Graceful Flowers for The Flower Challenge

Hello friends!  Wow, here we are in September already - the year is truly flying by now, right?  

The Flower Challenge is back and this month we have something easy - include a stamped flower.

TFC 95

I used a large floral image so rather than cut it down, I decided to make a slimline card.

This was a super easy card to pull together.  After stamping my floral image, it was colored with Copic markers and die cut with the matching die.  The sentiment is from the same stamp wet and also cut with it's coordinating die. 

At this point I had to make a decision on the background.  Embossing?  Cover plate?  Well, as you can see, I went with the cover plate, but from aqua cardstock and then adhered directly to the card base, for a card size of 3.5" x 8.5".  The flowers were adhered to two additional die cuts for dimension and added to the card front along with the sentiment.  A few clear sparking gems completed my card.

What are you inspired to make for this challenge?  Although this time I used a newer stamp set, I think for my mid-month card I'll be pulling out an older set I haven't used for a while - this challenge was a good reminder for me to do that.  I hope you join us this month, the challenge remains open until Wednesday, September 25th.

Thanks for visiting and take care!

Stef

• Simon Says Stamp Graceful Flowers Stamps and Dies
• SSS Filigree Slim Plate die
• Altenew Crystal Clear Gem Sparkles
• Copics - V09, 17, 15, 01, RV09, 17, 06, 04, 02. B69, 66, 63, YR23, Y15, 11, BG 09, 15, 11

Best Wishes for Color Hues

Hello friends!  It's time for a new challenge at Color Hues and this time the lovely Carol has chosen a beautiful color combination.

Color Hues

This combo made me think of cream colored flowers so I decided to use the pretty HoneyBee Stamps Lovely Layers: Magnolia for my card.

The flower petals were die cut from ivory cardstock, then I lightly inked the center of each layer and the ends of some of the petals before adhering together.  Originally I ink blended a brown center but I didn't like how it looked so I switched to matte gold.  I mean, can you ever go wrong with metallics lol?!!

Next the large vintage frame was die cut from cornflower blue cardstock and I found the foiled sentiment that had been created in a previous foiling session, which led me to creating this layout.  I had everything layered on the ivory card base but the card needed a little something more, so a panel of ivory was embossed with a beautiful and intricate folder from Paper Rose, then the frame, flowers and sentiment were adhered.  The final step was to add a few gold pearls.

So, what does this color combination bring to mind for you?  For more inspiration, my amazingly talented teammates and our guest designer Steph have some stunning card designs waiting for you over at the challenge blog!  I hope you decide to join us; the challenge will remain open until 9 am EST Friday 3/29.

Take care!

Stef

• HoneyBee Stamps Lovely Layers: Magnolia and Layering Vintage Labels die
• HoneyBee Stamps Foil Script: Wishes Hot Foil Plate and die
• Hero Arts Ivory, Simon Says Stamp Cornflower and Matte Gold cardstock
• Paper Rose Sweet Vines embossing folder
• Spellbinders Matte Gold Glimmer Hot Foil
• SSS Morning ink
• HoneyBee Stamps Metallic Mix Pearl Stickers