The Flower Challenge #101

I hope you enjoyed our 100th birthday celebration last month.  Now it's on to The Flower Challenge #101.

It should be a colorful gallery with lots of Spring flowers popping up.

The PTI iris were cut from Bristol and colored with Zigs.  Would you believe I found this patterned paper that matched the iris colors?  I think it came from some freebies from Honey Bee Stamps.  For texture, I ran it through with the Tasteful Textiles folder from SU and used their Subtle folder on the Notched Frames from SB to layer my flowers on.  A simple sentiment from Spellbinders finished it off. 

The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for you over on the blog.  We hope you'll join us for this challenge. 

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Just Us Girls #769 - Die Week

Sue is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and she has a prompt, or rather an exclusion.

That's right.  No flowers on your card.  But we all have a lot of other dies so get them out and join the challenge.  

I used the Set Sail set from Spellbinders, cutting everything but the blue base panel from scraps.  Don't the striped sails give it a jaunty look?  

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Christmas Kickstart #97 - Positively Poinsettias

Jo asked me to be her elf at Christmas Kickstart for April.  I can't tell you how excited I was to get that invitation.  I also got to pick the theme for this month's challenge and this is it.

I don't know about you but I have a number of poinsettia stamps and dies so I thought it would be good to let you use yours to get a kickstart on your Christmas cards.  Here's mine.

This is a BetterPress plate from Spellbinders called Festive Poinsettias. It works beautifully as a hot foil plate that covers the background so you can use the available stencils to color in the image.  The sentiment is from  Pinkfresh Studio's Basic Banners, heat embossed in silver.  I really had to search for a place to take the photo since the foil background wanted to reflect a range of different colors.  It worked best standing up.  

Now it's your turn to make a card featuring poinsettias.  Please be sure to read the challenge guidelines on the blog.  I'll be back on the 15th with another card to inspire you.  I'd love to see your card in the gallery. 

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Can You Handle the Pressure? March 25 and NBUS #72

I had a card front with a chartreuse embossed panel along the side in my Bits box for quite a while and when I saw the challenge at Can You Handle the Pressure? asking for your favorite color, I knew I had to finish it.

The embossing folder is Crystal Wall from Altenew in PTI Green Parrot.  There are so many shades of what some call Lime Green and while I love them all, my favorite is a color from Benjamin Moore called Wales Green.  My bedside dressers at the lake are painted with it and so were the walls of my former bedroom.  Is that an obsession?  But I digress.  Back to the card.  The flower is a new one to me from Penny Black called Love Blooms.  There are three different flower stems in the set.  This one was painted with Twisted Citron and Abandoned Coral DIs.  The sentiment is from PB.  

The new flower is making its way to NBUS and it's also the first time I've used the sentiment. 

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you week goes well.

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