The Flower Challenge #103 Embosssing Heat or Dry.

Posted on June 4, 2025 by baileyrosy

Welcome back to a new month at The Flower Challenge. This time around, we are asking you to use heat or dry embossing on your floral projects.

While recovering from surgery, I bought a few sets of dies and stamps, and one of my favourites is this gorgeous peony from Memory Box, coloured with Distress Oxides. I added a little clear embossing to the leaves and petals, unfortunately, it isn’t very clear from the photo. I used an ancient die from Spellbinders to cut out an aperture, which I then embossed using the Scribbled Letter embossing folder also from Spellbinders.

We hope you’ll join in the fun at The Flower Challenge. The design team has created some amazing floral cards to delight and inspire.

Hopefully, when this is published, I will be away at my summer home, having my first swim of the year. I’m only allowed 15 minutes per day for the first couple of weeks, but rest assured, I will be doing a lot of paddling, weather permitting.

I’m linking up to A Cut Above, who are asking us to use at least one die cut on our project

Beautiful Blossoms #29 Anything Floral with Optional Mood Board

Wishing you all a fabulous week

Take care

Marie

Blooms and Birdies

Posted on October 8, 2024 by baileyrosy

Just popping in with a card for a few challenges that caught my eye two of which I’ve never played along with before, so here goes.

I used a fantastic set by Pinkfresh Studios consisting of a glimmer plate, stencil, and die-cut called Folk Art Birds. It really is a beautiful set and so easy to use. The only tricky part is choosing what colours to use. I started by using my Spellbinders glimmer machine to foil the image which looked lovely as it was but I decided on doing a bit of ink blending using the stencils and my tiny weeny Pinkfresh Studio blending brushes to get into all the nooks and crannies with a variety of Distress Oxides. I then used the die-cut plate to cut out all of the pieces and used what was left as a template to re-insert them after I had adhered a million tiny pieces of double-sided foam to the back to give dimension. I find it helps to keep the paper in the dies while adding foam as I’m a messy crafter and tend to lose at least one major piece.

The hardest part is trying to align all of the pieces so using the outline of the dies really helps especially for someone like me who suffers from bloggers blindness and has been known to make a couple of wonky cards.

I’m linking up to the following challenges.

A Cut Above

PinkFresh Studio

The Flower Challenge

Wishing you all a fabulous week filled with good health and plenty of creative fun.

Take care

Marie

Flowers Galore!

Posted on August 5, 2024 by baileyrosy

It’s been an age since I posted two cards in such quick succession but there are some amazing challenges around at the moment a few of them I’ve been waiting for just the right moment to enter and that moment has arrived!

I bought this amazing flower girl die from the very talented Zsoka from A Pocket Full of Happiness. The skies the limit with this set you can be as subtle or not, as you can see I’m in the not category. The set comes complete with lots of lovely blooms although I did use in addition some flowers from another die set belonging to her May release.

Did you notice the little birdie cheekily peeking out? it’s from an old Spellbinders set the packaging has long since disappeared but I just loved its little face and it looks quite at home me thinks.

I used a variety of patterned papers, distress oxides,Nuovo Drops, and enamel dots from Altnew. I have to say this took forever to make not so much the die cutting but the actual placement which I’m rubbish at Zsoka makes it look easy which was why I was emboldened and I’m glad I did .

I’m entering the following challenges

The Flower Challenge #94

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge – Anything Florals Goes with Optional Mood Board #19

{PIN}spirational Challenge #316 AUGUST Diecuts

Triple B August Challenge

Wishing you all a fabulous week

Take care

Marie

Colorful Options Royal Blue

Posted on May 2, 2024 by baileyrosy

Welcome back to another fun challenge at Colorful Options, we had so many amazing entries for our Pastel challenges last month and do hope you will play along without our latest challenge where we are asking you to create a project using Royal Blue

Please remember that you may incorporate any neutrals or metallics you need in your design and that your make does not need to be monochromatic. If royal blue is not to your liking, join us with a rainbow-inspired craft.

As you can see from my card I went down the rainbow path as my “Royal Blue” didn’t arrive in time.

We have an amazing guest designer this month the wonderful and talented Trina from Phamtastic Designs do check out her blog she is a master with Colour.

Items used

Honey Bee Stamps Parot Die

Spellbinders oval die

Spellbinders Four Leaf embossing folder

Distress Oxides

Sentiment Tim Holtz .

. We do hope you will join us at Colorful Options so why not pop along and see what the rest of the Design Team have created to inspire and delight.

In other news my lovely sister is visiting from the UK to celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter with us and we are so looking forward to spending some time at our holiday home by the sea weather permitting.

I’m also linking up with NBUS#62 as my parot die is fresh out of the packet.

Take care

Marie

Colorful Options Color of the Month “Pastels”

Posted on April 2, 2024 by baileyrosy

Hello and welcome back to another fun challenge at Colorful Options

This month, we challenge you to use a pastel color. Please remember that you
may incorporate any neutrals or metallics that you need in your design and that your design does not need to be monochromatic. If pastels are not to your liking, join us with a rainbow-inspired craft instead.

For our challenge, I made two cards using some new dies from Poppy Stamps from their Nordic Flowers series I acquired on a recent trip to the UK. The first card features the Nordic Majestic Bloom die-coloured with Distress Oxide inks and placed inside a lovely scalloped oval frame by Catherine Pooler also a new purchase(yes Darnell I will once again be playing along ).

The second card features this pretty Nordic Crown Flower die again coloured with Distress oxides. This time I’ve used this lovely Spellbinders Infinity punch and pierce die plate as a background and not cut it all the way through so it gives an embossed effect.

We do hope you will join us at Colorful Options it’s always great to see your amazing cards and it’s a great source of inspiration to me personally. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design team’s amazing creations.

I’m also linking up to

NBUS challenge#61 as my dies are all brand spanking new.