The Flower Challenge September: Include a Stamped Flower

Hello September! 

We're celebrating stamping  at  The Flower Challenge this month, and you're 

invited to use a stamped flower on your card. 

I love this shuttered window die, and it's interactive opening. My window

opens to an all  over floral image (the Greetery)

I added stamped Morning Glories (The Greetery), and deepened parts of  the stamping

with  colored pencils.

Finally, the blessings sentiment.  (The Greetery)

Hope  your challenges this month include The  Flower Challenge!

The Flower Challenge #95 - Include a Stamped Flower

The Flower Challenge #88: Add a Heart

 

It's the month of hearts!

Welcome dear crafters. The Flower Challenge celebrates all things love

for the month of February. 

'Add a Heart' is your challenge. 

I went with a Valentine theme, and began with The Greetery's Falling Hearts bg die,

and filled Heart Leaf Posey Pocket with Wildflowers.

I've had  a love affair with Loopy Bow ever since the Greetery released it.

Signed and Sealed  heart with sentiment over bow.

Play along all month. Remember challenge ends on the 25th!

The Flower Challenge #88 Add a Heart

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 Flower Challenge Reminder #70: CAS

 

Summer's in full swing in CA's Central Valley, hot and dry!

Keeping my precious flowers alive and blooming is always a task, 

and sometimes it works, sometimes, with temps at over 100 for weeks,

it's a loosing battle...

Fortunately, there's no shortage of colorful blooms in the craft room!

I'm bringing a reminder of our challenge at the Flower Challenge: CAS, 

Clean and Simple.

One central focus, with lots of white space. 

Pick a favorite flower and play along! 

The Greetery: 

Printshop Garden Goodness

Hello die

The Flower Challenge #70 Reminder

The Card Concept: Sweetheart Sweets

 

Hi and welcome to a new challenge at the Card Concept called: Sweetheart Sweets.

 If you love joining in on the fun of a card challenge, The Card Concept has 

fabulous inspiration for you. 

So much to inspire in this photo, I hardly knew where to begin! Finally settled on 

the Valentine colors and of course, sweets!

The style of my card is mixed media. I recently got this fabulous lips stencil from SSS,

and couldn't wait to experiment with it! I did half a dozen cards in different

colors and mediums.

Method for this one? Start with pink cardstock, apply stencil, and colored stencil paste.

I use a spray on the back of the stencil to hold it in place. And I added re-inker to

my stencil paste (Altenew Pink Diamond). 

Seriously love the new heart box, also from SSS, as well as that skinny heart and arrow die.

The images are from For My Sweet. I white embossed the heart box onto dark brown

card stock, and painted with metallics.

Head on over to the Card Concept to see what the other designers have for you, 

I know you'll be inspired to play along! Don't forget to include our photo 

inspiration on your post, as well as tell us what style your card is. There are

several we have listed on the style page, if you don't find what you like, combine

or create one of your own!

Can't wait to see your creation! 

Have a wonderful crafty week! The best kind!

The Card Concept #148 {Sweetheart Sweets}

Also linking to SSS Monday Challenge

Simon Says: Love/Hearts

The Card Concept: Around the World

 

Hello Card Concept fans! It's time for a new challenge, and we have this photo

as inspiration:

Around the World is our theme, and I focused right in on that

Glorious Globe! Decided to tuck in some of the blooms too.

I love this set from C9, and don't use it enough. The sentiments are

designed to stamp within the globe. Really packs a wow of a thanks!

Lots of 'popping' up with foam for dimension, and silver embossing powder

for a bit of bling.

Hope you play along, I love seeing what you all imagine from the 

inspiration photo. 

See you in the Card Concept line up!

Supplies:

Concord & 9th: Globe Greetings; So Happy For You

The Greetery: Postal Frames dies

Atenew: Inks

Just Saying Hello

Hi there! Hope you like floral cards, because this post is all about dancing

petals, wild rich color, and full of my love of florals.

