Guest Designer for The Flower Challenge #65 - Occasions

Hello everyone.  I’m excited to be back as a guest designer (GD) this month at The Flower Challenge (TFC) for their OCCASIONS challenge.

I was looking through my increasing stash of new (NBUS) floral products and decided to finally ink up the Togetherness Flower Bouquet stamp set from Hero Arts to create this birthday card for a friend whose birthday is next week.

This was pretty straight forward.  The bouquet was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Xpress It cardstock, coloured with Copic markers and then fussy cut out since I don’t have the matching die.  The trellis background is the Lattice Plate from Poppy Stamps.  It was die cut twice from Bristol paper and stacked for dimension.  

Using a blender brush next, blended Picked Raspberry distress ink directly on the white card base at an angle from the bottom left corner.  The sentiment from Waffle Flower Essential Sentiments was then heat embossed on Bristol paper with Liquid Platinum embossing powder and fussy cut out… once again, I don’t have that matching die.  Assembled the card and added clear shimmer on the flowers to finish. Sorry, couldn’t capture the sparkle in the photos.

I want to thank Viv and TFC design team (DT) for having me GD this month.  To link up your card and/or to see what the DT have created to inspire you, click HERE.  Thank you for stopping in.  Hope to see you in the gallery.

Challenges:

Die Cut Divas - February Angle It   (angled flower bouquet and ink blending)

Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero - February Anything Goes 

Seize the Birthday - #231 Sparkle and Shine 

Watercooler Wednesday - #334 Helen’s Challenge: All About Occasions 

The Flower Challenge #43 Reminder - Spring / Autumn

Hello again.  I’m back with my guest design reminder post for the Spring / Autumn challenge at The Flower Challenge (TFC).

Depending on which hemisphere you live, the challenge has a spring or autumn option.  I thought it would be fun to combine them and used an autumn sunflower from Jane’s Doodles and coloured it in spring rainbow colours.  Here’s my card.

The Fadeout ink from Ink on 3 is intended for no line colouring with any medium.  I’ve only used it once before with little success, so I wanted to try again.  I stamped the flower portion of the sunflower on an A2 sized X-Press It cardstock panel, then coloured in with Copics.  Masked it before stamping the stem/leaves then coloured that in with Copics as well.  After that, the panel was die cut out with the scallop rectangle die in the Card Front Element Builder from Sugar Pea Designs.

Next, the image and the scallop edge up to the stitched line were masked off and SU!’s Smoky Slate dye ink was blended on with a blender brush over a Diagonal Grid stencil from Create a Smile to give it a “trellis” background.  The sentiment from The Greeting Farm Mini Remix Happy was black heat embossed.  The scallop panel was adhered to a very light gray stripe pattern paper panel (it was hard to capture in the photo).  Added clear raindrops from Studio Katia, clear shimmer on the petals, dots to the leaves with a white gel pen and Tonic Crystal Glaze to the sunflower center to finish.

I have to admit I actually enjoyed no line colouring  this time around and am slowly getting over my fear of it!  For more inspirations from the design team, head over to TFC blog.  Enter your card or card(s) for your chance to win a gift card from this month’s sponsor Bugaboo Stamps.  Thank you for stopping in.  Stay home and craft on.

Challenges:
Word Art Wednesday - #434 & 435 Anything Goes
Alphabet Challenge - A for Anything Goes
Craft Stamper - Take It Make It April Anything Goes
Time Out - #157 Inspired by Words

Guest Designer for The Flower Challenge #43 - Spring/Autumn

Hello and happy weekend.  I'm excited to end my week as a guest designer for The  Flower Challenge (TFC).  Depending on where you live, Spring or Autumn are the theme choices for challenge #43.

Since it's spring here, I created a spring themed card using a few never before used stuff (NBUS).

Flowers and rain are synonymous here in the Pacific Northwest during spring, so I was happy to put my NBUS Rainboot Planter die from Simon Says Stamp to good use.  Started by die cutting it from alcohol friendly cardstock and colouring it with Copic markers.  It was a little flimsy, so another one was die cut from a scrap of thick white cardstock and adhered to the back to give it strength.

I had a NBUS fence die that I wanted to use, but it was disproportionally too small.  Instead, I stamped the Wood Pallet Background from Altenew in light gray and ink blended the grass with Mowed Lawn distress ink using NBUS Lawn Fawn Grassy stencil.  The sentiment is also NBUS from Honey Bee Stamps Happy Birthday set and it was black heat embossed with clear glitter embossing powder.  Inked the edges of the wood area with a darker gray dye ink and added clear shimmer to the tulips to finish.

Bugaboo Stamps is sponsoring the challenge.  Enter your spring / autumn floral creations for your chance to win.  To see more inspirations from the design team, head on over to the challenge blog post HERE.  I want to thank Viv and TFC team for having me guest.  Thank you for stopping in.  Stay home and craft on!

Challenges:
Time Out - #158 Lots or a Little Purple (just a little bit of purple)
Sisterhood of Crafters - Spring
Modsquad - Spring Has Sprung
Watercooler Wednesday - #265 Marsha’s challenge: Anything Gies with a Feminine Twist
NBUS #13 - rainboot planter die, birthday sentiment stamp and grass stencil
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday
SSS Flickr - #146 Happy Spring (SSSFlickrchallenge#146)
Inkspirational - #210 Spring