Welcome Back! It’s halfway through the month, and you still have plenty of time to join in the fun at The Flower Challenge. We would love to see you use the colour purple on your crafty blooms.

Whilst I was away in the UK, I had time to “splash the cash” and treat myself to all manner of crafty goods; it’s difficult to get the supplies I need(want) here in Greece, so I took full advantage. Needless to say, I ended up with more crafting supplies in my suitcase than clothes.

If ever I’m stuck for inspiration or want to find out what’s the latest in crafting items, I always turn to the talented and fabulous Michele from I Card Everyone. I unashamedly (there was a bit of shame) “cased” her beautiful card, which you can see if you follow the link.

The frame is from The Greetery, and the basket and blooms are courtesy of Honey Bee, coloured with distress oxides.

We do hope you will join us at The Flower Challenge. My teamies have once again outdone themselves and created some amazing cards to inspire and delight.

Wishing you all a fabulous day

Marie

It’s a new month, and that means a new theme over at The Flower Challenge.

This time around, we are asking you to add the colour purple to your floral creations.

I knew exactly what I was going to make, which is rare indeed for me.

I recently acquired the Project Life Magnificent Magnolia kit from Altenew, which comes with stamps, dies, stencils, and an embossing folder, and I couldn’t wait to use it.

I used distress oxides and a jot of glossy accents on the centre of the bloom. The sentiment is from The Greetery, which I discovered whilst in the UK, and spent an absolute fortune on crafty goodies.

We do hope you will join us at The Flower Challenge. My teamies have once again created a vast array of fabulous florals for your delectation (try saying that several times after imbibing a few cocktails)

I’m linking up to CardZ 4 Gals, who are asking us to use purple and green in our creations.

In other news, I spent a week in the UK visiting my mother and brother-in-law, both of whom are in care facilities due to their advanced dementia. Unfortunately, my mum doesn’t recognise me now; she thinks I’m her granddaughter, but she was very happy to see me, and she still has her sense of humour and a twinkle in her eye. I did treat myself to all manner of crafting items that I can’t get here in Greece, and managed to spend plenty of time with my little sister in her fabulous craft room. She caught the bug from me a few years ago and has ended up with the most fabulous crafty space and amazing stash. Am I jealous ? You bet I am.

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend

Take care

Marie

It’s the midway point at The Flower Challenge, and we have some fresh inspiration for our Sketch challenge, which I hope will get your creative juices flowing.

Although I struggled with my first card, this one came together more easily.

The floral die, embossing folder, and dotted circle are from Spellbinders. In fact, the dotted circle is a glimmer plate, which I used as a die. Once again, the “gold blobs” are courtesy of Pinkfresh Studio, and the sentiment is Altenew.

We do hope you can join in the fun at The Flower Challenge and look forward to seeing your lovely creations. My teammates have once again outdone themselves, so why not pop on over and take a peep?

Once again, I will be in the air when this post goes live. I’m heading back to the UK to see my mum, who unfortunately isn’t doing very well healthwise; she has dementia and is in a care facility. We lost my dad a few years ago to Altzheimers’s, such a terrible illness, and I’m so far away, so please forgive my lack of commenting once again.

Wishing you all a fantastic week

take care

Marie

Welcome back to The Flower Challenge. This month, we are asking you to use our sketch.

To be honest, trying to follow a sketch is my crafting nightmare, but thank goodness this one wasn’t too complicated, although it did give me some trouble; I finally managed to get there in the end!

Altenew came to my rescue with this super striped floral die and sentiment. I used several layers of black cardstock for both, although you wouldn’t know it from the photo; then I matted it onto white and black paper, easy peasy.

We do hope you will play along with us this month at The Flower Challenge. The rest of the design team has once again outdone themselves. We will be back on the 15th of the month with more inspiration.

In other news, I’ve been neglecting my blog of late. I’m still making cards, but have been inundated with orders and don’t have time to do both, so commenting on your wonderful creations has fallen by the wayside. It’s also incredibly hot, so any free time I get, I’m spending in the sea or swimming pool.

Hopefully normal service will be resumed soon…

I’m linking up to Sparkles Forum Challenge who are asking us to make something clean and simple

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend.

Take care

Marie

It’s the halfway point of our ‘Add Embellishments’ theme at The Flower Challenge. You still have until the 25th of the month to share your floral creations with us.

So what did I come up with….

Once again, the “gold blobs” from Pinkfresh studio came out to play. I made this card for a wedding as tis the season and the customer wanted something in white with gold accents, so this fitted perfectly.

Supplies used:-

Spellbinders four Petal embossing folder

Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms dies

Spellbinders Always and Forever Press Plate and Oval die.

We would love for you to join us at The Flower Challenge, and if you’re lacking inspiration, my teammates have created some incredible cards to get the juices flowing.

Take care

Marie

Welcome back to The Flower Challenge. For the next month, we are asking you to use embellishments on your floral creations, and just to make it a little more fun, we would also like to see a die cut.

I’m not really big on embellishments, as you can see by my card, so I just added a few gold blobs (technical term) from Pink Fresh Studio and a little die-cut butterfly coloured with watercolor ink markers to my Sunflower Border press plate image.

I’m having problems with WordPress, and it won’t, for some reason, let me make my photo any smaller, so please forgive the HUGENESS .

Here’s a second attempt, also coloured with watercolour markers and a few more of those gold blobs.

We do hope you will join us at The Flower Challenge, and if you need inspiration, then my team mates have used embellishments galore, very tastefully, I might add, so why not pop on over.

I’m away at the moment, so fingers crossed WordPress delivers on time.

Take care

Marie

Welcome back to another fun challenge at The Flower Challenge. This month, we would like you to use the colours featured in our mood board.

I really loved the colours in the mood board, but try as I might, the colours I used for my card don’t seem to be that similar. In real life, they are very close. I’ll let you be the judge.

I couldn’t even take a straight photo!!!! This was the best I could come up with.

I used this fantastic flip-flop die by A Pocket Full of Happiness with lots of layers of card and foam to make it more sturdy. The Mighty Waves embossing folder by Altenew for the background, and the sentiment was computer-generated. This was actually an order for a customer who loves the sea, so two birds were killed with one stone. Actually, no birds were injured in the making of this card.

We would love to see your creations at The Flower Challenge, and as always, my teammates have created some amazing cards to inspire and delight.

In other news, as this post is hopefully going live, I shall be airbound on the way to stay with my lovely sister in the UK, who has recently become a nana for the third time. I will be meeting my great-nephew, who is just a month old, and catching up with the rest of the family

Wishing you all a fabulous week.

Marie.

Welcome back to our mid-month reminder about our embossing, heat, or dry challenge. You still have time to join in the fun. You have until the 25th of the month to share your beautiful floral creations with us at The Flower Challenge.

Here’s what I came up with

Pinkfresh Studios Decorative frames for the base, the aperture was embossed with this beautiful folder from Spellbinders (help, don’t know the name). The buds are from Memory Box Peony Bud Duo, colored with Distress Oxides covered in clear embossing powder, and heated, although you can’t see it in the photo.

Why not pop over to The Flower Challenge? The Design Team has created some amazing cards to inspire us all.

I’m also adding this to A Cut Above (second entry) for their anything goes with a Die Cut challenge

I’m still away, so I hope WordPress is kind to me and publishes this post when it should.

Wishing you all a wonderful week.

Marie