Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge & Hop (FSC18) – Winter Chill!

This week’s Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge & Hop (FSC18) – Winter Chill! 

We have a special hop today! We are sponsoring The Daily Dare’s 12 Days of Christmas today. So after you are finished hopping please go check it out for another chance to win a fabulous Flower Soft prize!!! She has 12 days of challenges lined up with some wonderful sponsors. We’ll be picking two winners this week (plus Deb will pick a third for The Daily Dare) One random winner from someone who comments on one of the hop blogs (so make sure and comment on each and every blog!) and a SCS winner.

All winners will receive:

SCS entries must be uploaded to the SCS gallery and use at least one Flower Soft product (Flower Soft, toppers, stamps) to be eligible to win. Please use the keyword FSC18 and flowersoft (one word) when uploading to the gallery so we can find your project. Entries will be accepted for the challenge until 6:00am CT on January 7th. The SCS winner’s card will be featured on the Flower Soft blog on January 7th!

Want even more inspiration? There is a new episode of Flower Soft TV every Friday. To register for announcements, contests and specials at Flower Soft TV go to http://www.flower-soft.tv/#information.html and then click green "REGISTER" button.

Hop starts at the Flower Soft Blog - http://flower-softinc.blogspot.com/

Jeanne - http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Debbie - http://www.debbieseyer.com/
Gini - http://ginicagle.blogspot.com
Vicki - http://summerthymestudio.blogspot.com/
Deb - http://withastampandasong.blogspot.com/
Cibele - http://flowerfoot.blogspot.com/
Dina – http://mamadinis.blogspot.com/

 

Have a great day!

Jeanne

Friends brighten our lives....

One more winter card for this last Tuesday of the year!

I stamped and masked the Singers image (from Flower Soft's 'Moments in Time' stamp line), then stamped over the image lightly with Cover-a-Card stamps from Impression Obsession, and sponged the edges. The sentiment is from smARTworks. The image is watercolored with reinkers, then shaded with Derwent watercolor pencils. Here's a close-up on the girlies... I love these stamps!

I'll see you next year!

Hugs, Dina

FSC17 - Happy Holidays from Flower Soft!

This is my card for this week's Flower Soft Challenge " Happy Holiday's from Flower Soft"

This week's Flower Soft winner will receive:

Entries will be accepted for the challenge until 6:00am CT on December 31st.

The winner’s card will be featured on the Flower Soft blog on December 31st!

I decorated this fun Santa with a fuzzy hat and coat trim created with Polar White Flower Soft.

Here's a closer look:

Stamps: Stamp N Plus Scrap N (Santa)
Paper: discountcardstock.com -Brilliant White, Midnight Black, Blush Red Dark White ,
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black), Ranger Distress (Brushed Corduroy)
Other: Copic markers, Polar White Flower Soft,  Dreamtime Creations (gold nailheads), Spellbinders (Nestabilities),  Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L™ (E-Z Runner, 3D Foam Squares)

Have a great day!!!

All that glitters........

The new Gold and Silver Flower Soft is super sparkly and dimensional, chunky and glittery - very fun stuff! In digging through my box of Christmas stamps, I found this stamp (Camel and King), by Stamping Sensations - part of a nativity set I picked up as a full sheet at a convention several years ago.

The image is watercolored using reinkers, Derwent watercolor pencils, and an Inktense pencil as well. I used some small gold rhinestones and gold Peel-Offs as embellishments too. There is also Ocean Ultrafine Flower Soft on the collar of the king's robe. The background ink is Adirondack Denim - its color components tend to separate when oversaturated with water, which I think is sort of cool. See those couple areas of purple?

In the close-up you can see the gold trim better...

For even more card details you can visit my blog!

Merry Christmas to you -----

Dina

12 Bears of Christmas

I used the Flower Soft download of the 12 Bears of Christmas to create my little card.

The download includes background papers and twelve adorable little bears including the little circle for each day.  They print out so quick and easy.  They are great for ornaments with a front and back, a little card for each day or even a really cute banner.  I chose to make a card with one of them.  The background paper I picked is by BasicGrey.

