The Flower Challenge Make a Square Card

 

Hello March! For this month, the Flower Challenge wants you to create

a square card.

We leave winter for a peek at summer with the Hibiscus flower from The Greetery.

With the basket weave stencil in the  background, I inked die cuts and added a

birthday greeting.

Hope you're thinking square with this month's challenge. Can't wait to see

what you create!

The Flower Challenge #89 - Make a Square Card

The Flower Challenge Reminder: Add a Heart

 

Just a reminder, The Flower Challenge reminds you, your challenge for February...

Add a Heart

Altenew's Fairy Tale set is the floral used for my card. My heart dots the 'I" in 

beautiful.

The color was applied with stencils, and deepened with Prima pencils.

Are you playing along? 

You have until the 25th! See you in the lineup!

The Flower Challenge #84 Use a Die

 

Happy September crafty friends! 

With so many luscious flower dies out there, we at the Flower Challenge 

invite you to 'Use a Die' and play along this month!

Well, my hardest challenge was choosing a die!

I setttled on this Tim  Holtz Thinlits, Brushstroke Flowers 2. 

I paired my sponged blooms against a 3-D embossing folder also by

Tim Holtz called 'Doily'.

I've done numerous panels with the doily EF, in lots of color combos,

loving each one!

The method I used to make the doily pop, was to ink the EF in white with a roller,

onto a blush piece of cardstock. Then heavily inking the bottom right corner, before

stamping the text.

I kept the tiny text subtle behind my Beautiful Day sentiment.

So that's it, my friends. Pick a die, use it on a card, and play along!

And, Have a Beautiful Day!

Reminder #83: Add Spots or Stripes

 

Welcome back to a reminder at The Flower Challenge, where the challenge this month

is Add Spots or Stripes.

The stripes are text, and run down the bottom of the card, in a sweet script.

This time I used Sizzix Thinlits Brushstroke Flowers 2 & 1,  by Tim Holtz.

Oxide Ink colors by Ranger, and Hello There, an old die from PTI.

Hope to  see you in the lineup!

Reminder #83 Add Spots or Stripes

The Flower Challenge #79 Background Stamping

 

It's a beautiful Spring day and The Flower Challenge this month is to create

a card with Background Stamping.

My Easter card features new stamps, dies and a foiled sentiment from The Greetery.

Spring on a card! Come play along, we love seeing your takes on the

theme challenge!

The Flower Challenge #79 Focus on Background Stamping

Good Wednesday Morning! Playing along today with the Color Hues Challenge,

where we are challenged with Green and Gold.

I used Altenew's Build a Flower Honeysuckle, and stamped with various greens from

Distress Oxide Inks.

the first layer is gold embossed, then multi-stamped.

Have to say, green was a bit challenging for some reason.

If you'd like to play with Gold and Green, the blog is below.

Happy Hump Day!

Color Hues #59-Green and Gold

 

 

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}

2 Challenges, one card

It's time to use our scraps on The Flower Challenge. The problem I had was choosing 

from the scrap pile! So many scraps!

This panel I did with an embossing folder, turned out badly, but I just couldn't toss it.

It was done with a brayer and Wilted Violet Distress Ink, and inked before running it

through the machine. Depending on which side you ink, you're left with a raised pattern.

The gold spray I added blobbed in too many areas, and the only way to save this piece was 

possibly to hide the blobs or cut them away.

I decided to do both, hide the blobs, and cut away a bit of edges.

I used a Poppystamps frame with an Altenew flower, and embossed a sentiment on some 

heat resistant acetate. 

The flower was both stamped and copic colored. 

The outline was stamped with Hero Arts Wet Cement, an ink I use often with copics.

I'm also entering in another favorite card challenge, Just Us Girls.

Just Us Girls Challenge #623 - Trend Week

The Flower Challenge #66 Use Scraps

Easter Cards

 

Easter cards are some of my favorite cards to make. Full of Spring and colorful florals,

and of course faith. 

This latest release of the Greetery's goodies were full of joy... spring, florals and 

Easter symbols and sentiments!

This past weekend I spent some time creating with the Greetery's Print Shop: Florals

Frames and the sentiment Empty Grave. 

The 3 cards are more or less experiments with the stamp set, playing with Betsy's enclosed

stencils and dies.

 A one layer card with blues and greens, and a little marigold for berries. You can't miss

with the stencil layering, so easy, and the center is perfect for your greeting.

2nd card was done with the die that cuts the floral frame, and I stamped some 

enclosed berries in strategic places around and under the leaves and flowers. I added some 

Nuvo drops, (wish I hadn't),  and lifted the die cut with foam.

3rd card is a mix of stenciling and stamping first on the card base, upside down, then

attaching the foam lifted top right side up onto the card. The idea wasn't mine, I 

found inspiration from the Greetery's 'Lookbook'. I masked off the center sentiment,

and added a few splatters.

The sentiment is gold embossed, and I'd love to share a shade of gold I found, new

to me, from Ranger, called Princess Gold. It's the best gold I've used yet! I found mine

at Hobby Lobby. 

Have a wonderful week, hope your Easter season is full of God's Grace!

Happy Birthday

The Last Card I'm posting today is actually the first one made of 3,

using the Greetery's newest stamps and dies.

Birthday cards are always needed, so I added the sweet banner and plan to send

this to my daughter-in-law at the end of the month.

The background was stamped with Fresh Floral Background stamp, a

favorite, using Altenew's Misty Morning Ink. The grey is slightly

grey, green and blue all rolled into one. Just a perfect color for a 

soft background.

Some of the designers, and some of you added splatters to your watering can, and I loved

the effect! Betsy's 3 part stamping makes me LOVE stamping all the more!

The banner from the birthday set is just the sweetest touch tucked into the

bouquet! 

Just can't get enough of these new sets. Did you get them? 

The flowers, the watering can, and the map is next on the list!

Have a great week, friends, and may you enjoy every moment!

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!