The Flower Challenge: Birthday Celebration and Use a Shape

I'm so excited to be playing along with a favorite challenge blog, The Flower Challenge,

where they are celebrating their 5th birthday. Along with all the festivities and prizes,

they've asked us to use a shape on our cards.

 

The shape of my card is the gorgeous Hourglass from the Greetery. I've paired it 

with the Greetery's Winterberry Bouquet. 

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The card is a shaker, filled with sweet snowflakes and chunky glitter. The berry set

is a series of stencils and stamps. There's even a mask for for berry bouquet, which

I used over my image before sponge inking the background.

I added some sprigs and a blossom with berries to the front of the hourglass, with

a banner greeting.

The final step was the addition of Nuvo Glimmer Paste.

Happy Birthday Flower Challenge gals!

Play along through the 25th. 

Have a great and crafty weekend!

The Flower Challenge #61 Use a Shape and 5th Birthday

Peace card

Make It Monday at PTI features the artistry of Melissa Phillips, 

who wowed us with 3 gorgeous samples of wreath building, found here:

Make It Monday #300: Build-a-Wreath

I must be slipping because I only have a couple of wreaths to work with,

one being the die Melissa used. Found this one (Enclosed Wreath), 

and had some fun with building my card around it.

Had to go with pinks, in honor of Melissa, and her incredible talent with pastels!

Embossed my die cut 4 times with Stampendous Shabby Green EP,

and sponge inked and stamped the Doily Tag Base with Beautiful Berries: Winter.

2 colors for the fern: Mint Julep & Green Parakeet.

2 colors for the berries: Berry Sorbet & Pure Poppy.

Background is stenciled with PTI's Polka Dots, Sweet Blush on Sweet Blush cardstock.

A peek on the inside

It's so much easier to finish the inside while the stamps are on my table,

one less step when addressing my cards.

Loved this technique, and plan to do several cards using these stamp sets...

while they're still handy on the table!

Thank you Melissa, and thank you for visiting,

Happy Crafting!