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Bold Botanicals & Contrast Using Nature’s Symphony Masculine Card

This card shows a slightly bolder side of the Nature’s Symphony Bundle creating this Masculine Card, with stronger contrast and a deeper colour palette. The layered leaves really pop against the darker background, creating a striking yet still elegant design.

Nature’s Symphony masculine card

I love how versatile this bundle is—you can go soft and subtle or rich and dramatic, all with the same stamps and dies. Adding the use of blending brushes always adds a dramatic effect on your designs.

This card would work beautifully as a masculine card or for anyone who loves strong, nature-inspired designs.

🎥 Watch the video below to see how I built up the layers and created contrast without overpowering the design.

Don’t forget to check the supply list below and save this layout for future cardmaking sessions.

Product List

166926 $82.75	166912 $21.75	159183 $53.00	166990 $17.50
150886 $25.00	150083 $15.75	166781 $25.00	167180 $14.00
149653 $244.00	152392 $49.00

February 15, 2026

Clean and Simple Nature’s Symphony Card

If you love clean and simple cardmaking with just the right amount of detail, this one’s for you. This card focuses on strong layers, soft colours, and a peaceful botanical feel.

The leaf images from the Nature’s Symphony Bundle really do all the hard work here. Paired with the squares from the stylish shapes dies layered onto a plain background and a sentiment, this card feels calm, thoughtful, and timeless.

This is a fantastic design to keep on hand for those moments when you need a card quickly but still want it to feel special.

🎬 You’ll find the full video tutorial below, including tips for keeping clean designs balanced.

All supplies are listed below so you can recreate this card or put your own spin on it.

Product List

166926 $82.75	166912 $21.75	159183 $53.00	166990 $17.50
150886 $25.00	150083 $15.75	166781 $25.00	167180 $14.00
149653 $244.00	152392 $49.00

February 13, 2026

Two Similar Cards, One Beautiful Bundle – Nature’s Symphony Bundle

For today’s post, I’m sharing two cards created with the same layout and products, but with slightly different looks. This is one of my favourite ways to stretch a bundle—and your crafting time!

Two Similar Cards

By changing the placement of the leaves and adjusting a few small details, you can create cards that feel coordinated but not identical. These would be perfect if you’re making multiples for a class, swap, or happy mail.

The Nature’s Symphony Bundle makes this so easy because the images layer effortlessly and always look beautiful together.

📺 Be sure to watch the video below. This video is my sped up version so you can get an overview of how I’ve created these two similar cards. However you can check out my one of my other posts to see the longer video.

Let me know in the comments which version you prefer—I always love hearing your thoughts!

Product List

166926 $82.75	166912 $21.75	159183 $53.00	166990 $17.50
150886 $25.00	150083 $15.75	166781 $25.00	167180 $14.00
149653 $244.00	152392 $49.00

February 11, 2026

Elegant Texture & Botanical Beauty with Nature’s Symphony Bundle

This card really highlights how beautifully the Nature’s Symphony Bundle works with texture. The embossed background paired with the detailed leaf images creates a gorgeous balance of soft and bold elements. Another card I created with this bundle is here.

I kept the layout clean and uncluttered so the leafy focal point could truly shine. A simple sentiment finishes it off perfectly—sometimes less really is more.

This design would be perfect for a thank-you card, thinking-of-you card, or even a sympathy card depending on the sentiment you choose.

🎥 I’ve shared the full process in the video below, including tips for layering and placement all using the Nature’s Symphony Bundle.

Scroll down to see the full supply list, and don’t forget—you can easily change up the colours to suit your own style or stash.

Product List

166926 $82.75	166912 $21.75	159183 $53.00	166990 $17.50
150886 $25.00	150083 $15.75	166781 $25.00	167180 $14.00
149653 $244.00	152392 $49.00

February 9, 2026

Grungy Gears & Textures

On my Facebook live recently I wanted to include the dies from the Gears & Textures Bundle and so I created these Grungy Gears & Textures cards. I had so much fun creating these cards. The first card I’ll share with you was inspired by Rochelle Blok back from March 2019. She used a different stamp set but is similar to the gears & textures set that we have and pulling in the Nature Walk DSP make it so much easier to create with.

