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Thursday, February 13, 2025

GATE FOLD FLOWERS

The TicTacToe Challenge #264 is up today with fun prompts for you.  I went diagonally form left to right with enamel dots, die cuts and dry embossing.

My card is a landscape gate fold using Altenew's Fresh Flowers dies, Tranquility cardstock and enamel dots and SSS Leaf Canopy embossing folder.  I'll add a sentiment when needed.

I hope you'll find some inspiration here and have time to join us sometime in the next two weeks.  The challenge closes on 20 February.

Crafty hugs.


 


Wednesday, February 12, 2025

VELLUM BUTTERFLY

While doing some reorganizing and destashing I found some very old patterned paper from Altenew's "Recollections".  So decided it was finally time let go of some of the pretty papers.  Looked through my Pinterest pages for some inspiration and came up with this card.


 

I made this a 4x6 card because I wanted the flower to be the focal point and there was a lot of white space on the 6x6 piece of pp.  So cut it down along with two border pieces of green.  Used two butterfly dies and die cut into the pp.  Then I die cut matching vellum pieces.  Next glued down the two borders and the pp.  Creased the pp and the vellum butterflies in their centers and glued together only on the crease and then onto the card - again only on the crease so the butterfly would pop out.  Added the gold bodies, the sequins and the sentiment and done!
 
Thanks for stopping by,

 

Friday, February 7, 2025

50th ANNIVERSARY

This weekend I'm attending a 50th anniversary party for some friends - so had to make a special card for them.  

Used the colors from the February Inspiration Challenge. Altenew's Fresh Flowers with Tranquility cardstock were used to create the flowers.  Spellbinders' arches gave it all some background interest.  I just added a "congrats" on the inside.

Thanks for stopping by.