Hearts and Flowers for Sparkles Monthly Challenge

Birthday, flowers, Holidays, love, Ocassions, Slimline cards, Taylored Expressions, Valentine's Day

Hello friends!  I hope you’re having a great week so far and enjoyed a nice Valentine’s Day yesterday with some yummy sweets!  We enjoyed some treats of our own! 😉

Today I have a new challenge to share with you for the Sparkles Monthly Challenge blog and this month the lovely Dawn would like to see some “Hearts & Flowers” on your creations!  Although Valentine’s Day is over, I think hearts are great for adding any time of the year, so check out the inspiration from the design team and here’s what I’ve made:

I’ve made a mini slim card using the Taylored Expressions Hearts in Bloom Layering Stencils which are so great for mass producing several cards at once.  For this card and the other cards below, I decided I wanted to use the TE Hearts in Bloom Foil Panels which works with these stencils. I foiled them with gold foil.  I think the foiling adds such a pretty shine and glitter.  I also used the TE Love & Hugs Foil Panels for the sentiment and die cut it out with the coordinating die set.

So after foiling everything, I used the stencils to create the pretty bouquet of flowers with the hearts in it and then added a frame around the edge with a TE Diagonal Stitch Mini Slim die that doesn’t cut anything, but adds those slash marks.  I used some foam tape to pop up the foiled sentiment and just attached everything to a coordinating mini slim card base.

I couldn’t just make this one to show you, so here is the whole set of cards I’ve made together:

Those stencils create all of these patterns at one time.  I just lined the foil panels up at one time and then used each stencil for the colors.  If you didn’t want to use the foil panels, you could also just use the stencils on one sheet of cardstock and then cut them apart to make the card fronts.

I found these sets to become very addicting!  And just like that, two of them have been sent out!  

I’ve been really busy with creating behind the scenes and I will be sharing more soon!  I will be around to see what’s been going on with you all shortly!  I really appreciate your kindness and support…it really means so much!❤️  Thanks for stopping in!

Challenges:

  1. Try it On Tuesday – Hearts &/or Flowers
  2. Make My Monday – Love
  3. Allsorts – Anything Goes/Hearts
  4. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  5. Little Red Wagon – Show Us Some Love/Valentine
  6. Crafty Gals Corner – Add a Heart
  7. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday– Fun with Foil
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23 thoughts on “Hearts and Flowers for Sparkles Monthly Challenge”

  1. Gorgeous use of the stencils and you made beautiful cards with them. Pretty colors too.
    xxx Margreet

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  2. Absolutely beautiful trio of cards Vicki so colourful and detailed pure perfection thank you also for joining us at Allsorts Hugs Lolo x

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  3. Hearts and flowers always make pretty cards, and I love each variation you created using the same stencils. They’re so pretty with those colors you chose and I really like that trio of hearts. Beautiful cards, and a wonderful way to spread the love. Have a great day and I look forward to seeing what you create next.

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  6. Such gorgeous cards, beautiful stenciling and foiling. Like the color combo too. Absolutely love the happy happy happy birthday, even more beautiful in real life!

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  8. This is so very pretty and beautifully framed by the die. Your other makes are also so lovely. Thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge.

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  9. What a very pretty stencil, many thanks for sharing your card with us at Allsorts and including some hearts.

    B x

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  10. Wow, ALL of these are fabulous – what a great stencil, and fantastic job you did with it! Perfect color choices, too! Thanks so much for playing at Make My Monday!

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  12. Stenciling gold foiling and a whole lot of love, gorgeous cards Vicki, just beautiful..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  13. And, Thank you so much for joining in with our challenge at Little Red Wagon, hope you will play again..
    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  14. Vicki, How lovely these are, you stenciled them beautifully with the foiling. The colors are soft and visually so uplifting! Just love them especially the die you used on the sending love card.! Smiles and hugs dear friend. Kathy

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  15. Each one is absolutely beautiful, great choice of colors and love the sparkle!
    Thank you so much for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge!

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  17. These are beautiful – love hearts and flowers – can use for a lot of occasions. Anxious to see what you have been busy working on in your crafty room.

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  18. These cards are fabulous Vicki. I really like that heart and leaves background. It’s a good way to use hearts not just for Valentine’s Day. I hope you have a fantastic weekend. hugs-Erika

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  21. Vicky, what an amazing set of cards! When I opened the message and saw your cards, I thought they were so different from your other cards. So surprising and wonderful. Delicate and feminine. Great job.
    Hugs,
    BożenA

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  22. These really are wonderful cards – i love those heart flowers ! Thanks so much for joining us at Try It On Tuesday,

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  23. So many beautiful cards! The stencil is gorgeous and I love the colour combination of the pinks, green and gold 😊. I bet you had fun creating all the different designs too. Hugs, Jo x

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