It's All You- The Flower Challenge

Welcome

It's time for another reminder that you still have time to come and play along with us at 

The Flower Challenge

Simple theme to create any card with flowers...and there's 2 great prizes this month from MFT.

Huge thanks to 'My Favorite Things' for sponsoring us, they are giving away two prizes. So we will choose two winners this month! Each will receive a gift card worth $25. Do check out their website as they have amazing crafty things to be seen there !

All our designers and also our guest designer Michele Ferguson have used their products ( kindly donated from MFT) on our cards. Our guest Designer this month is the talented Michele Ferguson. I am sure you all know Michele, she is an avid FC participant, she leaves so many comments for others and makes fabulous cards of course too !

Onto my card details.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and got out my DOX inks with my makeup blending brushes.  Starting at the bottom, I blended Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade, next Seedless Preserves, Blueprint Sketch and finally Black Soot at the top.  

When I was happy with all the colour blending, I splattered with water to lift some of the ink; it gives such a great look to the background.

Next, I placed the inky background into my Misti and stamped the flowers randomly along the bottom edge.  I added some more Black Soot DOX ink along the bottom edge to help ground the flowers.

I rubbed the card front with my Anti-static bag, stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink then white heat embossed it so it would pop against the dark background.

I splattered with some white acrylic paint, then mounted the piece onto some black cardstock, then onto a white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Craft Stamper Magazine- TAKE IT MAKE IT- ANYTHING GOES

Cardz for Galz- WELCOME FALL/AUTUMN

Supplies

Stamps- Flower Silhouettes (MFT); Sassy Pants Best Friends (MFT)

Inks- DOX; Tuxedo Black Memento; Versamark

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); black cardstock

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); makeup blending brushes; white paint; white 

embossing powder

Life's Path

Welcome

A simple card today using this beautiful Lace Doily stencil and a few simple stamps.

I wanted to have a simple, distressed looking background for my card so I inked up the back of the stencil with some Carved Pumpkin DOX ink, sprayed with water and pressed onto my sheet of heavy white cardstock, creating a monoprint.  When I inked up the stencil, I concentrated most of the ink to the center and left the edges a bit untouched to give the distressed feel.

When the inking was dry, I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the flowers from MFT and then the sentiment over my stencilling.  I mounted the piece onto a complimentary colour of cardstock, then onto a white card base.

That's it...simple and very fresh looking with the orange.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.*

Supplies

Stamps- Life's Journey (High Hopes); Flower Silhouettes

Inks- Tuxedo Black; Carved Pumpkin DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Lace Doily (A Colorful Life Designs); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

Mister (TH)