How I created the card

I pulled out my blending brushes and got to work on creating the card below. Roughing up the edges of the designer series paper to make it look worn, I then added early espresso ink as I wanted a dark colour but not black. Using the blending brushes, I added additional colour to the die cuts as well to darken them. They almost look black. Stamping the images onto the DSP adds another layer of to the card.

Once I finished stamping the background I started layering up the die cuts and then looked for something to stamp on for the sentiment. I know vanilla or white wasn’t going to work on such a dark card so I chose a piece of dsp from the Nature walk pack and again roughed up the edges, stamped the sentiment in early espresso ink and also added some pretty peacock ink to the sentiment piece to darken it up but I knew I didn’t want it to be too dark. Adding the black and gold bakers twine onto the back and another die cut to the back and I attached the sentiment with dimensionals.

Inside the card I added a piece of vanilla cardstock and stamped a couple of images on that before gluing into the card. I’ll share the video of how I made these cards soon or you can check them out here. You can also check out some of my other cards that I’ve made using this stamp set here.

Grungy Gears & Textures Card 1

Product List

166851 $35.00	166853 $53.00	166854 $79.00	153118 $15.75
153086 $25.00	153611 $27.00	152813 $14.00	152392 $49.00
165296 $25.00	165285 $15.75	149165 $15.75	121689 $25.00
147114 $15.75	121688 $25.00	166785 $25.00	104199 $8.75
166005 $15.00	166912 $21.75	150083 $15.75

January 22, 2026

Gears & Textures – Masculine

Recently on my Facebook Live I created with the Gears & Textures Stamp Set. You can see other cards I created with this set here. I chose to create some simple stamping cards which can be easily duplicated. I had used the inspiration from Crafty Rootes in the UK to create my first card. That was enough of a spring board to get me doing the next card and then the next and so on. It was great to be able to just create and to continue to get the creatively flowing so easily just with copying one card but changing up the colours.

Changing up the colours from the original design that I saw, I created the first card with the long images stamped diagonally on the page alternating the colours. On the insert I stamped the long images again on an angle which helped me jump to the next card. Having the images diagonally from either end and then stamping in the centre changes the card. And on the insert I stamped the images up and down which led me to my third card in this set. I chose to stamp the images from top to bottom on one side with the sentiment stamped at he bottom right of the card. Then layer each card front onto coordinating card stock. Really #simplestamping cards for you to recreate.

Gears & Textures – Masculine

Below is the quick version from my Facebook live, but you can also check out my long version with measurements here.

Product List

166851 $35.00	166853 $53.00	166854 $79.00	153118 $15.75
153086 $25.00	147090 $15.75	106576 $25.00	147085 $15.75
121683 $25.00	153611 $27.00	152813 $14.00	152392 $49.00

January 19, 2026

Gears & Textures

I have finally sat down to do some fun creating with brand new products. Pulling out the Gears & Textures stamp set from the brand new January to April Mini Catalogue, I got to searching for inspiration. The place I normally go for inspiration is to Marelle Taylor, my lovely upline. She ran Stamp a stack classes for years and years till Covid hit. So I go and check out her projects to see how I can use the layout or colours or both to create new projects using current product.

I chose this post of Marelle’s from March 2018. I had to change up the colours to current ones as a couple had retired. So I used Summer Splash to replace Bermuda Bay & then chose Blueberry Bushel to replace Pacific Point.

I used the Forever Plaid 3D embossing folder and the Dotted Circles 3D embossing folder for the background layer – one on each card. And then used the Three Banner Punch and the Wishing You Joy stamp set for the sentiment. The Lemon Lime Twist sentiment was punched out of the Lemon Lime Twist layer that is under the stamped images to save on cardstock. Its a great trick on using card without it impacting the visual of the card as the punched out part is completely covered. Rotating each card adds a different look to the cards as well.

Gears & Textures – first two cards

Product List

169232 $32.00	147138 $15.75	146991 $25.00	147145 $15.75	144250 $25.00
163809 $15.75	163798 $25.00	149653 $244.00	152813 $14.00	110755 $10.50
152392 $49.00	167097 $18.50	164049 $21.00	163789 $21.00	161600 $19.25
167050 $46.00