May Flowers

Sorry I haven’t posted lately.  I thought I had recovered from being ill last weekend, but ended up at the doctor with an infection and dragged through the week at work.  The teacher I work with was out ill most of the week and we have so much to accomplish before the end of the year so I came home exhausted.  I didn’t even have the strength to drag myself to my craft room.  After a weekend of rest I finally felt more creative and decided to make a card.

This card is made using one of my new Spellbinder Dies, Blossom Three.  I stamped this cute Penny Black Stamp on kraft cardstock and colored it with my Tombow markers.  I added a little white glimmer chalk to the tummy to lighten it.  I cut the image out using the two largest dies from the set and sponged the edges of each with blue ink.  I layered the largest section onto a white card cut out with the same die.  Then I used foam dots to pop up the image in the center.

I had this lovely lace with roses so I sponged yellow ink over the flowers and ran it around the edge of the popped up center shape.  I ran some yellow polka dot ribbon under the image and tied a bow.  Then I added a few more yellow flowers and three butterflies.  The butterflies are for the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge of “Old Wives’ Tale”.  Did you know that three butterflies together mean good luck?  Hopefully they will bring me good luck in the challenges.

To give the card a bit of bling I added some tiny yellow jewels to the yellow flowers in the image and also in the center of each of the lace roses.  Then I added some blue jewels in the center of the larger yellow flowers.  These really made this card sparkle.

This card is entered in the following challenges:
Bunny Zoes Crafts Challenge #12 – Lace

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Week 152 - Fussy and Fancy

Penny Black at Allsorts - "Shape Up

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #165 – Let’s Get Krafty (stamp on kraft cardstock)

Speedy the Cat’s Friends Challenge #56 – Use tone on tone with focal image popped up.

Simon Says Stamps Challenge – Sparkle and Shine

Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge – Old Wives’ Tale

Stamp Challenges – Beachy Colors (blues, neutrals, yellows)

Crafts and Me Challenges #35 – Anything Goes (optional Kraft)

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #83 – Anything Goes

The Crafty Pad Challenge #122 – Lace and Bows

Craft Your Passion Challenges #58 – Cuttie Patootie

Creative Craft World Challenge – Anything But Square

Flourishes Bring Back the Beautiful – Flowers

Flutter By Wednesday #155 – Open

Little Claire’s Designs Challenge #7 – Sparkle

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge (PWC154) – Flowers

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #34 – One for the Kids

Totally Papercrafts Challenge #67 – Don’t Be Square

Paper Play Challenges Week 20 – Sparkle Galore

Clearly Inspired Challenge #28 - Critters