A BASKETFUL OF TULIPS

Here's a pretty basket of tulips for TicTacToe Challenge #266.  I think all the elements of the board are in my card except for a good luck symbol!  But for the actual row I used, it's diagonally from left to right - bright colors, spring and free.  What can be more spring than tulips!!

I embossed my basket with a brick 3D folder - thought it made it look like it was woven.  Then I added some shading with very dark brown ink.  I die cut all my flowers from white cs and did ink blending in three shade of pink.  The leaves were all cut from green cs and ink blending with a darker green.  Embossed the background on some desert storm cs.  Did some flower arranging and added the little twine bow and done.  A sentiment will be added when I need a card.

Crafty hugs,

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.

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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!

 

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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.

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COREOPSIS

Just getting in under the wire with an entry for Altenew's January Inspiration Challenge.

I used Altenew's coreopsis dies for my flowers and leaves and their martian terrain enamel dots.  The background plaid die is from Concord & 9th.  I love papers from Craft Consortium as they allow you to make such pretty variegated flowers and leaves.

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BE MY VALENTINE

This is the card I made with my card class last week.  My group had a lot of fun designing their cards with all the puzzle pieces I had pre-cut for them.

I used a heart from Scrapbook.com (on sale for half price) and the puzzle pieces and sentiment from Waffle Flower - not sure about the die for the little hearts nor the background impression plate.  In their packet there was also two sentments - "Love you to pieces" and "Happy Valentine's Day". Can you see the one male participant?

All for now...

ALTENEW INSPIRATION CHALLENGE

Everytime I receive a package from Altenew I think of making a card from their beautiful packaging - today I finally did it!

I found an embossing folder with the same size dots as the bubbles of the package and used that for my background. I popped the bubble wrap bubbles to flatten the packaging a bit. Added the little sentiment and a few enamel dots and done.

Not sure my colors exactly match Altenew's January Inspiration Challenge but will enter it anyway.

 All for now.