BB February - Birthday Florals

  Welcome to Beautiful Blossoms and our February challenge!

The inspiration photo is below but that is optional, as long as your project features florals.

I used the colour scheme from the photo. 

The floral images were stamped at the top and bottom of the card front and coloured. I die cut the sentiments from green and purple cardstock and arranged them in the centre. I didn't add any embellishments or extras to the card to keep it clean and simple. 

Come and join us at Beautiful Blossoms and show us how you interpret this challenge.

You have until March 12 to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Friend Accordion Box Card

 This was a labour of love, especially since I had to start a second time after messing up my first attempt! 

The two boxes on the ends anchor the accordion across the centre. This cannot be folded down flat so it is definitely a card to be given in person. 

The boxes on each side DO open, allowing small items to be placed inside. I die cut a lot of flowers and leaves and arranged them across the front. Some gold gems and gold Stickles were added around the card and the sentiment was placed at the top. I also stamped a secondary sentiment on the base of the card.

Enjoy, 

Alyson

CD 691 - Sweet Friend Butterfly

  Welcome to Colour Dare Challenge 691!

The colour grid is shown below. 

I used all three colours. 

I ink blended a background using Cracked Pistachio, Seedless Preserves and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide inks and die cut the grid pattern from that piece. It was added to a piece of white cardstock and adhered to a card base with a black strip on the left side. I die cut a butterfly cross piece from black cardstock and silver glitter paper and placed it across the grid. The sentiment was embossed on black and added at the bottom. Three black gems were placed around the butterfly. 

Come and join us at Colour Dare and show us how you interpret this challenge.

You have two weeks to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Market Day Card Event

 I participated in an online card class last weekend, run by Scrapbook and Cards. If you are ever wanting to take a paper crafting class - cards, scrapbooks, mixed products - check them out! Here is the link to their site: Scrapbook and Cards Today. Their events are open to anyone worldwide!

I received an extensive package of stamps, dies (TONS of dies), stencils and cardstock. There were three classes, some with bonus cards. I completed all of them - and was exhausted at the end of the day! 

There is such a great variety of cards from this event - and I have the products to create more!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Set of Cards - Gina K Style

 I work on sets of cards at crops and I finished 4 sets of 8 of these cards (32 cards in total). There are eight colour schemes. The cards are 5x7 and there was a ton of die cutting for each. I love how they turned out!

Which colour is your favourite? 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Postage Collage Animal Cards

 These two cards are for the ABC Alphabet Soup Challenge for the Papercrafter's Workshop store. These are my C and D cards for the month of February. 

C is for cats... I embossed blue cardstock with a paw print pattern and ink blended some postage shapes with an ombre blue blend. The images were embossed in black and I used a white gel pen to add details. I arranged them on the front and added a small stamped sentiment under one of the images. 

D is for dogs... I kept the postage collage frame intact and ink blended a blue and purple background. The dog images were die cut and arranged on the front. I used a white gel pen to add details and I heat embossed two sentiments as well. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Side Pleat Card

 I purchased a paper pack a while ago - it's single sided but the patterns are gorgeous. I used one of the sheets for this card. 

The left side is pleat folded five times and over the last pleat line, I placed a thin ribbon. The pleated panel was adhered to a gold mat and then a teal card base. I have some ephemera from this kit and I used both an image and a sentiment on this card. I added some gold thread under the sentiment and placed a few gold gems around the image. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

AH 668 - Square Florals

Welcome to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 668!

The sketch is shown below. 

I love this sketch - the concept of rotating the same image for the tiny squares and using the same (or a similar) image for the larger section is neat!

I chose a floral stamp and I stamped the same image on all eight small squares. They were coloured using shades of pink and green. A larger images from the same set was stamped in the biggest opening and coloured. I used a black marker to draw around the edges of the smaller pieces and arranged them as per the sketch The sentiment was embossed on black and added across the larger image. I used a black pen to draw dots around some of the flowers and leaves. 

Come and join us at Atlantic Hearts and show us how you interpret this challenge.

You have until Sunday evening to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Bee Mine

 This card was created for a year long challenge run by The Papercrafter's Workshop, a scrapbooking store. Every month, they post at least two letters from the alphabet and the projects must be focused around elements that begin with that letter. There are prizes each month and also a grand prize at the end of the year. 

January (although it was a late start) is A and B. We have until the end of February to complete the January projects as well as the two for February (C and D). This is my "B" project.

The focal "B" events on my card are bees, the colour blue and ink blending. 

I ink blended a background and splattered it with water. The flower and the bees were stamped, coloured and die cut and I added heart trails behind each of the bees. I used clear Stickles on the bees' wings and on the centres of the flowers. The sentiment was placed at the bottom and I added the front to white cardstock and then a blue card base. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Amazing Butterfly Shaker

 I like to do the Sketchy Saturday challenge that is posted by a friend of mine. The sketch is shown below. 

I stayed true to the sketch as there were so many layers. I chose a teal, purple and light green colour scheme. The third layer was stencilled and I turned the small rectangles into shakers and inked a purple butterfly to go on top. The sentiment was placed across the butterfly. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson