The Flower Challenge #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

 

Happy 4th of July, all my crafty American friends! It's time to celebrate.

Any plans?

We have plans for a swim, barbecue and watch fireworks at the high 

school near by. A great tradition with family and friends.

How about some card making?

We are asked to create a CAS card at the Flower Challenge, and for some 

inspiration,  how about some red, white and blue!

Lots of white space... check!

simple design... check! 

Clean and simple... check! 

Poppystamps flowers, and PTI Beautiful Berries: Spring sentiment and bg stamp.

Nuvo Indigo drops.

Happy 4th y'all! 

The Flower Challenge #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

The Card Concept Spring Bouquet

 

Hi and welcome to a new challenge at The Card Concept: Spring Bouquet

I love the  colors with this photo, and used them for my Clean and Layered card.

Starting with the Greetery stamped background in Ranger's Oxide grey ink, 

I die  cut the Poppystamps trellis )thought it looked lacy over it, and then

the tulips  from the greetery (also inked)

The die cut 'birthday' is also from the Greetery, as is the silver embossed 

wishing you...

Our challenges are for 2 weeks, and hope you're inspired to play along!

The Card Concept #194 {Spring Bouquet} 

The Flower Challenge 2 Reminder#79 Focus on Background Stamping

 

Hi and welcome to the Flower Challenge Reminder: Background Stamping.

It's all about showing those flowers off, against a stamped background.

It's Your Day, is a birthday card with a sweet hummingbird, against a stamped lattice

circle.

Behind a bouquet from C9 called Eclectic Garden Dies, is 

from it's matching Eclectic Garden Stamp set. 

The Greetery arches die and Seed Catalogue Background Stamp are the finishing

touches, along with some rhinestones from Poppystamps.

You still have a couple of weeks to play, hope to see your creations, and how

you add background stamping to your cards. 

Have a great weekend!

The Card Concept New Arrival or Busy Bee

 

Well Hello friends! 

We have a new challenge at the Card Concept: New Arrival or Busy Bee.

Guess what I chose? 

Just had to play with The Greetery's Honey Bee dies for this one!

Mostly inked the bees, but added some white pen, and vellum for wings. 

If you look closely, I colored some glossy accents and dipped the honey 

stick into it. 

I was definitely inspired by the bee images on the inspiration photo

I also used the colors, and honey vibe for my vintage and Layered card.

The Card Concept #193 {New Arrival} or {Busy Bee}

The Greetery

Honey Bee die, Honey Jar stamps and dies, Lovely Silhouettes, Seed

Catalogue Background stamp, Buzz Worthy Sentiments Stamp set

Concord and 9th

Eclectic Garden Stamp set

Poppystamps

 Circle dies, Rain drops

Inks, Altenew & Ranger Distress Oxides

Poppystamps Post: Junk Journal

 

Hello, Poppy Peeps! I'm up on the Poppystamps blog today with a Junk Journal, created

with a new die set. It's such a fun project and I've got pictures to show you here of

every page. Hope your drinks and snacks are handy, it's a long post!

The die set has everything you need to make a basic pocket sized journal. You make

it your own with die cuts, twine, tapes and stickers. I even added a flower paper clip.

I themed my little journal to take you on an Easter egg hunt. Come along and count

 the eggs. 2 on the front...

The main die gives you a book shape with a label. I cut 4 of these, turning two around

so the label is below the top one. 

Page 1, is a pocket with a fuzzy bunny. Within the pocket is a page with a chick.

Opposite page is an egg clipped onto a contrasting design. 

The sweet little chick is a sticker, as is the rainbow over his head.

Pages 3 and 4.

I added an arrow to the little butterfly pull out. always nice to give instructions!

Pages 5 & 6. The page corners are included in the set.

Pages 7 & 8 are a favorite... I used some Easter stickers from my stash 

on the pockets. (Pocket dies are also included in the set).

tiny treats revealed!

9 & 10, and I added Washi tape to the pocket of page 9

The bunny ears pull tab is the top of a butterfly die. 

