The Flower Challenge Reminder #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

 

Good Morning and welcome to a challenge reminder for The Flower Challenge.

For the month of July we are asking you to create a CAS card.

For some folks, a masculine card is the hardest to make. For me, it's a CAS card!

Clean  and simple... plenty of white space, and a main  focal. Oh and, a flower

of course!

I picked Honey Bee's Lovely Layers Water Lily, to use as my centerpiece, 

and added just a bit of Tiffanylou's Blue magicals to simulate water the

lily is floating on.

The layers make the petals pop off the card. Not so simple, but oh so pretty!

Happy Birthday is from The Greetery's Full Panel Leaves Stamp Set. It seemed

to fit the wavy leaf perfectly! 

I'd love to see what you make with this month's challenge. Believe

me, I need all the CAS ideas I can get! 

Blessings  sweet friends!

Reminder #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

Rejoice For He Has Risen

 

Hello and welcome. I am sharing a card with you done with some new stamps

and dies from The Greetery's new release. 

The basic nest die was cut from white and inked with several oxide inks.

I added the tiny flowers and some leaves. from The Baby Face Orange set. 

The nest is backed with brown for depth, and placed on top of Big Branches

Ruscus,  also inked. All placed on the Patchwork die, stamped with Spring

Meadow Background.

Rejoice stamp onto a Tear Strip Tag. 

Closeup of the nest and eggs.  A symbol of new beginnings! 

Happy Easter my friends!

Sweet Pea Baby Card

 

Hello!

Last Friday I placed my order with The Greetery and their release, New Beginnings.

Monday my order was in the mailbox! Bravo, Betsy!

My first card with this new release is a baby card. I'm so happy to see the

addition of cards for babies included in the line. I for one was in need of

some fresh product.

Hello Sweet Pea is going in my stash of baby cards, which has 0 cards 

at the moment, and I can't wait to do more with this release!

Nestled in a pea pod, and then in a wreath, the sleeping pea is just the cutest!

All die cuts cut from white cardstock,  and inked. 

The Greetery

Sweet Pea die, Baby Face Sentiments, Spring Meadow Background stamp, 

Rustic Wreath Stamp and die.

Sending Blessings

Happy Sunday, all!

Part 2 with the new Leaves All Around stencil and die set from the Greetery's 

newest release. This time with dimension, and the Jumbo moth.

I love the framing of any element, especially a sentiment. And this beautiful die

does it perfectly. I tried to mute my citrus colors, but it just wasn't happening.

 Kept going brighter and brighter, and then defined the leaves and blooms with pencil, 

for even more color.

I go where the card leads me. Sometimes, it's an idea that comes alive just as I planned.

Truly, most of the time it's an evolved effort!

Loving this release. It's brought such joy to a busy, stressed summer!

My moth used both wing dies, and like I said went from a pale guy to this 

bright showoff.

Hard to see, but the embossed copper sentiment is on a piece of vellum. Such a 

sweet script, rather animated like the fluttering moth!

I know of so many that could use a blessing right now. May have to do 

a few of these cards!

Enjoy your Sunday!

 

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

Hi there! Finally got a day to play with the Greetery's Curio set, and it took me

most of the day to complete this card. There's many pieces, once you combine the

sets, and I kept playing with ideas, die cuts, and colors.

The details in the the sets are wonderful! What you choose to include in your curio

is your choice.

A front view shows the my curio closed, with elements of summer collecting.

My curio 'opens', and has a butterfly on the outside as well as on the inside. There's even

a bee in a bottle. Such adorable details! The door idea was 'borrowed' from Norine Hope's

release card. 

Such fun to make. More of a showpiece than a card to send, but it does fit an A2 envelope.

I have so many pieces left over,  I think I'll make one more! Hope #2 goes quicker!

Have a great weekend!

 

Winter Scene

 

Christmas in July greetings to you!

This holiday season promises to be a busy one, and it's always nice to have

a stash of greeting cards ready.

My first Christmas card of the season is this sweet all die cuts shadow box nature scene

from Sizzix, featuring elements that has me longing for cool, quiet days.

I'm a big fan of card and envelope sets, so each Christmas card will have it's own

special stylized one for sending.

This one stenciled with the Greetery's Berry Branch stencil, with some splatters.

The tree is treated with some Shabby embossing powder.

Not putting this die set away just yet, plan to do some more cards in different 

color ways. 

Hope I inspired you to stay in and create! 

Supplies:

Sizzix: Christmas Shadow Box die set

The Greetery: Berry Branch Stencil, envelopes

Stampendous: Shabby Green Embossing Powder

Give Thanks

Good Monday Morning, hope your week is off to a crafty start.

Playing along with Color Throwdown, and these colors.

Decided to give them a leafy look like the photo, and chose PTI's 

Bold Borders: Foliage as a starting point.

I sponge inked a few Catherine Pooler inks onto watercolor paper, spritzed it with water and ran my brush through the colors to blend a bit before cutting out my image.

Also cut my image 4 times with aqua mist to build it up more like a frame.

Sentiment: New Every Morning (PTI)

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!

Alleluia! Happy Easter

It's Easter week and I have so much to do, baking, shopping, playing with grandkids...

but somehow I found time to be in the craft room (early morning!) and create a card

for PapertreyInk's new challenge: Transformation Tuesday.

This week Melissa Phillips took a beautiful card she made, and simply 

changed colors and styles. 

I did a card for the Card Concept Challenge with Brushed Birds,

and a cover plate with branches.

With a few birds left over, decided to do the second card using the Shape Shifters: Circle 1 die,

together with Beautiful Berries: Spring, changing up the colors from aqua & yellow, 

to Amethyst and Yellow. I added a bit of glitter to this one as well.

I enjoyed this challenge, transforming or tweaking a card a bit, using the same or similar elements

and stamps.

Find Melissa's cards here:

           Transformation Tuesday with Melissa Phillips           

A peek inside 

also playing along with this weeks' Word Art Wednesday: Anything Goes

Challenge #328 - #329 - Anything Goes

Below is a list of PTI products I used. If you click on the item,

it will take you right to the product.

Brushed Birds Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Brushed Birds Die

Papertrey Ink - Shape Shifters: Circle 1 Die

Papertrey Ink - Infinity Frames Die

Beautiful Berries: Spring Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Beautiful Berries: Spring Die

Perfect Match Lilac Grace - Inkpad

Perfect Match Amethyst Allure - Inkpad

Perfect Match Winter Wisteria - Inkpad

Perfect Match Blueberry Sky - Inkpad

Perfect Match Stormy Sea - Inkpad

Perfect Match Mint Julep - Inkpad

Perfect Match Prairie Grass - Inkpad