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A Single Flower at Sparkles Monthly

Hello friends!  Welcome to the start of a new week for mid-September!  I think Summer actually DID come back to us as we’ve set record high heats for this time of the year!  I think I’m ready for those cooler temps to come back! Ugh!  I know it won’t be long now and we can start enjoying trips outdoors as we look forward to picking apples and all Autumn festivities that we do!

Today is time to share a new challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and we have the theme of “USE A SNGLE FLOWER (floral image)”  this month.  Flowers seem to be everyone’s favorite.  Here’s what I came up with: 

Mine is a single sunflower image.  My husband planting them in our backyard this year and they were so pretty!  Of course, I forgot to take a photo of one before they died off.

The items I’ve used came from an older card kit from Simon Says Stamp including the stamp set called Sunflower Fields.  There is a single sunflower image that I thought would be perfect for this challenge, plus I can use more items from my stash!

For the size of the flower image, I wanted it to stand out, so I used a tag and twine from the kit and decided to make this a mini slim card size.

For the background:  I used a piece of watercolor cardstock and gold heat embossed the “Romantic Script” background stamp (retired) from My Favorite Things and then used some oxide inks swiped on glass with spritzed water to make a “smooshed” background.  I also used these same colors to watercolor my flower with. (except the green, I only used that for the flower)  I also used some gold watercolor to splatter over the tag.  I only splattered the tag because I didn’t think it would show very much over the card background.

I cut the smooshed watercolor panel to fit over a kraft side folding mini slimline card base.  I die cut the flower and the sentiment to attach over the tag, added some twine and then used foam tape to pop it up over the ink smooshed background.  Lastly, I’ve added some yellow sequins to finish it off.

I hope you will take some time to pull out a single flower and join us in the challenge this month!  Looking forward to seeing your creations!  Thanks so much for dropping by!

Challenges:

  1. Creative Inspirations – Anything Goes
  2. Ellibelle’s Garden Party – Anything In or From a Garden
  3. Creative Fingers – Anything Goes
  4. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  5. Penny’s – Anything Goes Using Paper
  6. Love to Craft – Anything Goes
  7. Crafts Galore Encore – Anything Goes

HEY! “C” is for Circles!

Hello and happy Friday my friends!  After things got heated up the last couple of days, I think I’m ready for a couple of days of cooler weather!  I don’t want to skip Spring by going straight into a hot Summer!  Hope you have some great things planned this weekend!

Today starts a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!   We are now onto the letter “C” and the hostess has chosen “C” is for Circles  *Remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter*  I hope you will find some time to play along!  Here’s what I’ve created:

I do love me some circles and I thought I would just use them all over the place for this challenge!  I pulled out my Taylored Expressions “Talking in Circles card kit” that came out earlier in the year and no longer available.  However, the panel that I’ve used to create this design are still available in the store called “Talking in Circles A2 Sugar Cube Maps“.  They make it easy to follow where placements need to be and lined up.

I used the TE A2 Thin Frame Cutting Plate for the black frame around the circles.  I thought I would try and use another cutting plate, but the design pretty much covered it up.  I layered this whole panel over a top folding A2 white card base.

For the sentiment in the center, I used another circle die from the TE, but I don’t think it’s in the store any longer.  I cut the “HEY” circle out from black cardstock and layered some vellum behind it.  I white heat embossed the “You are awesome” sentiment over black and cut that out with a Simply Strip die.  This was popped up with a foam strip over the design.

Thanks so much for stopping over today!  I hope you’ve enjoyed my card and you will take a hop on over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the team has come up with.  

See you soon!  In case you need to know…you are awesome!

Challenges:

  1. Love to Scrap – Anything Goes
  2. Allsorts – Paper Piecing or Anything Goes (Not sure if this is considered paper piecing)
  3. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  4. CRAFT – Anything Goes
  5. The Creative Crafters – Anything Goes
  6. Crafter’s Cafe – Anything Goes optional: no squares