Spring Flowers cards -- A Head's Up / Everything is on Sale

For the spring flowers cards that I made below, and will also be teaching a class on March 22, I used the following punches, just in case you want to have them with you for the class:

 The first two, the purple and green ones, are from Hobby Lobby and are on sale the week of Feb. 24 thru March 2 at 40% off so you don't need your coupons.

  The third punch, the blue one, used to be available at Michaels.  It is a Marvy Uchida but is now made by Recollections and is still at Michaels but now looks like punch number 4.  It is called the Large Daisy -- on the back of the punch it just says LG DSY.    If you purchased these punches last year and have the blue one, that is fine, don't go out and buy the fourth punch..........it's exactly the same as the blue one but just looks different.  

Hobby Lobby also sells a pink punch which is smaller than the purple one shown above but I don't use that one as it is too small.

We will be using all three of these punches in the March 22 class if you are interested.  These punches, along with the stylus kit shown below, transform flat paper punched flowers into beautiful 3 dimensional flowers.  You will also need a piece of thick foam to roll the stylus around on, which you can get at Hobby Lobby in the craft dept.  Just use a regular piece of their thickest craft foam.

These punches all punch great through vellum, which is what we will be using in class.  Vellum and all cardstock/paper is also on sale this week at Hobby Lobby at 50% off if you wanted to pick some up.  I like the light colors that you can see through for the flowers in case you want to ink the edges of them.

These are some of the flowers and cards, but just some, as we will make a lot more in a variety of colors.  They look great on scrapbook pages, boxes, and cards.  The thing that I like about these flowers is that they look great by themselves; they don't even need leaves under them.