OSAAT #207 Flowers

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Flowers

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For this card I used the beautiful image

 Rose & Butterfly Frame 2 from Delicious Doodles

The card was for Mother’s Day for my Mother in Law. It was a sombre day as her own Mother has just passed away at the grand old age of 101. As a result I wanted to make something that was pretty but quite subtle in colouring. It almost felt wrong to celebrate our Mom whilst she had just lost her own only a few days before L

 In a very rare move for me I chose the background paper 1^st and then I coloured the image in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers  to match the colours in the paper. There are 3 layers to the image the first being the whole image with a Mother’s Day sentiment added. The second is the whole frame which has been cut out to reveal the sentiment. The 3^rd layer is the frame, roses only and the butterfly with the wings folded up. I used 3d foam to mount the layers. You can see this all in more detail below. 

The white card base has been covered with a lovely patterned paper a very old Hot off the Press paper pad. I added a lace trim from my stash and a beautiful butterfly die cut. I used a die which was a magazine freebie and added some self adhesive pearls down the centre. As a final touch I added some Stickles glitter glue to the darker areas of the roses and the butterfly.

There are so many beautiful floral images in the store and of course so many ways to add flowers to a card, they are one of my most favourite aspects of making cards.

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A5

Digi Image – Rose & Butterfly Frame 2 from Delicious Doodles

Paper – Hot off the Press HOTP

Digital Sentiment – Digital Delights by LoubyLou

Embellishments – lace, self adhesive pearls, Stickles glitter glue

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Butterfly die magazine freebie

Techniques - Decoupage

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

Happy Father's Day

Today is Father’s Day and I made this card for my Father in Law who is a golfing fanatic. The image is actually a combination of 3 different digis. The Golf Background is from Digital Designs by Louby Lou and I thought it was perfect, you see many images that are golf themed but not often do you get a background image so I had to buy it. The character is AKV Golf Bag from Bugaboo Digi Stamps and I have decoupaged many of the elements. Eventhough this is an A5 card let me tell you those golf clubs are still tiny!

I used the golf ball from a larger image Golf Ball & Pole by DigiDarla Designs. The papers are from the Woodland Friends paper pack from Docrafts. I used the Fiskars border punch on the edges and the sentiment is a freebie from Hanelie at Desert Diva. If you have never visited her you seriously need to become a follower as she does the most amazing freebie sentiments and makes lovely cards too. Thankyou Hanelie for your generosity J

We are taking Dad out for a curry to our favourite Indian Restaurant tonight so that is tea sorted too!

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A5

Images – Golf Background from Digital Designs by Louby Lou, AKV Golf Bag from Bugaboo Digi Stamps and Golfball & Pole from DigiDarla Designs

Paper – Woodland Friends from Docrafts

Sentiment – Father’s Day Freebie from Desert Diva

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Fiskars Treading Water border punch, 3d foam

Techniques – Decoupage & Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• 2 Sisters Challenge - #148 Just for Dad
• 365 Cards - Day 163 Father
• A Gem of A Challenge - #84 Father’s Day
• Anything Goes - #94 Father’s Day
• Art Impressions Stamps – #112 Masculine Cards
• CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft
• City Crafter  - #163 All About Him
• Craft Your Passion - #166 Father’s Day
• Crafting By Designs – Anything Goes with a Male Twist
• Crafting Café – Here Come The Boys
• Crafting For All Seasons - #54 For The Guys
• Crafty Sentiments – Project for a Male
• Creative Craft Challenge – #12 We Love You Dad
• Cuttin & Stampin - #23 Father’s Day
• Digistamps 4Joy - #69 For the men in our lives
• DL Art Thankful Thursday – #111 Father’s Day
• Eureka Stamps  – #43 Father’s Day
• Get Inky - #6 For Boys or Men
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Father’s Day
• Inky Impressions - #112 Fathers Day
• Jellypark Friends – Masculine
• Ladybug Crafts – For the men in your life
• LEJ Designs - #57 For Men or Boys
• Lexi’s Creations - #92 Father’s Day
• Little Claire Designs - #34 Male Theme
• Loves Rubber Stamps - #56 Masculine
• Milk Coffee Challenge – Father’s Day
• Our Daily Bread - #158 Masculine or Father’s Day
• Papertake Weekly  – Hello Boys
• Pattie’s Creations – #69 Father’s Day
• Perfect Sentiment – #83 For the Boys
• QKR Stampede – #43 For Dad
• Simply Create Too - #39 Father’s Day
• Sisterhood of Crafters - card for a Man or Boy
• Stamping With The Dragon  – One for Dad
• Tammy Scrapin’ Corner - #66 Father’s Day
• The Crafter’s Café - #17 Father’s Day or for a male
• The Pink Elephant  - #203 Father’s Day
• The Stamping Chef – For dad
• Top Tip Tuesday - #103 Masculine
• Totally Gorjuss  – #188 For Dad
• Twisted Tuesday - #2TC52 Masculine with clothes on
• Word Art Wednesday - #84  Anything Goes