A bunny in an envelope on page 12, and a bunny in a plaid pocket with washi eggs

on 13.

Page 14 is a pocket with another pull tab...

...revealing 3 floral eggs.

the last page has 2 tulip die corners for a photo. 

Egg total? I'll never tell!

I sewed my my journal with twine. and made a tassel.

Honestly, a 10 on the cute scale! And sharing a secret, it was my first

junk journal. Takes some time, but when your creative juices start flowing,

it's a blast! 

Still with me? Want to give this a try? 

Head on over to the Poppystamps blog. I've listed all product I

used for my Easter egg hunt junk journal at the bottom of my post.

Happy Easter!

Want to see it in action? Visit my Facebook page.

Poppystamps Challenge: Me and You

It's the first of the month, and Poppystamps has a new challenge to play! 

I'm one of the designers for this month, and the challenge is to create a card

using the theme, Me and You. Perfect for a Valentine!

I also get to choose a guest to inspire you, and my good friend Colleen Foelker agreed

to be my guest for the month of February. Colleen's card is the beautiful Valentine below.

You can find Colleen's lovely valentine on her blog: One Smile Lifts a Heart, and

and of course on the Poppystanps blog all month. 

My card is also on the Poppystamps blog:

Check out all the details on the Poppystamps blog.

You have all month to play along for a 25. gift certificate!

Thanks, and be sure to visit Colleen and give her some love!

 

The Card Concept: Harvest Bounty or Christmas Joy

 

It's time for a new challenge at the Card Concept.  Our theme is: Harvest Bounty or

Christmas Joy. You choose, Autumn theme or Christmas card. With Christmas so near

we thought it would be fun have a dual choice.

I have some Christmas inspiration for you today, and I used the Joy sign on the

top shelf in the picture as the theme of my card.

My card is a shaker, Joy is from Poppystamps, and cut first from silver glitter card

stock and then from white 5 times. Lots of flora from Tim Holtz. 2 sets used here,

Play along with your choice: Harvest Bounty or Christmas Joy 

The Card Concept #182a {Harvest Bounty} or #182b {Christmas Joy}

 

The Flower Challenge #72 Reminder: Add Sparkle

It's reminder time at the Flower Challenge, where the theme this month is

Add Sparkle. 

I used a few sparkles on my reminder card. Paper with glitter stripes, glitter

paper, and some sparkle spray on my bouquet.

You can see the sparkle on this photo. I've had this stripped paper for years

and was so happy to use it for this card.

The Glitter paper is from Poppystamps

My die cuts are from the Greetery, and the paper I used for the wrap is a wrapping

off a bar of soap I saved because it was just too special to toss!

Add some sparkle to your creation and play along!

Botanicuts: Bluebells, Lavender, & Wildflower,

It's a Wrap, Deco Frames

PTI: Brushed Off Rectangle

The Flower Challenge #72 Add Sparkle Reminder

 

One More Card Set for Alisa

 

Sent With Love is one more set of cards for Alisa, my daughter, who asked for 

some general cards to send out to ladies at her church.

This is a simple set of 4 cards, (so simple I might make it 8), using The Greetery's

new Wild Elegance release.

I began with Color Spots Stencil, stamped with Altenew Inks. I love their inks 

for sets that coordinate so beautifully. 

This set of inks for instance is Fall Harvest, a set of 4 that blend and 

coordinate together perfectly. All one color, no new color formed from

the blend, which is what I wanted for this card set.

The Lovely Silhouettes stamps and dies were backed with a darker shade of

matching cardstock for a little uplift.

The tips of the flowers were also embossed. And each card has a matching

envelope.

I found some wallpaper pattern in my stash and added it to the inside of the box.

I forgot how much I love doing these boxes, so quick and easy, and such a great

way to present the cards!

The back of the box gets some stamping love too!

I don't usually do CAS cards, I'm more of a 'use it all' lover of card making.

But I think she'll like these simpler designs. All my color coordinated bling

is from Poppystamps.

Thanks for the visit!