I made this card on a bitterly cold but sunny day in NJ when I needed some colour. I used the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals set, stamping the stems of the flowers in garden green on very vanilla. I found (after messing up the first attempt!) that it was best to stamp one set of stems and then stamp the flowers for those stems. Otherwise, I ended up with overlapping flowers, which was not the look that I was planning. I varied the heights and angles to make it more realistic.

I stamped most of the flowers in melon mambo and masked off a few which I later stamped in so saffron. I then mounted the very vanilla piece on a base of melon mambo.