Notice how totally cute her little dress, shoes and bow are with the Sunshine Yellow Flower Soft added.  LOVE the texture, the Flower Soft makes the card stand out. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda Beeson, design team member

FSC15 Sprinkle Challenge Featured Stamper!

This week's Flower Soft Featured Stamper is  Lois Bak!

Lois (Winner of FSC15) used  Christmas: Traditional Door card topper with Polar White Flower for snow snow and Vintage Christmas Flower Soft for the wreath and small bushes.

Lois wins:

Here is Lois' lovely card:

 

Also....

Congratulations to this week’s Flower Soft TV Winners!

This week’s winners will each receive a Charlie’s Ark Creative Kit – In the Garden!

Barbara Szijarto Edmonton, AB, CANADA

Ellen Brons, Spijkenisse, HOLLAND

Sandra J Croke, Nottingham, UK

Roberta Raven, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

Robyn Correa, NORTHERN IRELAND
Rebecca Paton, Port Huron, Michigan, USA

Have a great day!

Jeanne

Charlie's Ark. In the garden.

Hi everyone,

hope you are all nearly ready for Santa, I am still working on it! In this busy world it's sometimes very difficult to find some "me time". If I get to have one wish for you all it would be to have some quality "me time" just for you. So if you've been very good you'll know that Santa has granted my wish to you!

Although the weather in the U.K. has been really dreadful, (snow, gales, freezing ice etc.) it has been quite lovely to be working with Charlie and Sally in the garden. The card in the picture was made from the Charlie's Ark Creative Kit, In the Garden. They are the most adorable characters and they come with an amazing selection of paper ribbons, sentiments, backing papers, toppers and each and every one of the eight sheets are beautifully die cut ready for you just to pop out and use. Everyone that has seen them comments on the quality of the die cutting, you have to see it to believe!

If you wanted to know how we make those cute little flower stems that are placed into the pot on this picture then tune in on Friday and it will all become clear.

Thanks to each and every one of you for tuning in to watch http://www.flower-soft.tv/ over the past few months, it has been so encouraging to all of the Flower Soft team to get your feed back on our shows.

All that remains is for me, on behalf of everyone in the team, to wish you all the blessings of the season and to have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Watch for the first show of 2011 which goes out on Friday 7th. January, until then, lots of love to each and every one of you,

Noreen.

Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge (FSC16) – Think Snow!

This week’s Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge (FSC16) – Think Snow!

Entries must be uploaded to the SCS gallery and use at least one Flower Soft product (Flower Soft, toppers, stamps) to be eligible to win. Please use the keyword FSC16 and flowersoft (one word) when uploading to the gallery so we can find your project.

 Entries will be accepted for the challenge until 6:00am CT on December 24th.

The winner’s card will be featured on the Flower Soft blog on December 24th!

The prize this week - New Flower Soft colors! Meadow, Peony Pink and Marigold:

 

I used a Moments in Time (Little Friends) Flower Soft card topper for my challenge card. I I added extra shading by sponging  brown ink and added Polar White Flower Soft for my snow and Ivory Flower Soft to the girl's hat.

Supplies:

Flower Soft products:Little Friends Card Toppers , Polar White, Ivory, Flower Soft Glue
Papers www.discountcardstock.com: ( December Posh Paper Kit -Violet Sorbet, Prussian Blue ribbon), Laid White
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink (Brushed Corduroy)
Other: Viva Decor Pearl Pen, Sizzix (655543 Scallop Frame w/Holly), Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L™ (E-Z Runner, 3D Foam Squares)

Have a great day!

Jeanne

Special Delivery

I love to color, so I'll be honest and say that preprinted and precolored images aren't my first choice when it comes to cardmaking, but I adore these Sepia Toppers from the Charlie's Ark line... these come 6 in a package, 3 each of 2 designs, and there are 4 holiday designs to choose from at this time. You can leave the cards as is, or alter them according to your style with inks, pencils, sponging, paints, or whatever it is that makes your work uniquely 'you'.

