Copy Cat Challenge!

It's the second day of the Flourishes July reveal and so the second challenge is up. This challenge is a Copy Cat challenge:

All you need to do to enter is look at our blog roll on the right hand side here and check out ANY one of our designers from any team — our Design Team, our Friends of Flourishes team, or our Bring Back Beautiful team. Surf around our team link list and choose a card they created and CASE it — you know what CASE means, right? It means Copy And Steal Everything. Be inspired by one of our designer’s layouts and create a “Copy Cat!”

I browsed quite a few beautiful Flourishes designer blogs and came across this gorgeous card in Cindy Coutts blog, here. So this is the card I chose to "CASE" for today's challenge!
Here's my take on Cindy's card:

A Happy Hello

supplies: stamps, Flourishes; patterned papers, Cosmo Cricket, Prima; cardstock, Gina K. Designs, Bazzill; pearls, KaiserCraft; gem flower, Jesse James; inks, Ranger, Memento, Copic; other, twine, ribbons.

Here's a close up my peaches. I coloured them with Copics.

Here's a close up of the ribbon, twine and pearl detail...

Happy Thursday! I'm off to work sadly this afternoon but I hope you're enjoying your summer afternoon!

Zinnia Thank You

To celebrate Flourishes new release this month, they're posting a few challenges for their viewers to participate in.

This sketch is the first:

Click the sketch to see all the contest rules.

Here's my take on the sketch:

Thank You Zinnias

supplies: stamps, Flourishes: patterned paper, Jillibean Soup, BasicGrey; die shapes, Spellbinders; inks, Memento, Ranger, Copic; other, thread.

Here's my focal image detail. I used 3 different layers to create a dimensional flower arrangement.

Come and out and check out all the new Flourishes stamps! They are always so strikingly beautiful!

Just the Facts Please!

Happy Tuesday!

Today's my day to share a project on the myStamp BOX blog and I have chosen to showcase a super quick easy project... a tag mini album!

Come on out and see what my mini album is all about!!! Click here!

Birthday Berries!

Awhile ago I found this cool challenge blog called Catered Crop but I just never made any time to participate until today.

Here's how you play...
Use any of the ingredients (themes, colors, techniques, shapes, etc.) in the recipe given to make your project. You don't have to use all the ingredients or the same brands. Just pick a few ingredients and then add your own spices to cook up something uniquely yours.

Here are this week's challenge ingredients. The green highlighted ingredients were the ones I incorporated into my card.

Ingredients:

• Colors – red, white, green, and brown
• Stamps and Stickers – cake, flowers, mice, strawberries
• Patterns – circles, checked/gingham
• Color Mediums – markers (ProMarker, Copics)
• Embellishments – banners
• Tools – border bunches
• Techniques – faux stitching, doodling/drawing
• Theme – birthday
  

Happy Birthday

supplies: stamps, Flourishes; patterned papers, Cosmo Cricket, Fancy Pants Designs; inks, Memento, Copic; pen, Sharpie, Signo; tools, Tim Holtz ruler; corner rounder, EK Success; edge punch, Fiskars; cardstock, Gina K. Designs, Bazzill; die cut shape, Spellbinders.

Here's a close up of my strawberry details. I coloured them in using Copics and then added the white seed highlights using a white Signo pen.

Come on over and check out Catered Crop! Super fun!