Living in the great White North myself--I jumped on Virginia's "Beat the Winter Blahs" challenge she's got going over on
her blog. Although Southern Ontario has had a very mild winter so far, I'm already anticipating Spring--so her challenge really got me thinking about Spring flowers!
I made 3 cards for the challenge since the flower ideas kept blooming--heehee--pun intended!
Her rules are: "create a card/page/project to cheer some one special up in the winter. However, the creation has to have a WOW factor, meaning that it will have a special feature. It can be a special/new technique, color combo, unique embellishment or an original design...anything your heart desires!"
Card #1--
Flowers and Bling
Bazzill Kraft cardstock; ? patterned paper; scrap chocolate and white cardstock; Heidi Grace polka dot border stamp; Versamark Ink; Martha Stewart rub-on sentiment; Cricut Storybook cartridge Marquee cut; Prima flowers; Darice jewels
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Card #2--
Dawn McVey's Vintage paper button flower technique (get tutorial
here)
Recollections cream cardstock; scrap of red strip; TPC Studio Christmas Glamour stamp (diamond shapes) stamped in SU! Chocolate Chip and Ruby Red and Portafolia aqua blue; Michaels `wishing you joy` stamp; vintage paper (literally ripped out of an old book) cut with Cricut Storybook cartridge scallop shape; button; jute
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Card #3--Flower shaped
Card base cut with Cricut Storybook cartridge (2 flowers cut and then stitched together on the left side); American Crafts patterned flower paper; Heidi Grace sentiment in SU! Not so Navy stamped on Bazzill Kraft cardstock; 3D Peel-offs silver outline stickers; white gel pen faux stitching
You can see the shine of the silver petals here:
Pheew--lots of cards, but I just couldn`t stop making them. Thanks for the challenge Virginia!
Thanks 4 your time!!
Wow! All three cards are GORGEOUS! I'm so glad to find you blog and that you get to play along with my Beat the Winter Blahs Challenge! You are absolutely right about the flower power!!! Blahs no more!
ReplyDeleteGreat vintage card, love the paper and the flower. Just watched the tutorial. I'm gone make a button-flower card today! Totally inspired :)
ReplyDeleteLove, Johanna
don't you love making dawns' flowers?! 3 very different cards-lot very cute!
ReplyDeleteHi Tammy, I found you through Virginia's challenge. Love all your cards because I'm a flower girl myself! All of these are unique and so pretty!
ReplyDeleteI found your blog through Virginia's too and love all your cards. Love the pattern on the one for Dawns' challenge and the one for Virginia's challenge.. I have some Hero ARts candy up for grabs and today is the last day. Best of luck! :) I signed up to follow you
ReplyDeleteAll the colors are certain to cheer the whole world! Great work.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for entering the challenge, Tammy. Due to my own fault, Mr Linky got deleted by accident ( I almost had a heart attack)!!! I am now asking you to re-link it again through Vicky's DH site InlinkZ. So sorry about this mishap...(live and learn for me).
ReplyDeleteOh.. all are so pretty... Ilove flowers..
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