The Flower Challenge #99 February 2025 Feature the Colour Pink

 

Well hello there, and welcome back to the Flower Challenge.

This month we're featuring the color pink.

The Sweet Pea die from Spellbinders caught my eye for this month's challenge.

Haven't used this 3-D die in a while. 

Once the pieces are cut, they're 'formed' with a tool onto foam to produce

 the curl. Such a fun card to create.

The Flower Challenge #99 - Feature the Colour Pink

 

The Flower Challenge Thanks

 

For the month of November, The Flower  Challenge is asking for the word Thanks.

All die cuts for my card sample today. Courtesy of Spellbinders.

The Flower Challenge #97 - Thanks

Playing Cards With Friends

Guess what? Today's a playdate with a friend. Yep. We're 'Playing Cards With

Friends' today. My sweet and talented friend, Michele Ferguson from I Card Everyone

asked if I'd like to join her and create a card. Delightful!

Michele gave these parameters: 

Make a card for a neighbor or friend, and hand deliver it.

Flowers are always welcome, in fact, let's make them die cut flowers.

Include a kind sentiment.

Check, check and check! And if you look closely, I added an embossed background,

something I always swoon over on Michele's beautifully crafted cards.

I have a neighbor I've known a long time. She's extraordinary, talented, beautiful and

caring. I can't wait to let her know how much I appreciate her friendship.

Well, Michele... If you lived near me, you'd get this card, but as it is, 

I'm happy to share it with a dear neighbor and friend.

Let's all run over to Michele's blog to see her creation.

Happy Day, everyone!

https://icardeveryone.blogspot.com/2023/02/playing-cards-with-friends-february-2023.html 

One last mention before you go, the 17th of this month is:

https://nationaltoday.com/random-act-kindness-day/

Pretty fitting that we made a kindness card, isn't it?

Thanks, Michele. I had a wonderful time. Hope we can play together again some time!

💕

And... as promised a card, with patterned paper, same die set, new colors, and a 

sentiment for Random Acts of Kindness Day, which is today.  

Michele, lets do this again!

The Card Concept: Floral Valentine

 

Floral Valentine is the new challenge at the Card Concept. Here is our photo 

inspiration and color swatches.

I love working with dies and die cuts, and chose A Pocket Full of Love, 

from Spellbinders to create my Clean and Elegant pocket card.

I used the colors, shades of pink, green and black and placed. my main die cut on

a black background. Then pieced the colors.

The pocket die reveals a card with a sentiment.

Such a great inspiration photo for this challenge, so many possibilities. Can't wait to see

what you do with it! 

Play along, and remember to choose a style, one of ours or make up your own.

Have a great week!

The Card Concept #188 {Floral Valentine}

The Card Concept: Winter Cocoa or Winter Snow

 

The Card Concept has a new challenge, starting today, and you get to choose

your inspiration again!

This inspiration photo and color swatches seemed to me a real challenge, so

I wanted to try to tackle the colors.

A while back I ordered the Stitch Petal Frame die from Spellbinders, and it 

seemed the perfect choice for incorporating the select colors of the challenge.

We've had a lot of rain here in my Central Valley, good excuse to stay in and

embroider this stitch card.

Head on over to The Card Concept blog to see both challenge photos and

play along! 

Thanks for the visit!

The Card Concept #187 {Winter Cocoa} or {Winter Snow}

The Card Concept: Christmas Trees

Hi and Merry Christmas! The Card Concept has a new challenge for you, and once

again with the brilliant idea of giving you the choice:

Lovely and warm fall themed card or

Cool, contemporary colors for a holiday card.

My inspiration for you comes from a card I saw Norine Boyes do, with a tree from

Spellbinders.

She placed droplets of reinker onto a stamping block, sprayed the block, and created 

her own paper. After die cutting the image or tree, she added paste to simulate snow. 

The process was a blast! and I love the result of the greens blended with spaces. of

white.  

Hope you're inspired today, and choose one of our inspiration photos for your card.

Have a wonder week!

The Card Concept #184 {Happy Thanksgiving} or {Merry Christmas} 

 

3 Lattes, Please...

Hi there, and Happy Holidays... almost.

Seriously, with Christmas season sneaking in, my craftroom is all set for Holiday card making.

I transformed the new, Warm and Wonderful from the Greetery,

into 3 Christmas card greetings.

This first card mounts the coffee mug on The Greetery's large Wood Slice, and

I stamped my sentiment on the smaller one.

Background was created with Tartan Builder Diagonal. I also added a few florals

from Merry Sprigs.

With a background made from Tartan Builder Diagonal again, this mug is 

mounted onto a vellum oval, and the sentiment from Hug in a Mug is 

embossed onto it.

I added a floral bouquet to this one made from Merry Sprigs, and some greens and berries

from Warm & Wonderful. Frosted Frames finished the card.

The third card is stamped with The Greetery's Print Shop Calico, and stenciled with 

reds and greens. The little tag is from Hug in a Mug Sweets. The oval is stenciled 

with Berry Branch, one of my favorites to use on cards. Stitched framed is from 

Spellbinders.

Back to the craft room, it's going to see a lot of me for the next few months!

 

The Card Concept: Make It Masculine

 

Welcome to a new challenge at the Card Concept, this time it's Make It Masculine.

Our inspiration photo is of a pillow with all the masculine vibes you need.

I was inspired by the color swatches, animals, and nature for my Clean

and Layered card.

The critters are from Stamplorations' 'You Are my Tribe stamp and die set. 

They're mounted on The Greetery's Wood Slices.

The panel is from Spellbinders, and the masculine paper is Poppystamps.

Father's Day is around the corner, and it's always nice to have a few masculine

cards in your stash! 

The Card Concept #177 {Make It Masculine}

The Card Concept: May Flowers

 

Hi and welcome to a new Card Concept Challenge! Take a look at our inspiration photo

So many ways to be inspired with this glass of May flowers filled with lemons.

I chose  the colors to create my Clean and Layered card. 

Hope you find time to play along.

Have a great week!

Spellbinders: Paint Your World

The Greetery: Postal Frames

The Card Concept #175 {May Flowers} 

The Flower Challenge 2: Occasions, Part 2

 

Now if someone told me I could only create floral cards, I would laugh.. out loud! 

They're my favorite, to do and get. 

I fell in love with this Amaryllis 3-D die from Spellbinders at Christmas time, and 

needed a special card for a special lady, turning the big 5-0.

The petals assemble to form the 4 flowered Amaryllis, with stamens. My flower is

cut from Poppystamps' watercolor cardstock. I watercolored the petals and leaves, 

and glued the flower to a panel of Altenew stamped background (Dot Art).

The finished flower is long, so I chose a 5x7" base for the card.

The marvelous numbers are from The Greetery. I love their extra special detail!

The finished card is too dimensional for a regular envelope. My plan is to create my own 

box with my We R Memory Keepers tool.

The Flower Challenge 2 runs through the 25th, still plenty of time to join.

Have a good one!

The Flower Challenge #65 Occasions

The Flower Challenge: Occasions

One of my very favorite challenges is the Flower Challenge. Who doesn't love 

crafting with flowers, right?

Spellbinders has a die set called Sweet Pea,  which I played with to give the petals 

a 3-D effect.

The technique to alter the petals is on a Youtube video here:

Handmade Flowers Tutorial with Spellbinders Sweet Pea Die Set by Susan Tierney

A closeup of the flowers. The tendrils were created by cutting strips of copic colored 

paper. Then curling with my fingernail. 

The Flower Challenge #65 Occasions

Sentiment: The Greetery's All Kinds of Happy.

Frame, also the Greetery's Postal Frame.