Flowers for Sparkles Monthly!

flowers, Mother's Day, Ocassions, Seasons, Spring, Taylored Expressions

Hello friends!  I hope that you’re enjoying this month so far!  The weather has really started to warm up now and it’s been nice and sunny to be outside.  I have so many projects that I’m working on, so my blog has been a bit neglected lately.  I will be able to share with you all of the things that I’ve been working on later…but for now, let’s talk about flowers!

Today starts a new challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and this time it’s my turn to pick a theme and I have chosen “FLOWER(S)”  for this month.  Flowers seem to work for so many occasions which is why I chose it.  Here’s the project that I came up with:

I needed a card for Mother’s Day this last weekend, so I thought I’d pull out my stash of die cut flowers from Taylored Expressions and create several pieces in different colors to place inside my wheel barrow.

I’ve die cut several pieces from the Fresh Cut Flowers die set in pineapple, guava, dried fig, chocolate truffle (centers) and green tea (stems and leaves).  I used the same color of ink to sponge a bit of dimension over the centers and then splattered some white Copic ink over just the flowers and the toffee background that was stamped in toffee ink with the Weathered Words Background stamp.  

I arranged all of the die cut flowers and leaves behind the Farmhouse Wheelbarrow die cut from chocolate truffle, toffee and woodgrain textured cardstock.  I also used the Building Blocks Happy Additions to white heat emboss over a piece of chocolate truffle and cut out with the coordinating die.  The toffee background was placed over an A2 sized top folding white card base and then I added a white frame die cut from the A2 Thin Frame Cutting Plate for an “anchor/ground” for the wheelbarrow to sit on.  The sentiment greeting was popped up with a foam strip and then I’ve added a few enamel dots including in the center of the wheel.

  • Thank you so much for stopping in today!  Hope you’ve enjoyed my card and that you will stop by the challenge blog to see the rest of the inspiration from the team.  I look forward to seeing what floral creations you share in the gallery with us!

Challenges:

  1. Craft Rocket – Flowers
  2. 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes with optional: Floral Delight
  3. Creative Friday – Spring
  4. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2519 Anything goes
  5. Simply Create Too – Anything for a Woman
  6. Little Red Wagon – ‘D’ is for diecut
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19 thoughts on “Flowers for Sparkles Monthly!”

  1. Love it Vicki, hopefully it won’t be long until we see lots of beautiful flowers in the garden Meg xx

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  4. Oh, such a pretty Mother’s Day card! I love the flowers and the wheelbarrow! I have quite a few that I made last year and never shared (along with Father’s Day and graduation cards) and I really need to share them… it’ll take me weeks, lol! I always love seeing the TE products in your stash!

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  8. Beautiful card Vicki, love the flowers and colours and the splatters and adorable little wheelbarrow, gorgeous card..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  10. This is a lovely wheel barrow of flowers. It says beautiful weather. I love the splatters and the half pearls too. This is the perfect card for May and Mother’s Day too. I hope you’re enjoying this spring month Vicki. hugs-Erika

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  12. Vicki, this is so pretty and so perfect for Motherʻs Day. Your fresh, clean design is so pleasing to the eye. Thanks so much for joining us this week over at Little Red Wagon Challenge!

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  13. Your Mother’s Day card is absolutely gorgeous. The combination of vibrant flowers and the rustic wheelbarrow creates such a charming, heartfelt design. The splatters and textured background add a wonderful artistic touch that makes the whole piece feel so warm and inviting.

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  14. Such a beautiful card! Those flowers look so pretty and I love how you gave them depth by shading the centres – perfect 😊. I can’t wait to hear about your projects. Sending you happy wishes ❤️. Hugs, Jo x

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  15. So much to see on this fantastic card, I love the use of Kraft and the stamping and then those gorgeous blooms so beautifully coloured. Such a great design and layout.

    Marie

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