (DSP). If you ever have trouble coming up with color combinations use your DSP as inspiration.

I shared this Tissue Paper and Ink Refills technique some time ago on my Learning with Friends Video series. If you are unfamiliar with it this video will show you how it is done. It's fun, easy, and not too messy. For this card I purposely left some white space within the colored areas.

The focal point was die cut from the Traditions of Christmas DSP. I love DSP that has images that coordinate with dies. One of the dies in the Christmas Greenery Bundle coordinates with this particular floral bouquet in the DSP. The sentiment and coordinating die are from the Traditional Labels Bundle.

The Traditions of Christmas Suite includes all of these products and more.

Do you like to make bows from ribbon? Are you good at it? I make them because I love the look of pretty ribbon, but I struggle to make nice bows. This Pool Party bow was easy peasy! It's made with three dies from the Christmas Greenery dies.

Do you notice the shadow around the flower bouquets? I wasn't really satisfied with the look of the flowers when I placed them directly over the tissue paper background. It needed something to give it a little pop. I die cut two more of the flower bouquets from cardstock to create the "shadow". I experimented with all three of the colors in the background, but none of them were giving me the extra "pop" that I wanted. Then I decided to try Secret Sea cardstock, and I found the winner. I purposely kept the border very narrow as I didn't want it to overwhelm the image. I just wanted it to look like a shadow, and Secret Sea did that for me.

To decorate the inside of the card I fussy cut some additional images from the Traditions of Christmas DSP. I like to use images from the edges of the paper for this purpose as it is a great way to use partial images that may otherwise be tossed away.

Use this link to download a PDF Tutorial.

A list of the products used is shown below.

Product List

Traditional Labels Bundle (English) [165865]	Christmas Greenery Bundle [165873]	Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119685]	Bubble Bath 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161718]
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166780]	Secret Sea 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [165624]	Pool Party 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [122924]	Traditions Of Christmas 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [165853]
Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper [149612]	Secret Sea Classic Stampin' Pad [165285]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090]	Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [119788]
Pool Party Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [122933]	Bubble Bath Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [161670]	Gold 1 1/2" (3.8 Cm) Open Weave Trim [165715]	2025–2027 In Color™ Flat Pearls [165192]
Water Painters [168253]	Clear Block D [118485]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]