Hello friends! Happy Friday and happy Halloween too!🎃 I might be having a few treats tonight, but hopefully without any tricks involved! 😉
Today is a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog! Our next letter is “O”, and our hostess, Helen, has chosen “Oval with One Word Sentiment” I hope you will join in the fun with us! *Please remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter.* Here’s the project I’ve made for this challenge:

I usually make cards with a specific theme, but I rarely make cards with just an “any occasion” involving a simple sentiment like “hello”, so I went with this in mind for the challenge.
I started with a Taylored Expressions Foil It-Framework panel (one of the panels had a nice oval shape), and foiled it with a gold foil. While I was foiling, I also decided to foil the sentiment from the TE Foil It-Timeless Greetings and cut it out with the coordinating die.
After foiling, I pulled out the TE Masking Stencil-Framework (coordinates with the foil panel) and used it to stencil the center oval with the TE Mini Slim Stencil-Trellis in light blue ink. I then took the left over ink from the blending brush and lightly went over the entire inside oval shape. On a separate piece of white cardstock, I stenciled the TE Cottage Charm Stencil & Die Combo and attached the floral spray on each opposite ends of the foil oval. I was trying to go for Autumn style colors for the flowers, but the red tone looks a bit more pink in the photo now that I’m looking at it. I still like it though.
I attached this panel onto a light blue A2 side folding card base, popped up the gold foil sentiment in the center with foam tape and added a couple of gold gems.
- I hope you like my card today and you will pop on over to the challenge blog to see the inspiration from the rest of the design team. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
Thanks so much for dropping in and I’ll be back tomorrow with another post and challenge!
Challenges:
- Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2543 Anything Goes
- Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes
- Krafty Chicks – #792 Anything Goes
- Triple B – Birds, Butterflies, Blooms (must use at least 1)
- The Creative Crafters – #93 Anything Goes
Beautiful elegant card in pretty pastel tones.
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So soft – gorgeous. Love that background trellis stencil – it really highlights the florals and the oval xx
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so pretty in the pastel colors. Just a lovely card!
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Beautiful pastel card and the foiling is a great touch!
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Absolutely beautiful card and floral corners, love the pastel colours and stencilled background.
Carol x
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A fabulous layout, beautiful stencilling and gorgeous floral corners,love your hello sentiment but a great design for many occasions. Hugs Meg x
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I have the TE Cottage Charm stencil and die and just love it!! What a beautiful job you have done with it here, Vicki!!
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Thank you! I have used this a couple of times now and hooked! I might need to make several! LOL
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Beautiful card Vicki and love the flowers and stencil background, would love a foil machine it’s on my wish list as the sentiment is lovely all foiled up, gorgeous design and card..
Luv CHRISSYxx
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If you get one and use it a couple of times, you will get hooked and want to foil everything!! LOL Thanks for your comment friend!
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Beautiful card. Love the gold addition- steps it up in elegance : ) The floral showers are so pretty around the oval. Loving the soft pretty colors you used.
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That’s so pretty Vicki – love the soft stencilled background and the peek of silver around the frame. It sets off your flowers beautifully
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Thank you so much!
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Your card is a beautiful celebration of softness and elegance. The gold foiling adds such a refined touch, and the pastel tones paired with the trellis stenciling create a serene, welcoming atmosphere. I especially love how the floral sprays frame the oval so gracefully—it feels like a gentle embrace around the sentiment. This design is a lovely reminder of how impactful simplicity can be.
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Thank you so much!
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An absolutely beautiful floral card, the foiling really sets it off! Thanks so much for joining our challenge at Triple B!
Diane TB Co-Owner
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This is gorgeous with the pastels and the foil! I love it! I really need to get my Glimmer machine out… it’s been several years since I’ve used it. I hate it when I just HAVE to have all the newest gadgets and then they just in their boxes and rarely get used. But I don’t want to get rid of them because as soon as I do, I’ll want to use them! Ugghhhhh… story of my life (and most other crafters, I’m sure). Bahahahaha!
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Thank you friend! 🙂 YES! I totally understand what you’re saying and I feel like if I keep making 24-7, I still wouldn’t get to use it all! LOL
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Fab idea to stencil the lattice inside the oval. It grounds the whole image beautifully.
Hope you got some good treats!
xoxo
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So pretty, love the silver and flower are gorgeous!
Thanks for playing our ATG Challenge at Krafty Chicks Challenge. Have a good day!
Leanne DT Member/KCC
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SO pretty. Hope it’s ok I find it more Spring/Summer rather than autumn tho. I haven’t gone down the foil path but find it so appealing and fancy. I have however been getting a lot of stencils – LOL, just collecting, not creating 🙂 I really love the “simple” look to this!
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Thanks Lola! If you ever do get started on foiling, I find it very addicted to keep going with it! I have “collected” so many things as well and it’s so hard to use it all! LOL
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Such a pretty and elegant card! I love how you designed this with the framed die cut stencilling and pastel flowers – perfect 😊. Happy wishes ❤️. Hugs, Jo x
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