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The Flower Challenge #98 Sparkle Reminder

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Welcome back to the mid-way point at The Flower Challenge. There’s still plenty of time to get “your sparkle on” and join in the fun.

Once again, it was a bit tricky to show the extent of sparkle on this card, but believe me, I tried!

I used the Altenew Wallpaper Art Stamp and die to create the florals stamped in black archival ink once onto card and then a second time onto velum die cut with matching dies which were placed on top of the card, I know you can’t see it but it’s there . Some of the leaves were cut from glitter card and others were stamped. I added a touch of glitter to the center of the flower and for extra sparkle I got out my silver stickles to add a little touch of sparkle hither and thither. The blooms were placed inside my Sizzix mason jar with some embossed mirror card and a few sequins.

We do hope you will join us at The Flower Challenge the design team has some amazing cards to delight and inspire and we look forward to seeing your fabulous entries.

In other news, It’s a hectic time of year for me as we own a jewellery store and the Christmas shopping hours mean we work from dawn till dusk every day until the new year except Christmas day so please forgive my tardiness in my slow commenting I can assure you I will get there.

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend.

Marie

Fuschia Fun !

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After the old mojo wandered off for a week or so it decided to put in a brief appearance just long enough for me to make a card and a HUGE mess and then vacated the premises tout sweet! At least I’m happy with my latest offering I hope you are too

I used one of my favourite dies by Memory box the Dainty Fuschia Stem which was coloured with Distress Oxides in Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, and Mowed Lawn popped up with tons of double-sided foam and attached to a lovely Dotted Stardust debossing plate by Altenew. The sentiment is by A Pocket Full of Happiness, coloured with Wilted Violet and Picked Raspberry and then embossed with clear embossing powder for a touch of shine. In the photo, it looks more like a shadow than two separate colours but hey ho you can’t win em all.

I’m playing along with The Flower Challenge I’m really enjoying using up my floral dies and stamps I didn’t realise I had so many of them

Tic Tac Toe TTTC260 .The lovely and talented Vicky is the featured designer this time round, how could I not play along! I’ve chosen Ink Blending,CAS and Die Cut, I do hope it’s Cas enough!

A Cut Above where it’s anything goes using die cuts and option to “Warm it Up” I’m just using dies.

Well that’s all from me the craft room needs a good seeing too and little Miss Molly my chihuahua is asking for cuddles and who am I to deny her.

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend.

Take care

Marie

Sparkles!

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I’m happy to announce that as of today I’m officially a member of the design team for Sparkles Monthly Challenges. It’s a monthly challenge with an amazing design team and I’m super excited to be part of it.

Our challenge this month is #165 No Stamping Allowed and you have a whole month to come up with something wonderful.

For the base, I used the Cross Stitch cover plate and Dainty Blooms cover die both by Altenew. I then cut out the Dainty Blooms cover die for a second time using yellow card and paper pieced two of the blooms. The lovely little birdie is from Concord&9Th Eclectic Garden Set and the sentiment is courtesy of Mr Holtz.

I do hope you will join us over at Sparkles Monthly Challenges as the design team has some amazing cards to inspire and delight but don’t forget no stamping allowed !

I’m also linking up to

Double D challenges as they are asking us to use lemons or yellow as our focus

Create a smile Using their mood board

Take care

Marie

Red, Black, and White.

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Well, what a week last week was !!!!!!! Not only did my little sister Kal at Crafting with Mabel get showcased over at Happy Little Stampers with her first-ever card but I too was showcased at Less is More and was Chic of the week over at Just Us Girls. needless to say, both sisters were very happy indeed.

So here I am again with another card for Just us Girls, it’s colour week this week and they are asking us to use Red, Black, and White.

Sounds simple, three colours what could go wrong? Plenty if you’re me I took all day to make a card and at the last minute decided against it so here is it’s replacement.

Super simple as you can see, I used my Cameo to cut the image and swiped Rocket Red Archival ink onto white card stock, I cut a few pieces of black card and gave the gentleman hair, and the lady shoes and a frock. I did in retrospect feel I should have given the gentleman something to wear, a pair of shorts at least I mean the lady is wearing mitts and he only has his hair to keep him warm!!

The panel was popped up with doubled sided foam for dimension and a couple of stick pins for a little something-something cos basically it looked a little plain.

Mr. P said they looked like they were walking the red carpet !!!? so I added a touch of red

And here’s the card that didn’t make the cut it’s not bad I just couldn’t make my mind up which I preferred so I’m entering this one into Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge and NBUS as it’s the first outing for this die.

I love this Altenew die,I used three layers of white card for dimension and two layers of red for the paper piecing but I felt something was missing a sentiment just seemed to take up too much space so I left it blank.

Do pop over to Just us Girls the lovely and talented Mac is the guest designer for the month of April and once again she and the Design team have fabulous cards to inspire us.

Happy Little Stampers and NBUS have some amazing cards in the gallery so make sure you pass by there too.

For all those who celebrated Easter I hope you had a fabulous time, here in Greece we celebrate next week so am looking forward to another swim in The Med weather permitting of course.

Take care

Marie