Saying "farewell" with Pierced Blooms Dies

 Hello Crafty Friends! 

This week I'm showing you a little project that I worked on to give away as a keep-sake for a co-worker that will be leaving our team. 

The Pierced Bloom Dies are one of those sets of dies that can be used all by themselves without any stamping necessary and that is exactly what I did for the 3"x3" cards for this project.

It may be hard to tell from the image above that all of the die cuts have a pierced outline. When the 2021 Mini Catalog came out I completely missed this and was shocked when I saw samples of these dies being used.

Even though a lot of the Mini catalog products are retiring, thankfully, the Pierced Blooms dies and the coordinating In Bloom stamp set is in the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog, so you can get this set if you haven't done so already.

I paired some of the new In-Colors with the Gilded Leafing to make a set of 20- 3"x3" cards. These are then stored in the Scalloped Kraft Treat Box as shown below.

Cardmaking Tips:

• Use Basic White Thick cardstock for the card bases. The finished size is 3"x3", which is a 3" x 6" piece of cardstock scored at 3".
• Cut a 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" piece of Basic white cardstock and adhere two strips of Tear and Tape Adhesive then place some gold Gilded Leafing using a dry paint brush. As you can see in the image below, it's a little messy but the leafing sticks very well with no problems. I find this process satisfying, LOL.

• Cut out different pieces of leaves from the Pierced Blooms Dies using Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. Cut out pieces of flowers from Pale Papaya and Fresh Freesia cardstock.
• Arrange and adhere the flowers and leaves onto the Basic White piece of cardstock. Adhere onto the Basic white card base using dimensionals. A few close-up samples below.

• The box came together rather quickly using the Scalloped Kraft Treat Boxes, a few flowers, leaves, a white stitched circle and some white twine. 

• The sentiment "Especially for you" is from the Little Treats retired stamp set from the 2020 Holiday catalog. I created the name "Lani" using the retired Make a Difference stamp set from the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog. Both sentiments were gold embossed.

Products List: 

Click on the following link for a full list of the products I used on this project: https://s.tamp.in/pF1AeS 

Please note the following products are retired and not in the product list: 

Stamps - Little Treats, Make a Difference

Dies - Stitched Shapes 

This is all I have for you this week. Let me know if you've played with the Pierced Blooms dies for your projects! I'd love to know what you think about them.

Until next time...