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.