Flower Soft News

Welcome to the middle of the week! I'm glad it's downhill from here - I can hardly wait for the weekend to get here.

I have a new Flower Soft card to share with you for the latest challenge - Frilly and Feminine.
The winner this week will get to choose 4 colors of Flower Soft! Not a bad deal.

But if you need more Flower Soft than that (and let's face it - who doesn't...?), then, you need to check out the month long contest that Flower Soft is sponsoring. The grand prize winner will get a $100 Flower Soft prize package, plus there will be 5 winners who will each get a prize valued at $20. You don't even have to use FS to qualify, and you can enter as many times as you'd like! Go check it out.

Card Details:
Topper: Die-Cut Dimensions - Wildflowers
Ultra fine Flower Soft - black
Patterned Paper: Echo Park
Stamp: Justrite Stampers - Friendship Blossoms
Lace: Prima

Beary Scrap May Sketch

Sometimes it's good to go rummaging through drawers - you find things you forgot about. This weekend I was looking for something, and stumbled across this little purse template (from about 10 years ago). I thought, hmmm.....that was cute, and didn't think any more about it. Then I pulled out the papers that I wanted to use for my Beary Scrap card this week - Cosmo Cricket Upcycle - and I saw the papers with the little purses...and a light went off! So sometimes projects come together after careful thought and planning and other times - it's just a happy whim!

After I put the purse together, I added some Tim Holtz chain for the handle, a handmade flower to dress it up a little and some Kaisercraft pearls to finish it off.

So do you have a great project story that just fell together? I'd love to hear it!

Challenges:
Simon Says: Anything goes

Unity Friends with Flair - April 29

OK, so I think that is pretty fun that you can join in the the Unity Friends with Flair hop any week that you would like. And their stamps are so cute, why wouldn't I want to join in? For my card, I used a stamp from the Feb '11 Kit of the Month. I colored my image with Faber-Castell gelatos, over an old page from a book.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday: sketch
Unity Challenges: Tweet, Tweet

Chapel Road Stamps Inspiration

I'll be the first to admit - I'm really not a Clean and Simple kind of girl....but tonight I did make a CAS card - and really had fun. I wanted to try a new technique (for me) using my Behold the Rose stamp set from Chapel Road stamps. I stamped my image onto the rose colored cardstock using Versamark ink - and embossed it with clear embossing powder. After this was heat set, I colored the non embossed areas using a paintbrush and bleach. To me, it was just so cool to see the color lift off of the paper.

You still have almost a week left to play along with our current challenge - Fancy Fold cards. You don't have to use a Class Act/ Chapel Road stamp, but we would love to see what you do with them!

Challenges:
CPS: sketch

Believe You Can Fly

I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend! I had an extra day off, so a little extra time to craft! This week we will be wrapping up our things with wings challenge at the Beary Scrap. You have until April 30th to get your entry in.

This has been such a fun challenge! Today, I used the lovely Butterfly Garden from Pink Paislee. Even the wooden dragonfly is from this line. Now, I did do quite I bit of altering on it! I used Stickles, Glimmer Mist, Smooch - and then sanded it all to distress it a bit. I also used some of the yummy seam binding that Kimm just got in the store. I am really going to be stocking up on that stuff - it just makes a project look so great! My sentiment is from Unity Stamps.

I hope you have a great week!

Challenges:
Card Patterns: Sketch
Simon Says Stamp and Show: Show some buttons

Sketch Challenge at Belles n Whistles

Good morning! I just wanted to share my card for the new challenge at Belles n Whistles! I used one of our new stamps, A Blossom for You.

My papers are new from Cosmo Cricket. I just love this vintage feel. You have two weeks to play along with us, for your chance to win a BnW stamp of your choice.

Unity Friends with Flair

I'm off work today and thought it would be fun to join in the the Unity Friend with Flair. I always love seeing all of the different Unity creations and am glad I got to play along. I used a Unity Stamp from the Iron Orchid line - Provencial Collection - Aux Elegantes.

Challenges:
Unity: Friends with Flair
Unity Monthly Challenge: Tweet Tweet
Card Patterns: sketch
Simon Says Stamp and Show: Tim Holtz technique

Chapel Road Challenge

We are shaking things up a bit at the Chapel Road stamps challenge - Now you can use any stamp to play along with us, as long as you follow the current theme. If you do use Chapel Road stamps, you will be entered twice. Also, our challenges will now be on the 3rd Friday of the month, and the Class Act Challenges will be on the first Friday of the month.

Our new challenge is for a non-traditional card, meaning either a shaped card or a fancy fold. I used my long-standing favorite easel card and the Adornments set. I thought this was just perfect for Easter Weekend.



I stamped and cut out my images. The cross was colored using Glimmer Mist, and edged with Gold Smooch. The qua-trefoil was colored with Copics and Gold Smooch. Lots of dimensional adhesives were placed to give great dimension.

Challenges:
ABC - Easter

Globecraft Memories

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Oh my goodness! I just discovered the coolest new product, by Globecraft Memories. They are chipboard frame sets that you can alter any way your heart desires. They come with an acrylic dome to protect whatever little goodies you want to add inside.
For my project, I covered each of the frame layers using Prima papers from the Madeline collection. For my treasure - I made a layered panel with Spellbinders Label 13, and stamped JustRite's Fancy Labels on my panel. I sprayed the panels with Helmar Vellum adhesive, and sprinkled with glitter. The flower was cut using Spellbinders/Donna Salazar's Rose Creations die. My sentiment tag was stamped using JustRite's You Inspire Me set.

This was really fun, and I want to try some of their smaller frames added to scrapbook pages.

Challenges:
Lily Pad Cards: Globecraft Challenge
Lily Pad Cards: Frames, Dies and Dimension Challenge
JustRite: Handmade Flower challenge
Stamp and Show: Show a Tim Hotlz technique

The Beary Scrap - Things with Wings

For the rest of April, the Beary Scrap's challenge is to use something with wings. The DT was also challenged to use a feather on our card. I used the gorgeous new Cosmo Cricket paper - Social Club. Now, one of the designs does have a peacock feather on it - and I thought about letting that count as my feather, but I decided why not add a real peacock feather? The stamp is a new image from Belles n Whistles Fairy Friends collection - Lily Pad Dreams. I colored her with Copics and added Stickles to her wings for some shine.

So we would love to have a great project fly to us from your blog! There are so many possibilities - birds, butterflies, fairies - even some great Steampunk designs! So get creative and join the fun!

Challenges:
Paper Sundaes: Texture