Saturday, February 15, 2014

Flowers to Cheer You

Good morning!  I'm here today with my second post for the ABC Challenge,where I have had the pleasure of being their guest designer for February.  This fortnight, the challenge theme is "F for Flowers", something I am sorely missing right now, as my gardens are blanketed in snow.


Here, I have made a card using 'Tilda with little pocket', one of the many Magnolia images available from our sponsor this week....Stamp and Create.  She has been coloured with water colours, for a change, while the sky has been created with Pan Pastels.

I played a bit with the fancy die cut mat, giving it some distress stain, some stamping, and finally some inca gold.   A co-ordinating ribbon and bow and one little gemstone heart are the only additional embellishments.

Other supplies used:
Paper from Webster's Pages - Life's Portrait
Spellbinders die - Fleur de Lis Rectangles
Whimsy - Dainty Notables 4 die and Everyday Sayings stamp

So we do hope that you join us this week for your chance to win, and our chance to see your creations.  Be sure to stop by the challenge blog for inspiration from the DT, who always have something wonderful to share.

Some challenges for my card:
 
Magnolia Down Under Challenges - #229 Hearts and Flowers
Simon Says Stamp Monday - We Love Stamps
Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything Goes and include a Handmade Bow
Country View Crafts - #12 Painty Pleasures
Feeling Crafty Challenge - #25 Dies and/or Punches
Lothian Crafts - #31 Love using your dies
Magnolia-licious Challenge - Pretty In Pink
7 Kids College Fund  - #93 Anything Goes
Crafty Ribbons - Ribbon N Bows
Stamp and Create with Magnolia - #29 Thinking of Spring

18 comments:

  1. A beautiful card to cheer us up with all the bad weather we are having. Lovely fresh colours and a great design Joyce. Xx

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  2. She is lovely Joyce and just what is needed on this awful day. Hopefully the storm has passed for today and Sunday looks a bit more peaceful.
    Laine
    xx

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  3. Morning Joyce...Oh so adorable is your card .....gorgeous image and beautiful backing papers and layout xx

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  4. This is just gorgeous,love the fab image,great papers.xxx

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  5. Aw, love your card and the adorable image! Pretty colors and background too!

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  6. Your card is darling. Love the papers you chose and the frame is so pretty as well.Thanks for joining us at the Craft-Dee BowZ challenge this month. Join us again soon. Hugs, Barbara

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  7. AWE,Joyce what a fabulous card, hun, love Tilda, and you have added some fabulous detail here too, thank you for sharing with us at Feeling Crafty this month, best of luck hun xxx

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  8. Beautiful card, love the colour combo you've used. Thanks for joining us at Country View Crafts. Sue C x

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  9. This card is so lovely! Like you, my garden is still buried in snow, so I appreciated seeing this gorgeous burst of flowers! I thought you did an amazing job painting with watercolors and really liked how you used Pan Pastels on the sky for some added variety. Excellent use of your die cuts and I like how you combined it all with the perfect patterned background. You did an amazing job on this card and I'm so glad you shared your talents with us here at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog!

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  10. Love the layout of your card Joyce! Cute as can be! Thank you for joining us at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog!

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  11. Hi Joyce!

    Thanks for joining in our bows and ribbons challenge (with a cute ribbon) at Crafty Ribbons this week and welcome back Thursday for a new challenge!

    La Vikinga, Crafty Ribbons design team

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  12. So cute and a real nice touch of Spring! Thanks for joining in our Pretty In Pink Challenge at Magnolia-Licious and Good Luck!

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  13. Awesome work!! Love the green. Thanks for playing along at MDUC

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  14. Beautiful card! I love the Distress stain! Thanks for joining the February Craft-Dee BowZ Challenge! :)

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  15. Beautiful card!

    Thank you for joining in with us over at Feeling Crafty! Good luck :)

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  16. Love the colors of this beautiful card! Thanks for sharing it with us here at www.7kidscollegefund.com!

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  17. Thanks for joining MDUC with your pretty card! xxLIllemor

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  18. Gorgeous card! I love all of the details and your beautiful coloring. Thanks for playing along with the Stamp and Create with Magnolia challenge. We will have a new challenge on Friday and hope you will play along again soon!
    ~Lacey
    www.stampandcreate.com
    Magnolias always 10-25% off!!

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