Another Flourishes release is here and with it another challenge. This one was to be inspired by our garden - by our favorite flowers, colors, anything we love in our garden.

We just moved to our house this summer and it has no garden to speak of - just grass. We were to busy with moving, settling in and other stuff this year to do more than just move the lawn. BUT next year I’m planning to work on it - and I would love love LOVE to have a garden with fruit trees, bushes and plants - apples, peaches, blueberies, strawberries… so my card is inspired by my dream garden. I used an image from Cherries and Peaches set and colored it with Prisma pencils.

The background panel is embossed and sprayed with Garden Fairy Glimmer Mist. Edges are distressed and inked with Peeled Paint distress ink.

Stamp shoppe is having a fun blog hop where you not only check out the DT’s blogs but also play in their challenges.

First stop on the hop was Melyssa’s blog. She challenges us to create a Christmas card using a non-christmas Magnolia image. I used Tilda blowing hearts which is from a Valentine collection (I think) and combined her with really sparkly Christmas papers

Next stop was Jeanette’s blog and her challenge for us was to create an easel card. I planned to try it for some time and I finally did it - it’s easy, fun and great for Christmas displays. I used my Silent Night Tilda with BG Eskimo Kisses papers and created another Christmas card.

Next I hopped to Carla’s blog where I found another amazing card and the next challenge - a sketch this time. I don’t have a circle die that would be big enough for the card and  couldn’t find a circle thing in the right size to cut out and trace so I used 2 smaller circles instead of one big one. I hope I’ll be forgiven

I used Tilda with Peaches and BG Lemonade papers - can you see Basic Grey is one of my favorites? LOL

The fourth blog to visit was Heidi’s and she challenged us to create “something fun, but not really a card” so I came up with this capuccino/hot chocolate bag holder. I combined Chef Tilda with a cup image from Flourishes (Coffee with friends). If you would like to make one too, you can find the tutorial here.

After finishing the blog hop I visited the DT Gallery and scraplifted this card. I used the same image and color combo and changed the card size, layout and embelishments. And here is the result:

I was baking gingerbread cookies with my kids this weekend and that inspired me to make some kind of gift box for them. I used the Time for Take out template from Timeless Templates (PTI). It’s pretty easy to put together and it’s a good size for couple of cookies. I decorated it with snowflakes from SU Snow swirled set and CHristmas Cocoa DP. I printed a small Gingerbread Girl, colored it with markers, cut it out and adhered it to the front of the box. And since I had all the papers out and more images printed I made a matching card with Ildi Co’s Gingerbread Reindeer. I used a rotated sketch from Sketch Saturday challenge blog.

Ingredients:

Paper: Kraft, Real Red, White CS, SU Christmas Cocoa DP,   Images and Stamps: Ildico - Gingerbread girl, reindeer, SU Snow swirled, SU Christmas greeting,  Ink: Ruby Red,    Tools: Nestabilities Labels, Snowflake border punch, Other: markers, red glitter rhinestoones, ribbon, chocolate brown pearls

This week’s challenge on Stamptacular Sunday Challenge is Nature - create a card or some other project that reminds you of being outside, using only natural colors you’d find in the fall.

For this card I used and image I created mostly with direct to paper technique. Practically you just smear the ink pad over your cardstock At first I wasn’t happy with the result, but then I started to like it - it was fun and fast.

I used various SU and Distress Inks and a tree stamp from SU Lovely as a tree set. To keep it clean and simple I just used CS for layering and a simple sentiment.

This week’s challenge on Penny Black Challenge Blog is WINTER WONDERLAND.

To create a wintery scene I embossed a piece of vellum with Snowflake Impressabilities folder and layered in on a Rich Razzleberry CS. The hedgies are colored with mix of markers and Prisma pencils. Added some white glitter under their skates to make it look like ice. For the card base I used a shimmery blue Bazzil CS - that goes great with the winter theme. Then just a couple of light blue accesories and the card is done.

I just can’t get enough of this stamp set! I made some Halloween treat boxes for my kids’ teachers and guess what stamp set did I use to decorate it? Yes - PB Spooky. This week’s challenge on Penny Black Saturday Challenge blog is (surprise, surprise)  - HALLOWEEN - so I’m entering my creation

The box is the same style as the Christmas/Advent box I made couple weeks ago - it’s actually a quarter of the Christmas box. I used Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie CS, K&Co papers and various ribbons and brads. The Fang-tastic  sentiment is probably from Magnolia (not sure)

and a detail of the image. Image was stamped on watercolor paper with Versafine and embossed with clear EP. Then I colored it with Aquapainter/markers and drew the spiderweb behind the cat.

This week’s challenge on Stampacular Challenge Blog is to create something SPOOKtacular Here are 2 cards I created with my Penny Black Spooky set - love these cute cats. Can’t get enough of them so I made not one but 2 cards

The first one is colored with Prisma pencils and cut out with my Nesties label. The sparkly DP is from K&Co, the card base and ribbon are Pumpkin Pie.

The backround on the second card is created with rub-ons from K&Co and the DP is from K&Co too.

This week’s challenge on House Mouse Challenge blog is set by Stacy :~ The Movies.
So we need to create a card using a movie title as an inspiration.

Now I hope nobody will get offended but every time when I look at this Mouseful of Fudge image it reminds me of Homer Simpson - you know how he always stuffs himself and has a big full belly and can barely move - I can imagine this mousie making the same gulping sound as Homer when it gobbles up all the fudge

So here is my card inspired (in some  funny - twisted way) by the Simpsons

The image is colored with a mix of Prisma pencils and Copics and the papers are from Basic Grey Bittersweet collection. I added some machine stitching for extra detail. The “Homer” mousie is popped up to give him more dimension. LOL!

Can you believe it’s that time again - time for another new release from Flourishes and this month it will be one of their BIGGEST releases ever. They have 6… no, it’s not a mistake - 6 new stamp sets to release. And like before every release - there is a challenge. This one is called A Season That Sparkles. So we need to capture the sparkle of the holiday season on a card.

For my card I picked a picture from the Rejoice set from Flourishes. I colored it with Prisma pencils and added some details with a silver pen. Then I paired it with 2 shades of purple Bazzill  cardstock. I love the shimmer on this paper. It’s perfect for this challenge. Then I used Stickles on angel’s wings and added a couple of rhinestones for extra sparkle. The sheer ribbon is from Flourishes too (it’s my favorite)  and the sentiment is from SU.

The first card is for Ildi Co Creative Challenges - the challenge was to use 4 layers (can be cardstock or patterned paper) 3 embellishments and some PUMPKINS.

I used a digital image of Emma with pumpkin from CC and Autumn Meadows DP. So I have the CS layer, the brown DP with leaves, then the teal layer and then the pumpkin embossed layer with Emma. For the 3 embelishments I used a ribbon, leaf and acorn. The leaf and acorn are metal and are from a hanging decoration I found in local flower shop. It was originally silver so I embossed it with gold EP

The second card is for Swap and Share Challenge blog - the main rule here is to use something received in a swap or RAK. This is the very first challenge and it was to use any Halloween image and use any two of these colors: black, orange, purple, green. Since I recently hosted a Halloween Image Swap on SCS I have a fresh supply of halloween images. I picked the Haunted House and I used purple and green.

The papers are from K & Co (love how sparkly the green one is) and the dew drops are from an embelishment swap - I just realized they are crooked.. the house is soooo spooky they are trying to run away..LOL!!