Hello! Its Jaya here!

I’m so excited to be the August release “Wings and Petals” guest designer for Varada Sharma’s stamps. Such an honor! I have been a fan for a long time and Varada is very kind. 🙂

Card 1

Today I am sharing card made from stacking dies. For my cards, I used rectangle dies, but you can do these techniques with different shapes, too.

Perfect timing! I just bought a bunch of stacked die sets. Now I know that what I can do with them.

My card features the new stitched rectangle dies to make the card a bit special, I used Red & Lime Green coloured cardstock. I like paper ?? ? colour combination.

I like this unique design! I added a thinking of u sentiment and sequins. You can also use circle stacking dies creatively or shape dies. Thank u so much @jennifermcguireink for sharing all these great techniques with us.

Key Ingredients for this card:

1. Pretty Poppies digi stamps by Varada
2. Neenah white cardstock
3. Red cardstock
4. Green cardstock
5. Rectangle stitched dies
6. Watercolor brush markers

Then I coloured these pretty poppies with watercolor brush markers. I fussy cut them out, & adhere watercolor poppies to the base panel. Then stamped “Thinking of you” sentiment at the centre. And it’s done!

Click on the link below to grab these digi stamps:

Card 2

For my next card, I also watercolored the beautiful flowers from Awesome blossom stamp set.

This time I started with Funky Hexagons Background stamp. I then trimmed down my card to 4″ x 5.25″ and mounted it onto a pink cardstock.

I adhered “Big Hugs” sentiment in the middle of card with black circle die and adhered individual Awesome Blossom flower images to each cluster with a dimensional adhesive. Then I tucked in the single and double leaves along with the blossom buds to the flower cluster. Finally I adhered a few rhinestones to my card and it’s done!

Key Ingredients for this card:

1. Awesome Blossom digi stamps by Varada
2. Funky Hexagons Background by Varada
3. Heartfelt Sentiments by Varada
4. Neenah white cardstock
5. Watercolor brush markers
6. Circle die cut

Finally some embellishments finished the card.

You can grab these digis here:

{Awesome Blossom}

{Funky Hexagons Background}

{Heartfelt Sentiments}

Hope you enjoyed these cards and give these ideas a try!

Thank you so much for stopping by the Varada Sharma blog today, and a big thank you goes to the team for having me guest with them. Have a great day.

Thank you!!

~Jaya

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