Dreamy Blooms & Retirement Dreams

     Good morning friends :)
     Happy day!! PonMalar here today with 3 cards made using 2 stamp sets from the May release of Mudra stamps.

Card 1

• I used the layered floral stamps from Botanical blooms stamp set to stamp the flowers using distress inks in shades of blue. Distress inks don't give a crisp stamping & that was what I was after. 
• Then used my TCW stencil & sponged around the flowers to create some background text. 
• Then sponged blue & vintage photo distress ink all around to create a border. 
• On the main blue card base, I smooched the vintage photo ink pad directly at angles to create a grungy background & then adhered my front panel to finish my card.

Card 2

• Decided to create a card with layers using the layered blooms.
• Stamped the flowers & leaves from Botanical blooms set using distress inks in shades of purple & green respectively. 
• I lightly sponged the edges with vintage photo distress ink to create a slight vintage look. (Couldn't capture that in the photos!!)
• Then fussy cut those flowers & leaves and kept them aside.
• Tore a piece of kraft card stock & sponged the edges with vintage photo distress ink. Heat embossed the sentiment using brown pigment ink.
• Used a kraft card stock for my main panel & sponged the edges with vintage photo distress ink. Also added few splatters of the same to create some interest to the background.
• Finally adhered the flowers & the sentiment using double sided adhesive & foam tapes.

Card 3 

• A CAS Retirement card using an element I designed, yay. 
• I cut out masks for the ground from a scrap card stock & used green distress inks to create a landscape.
• Used the same technique to sponge the sun using yellow, orange & red distress ink.
• Heat embossed the beach chair in black & fussy cut it & pasted it on the front panel using a strong liquid glue.
• Finally stamped the sentiment in black archival ink to finish my card.

Stamp sets used: 

     That finishes my cards for today & did you hear the happy news about Mudra stamps being available at one more online craft site!! Yep, Craftadda is also housing our stamps now. Isn't that wonderful :) <3 Do hop on to check our collections at.....

• Craftadda
• Anandha Stationery
• TheCraftShop
• Lulupu

And don't forget about the DT call for Mudra Creative Team!! Only 4 more days to go & do apply if interested :) 

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Love,
Pon Malar.