Challenge 71 Make
Your Own Flowers
Our
challenge this time around is 'Make Your Own Flowers' and we would
like to see projects featuring flowers made by you, these can be
ribbon, paper, fabric, die cuts, tissue, embroidered, anything you
choose so long as it is hand made and not store purchased
We
are sponsored this time by
who
are offering a £10 voucher for their store as a prize.
At One Stop Card Crafts we have a big range of ever changing discount making and card making craft supplies.
We
are always adding to our range of craft supplies which are ideal for
making handmade greeting cards, do-it-yourself invitations scrapbook
pages, altered items and much more.Our card making craft supplies
include free UK postage, our popular discount scheme and quick
service means our customers keep coming back for more.
Our
prices are very competitive and this & makes us an ideal place to
buy your card making supplies online. Some of our new products
include Petaloo flower layers, Ranger Glitter Glue and Martha Stewart
Punches. We also host a regular challenge
at http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/
and
$10
Gift Certificate for the Store
Digi
Doodle Shop is the results of a mother and daughter’s love for the
arts and crafts. It was started a little over 3 years ago with a
little more than 100 stamps, and has since then grown to almost 500
stamps. Joy (the mother of this team) designs realistic images, while
Judy (aka/daughter) loves the “fun side of life”, and create
images with a cartoon flair. Having these two complimenting styles
have enabledDigi Doodle Shop to offer a wide variety of stamps.
It
is a real honor and pleasure to sponsor this challenge, and we look
forward to seeing all the amazing creations. We thank the design team
for their incredible creations, and wish all the participants the
very best of luck in this challenge.
Thank
you so much for having us, and again the very best of luck to all of
you.
Sincerely,
Judy
and Joy
Now
over to the team to share with your how they have interpreted the
challenge.
I've
used our sponsor's beautiful 'Shaded Window' digi, coloued with
Promarkers, and added a variety of flowers and foliage all made from
punched shapes that I combined and moulded to shape.
Jackie
Jackie
For
my easel card I used stamps and distress inks, spellbinder and cheery
lynn dies, acetate and vellum and my flowers and leaves were made
using a variety of punches.
Jack
Jack
I
love making flowers using punches - and I do seem to have rather a
lot of these punches, lol. I think, in all, I used 7 different
punches, but that includes the scalloped border punch. If you
look closely you can see I've used a tiny holly punch for the centre
of the green flowers.
I
used Stampin Up! punches to create my flower. Three of the new
Blossom punch images, one 1.25" circle and 1" circle punch
plus some brads, rolling the petals of each flower, and voila!
A quick and gorgeous flower!
I
used Tim Holtz's Tattered Florals die to cut my flowers from copier
paper. I coloured them with distress inks and shaped them until I was
happy with their look, to finish the bigger flower I added a pearl.
For
my card I have used a Mo Manning digi stamp which I have coloured
with my ProMarkers. My DP is from a Papermania Country Companions
paper pack. For my flowers I used my "Mother's Day Bouquet"
Cricut cartridge and the leaves are made with a Woodware punch.
I
realy enjoy making flowers, especially using my Flower Loom, adding a
die cut rose to the centre. All the papers and image are from Graphic
45.
I
used 'Fresh Baked Pie' digi image from Digi Doodle Shop, framed with
flowers made using Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms
I
made a flower using my Cameo and coloured it with Pan Patels, stamp
and embossing by Hero Arts, sentiment SU.
I
made a layout from my little sweetie. Used a doily and the floral die
cut from Tim Holtz for my flower.
I
made my flowers using the Rose Creation dies from Spellbinder. The
swirls across the bottom of the card and the sentiment are new from
Hobby Art.
I am afraid this
will be our last challenge for a month as I am moving house next
week, and will not have time to sort out the blog nor am I altogether
certain my broadband will be back on too promptly, so in order to
give myself a chance of getting settled the other end I will be
suspending the challenges until Monday 6th August.
I applied to BT
three weeks ago to move my telephone line and my ISP to move my
broadband service but someone made a mistake and I have been without
internet since last week! Oh how we have come to depend on the old
world wide web and I have felt like I have had my right arm cut off
at the elbow without it. So a word of advice, if you are planning a
move, don't leave all those things you require the net for until
last! I wish I had done all my internet related things before getting
the packing done instead of the other way around.
This challenge will
close in the normal two weeks, but I will not be announcing the
winner until Monday 6th August, just before the new
challenge.
When we come back we
will be having a Design Team Call, so perhaps you could get your
thinking caps on and see what you can come up with to inspire us if
you would like to join our happy team.
At this time I sadly
have to announce that Melly,
Scrapcat and
Sally are leaving us
due to various issues and we are very sorry to see them go. I would
like to wish them all well and thank them for their sterling work
over the time they have been with us.