This is the set I used for my card, which is called Special Delivery. I just couldn't leave it alone - I was itching to color Charlie... so I pulled out my colored pencils (I prefer Prismacolors, but I have a variety of other brands thrown in my collection, too) and a sharpener. I used very sharp pencils and colored very lightly (my friend Jacki says 'tickle the paper'... if that gives you an idea of the pressure!). This is the result!

I added a little dimension using a large stylus, by embossing over a foam pad. I also made some cuts in a few places with a craft knife, and popped up corners for a 3-D effect. I used a glaze pen from Sakura in the window areas, and added a sprinkle of Polar White Flower Soft here and there. I embossed around the edges of the topper too, using a Scor-Pal. Those details show better in the photo below...

I hope I've given you some ideas! Cheers - Dina

A couple more Christmas Cards!

Good Morning! I just wanted to share a couple more card samples using Polar White and Silver .
With most of my Christmas Cards complete now, I'll be sharing some fun spring cards with you. Spring means flowers and you can do so much with Floral Scenes and Flower Soft!.




Hope that you're not too stressed on this quick countdown to Christmas. If you'd like more details on the images used in the cards, please visit my blog!!!

Happy Stamping!

Vicki

FSC14 Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge and Blog Hop Winners!

This week's (FSC13)Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge Featured Stamper is Kathy Hering (jellychick at SCS)!

The winner of the FSC14 Blog Hop is Mindy Baxter!

 Kathy and Mindy both win:

 Kathy made an adorable snowman card with Polar White Flower Soft trim.

Here is Kathy's card:

Have a great day!

Jeanne

New Flower Soft Colors and Cute Christmas Topper Sale!

Have you seen the new Flower Soft colors (available now!)?

 

Flower Soft is also offering their Cute Christmas Card Toppers at 50% off - just in time for last minute Christmas cards!!!For details.... go to www.flower-soft.us.com/Cart/EC-Results.php?CategoryID=82

 Have a great day!

Jeanne

FSC15 Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge

This week’s Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge (FSC15) – Last Minute Holiday Cards!

Entries must be uploaded to the SCS gallery and use at least one Flower Soft product (Flower Soft, toppers, stamps) to be eligible to win. Please use the keyword FSC15 and flowersoft (one word) when uploading to the gallery so we can find your project.

Entries will be accepted for the challenge until 6:00am CT on December 18th.

The winner's card will be featured on the Flower Soft blog on December 18th!

The prize this week:

 

I used a Moments in Time (Christmas Spirit) Flower Soft card topper. I added a little extra shading using Broken China ink and added Polar White Flower Soft for my snow. 

This card was done in about 15 minutes...gotta love the card toppers!

  Supplies:

Flower Soft products: Moments in Time Christmas Spirit Card Toppers, Polar White, Flower Soft Glue
Papers (www.discountcardstock.com): (Laid White, Suede Brown Dark, Red Pepper Linen)
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink (Broken China)
Other: button, twine, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L™ (E-Z Runner, 3D Foam Squares)

Have a great day!

Jeanne

Little Friend

I'd like to share one of the cards I made using a Christmas set from the Moments in Time line called Little Friend. I love the sentiment of this image, and look - she is feeding the bird chocolate chip cookies! So cute. The image is watercolored with Ranger reinkers, which I mixed with a drop or two of Shimmerz paints.
I used Polar White Flower Soft on the trim of the girl's hat and boots, and sprinkled some prisma glitter in those areas while the glue was still wet. Can you see it in the close-ups below? I love that extra sparkle.

This set is part of the prize packages up for grabs for our Blog Hop and Sprinkle Challenge this week - there's still a little time left to participate if you haven't yet! We'd love to have you join us!

