Hi friends Its reminder time at The Flower Challenge which is spots/stripes. My card features the gorgeous winter flower digi stamp by Alex Syberia, coloured with my spectrum noir illustrator markers. The spots are splattered with white paint on the base of my card and the edges darkened with distress inks. Looking forward to seeing what you create. Some links above may contain affiliate links to support my blog at no additional cost to you. Thank you.
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Use spots or stripes
Hi friends Its November already and cold and windy here in Scotland. So more reasons to stay in and create! Ha. As if I need an excuse. This month at The Flower Challenge we are incorporating spots or stripes into our designs. I added some striped paper with the beautiful sweet peas by Altenew, gold heat embossed and water coloured with Mijello Mission gold paints. We are sponsored this month and there is a prize! by Top Flight Stamps whose store sells a variety of stamps by companies such as Hero Arts and Crafters Companion as well as some smaller companies. Looking forward to seeing what you create!
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Keeping it to see CAS with Casual Fridays stamps
Hello! We are encouraging you to make CAS cards this month at the flower challenge. And we are sponsored by Casual Fridays stamps who are very generously giving away a voucher to the winner. Whoop! I hope you will check out all the design team inspiration, and here is my card using the pretty posies stamp set and sentiment by Casual Friday. For some added extra interest I put my sentiment vertical and hand drew a flower stalk through the sentiment. I used my Mijello mission gold water colour paints to add some colour to the beautiful blooms.
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Fresh Cut watercolour florals
Hiya It’s reminder time at The Flower Challenge with Anything Goes! Nice and easy for you, plus MFT are sponsoring us this month and are giving a prize to two winners! We also have the fab Michele Ferguson providing inspiration as our guest designer. For my card I gold heat embossed this gorgeous fresh cut floral sprig by MFT with my mijello mission gold paints on crafters companion watercolour card. The thanks dienamic by MFT is stacked for dimension. Can’t wait to see what you create! … Affiliate links may be used above at no additional cost to you to help support my blog. Thank you!
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Rainbow watercolouring for September The Flower Challenge
Hey Our challenge for September is ‘Anything Goes’ MFT are offering two prizes for two of our winners! We also have the fabulous Michele Ferguson providing inspiration as our Guest Designer. Here is my card, hope you like it. I did very messy watercolouring with my mijello mission gold paints on crafters companion watercolour card. The beautiful white heat embossed floral spray is fresh-cut flowers by MFT. I paired it with an older MFT background stamp (can’t remember the name sorry) and I stacked the MFT thanks die in black and gold for dimension. I hope you will join us at The Flower Challenge and check out the other DT…
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Your favourite flower
Hiya! Can you believe it’s August?? This months theme at The Flower Challenge is to use your favourite flower. This is a difficult one for me as I love all flower but especially roses and peonies. I thought this floral stamp by clearly besotted is so beautiful and fits the bill perfectly. My card background features the falling leaf stencil by clearly besotted using distress oxide inks and paint splatters. I coloured my flowers with a mix of oxide inks and spectrum noir water reactive inks. The sentiment is also clearly besotted – I always need loads of Anniversary cards. I hope you can join us, check out the other…
