You can stamp one flower to make a simple and clean composition, two flowers as I did here, many flowers to fully cover a background, or create small floral clusters as I did today.

This set offers clever design elements.  The floral shapes are very versatile and the sentiments in different sizes and styles will adapt to different design needs.

Have a look...

Mom Flowers Stamp Set

So today I made a little bit of masking to stamp floral clusters at the top and bottom corner of the front panel of this card.

I used smooth Bristol paper, my favourite paper at the moment.

I used the two floral stamps in the set and  Black Ink from Simon Says Stamp and the Tim Holtz stamping Platform

 I added colours using the new Nuvo Shimmer Powders.  I mixed the powders with water and I applied them with a Nuvo water brush.


I also used  Nuvo Solar Flare Shimmer powder together with SSS Tiny Spaced Hearts Stencil to add those teeny tiny yellow hearts in the background.    I  simply placed the stencil on the paper and I sprayed water all over ( not a lot of water), then I put a bit of the powder in the palm of my hand and I  blew it so it was evenly applied all over.

On a watercolour pallet, I mixed the powders with water and I applied them to the images as using any other water-based product. After applying colours and when everything was dry, I  also splattered a concentrated mix of green powder with a bit of water.

I added black Nuvo drops to the flower pistils and to make the sentiment pop up a bit more I applied Nuvo Crystal Glaze.

Using a faber Castell fine tip pen I added tiny  black dots over the flowers.

The card above was fully coloured using the powders and perhaps you can identify  2 different skin tones,  one was used to create very subtle shadows.

I also sprinkle the powders on a wet stencil and  I used the stencil as a stamp to create a colourful background paper.    The colours look incredibly vivid.

So you can create very light colours or go very very bold with this powders.

For the card below, I  used a stencil and I sprayed the background with blue and green Nuvo Mica Mist (Shimmer Sprays)  anything else was coloured with Nuvo Shimmer Powders.

The images on this cards are from Exquisite Stamp collection by Tonic.

There are 8 colours in this collection but trust me their blendability is outstanding.

You can also create with this powders colourful, distressed backgrounds for cards,  tags,  original paper for boxes or scrapbook pages. They are great for mix media.  The powders will always activate with water.

Put a little bit of the powder on a pallet, mix it with water and you are ready to go!  You can always choose how concentrated or intense the colour will be by adjusting the amount of water applied to the mix.

The Nuvo Shimmer Powders have a cousin called Mica Mist and they come in a spray!

The super talented Paula Pascual is demoing the sprays in the video below.
       

Once the Mica Spray dries on the paper the pigment becomes permanent so you can apply a wide variety of techniques with the spays and use them on many different surfaces.

Hello everyone,   I'm taking part in a Blog Hop to celebrate a  new Simon Says Stamp Release.Yay!! And I made a couple of super-duper easy and quick cards to share with you today. 

These cards measure about 5"x6" inches and  I'm featuring 3 awesome new tools: Mom Flowers Stamp Set, Whoa You are Amazing!! wafer die and the very new  Nuvo Shimmer Powders which are a wonder too.

Have a look at the whole Release here! It is stunning!!

• Simon Says Stamp Blog  
• Debby Hughes
• Laura Bassen
• Heather Ruwe
• Lisa Addesa
• Barb Engler
• Jean Manis
• Bibi Cameron <<YOU ARE HERE!
• Rubeena Ianigro
• Tracy Freeman
• Lea Lawson
• Yana Smakula

Giveaway

• Simon Says Stamps! is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop .  For your chance to win all you have to do is to leave a comment. 
•  The winners will be chosen over the weekend and post on the Simon Says Stamp store blog next Wednesday.