Thursday, August 22, 2013

How does your garden grow....

It's time for a new challenge at Charisma, and this week we are looking for your cards with more than one fold.  Lots of opportunity there, to show your creativity....and have a little bit of fun.  Be sure to check out the projects from the rest of the team for some wonderful ideas and inspiration.


Today, I've gone with a centre step card, and an image from one of our sponsors.  This little cutie has been coloured with copics and can be found here, at Saturated Canary.  The flowers in my garden don't look quite this lush, thanks to the heat and dry spell that we are experiencing, and in reality...summer is nearly over.  Where did it go??? 

Once again, I used the 'out of the box' technique with my Spellbinders die.  As you might have noticed, I cut on the angle this time using 2 different sizes and sponging some DI on the edges.

The papers are from Paper Mania's Burleigh Blue collection, and you will see I've used a number of die cuts, some pink pearls and a pretty blue bow for embellishment.  To make the butterflies, I backed the die cut with vellum, colouring the openings with glitter pen and adding stickles to the body.
Dies used: 
 Spellbinders - Deckled Rectangles
 Impression Obsession - Fence die
 Cheery Lynn - Exotic Butterfly small
Whimsy Stamps - Vine die and Birthday Sentimentables

Once again, we have some lovely prizes up for grabs this week from our very generous sponsors, and if you click on the pictures below, this will take you directly to their site.

Prize #1

 ($10 Gift Certificate to her Etsy shop)


Prize #2
 

(3 digis of the winners choice)

 Prize #3

(4 digis of the winners choice)

Let's hope you get a chance to play along this week, as we do enjoy visiting your blogs to see what you create.  Where do you think we get our inspiration....

Take care and have a wonderful day.

Now for some challenges for my card:

Saturated Canary Challenge - #50 Winged Things
Allsorts Challenge - #220 Use your new stash (design paper)
Stampin for the Weekend - Butterflies
Natalie and Amy - Celebration
A Little Bit Crafty - Summer sun
One Crazy Stamper - Birthdays
Love to Create - #79 Fancy Folds
Crafty Cardmakers - #98 Fun in the Sun
Creative Craft Challenges2 - #17 Not a Square
Papertake Weekly - Flower Power

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18 comments:

  1. LaineAugust 22, 2013 at 6:54 AM

    Wow. This is stunning Joyce. Wonderful image and so love the colours and design.
    Laine
    xx

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  2. TammyAugust 22, 2013 at 9:13 AM

    Beautiful card and wonderful layout and design! I love all the eye candy you used for the stunning card!

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  3. Sandra HAugust 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM

    Wow what a beautiful card just about everything you have done Joyce is totally stunning x

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  4. Brenda BrownAugust 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM

    Beautiful Joyce, love the monotone look and a great design.
    We have had a mole in the garden for moths and the lawn looks a mess. Ken caught one on Monday so we hope he was the only one and there aren't any more to carry on his disastrous deeds.
    hugs {brenda} x0x

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  5. DebsAugust 23, 2013 at 1:45 AM

    Stunning card Joyce - love the all the beautiful details.
    Thanks for playing along atPTW this week.
    Good luck.
    Debs xx

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  6. Shell Shearer SwinscoeAugust 23, 2013 at 1:55 AM

    Gorgeous creation, love the colours & the shape is fab!

    Thank you for sharing with us at Natalie & Amy's this month, good luck!
    Hugs Shell xx

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  7. LinAugust 23, 2013 at 5:21 AM

    Beautifully coloured image. Love the design, and all those cute additions.

    Thanks for sharing with us

    Lin xx
    Crafty Cardmakers

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  8. VivAugust 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM

    Stunning card. Thanks for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers and good luck!

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  9. JAugust 24, 2013 at 4:50 AM

    I really like this card - the colour scheme and embellishments are perfect. I can never make stepper cards look right, and this is inspiring. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers this time.

    Jackie

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  10. The Craft BucketAugust 25, 2013 at 5:46 AM

    Just beautiful, gorgeous colours & layout. Thank you for playing along with us at ALBC & good luck. Jane x

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  11. UnknownAugust 25, 2013 at 10:52 AM

    Gorgeous center step fold card! Love the colors and layout! Thank you for joining us this week at Love to Create Challenge Blog.
    Ruza, LTC Designer

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  12. UnknownAugust 25, 2013 at 2:03 PM

    This is just a GREAT card. Made me smile as soon as I saw it (btw - that's my hair, only mine is a little greyer now)....I really like how you turned the dies on the image. I've never tried this, but love how it looks and plan on giving it a try. Thanks for submitting your creation in the Fancy Folds challenge at Love To Create this week.
    Good Luck,
    Trudy, DT

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  13. mixamatoastiesAugust 25, 2013 at 4:47 PM

    Gorgeous card.

    Thanks for sharing at Love to Create this week.

    Susan x

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  14. JulieAugust 25, 2013 at 5:23 PM

    This is lovely - especially all the blue!

    Thanks for joining us at Stampin' for the Weekend for our Butterflies challenge.

    Hope you can join us again on Friday when our new challenge launches.

    Hugs

    Julie

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  15. My name is CindyAugust 26, 2013 at 5:29 AM

    Very nice card, a lot of work and thought has gone into the design and it shows. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers.

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  16. AnonymousAugust 26, 2013 at 5:53 PM

    Just amazing! Thanks for sharing with us at OCS.

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  17. UnknownAugust 28, 2013 at 2:25 AM

    This is a beautiful card, love all the layout and wholesale grosgrain ribbon too! Thanks for playing along with us at Wholesale Ribbon Challenges!

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  18. vaniaSeptember 1, 2013 at 2:03 PM

    Cute card ! Thanks for joining us at Crafty cardmakers
    Vania

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