VIDEO | Taylored Expressions | Create-in-Quads Ever in Bloom Collection

I am over-the-moon excited about this release because it's just so beautiful! The Ever in Bloom Collection is curated around the newest Create-in-Quads - Ever in Bloom Stencil Set from Taylored Expressions. There are seven unique products in this entire collection, all for the newest quad stencils. Yes, that's right! 

I especially love how each quad panel is so different from the next. All of my designs and the uses of the colour palette make each of these cards look like they were made from completely different products. I just love the variety of designs made possible by the Create-in-Quads - Ever in Bloom Stencil Set.

The colour palette for all of these cards includes Lavender Glaze, Plum Punch, Salt Water Taffy and Gumball. Gumball is one of those colours I shied away from for a long time but I've been reaching for it more and more.

After using bitty blender brushes and pastel blender brushes to stencil the four panels, I cut them up and used A2 Layer Stacklets and Additional A2 Layer Stacklets to trim down the first panel, as well as create a gold foil frame. The inside was die cut using the Create-in-Quads Ever in Bloom Frame Die.

All of the sentiments from the Hello Lovely Stamp Set were stamped with Versamark Watermark ink on Sugar Cube cardstock, then heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I die cut a shadow from Lavender Glaze cardstock, glued it to the sentiment and popped up both the frame and sentiment with foam tape.

When photographing multiples, it's always ideal to create two portrait cards and two landscape cards. I was really happy that these panels and dies made it ideal for that. This second design features the single array which comes with its own coordinating Create-in-Quads Ever in Bloom Sprays Die.

Much like both the Autumn Array Stamp & Stencil Combo and Spring Array Stamp, Stencil & Clear Combo, which come with coordinating dies, this singular spray shines all on its own. The background panel was created with one of my often-used favourites, the Diamonds Piercing Plate.

I added gold foil shadows to both the spray and the sentiment, popping them on with foam tape. I added one gold matte metallic enamel dot to the centre.

Going back to a portrait orientation, this card base was cut from Gumball cardstock and the fully-stencilled panel was trimmed down with the Additional A2 Layer Stacklets. The sentiment needed something behind it to distinguish it from the busy background.

I used glue dots to attach the sentiment to the Stitched Rectangle Stacklet cut from vellum. Then I used more glue dots to attach the vellum to a shadow cut from Black Licorice cardstock. The whole piece was popped up on foam tape to give the illusion that it's floating above the stencilled panel.

To finish, I decorated two corners with gold matte metallic enamel dots in two sizes.

My last card is also a landscape design and I love the way the second die in the Create-in-Quads Ever in Bloom Sprays Die cuts these corners. They also look amazing on a Lavender Glaze card base. It's such a simple design but with a serious wow factor!

In order to create some dimension, I used double-sided tape on the outermost edges of the die cut pieces and popped up the innermost die cut edges with foam tape. I love this trick to clean card edges with a bit of visual interest.

This time, I added two shadows to the sentiment, one in Plum Punch and a second in gold foil. To finish, I also added a few gold matte metallic enamel dots to this card and all of my Create-in-Quads - Ever in Bloom cards are done!

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