Are you almost ready for Christmas? If so, I commend you! I'm still not even out of the start block, having maybe two gifts purchased and absolutely NO sweets made! My mother is the Cookie Artisan and I have to tell you that in the last week, she's already got dozens and dozens made. It is perplexing to me, how she manages to make her cookies perfectly uniform in size and shape, with each and every cookie looking like it was made in a cookie factory! Sooo that being said, I steer away from Cookie baking and am left with the task of making the Candy! I always make a gorgeous Brown Sugar Fudge, along with Chocolate Pecan Fudge, Skor Bars, Almond, Peppermint and Cranberry Bark, Chocolate Peanut Crunchies (those fabulous cookies that you make my dipping Chow Mein Noodles and Peanuts in Chocolate!) , Buckeyes and this year I may try to make some Butter cream Balls! I do have the house decorated and tidy, so that's a bonus. Additionally I've only managed to create about 30 Christmas Cards this year, so I'll be finishing up the additional cards this week so that I can get them mailed out.

Speaking of Christmas Cards, isn't this Jolly Elf the sweetest? I thought he'd be perfect to sit on a bed of Polar White Flower Soft Snow!



If you've followed my blog over the years, you'll know that I am a fan of creating snowy scenes....I would say that the Polar White Flower Soft is my absolute fave!!! It just gives that extra bit of WOW! to your creations!

Hope you have a great week!

Vicki

Supplies

Stamps: Mo's Digital Pencil: Sticky, Stampin' Up! Delightful Decorations
Paper: Fancy Pants, Cranberry Cobbler CS
Accessories: Copic Markers, Air Compressor for airbrushing sky, White Gel Pen, Ribbon, Dollar Store Snowflake. EK Success Border Punch, Dimensionals

FSC13 Featured Stamper and Flower Soft TV Winners!

This week's (FSC13)Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge Featured Stamper is Sheri Holt (My SheriCards at SCS)!

Sheri made a darling little girl card with Polar White Flower Soft trim on her outfit! Sheri wins 5 pots of Flower Soft and a Flower Soft glue. Congratulations Sheri!

Here is Sheri's card:

Susanne M. Glover, OHIO,USA

Elfrieda Kay, BC, Canada

Pearl Roberts, Birmingha,England

Trille Schou, Odense, Denmark

Ceredwyn Macrae, South Wales, UK

Tertia Jacobs, Gauteng, South Africa

Next week's prize - Polar White! 

Every week we will pick 6 winners among all that are registered at Flower Soft TV.

Charlie's Ark Stamps "I love you"

How could anyone resist the adorable art work of the Charlie's Ark stamps? This week I'm using the "I love you" stamp.

I love versatile stamps and this one covers both Christmas, mothers Day, Fathers Day and everyday so is a must have stamp design.

I thought I would show you one of the cards made by one of our UK designers Jackie

I will be showing lots more lovely examples, plus giving a tutorial on this stamp on this weeks Flower Soft TV show, so hop on over to www.flower-soft.tv to see more.

Happy Crafting

Noreen x

FSC14 Sprinkle Challenge Hop!

This week’s Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge (FSC14) – Winter Wonderland! 

The Flower Soft team will be featuring the Charlie's Ark Creative Kits for their Winter projects this week. The kits are pre-colored and die cut so they are wonderful for quick and easy projects. Just pop the images out and have fun layering. The kits come with images, background papers, sweet borders and sentiments. They are so much fun!

This week we’ll be giving away TWO prize packages! One prize package will be given away on the blog hop and another will be chosen among people who make a card using Flower Soft and post it in the Splitcoast Gallery using the keyword FSC14. Both prize winners will be chosen and announced on the Flower Soft blog on December 10th. The winner of the Splitcoast Gallery challenge will have their card featured on the Flower Soft Blog on December 10th!!!

The Splicoast challenge can be found --> HERE

As you make your way through the hop make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be a prize winner chosen randomly among the blogs. The prizes (one set for Splitcoast players and one set for the blog hop!):

Want even more inspiration? Do you like video tutorials? Make sure and visit Flower Soft TV!

Blog hop list:

Deb Felts 

Cibele Glazer

Jeanne Streiff

Linda Beeson
Vicki Garrett
Debbie Seyer

Gini Cagle

Dina Kowal

Have a great day and good luck!