The Flower Challenge August: Add Embellishments

 

Hello Flower Challenge fans! And Happy August!

Time for a new Challenge, and this month we asking for embellishments.

All those sweet blings that shine on our cards.

Altenew's Golden Days is the flower on my card. It begins with hot

foiling, and then adding stencils. It actually takes up more than an A2

card, so I trimmed off the edges. 

The frame is Waffle Flower's Quilted Frames.

One of my embellishments is this foiled bird I found in my stash. 

Also added some gold rhinestones. 

Go ahead and add as many blings as you like for this one! 

Everyone loves play with bling!

The Flower Challenge #105 - Add Embellishments

The Flower Challenge: Monochrome

Hi! How are you faring with being sheltered? Confession time... I actually made a trip

to my local nursery and almost went bizerk in their floral wonderland! I really needed 

that outing!

Surrounding myself with flowering plants is as essential as breathing.

My house's front and back, each patio, inside and outside are plants.

I love them all! 

I also love flower stamps and dies. And oh, how I love any challenge

that is flower related! The Flower Challenge is at the top of my list.

Their latest challenge is to use one color... a monochrome card.

The Greetery's Fresh Floral Background stamp was my starting point.

Together with Blueprint Sketch Distress ink, (Ranger), and a few more

of the Greetery's stamps and dies, I created my monochrome floral card.

I clear embossed my background panel, before inking it, lighter on top,

progressively darker on the bottom.

The light was just perfect outside... couldn't resist shooting the card in the fairy garden.

I used the background stamp again for 2 more cards, not monochrome.

For this one, the background is inked first, blending the Sunray to Snapdragon

(Altenew), with the panel in my Misti. Stamped again over the inking with

embossing ink, and clear powder. That seals the color while I Inked over the

stamped flowers.

the sentiment medallion is PTI's Tagsale 12. Alphabuds Slim and 

Sentiment Starters, with a fussy cut flower from Print Shop: Fresh Floral.

(The Greetery) I didn't have the matching die set at the time. But it came

the other day, in time to make my monochrome card.

My last card was my first made, a simple stamped background, with gradient inking.

Nordic Frames and Budding Beauties Spring (the Greetery).

I'm not ready to put the Fresh Floral Background stamp away just yet...

I have a few more ideas for colors...

Take care my friends, and keep creating! It's a great way to stay safe... and sane!

Birthday Bottles

Hi there, and Happy September! 

I'm playing with the Greetery's newest, Bottled Up, Cotton Comfort and

Halfsies dies.

The 3 step bottle stamps look amazingly real when completed.

Cotton comfort is actually 5 steps with the cotton balls.

The Happy Birthday Sentiment is from Lemon Blossom.

When it came to step 4's stamping of the cotton balls, I sponge inked with 

Altenew's Iceburg.

It's been a busy summer, with family and some travel. Very nice to stay home

(nice and quiet now) and craft with a large pile of yet to be inked stamps!

Hope you're days are a bit cooler. I've already seen pumpkins in the market!

Happy crafting!

Flowers in Reverse: MIM with Dawn

Hi! I'm playing along with Dawn McVey and Papertrey's MIM,

where we're challenged to feature our flowers in reverse. Instead of Dawn's usual 

bold colorful florals, she keeps them white, and adds color to the

accenting leaves.

I did 2 cards, with die cut elements Dawn suggested we do

before assembling our card. 

1st card is built on a trellis created with Coverplate Stripes Diagonal.

Heather first showed us this during one of PTI's releases. 

Going through my PTI sets, I didn't find enough pierced greenery, so I used a Neat & 

Tangled Flower Medallion Builder die.

With that exception, all else is Papertrey.

2nd card uses the background stamp, Text & Texture: Roses.

So many left over die cuts, I could do several more cards! 

All products listed below will take you to the PTI shop. 

Play along on PTI's blog, MIM.

Text & Texture: Roses Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Cover Plate: Stripes Diagonal Die

Forest Floor: Spring Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Forest Floor: Spring Die

Papertrey Ink - Especially You Die

Papertrey Ink - Bloomers Die

Garden Party Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Garden Party Die

Gathered Garden Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Gathered Garden Die

Leave It Be Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Leave It Be Die

Perfect Match Green Parakeet - Inkpad

Perfect Match New Leaf - Inkpad

Perfect Match Hawaiian Shores - Inkpad

Perfect Match Aqua Mist - Inkpad

Papertrey Ink - Stemmed Statements Die

Stemmed Statements Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Doily Details A Punch-Out Tool

Papertrey Ink - Doily Details B Punch-Out Tool

Papertrey Ink - Doily Details C Punch-Out Tool

Perfect Match Green Parakeet Cardstock (24 Sheets)

Perfect Match Hawaiian Shores Cardstock (24 Sheets)

Honestly, it took me almost as much time to list all my supplies as it did

to make the cards! (ha!)

The patterned paper is PTI's older dot paper. And the dots are Nuvo Crystal Dots.

Anything I forgot, just ask, I'd be glad to help! 

Happy Crafting!

SAF '17 1st Anniversary Tradition: Paper with Laura Bassen

Hello again! Back with some more Stamp-A-Faire with PTI and 

this time with Laura Bassen. She's back with a celebration of paper.

Laura shares her rainbows and color gradients with every piece of gorgeous art,

and it was so nice to watch her work her magic on the card she made in the video.

My card used her tricks to lineup each piece of the Coverplate: Awning.

Oh yes, it took a while, but I LOVE the results!

Big Basics: Just for You, cut 5 times, 4 in Pure Poppy, once in white.

You can sort of see the red underneath in this  photo.

Thank you Laura, and thank you for visiting!

1st Anniversary Tradition, Paper - with Laura Bassen