Mother's Day

I made this card for the Mother's Day challenge on Cheery Lynn and the pastel challenge on Stampin Sisters in Christ.  The background is a Cheery Lynn poinsettia plate and I used the Faux Patina technique from the resources on Split Coast stampers.  The die cuts are all Cheery Lynn, the beautiful circle is Doily stacker circle 1,2, 3
I used a straight circle inside of it to stamp the saying from Our Daily Bread Designs Mother's set.  The pretty fanciful flourish was put down first, with olive branches and the leaf from Judy's bloom.   These beautiful flowers were made with miniature roses, medium roses and large rose dies.  The butterfly is from small exotic butterfly set and I added some silver pen around the edges and pearls to finish everything.

Another Joan's Garden challenge

I played with lots of dies today.  The Marianne Corner, MFT flourish, Cheery Lynn flourish, olive branch, Judy's blooms, Roses med and large, Cuties 1, Medium exotic butterfly and Spellbinders corners.  All of these die can be purchased at Joan's Garden.
The pretty paper is adhesive fabric paper from JoAnn's and some Raspberry colored card stock.  Our challenge was to use dies to make our flowers and these Cheery Lynn dies make gorgeous flowers.  My inspiration for this card came from Anneke's blog  She does amazing things with the Marianne dies.

Our Daily Bread Go green, faux patina

Our fun challenge this week on Our Daily Bread is to go green, either in color or recycle something.  I used their darling cat sympathy set for this card and colored it with copics.  The beaded oval was embossed and then cut and I used walnut distressed ink with a gold pen to edge it.  The background on this card is the faux patina technique from the resources on Split Coast Stampers.  My gold embossing is not showing up very well but it's there and gives the old patina look to the card.  Spellbinders fancy tag for the saying and I gold edged it also. Added a few Martha Stewart butterflies to finish the card.  Be sure to check out the wonderful creations on ODBD for some inspiration. 

JustRite pastel challenge

Our challenge on JustRite is to use these colors.  I used a soft creamy yellow cardstock and then ran the brighter yellow through the Kassie cuttlebug.  Swedish spring oval for the pink frame and scalloped oval for the rose image from the sympathy set from JustRite.   I colored the image with copic markers and added a small exotic butterfly. The victorian romance flourish for the corner with Judy's blooms and Cuties 1 for the flower and leaves. 

Classy Cards 3-D challenge

Our challenge this week on Classy Cards is make a 3-D image card.  I used some Dufex flowers I had on hand but if you want to make a gorgeous 3-D card she has several beautiful sheets of flowers and kits on
this page!!    I used a spellbinders label 20 for the backing on the image and edged it with a silver pen.  The card is from my stash and I think I ordered it from the UK.  I took my MS butterfly punch and punched out a butterfly on the edge of the Dufex paper that the flowers were on.  Check out the beautiful pages, cards and die cuts on Classy Cards.

Joan's Garden Flower challenge

Joan has a fantastic flower challenge on her blog this week.  You are to use punches or dies to make your flowers.  I started this with blue Bazzil, layered some lavender CS run through the Kassie cuttlebug folder.  The oval is the Swedish oval frame, with a solid oval for the image.  The flowers are made from Judy's blooms, cuties 1 and cuties 2, leaf die and the small exotic butterfly are all Cheery Lynn dies and can be purchased from Joan. 
This pretty rose stamp is from JustRite sympathy set.  I colored it with copics

Shabby Challenge

I'm trying my first Shabby Tea Room challenge. Our colors are aqua, pink and neutral.  I used some pretty adhesive fabric card stock from Jo Ann's for the background.  Melissa Francis for the cherubs and the flowered circle die cut.  I stamped the saying from Flourishes magnolia set. I'm not sure who made the background circle die cut, it's white metal?  The borders are a Martha Stewart border and I colored them with copics.  Added a pretty aqua bow and colored a prima flower with my copic marker and added some MS ferns and baby's breath. 

Marianne Design swirls and pearls

Pearls and swirls are our challenge on Marianne Design Divas this week.  I used this gorgeous Marianne cut and emboss folder and corner.  I added some ribbon and lace and the beautiful Victorian Romance Flourish     olive branches and Judy's blooms from Cheery Lynn for the flowers.  I added some pearls to finish this card. All of these dies can be purchased at Sweet Stamps.

