Bold Botanicals Are Here: Meet the Dreamy World of Wonderful Wisteria samples post

July 07, 2025

Happy Monday, friends!

The sky is blue here — I hope it's just as bright wherever you are!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are feeling refreshed for a fabulous new week ahead. I've got some fun crafty things planned (hopefully I can actually get into the craft room! ) — so please stay tuned for some inspiration and creativity coming your way!

I'm so grateful for all the love on the cards I shared last week — thank you so much for your kindness, your encouragement, and all the wonderful support — not just here but across the cardmaking groups on Facebook.

You are all amazing — let's make it a beautiful week full of paper, glue, and joy!

Sharing today's New launch

You can find it on the website here: https://shop.obyd.co.uk/b/9U1gM

Looking for a paper set that does it all?

Our Paper Addicts Bold Botanicals – Watercolour Wonders: Wonderful Wisteria 8x8 paper set is not only stunning — it’s endlessly versatile! You can print the pages exactly as they are, or resize them using your printer settings to create smaller pieces perfect for unique toppers, mini cards, or tiny tags. Want to get extra creative? Cut the papers down to size for custom panels on your fancy fold cards, or use your favourite dies to craft shaped toppers, flowers, or frames. These designs are also fabulous for making your own stationery sets, junk journals, memory albums, scrapbooks, and even brag books!

Here are the 4 pages included in the set -

But it doesn’t stop there — use the papers to craft beautiful flip-flaps, decorate gift boxes and bags, or create thoughtful bookmarks, tags, and envelope liners. Print them onto sticker paper to make your own labels or planner decorations, or decoupage them onto wooden boxes, trays, and home décor projects for a pastel-perfect finish. The soft watercolour florals also make beautiful backgrounds for ATCs, postcards, and keepsake frames.

At just £1.99, this digital paper set is an absolute steal — and once downloaded and saved, you can print it again and again, whenever inspiration strikes!

I’ve included some sample pics below to give you a few ideas — but the possibilities are truly endless. Get creative, mix and match, and most of all — have fun crafting!

The above beautiful handmade card was made by our Laura as a design team sample for the launch - one of the papers was used as a background and one of the papers was trimmed down to make a little topper for the card. Teamed up with some pretty purple and silver card for the layers, some ribbon, gems and a little sentiment this is such a pretty little card that is ideal for posting

Simple Arch card - cut with dies or a cutting machine with scan functionality

Perfect for making your own Handmade notebooks/ journals, diary

Use with your shaped dies or shape cutters to create your own toppers for your cards and scrapbooks

Use as card fronts and print to make beautiful water coloured style cards

Send as they are or bling them up with gems, handmade flowers and embellishments

These are quick and easy!

I hope you have liked todays little blog post- you can find all of the samples on the product listing (there is an inspiration zone at the bottom of each page) you can find the listing on the website here: https://shop.obyd.co.uk/b/9U1gM

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