Cyclamen from the Garden

This week the hostess of the Stampin' B's Design Team, Faith, asked us to use two different dies and piercing on our card. Well, I ended up with three dies but because there are no rules on our challenge, I'm A-OK. The piercing was done with the die still in the nestabilitie making it really easy.  This is for challenge #117. We hope you'll play along. If so, just use the inlinkz tool to upload your card.

I'm using a Flourishes image called A Year in Flowers-calendar set 3- for my image. I chose Cyclamen and did a bit of masking and stamped the image twice. I really love it. I colored with Copics and gave the white area some sponging with Memento Dandelion ink. The sentiment is also from a Flourishes set called Seeds of Friendship. I am entering my card into the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday blog challenge #124. Tammy Hershberger gave us this wonderful sketch this week. Oops! I guess I didn't exactly do the circle as shown on the right side.

Over at Mark's Finest Papers, Speedy the Cat's Friends challenge is given by my good friend, Carol Hurlock. She asked that we use a lot of sparkle and bling. I have added the green rhinestones and some sparkle (which may or may not show up very much in my photo) from my Gelly Roll pen, along with a flower button.

For Your Inspiration #8 has a lovely scene for getting you inspired: I loved the earthy tones of the cliffs along with the  green bushes and vines.

Also, my card will be entered into the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club challenge. Their monthly them is 'Text Me'. I computer generated my text which was found at Wikipedia.

Recipe:
Stamps: Flourishes-A Year in Flowers-calendar set 3, Flourishes Seeds of Friendship
Paper: PTI white cardstock, ColorMates Deep Caribbean Coral, designer paper is BasicGrey/Curio
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Dandelion
Accessories: Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle nestabilitie, Spellbinders nested pennants, green rhinestones, button from Jo-Ann Stores, piercer, text from Wikipedia, Celebrate It ribbon

Christmas Frame - 3 challenges

While rummaging through my Christmas scrapbook drawer this morning, I found this beautiful frame from a Carol Wilson Fine Arts, Inc. scrapbbook kit. I don't scrapbook since I started making cards and thought this would make a pretty Christmas card. I stamped a Christmas tree on a seperate sheet of cardstock and attached with tape to the back side of the frame. I really would like more of these.

I'm entering my cards into these challenges:
Speedy Friends at Mark's Finest Papers blog-Use piercing
CCEE1044-Winter Scene
Pattie's Creations Design Challenge, challenge #3- Make a Christmas card or creation

Recipe:
Stamps: A Muse Artstamps-Snowladen Tree (I see no snow??)
Stampabilities-Merry Little Christmas
Paper: PTI white cardstock, Deja View 4 Leaf Magic
Ink: Stampin'Up! Always Artichoke
Accessories: Carol Wilson Scrapbook Kit for frame, Darico self-stick gems, Offray ribbon, piercing template from Angel's Landing

Fall Pumpkins and Leaves/Thanksgiving-Stampin B's Design Team, WT289-SCS

Here it is the first day of Fall so I decided for the Stampin B's Design Team challenge today I would make an Autumn card. I believe pretty colored leaves and pumpkins qualify. Vicki Dutcher, our hostess this week, challenged us to do piercing on our card. I love what piercing does for a card and used a digital template from Angel's Landing to pierce the top of my card and added a few pearls given to me by my good friend on Splitcoaststampers, Pam124. Thanks, Pam! Hope you like my Fall creation to start the season off with some color.
Come and join us with your pierced project this week at the Stampin B's here.
I'm also entering my card in the Ways To Use It challenge, WT289 on Splitcoaststampers to make a holiday card whether it be Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.

Recipe:
Stamp: Stampin'Up! Fall Leaves for sentiment
Paper-The Paper Studio-All Over Pumpkins, Mark's Finest Papers Corn Husk, SU Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Marvy Craft Punch-Embossed Oak Leaf, Spellbinder's deckle nestabilitie, rust-colored raffia, orange pearls, gold leaf pen for veins of leaves
Technique: piercing