Timeless Tuesday favorite stamp

Flourishes challenge this week is to pick our favorite stamp, totally impossible task. I love all their gorgeous flowers so I just closed my eyes and picked one.  I chose this stamp from the Botanical bookplate set.  I colored them copic makers to match the flowers on the K&Co Dp.  I colored the flower on the corner with the same copic markers and added some Martha Stewart leaves and ferns. The card shape was make using label 8 and 17, then I topped it with a Marianne Design frame.  MS bird punch to finish the card. Be sure and check out all the gorgeous cards on the Flourishes blog. 

Just Rite and Stampin Sisters in Christ with Classy Cards

Our challenge on Just Rite is to make our own background with stamps.  Our challenge on the Stampin Sisters in Christ is to use Vellum. Classy cards challenge is to use some bling.  For this card I cut a 5.5" square, stamped one of the beautiful lace borders from Just Rite in shabby shutters distressed ink.I added some lace along the top and bottom.  I stamped my favorite Just Rite stamp, the gorgeous rose from the sympathy set over the border on Sheer Heaven vellum  and used the matching die cut. I used the medium exotic butterfly from Cheery Lynn and cut it from Sheer Heaven vellum. You can color this vellum with pretty much any coloring medium, I used copics. The small exotic butterfly is also from Cheery Lynn. I added some pearls to finish the butterflies.

Our Daily Bread and Cheery Lynn

Our shinning light challenge on Our Daily Bread Design is to use at least three letters from the word S P R I N G.  I'm using S for sewing, P for patterned paper and peel off Happy Birthday, R for rhinestones, I for ink, N for nesting dies, G for green.  This pretty quilt image is from Sew special and the saying is from Sewn with love, the cute spool and tape stamp is from the spool and tape set and it has a matching die made by Cheery Lynn.  The shape of this card is from the French Flair by Cheery Lynn, I used straight french flair for the card base and then added the top piece of the French flair doily, scalloped french flair to back the image.  I added a Rhinestone gem set along the bottom to finish the card. I'm also entering this in the Cheery Lynn birthday card challenge, and the Crafty Friends challenge to use two different dies on your card.  Be sure to check out the gorgeous DT creations on all the blogs and happy shopping with both companies.

Book worm noon time challenge

Today's noon time challenge on Flourishes is to make a book mark or something to give a book worm friend.  I used the new book plate die and botanical bookplates stamp to make this.  The die behind the image is the tailor made key hole die from Flourishes.  The pink layer is 3.25x5" and I used an around the page punch from Martha Stewart.  The leaves are also a MS punch.    I edged everything in gold and added a ribbon.  Please check out the gorgeous designs from Flourishes and the new stamps, they are the premiere flower stamp designers!!!!!

Lovely in lace Noon time challenge

Our noon time challenge on Flourishes is to use lace on the card.  This is release week on Flourishes and they are previewing the new stamp sets coming out this weekend.  They have some new gorgeous flower stamps and matching die cut so take a peek!!  I used some K&Co background paper, used my copics and air compressor to color this pretty lace.  This beautiful wreath is from the Mother's words of wisdom and colored with copics.  I used a scalloped circle die to cut it out and edged it in silver pen. The pretty Polynesian sail oval is from Cheery Lynn Designs.   The cute butterfly is from Exotic butterfly small set from Cheery Lynn also.  I added a couple of corners and colored some pearls to finish the card.

Flourishes Fruit Challenge

Our challenge this week on the Timeless Tuesday is to use one of the fruit stamps from Flourishes.  I colored these Cherries to look like Bing cherries.  This pretty English Tea Party Doily is from Cheery Lynn.   I colored the image with copics and cut it out. I added some pretty soft blue background on the deep purple card and added some pretty purple gems around the center and corners. 

Our daily bread, new life!

The challenge this week on Our Daily Bread Design is new life, anything representing a new life.  I used their Mother's day set and the saying is from the Porch set.
This pretty background was printed off my computer on glossy paper, I used the scalloped cove rectangle die from Cheery Lynn Designs for the card and flower shape. The flowers are colored with copic markers.  The saying is a tag from Spellbinders.  I used some peel off little gold dots around the dies. 

Flourishes celebrate Mother's

This pretty new Mother's words of wisdom set is from Flourishes and our challenge is to make a pretty Mother's day card. 
I used a Spellbinders circle to cut out the image and beaded circles to surround it.  I colored the image with copics in corals and yellow and added pearls and bow around it.  The fancy tag from Spellbinders with matching Want 2 scrap bling was used for the saying. I printed off the background from my computer and added holographic peel off borders around it.  I'm also entering this card into the Joyful celebration on Stampin Sister in Christ. 

