"A Year of Flowers" Blog Hop! Come join the fun!

Hello! Today I am pulling out a favorite set I have not had time to work with in the past few months since I've been so busy with all our other new release Gina K Designs sets: "A Year of Flowers"! (blog hop info follows sample) I've been meaning to make "a dozen roses" for awhile now, glad I saved it for today, this is my first stair step card!

Score a 5 x 10 1/2" piece of baseweight Pure Luxury White at 1 1/4", 2 1/2", 4 1/4", 6", and 8 1/4". Fold. Now stamp out three rows of roses on another piece of CS in Memento Black, masking them to fit within 5 1/2"(so it will fit in your A2 envelope) and mask in the leaves. Here you can see my scrap mask covering one rose so I can stamp the leaves. I did 3 in my bottom row, 4 in the second, and 5 in the third for a total of 12. Gotta go for the full dozen! :) Masking will save a lot of time in just cutting the three orws and not having to cut out and adhere 12 individual flowers!

I only used 4 Copics for this card, 2 greens and two reds: Grayish Olive and Lime Green for the leaves, and Lipstick Red and Cardinal for the roses. Coloring went very quickly. Then I cut each row out and adhered to each step. You can go back in and adhere some more leaves behind the layers if you want a fuller bouquet.

Here's what it looks like pulled out, I used "for you" and "with love" from the same set. I love how it turned out , much cheaper than sending the real thing LOL! (you can buy all the supplies to make this again and again for less than you can send a dozen roses!!)

NOW! Please come join me in a flower blog hop as I try out the Mr. Linky for the first time! Please share your new creations (cards , pages or 3D items) made with "A Year of Flowers", through June 22nd, and we'll hop around and watch the flowers bloom all weekend! ( I think by now just about all of you have this set, right, show of hands??) Only requirement is incorporating this set, links that do not follow the challenge or are found inappropriate will be removed, thanks in advance for following these simple rules!

I will pick one winner to receive a copy of my new set (and you WILL want it, NEED it!), which is releasing June 25th from Gina K Designs. Winner will be announced here June 24th, the day we peek the new set in our design team blog hop!

Just post your creation to your STV or SCS gallery or blog and then add your link to it by clicking on the Mr. Linky below, thanks for joining, should be a beautiful couple of days, I can smell the flowers already... :)

If you don't have the set or can't participate, you can still get a chance to win a copy of "Sporty Accessories" OR "A Charmed Life", your choice, by visiting the blog links in the hop and then leaving a comment on this post. Good luck!