The flower Challenge #70 CAS

 

Well hello! 

Did you see me on top of the moon? I'm there because I've been asked to join

a favorite challenge blog, The Flower Challenge!

It's a card challenge blog with the main star of the show being, flowers! 

If you happen to read my bio on the Flower Challenge Blog, you'll see

gardening is a passion with me. Which leads to the love of adding flowers to

my cards and projects, which of course leads to an extensive, ever growing

accumulation of stamps, dies, etc., that are flowers! Sound familiar?

The hardest choice here? What flower should I use for my debut? Altenew, of course!

My pick? Wallpaper Art, a favorite for coloring.

Don't tell my crafting sisters on the design team, but CAS is a hard one for me.

My instinct is to load up the layers and craft a card full of, well, full. 

Clean and Simple, lots of white space... mine is pale grey. Do you see a theme

with me? A rebel? Proudly, so! As CAS as it gets, hope my card brings all of you

inspiration to play along this month. Can't wait to see your lovelies!

Well, that's it, my friends.

Hello and Sending you all love and hugs.

If you have a minute, I'd love to hear what you think of my Clean and Simple card.

Have a great week!

The Flower Challenge #70 CAS

PTI July Blog Hop

It's Blog Hop time at PapertreyInk!

Welcome and sit back for a bit while I show you the 4 cards I created.

1st the Challenge photo:

I saw this wonderful inspiration, and thought, sewing, summer, buttons, bouquets,

sweet artisan handwork.

Rather went my own way with the first card. 

Can you tell it's a beach theme?

Waited so long for Betsy's Shakers and Sprinkles, but let me tell you, it was worth the wait!

The dies are incredible and the vials of sequins and rainstones are a treasure!

Not going to detail the supplies, but it's all Papertrey, except the crushed shells and sand confetti, and the gold embroidery thread on the shell.

Card 2:

More in line with the inspiration photo, this card uses some of my favorite dies,

and the linen embossing folder.

Don't you love that 'happy' die and stamp from Embellished Elegance?

I keep looking for ways to use it!

On to card 3:

There are 9 die cuts in this card (just sayin')

What's better than red, pink and aqua together!

A little 'hand' stitching with a white gel pen.

And finally....

Artful Notions does CAS, (restraint is not what I'm normally know for!)

But I love what Maile's been doing with slants and cuts!

All PTI card stocks and Inks and stamps and dies too. 

If you want to know more about any of the cards above, I love to chat!

Otherwise, what are you still doing here?

Hop along and have fun!

July 2014 Blog Hop Challenge

MIM #173

Happy Monday! This monday Heather creates the most beautiful watercolor 

on this week's Make It Monday, on

Nichole Heady's blog.

She does it by first stamping the image with a pale ink, such as

Softstone, the color I used for my image.

The image stamped looks like a pencil drawing, and looks like I sketched it.

Brilliant!

The image is from Year of the Flowers: Violets, but I made it a pansy!

All PTI products:

Ink refils: Lemon Zest, Harvest Gold, Lavender Mist,

Plum Pudding, Winter Wisteria & True Black

Cardstocks: Plum Pudding, PP Gingham, Royal Velvet

Stamps: Year of the Flowers Violet, Sentiment from Birds & Blooms

I paper pieced the center of the violet.

See Heather's video here:

Make It Monday #173: No Outline Watercolor

The Card Concept 14: Color Challenge

A wonderfully bold color challenge from The Card Concept!

Check out this inspiration photo

I was inspired by the big b/w pillow, the poppy red blooms, and the 

quirky rope lamp on the side table.

Quatrafoil Coverplate: PTI

Paper Pieced the blossom from Friends Till the End  Stamp and Die Set: PTI

Tremendous Tags: PTI

Sentiment: Make It Market Watercolors

Cardstock: PTI

Gelatos Teal

Black EP

Rope Twine

Have to go with my go-to style with this one, Classy Elegant!

Play along here:

Challenge #14 - Colour Challenge