Joan's Garden's Tri Shutter challenge

Our challenge at Joan's Garden is to make a Tri Shutter card.  I'm using the darling new set of Cat sympathy stamps from Our Daily Bread Designs.  The saying for this is just adorable, Dogs come when they are called: Cats take a message and get back to you later.  The center saying is Cats leave paw prints on our hearts.  There are also a couple of other sayings with the set.  I used some paper from my stash and a gold pen to edge all of it and then lace and lacey ribbon over it.  The butterflies and birds are a Martha Stewart punch.  The die cut around the kitty is a spellbinders labels 11. This is also going into the ODBD favorite challenge, I think this is one of my new favorites.

Flourishes Friendship Tri Shutter card

I decided to make another friendship card for the Back to Beautiful challenge on Flourishes.  I chose this Tri Shutter card because this Graphic 45 Bride collection paper worked so well with it.  All of the images are from Flourishes and I just went through all my Flourish stamps looking for sayings that worked with friendship and the size to fit in the openings.  The main image is from the Spring Bouquet and I cropped it with labels 4.  I added a couple of Cheery Lynn small butterflies and some bling to finish this card.

Another vintage look for Flourishes Magnolias

I made another vintage card with Flourishes Magnolia set. This is for the Crafty Friends new challenge blog and vintage is our theme this time.   I cut out the card from Japanese linen paper and then used a soft pink base and ran it through my cuttlebug folder inked the edges with victorian velvet distressed ink. The center die is the Swedish Spring oval frame.
I edged this with the victorian velvet distressed ink also and stamped the Magnolia on it and colored the image with copics. I stamped a couple of images and cut out two of the flowers to pop up for dimension, the little magnolia was also stamped twice and popped up.  The spellbinders die was used for the saying and edged with the distress ink also.  Lace across the bottom and the corners were a  1.25" square and cut on the diagonal for the corers.  Added some pearls to finish the card. 

Stampin Sisters in Christ, make it move!!

I made this shaker card for the challenge on Stampin Sisters in Christ.
I used the pretty Mother's words of wisdom stamps for this shaker card. I cut the Cheery Lynn dies and popped them up for the shaker card and edged it with pearls.  The border is an EK  punch.  Added some ribbon and a prima flower to finish the card. 

New!! Crafty Friends Challenge blog

There is a new challenge blog hosted by Beate from Split Coast Stampers and she is a DT for Flourishes.  Our challenge this time is vintage, I love vintage cards so this was fun!!!  I made the base card from Cheery Lynn's French flair and then added a piece of Melissa Frances DP over it to cover the fold at the top.  The pink panel is the scalloped French Flair and I just turned it with a cream panel for the image.  The stamp set is Botanical bookplates from Flourishes, colored with copics. I used the Fanciful flourish from Cheery Lynn, a fern punch, not sure who makes it and some prima flowers and lace. I added the CL butterfly and pearls around to finish the card.  Be sure to check out the new Crafty Friends challenge blog and see the best of the best!!

Timeless Tuesday Happy Birthday

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge is a birthday card, Beate's birthday is this month and  we can all wish her a Happy Birthday!!  I'm using their
botanical bookplate for this card.  The open book dies are from Spellbinders and I cut them and edged them with a gold pen.  The flourish, flowers, leaves and butterfly are all Cheery Lynn dies.  The pretty paper is K&Co and I added a few pearls to finish the card. These are the dies from Cheery Lynn.
Fanciful Flourish
Olive branches
Judy's blooms
Cuties 1
Exotic butterfly small

The Beauty of Friendship

The beauty of friendship is our challenge this month on the Bring Back the Beautiful at Flourishes.  I used their new magnolia stamp set for this pretty card.  Cheery Lynn Polynesian sail oval with a solid oval inside.  Victorian romance flourish for the corner with some prima flowers to match the magnolias. The pretty paper is from K&Co and has some glitz to it.  I edged the card with holographic peel off borders.  Be sure to check out the gorgeous DT cards at Flourishes.

Cheery Lynn, make a basket

The challenge on Cheery Lynn's new challenge blog is to make a basket.  This is actually my second basket and I will add the first one below, no matter what we did the photo blurred the flowers on that one.  I just made a square basket and added the beautiful Victorian romance corner flourish, I cut two of them, for the handle.    On the front of the basket I used the fanciful flourish, Cuties 1 for the flower and the base of the flower is from Judy's blooms and leaf.  Olive branches fill in on the right side.  I don't have the CL eggs so I used their scalloped ovals and cut them out of the pretty paper.  Here is the first basket, some of the same dies used in this one also.