Altenew has a challenge for the month of March, featuring a field of wondrous reds, greens 

and soft grey blue.

Irresistible if you love lifelike flowers, multi stamping for realism, petals 

that wave in the breeze, and stems and leaves that beg for shading,

you're familiar with Altenew'ss. Build a Flower series. I'm a fan.

Particularly my newest, Build a Fower: Poppy.

Sentiment: Build a Flower: Japanese Mum, white embossed on a 

Stamplorations tag.

There are 3 stamps for each bloom; a linestamp and 2 stamps for

dimension. Once I stamped my 3 big blooms, I added copics for further depth.

Then did the same for my leaves. The smaller white flowers are included

in the set, and the trio of leaves I used to stamp the side panel, as well.

Also entering the Flower Challenge, Anything Goes, a blog challenge that

'celebrates cards using floral images'. 

The Flower Challenge #30 'Anything Goes'

March 2019 Inspiration Challenge

PTI January '19 Blog Hop

Welcome!

It's Blog Hop time at PapertreyInk, and we were given this inspiration:

Didn't stray far from the photo, and came up with a cake set in layers of black

& white & gold.

The stylized 'Happy Birthday' script is one of my PTI favorites!

Play along all day on the PTI blog. Always so much to inspire!

All product links take you to the PTI shop!

2018 Anniversary Stamp Set: Mixed Bouquet

Papertrey Ink - Mixed Bouquet Die

Papertrey Ink - Shape Shifters: Square 2 Die

Papertrey Ink - Bold Borders: Arabesque Die

Papertrey Ink - Noted: Scalloped A2 Die Collection (set of 9)

Paper Basics - Luxe Gold Cardstock (5 sheets)

Tag You're It #66

It's time for a new challenge on the Tag You're It blog,

and we have Maureen Merritt as our featured artist,

with this beautiful Spring tag!

This put a smile on my face with it's colors

and happy everything sentiment!

As if Maureen's tag isn't enough to have you longing for spring,

here's my tag for more inspiration

PTI's Petite Pots

Tag Sale #1 die

You have 2 weeks to play along,

can't wait to see how you were inspired!

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Fantastic

Playing along with Color Throwdown, 

where the inspiration are these soft pastels.

And of course, hearts and flowers!

1st time using my new Fresh Bouquet from PTI.

Colored with watercolor pencils and Hero Arts Wet Cement.

PTI's Cover Plate: Scroll Frame 

Lifestyle Crafts Embossing Folder

Color Throwdown Countdown #427

PTI January 2017 Blog Hop

Greetings sweet Blogging Friends!

It's Blog Hop time at PTI, and Nichole

stole the show with this month's inspiration;

Now I have an enormous love for all things cookie,

and love for anyone who can turn them into art.

Can you just imagine receiving a plate of hand decorated

sugar masterpieces? 

Too luscious to eat?

Anyway, on to the hop!

3 Valentines, inspired by my cravings for sugar cookies...

And it's mirror twin,

and one more while my heart dies were out.

Happy Hopping everyone!

Limitless Layers: Hearts

BB: Text Style, BB: Needlepoint

Bitty Bouquets

Noted Scalloped A2 Vertical dies

Make It Market Mini: Garden Gild

Inspired: Love die

Songbirds (lead Sprig)

Mini Blooms

PTI Inks and cardstocks

Fusion Card Challenge: Flowers

Fusion challenge this week is to use their photo, or sketch or fuse the both.

I usually fuse the 2, but this week I chose the sketch.

Easter Greetings to all my 'bloggy' friends!

Wanted to do a special card for all those I've come to love.

Receiving and giving comments has come to be a joy filled time in my in my life.

Thank you for taking time to say the sweetest things!

Memory Box frame

Cheery Lynn egg die

Gelato colored eggs

Sentiment from Waltzingmouse

PTI cardstocks 

Paper flower garland pieced from stash

Special thanks to Jeanne Jackna for the most perfect iridescent fushia ribbon!

Have a blessed Easter!