Autumn Thanks

Woohoo, get me! I’m a day early with my card for the progressive freebie challenge at Delightful Inspiration. Faith gave us a fabulous pack containing a pumpkin image and two different tags.

I used the free leaves paper that Anice from Funky Hand gave us to go with the current challenge at Get Funky. Inside this I have popped Haystacks the Scarecrow from Digital Delights by Louby Lou. I coloured the image with Promarkers, cut it all out leaving s thin white border and used a small brown inkpad to distress the edges.

I have used a snippet of brown spotty paper and punched a border and have layered this onto an orange card blank. The sentiment is a copper metallic one and has been added with slimline 3d foam pads.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A6

Images – Pumpkin Tag by Designed 2 Delight,

Haystacks the Scarecrow by Digital Delights by Louby Lou

Paper – Brown spots Papermania Woodland Folk, leaves is a free digital by Funky Hand

Sentiment – Patchwork Pals by Kanban

Tools – Martha Stewart Punch, small ink pad, Promarkers

Techniques – Distressing with inkpad, punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• ABC DT Challenge – Pumpkins
• Art With No Boundaries – Halloween or Autumn
• Bows and Berries #12 – Colour Challenge
• CES #58 – Autumn
• City Crafter’s Challenge #79 – Harvest festival
• Class Act Insider – Autumn, Halloween or Thanksgiving
• Crafty Boots Challenge #4 – Autumn or Halloween
• Crafty Purple Frog – Thank You
• Creative Sketches #52 – Autumn Colours
• Cute Card Thursday #186 – Trees or Leaves
• Deep Ocean Challenge #10 – Autumn Colours
• Delightful Challenges – Colours of Fall (used store digi)
• Delightful Inspiration – Friday Freebie Challenge
• Digi Darla – Autumn Fun
• Do You Stack Up #41 – Use Your Scraps
• Fresh Brewed Designs #67 – Pumpkins
• Fussy & Fancy  #47 – Autumn or Halloween
• Get Funky! – Autumn
• Gingerloft #27 – Halloween or Autumn
• House That Stamps Built DCC1012 – Halloween or Autumn
• I Love Promarkers #88 – Ain’t it Cute
• Jules Crafty Snippets #41 – Brown spotty paper is a snippet J
• Lia Stampz #5 – Use 2 images
• Little Red Wagon #103 – Autumn
• Make It Monday #59 – Link Up Party
• My Mum's Craft Shop #28 – Food & Drink
• My Partner in Crafting Crime #33 – Picture Inspiration (autumn colours)
• One Crazy Stamper – Halloween or Autumn
• Outlawz GC101711 – Anything Goes
• Paper Shelter #36 - Harvest
• Pile It On #42 – Autumn Theme
• Rainbow Lady #174 – Falling Leaves
• Stamp Scrap & Doodle Saturdays – Autumn & leaves
• Stampin’ For The Weekend #18 – Colours of Autumn
• Stamps R Us – Nature’s Gifts
• Stamptacular Sunday #134 – You Choose
• Sunday’s With Crissy #22 – Thanks/Thanksgiving
• Top Tip Tuesday #56 - Layers
• Wags n Whiskers #65 – Autumn Colours
• Whoopsi Daisy – Free & Easy