Enchanted Garden Day 5: Floribunda

Last day of previews - and it’s a stamp set that I hope you will love and cherish. I hope you’ve been enchanted by the peeks we’ve shared this week, I sure have loved presenting them to you and giving you a peek into my thought process.

Is it fair to say that we’ve saved the best for last? 

Meet Floribunda, an exciting stamp set measuring in at a generous 6" x 8" — such a big canvas means I could fill it with as many pretty things as I could! The focal point is, of course, a spectacular floral border fitting perfectly into an A2 card front. 

When concocting the participants in this ultimate floral border, I considered first and foremostly the flowers that a hummingbird would enjoy. Why, you ask? Because this set ALSO comes with a little hummingbird, which you can pop right into the center of the border OR use on its own with any of our other botanical stamps.

Introducing Floribunda

Designed with essential hummingbird favorites such as Fuchsia, Honeysuckle, Lupine, and Morning Glories, plus a plump Dahlia and pops of Primrose — there is NO LIMIT to the ways this beauty can be colored, cropped, and bedazzled.

What else is so exciting about this stamp set? The array of large, expressive sentiments that fit into the center space. You’ll find yourself using them in card after card — and these are sentiments you will not find anywhere else. Have you ever seen a stamp quoting British statesman, former Prime Minister, author, and scholar Benjamin Disraeli? I’m thinking no. Girl, I will go there! I once handpainted his words, “Nurture your mind with great thoughts” around the walls of my apartment kitchen. (Here is a peek at that, when it was featured in Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion magazine.)

I love the idea of bathing our minds in wonderful words. Filling ourselves with positive messages. Reading, absorbing, continuing our curiosity, learning other viewpoints, taking it alllllll in. But I digress.

I also love coloring flowers — and boy, does Floribunda deliver in that department. I had an enjoyable afternoon, evening, and then morning coloring this up with my Prismacolor pencils. I created a Naples Yellow background using watered-down Winsor Newton gouache paint. Then stamped that awesome sentiment smack dab in the middle (using that trusty mini MISTI, my go-to stamping tool).

Does this image look familiar to you? Well, you eagle-eyed thing, this image was released recently as a digital stamp, and you can find it here right this very moment to download and get to coloring: Hummingbird Paradise. The clear version has a whole array of sentiments that do not come with the digi. 

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OK.... Are you ready for some SERIOUS eye candy?

Allison Cope

Stacy Morgan

Christine Okken

Kathy Jones

Leslie Miller

Barbara Walker

I hope you have loved, loved, loved this week’s “show”! And if you think that we’re finished, well, come back tomorrow on RELEASE DAY for a full-scale blog hop with the Ellen Hutson TEAM. Yesssssss — there is going to be so much creativity happening on Monday, we might just break the internet. 

LOVE YOU!