Lunagirl Goes Botanical

Lunagirl Moonbeams are going botanical this week as they create items for the theme "Fruits and Flowers". This is such an easy theme and the Design Team would love to see what you can create with this theme.  Below is my piece of inspiration.

My card uses one of the beautiful Lunagirl floral images.  I printed it three times and then cut two of the images apart and put them on back of the first image with dimensionals so the flower would have a 3D effect.  A couple of the leaves were done the same way.  The sentiment is by Stampin' Up.

Lunagirl's Challenge

You  have one more day to enter the challenge at Lunagirl.  The Lunagirl Moonbeams have posted a number of cards to give you inspiration.  Here is one final card I made for the challenge.  I  have done something a little different with the image this time.  I made the flowers three dimensional by printing out three copies of the image and placing pieces of the flowers on top of each other with pop ups.  The yellow ones have more layers than the pink so they would be in the foreground.   It is a little difficult to see, but it really gave the card depth.

Don't forget to hurry and enter the challenge!

Words of Encouragement

Here is a card I made today using one of my favorite color combinations....black and white.  I used designer paper on part of the card base and placed my sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs on white cardstock and matted with black caardstock which were cut from a Spellbinders die.  In the corner is a ribbon buckle by Memory Box.  As additional embellishment I put on part of a 3D flower design.  All the elements are carried by Classy Cards and Such.

 

 

A Sympathy Card

Here is a card I made today for a friend.  It uses a sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs.  The flowers are 3D  The second photo shows the layers on the flowers which are separated by pop ups.  I hope it brings a smile to her during this tough time.

It's Love

Yes "Romance is in the Air" is still here. Our challenge is running one more week so you have plenty of time to enter. We have some more inspiration for you.

Vicki

My card uses one of my favorite crafting items 3D paper tole flowers. This is an item that my sponsor for this challenge Of My Heart carries. It is hard to see in the photo, but the flowers have 3-4 layers. I used liquid nail which is clearer than silicone to separate the layers. I think the additon of the flowers really gives a romantic feel to my card. The image is from Dezinaworld. I did quite a bit of cropping on the image. Lastly a little of baker's twine finishes off the card..

This card is also being entered in Crafting When We Can's Love Challenge and Gingerloft Challenge Love is in the Air challenge.

Michele

I decided to make some tags for week 2 of "Romance is in the Air" and I really had a lot of fun with these. I stamped the colored tags from Shabby Cottage Studios with a stamp called "dream text"from Stampendous. The vintage images are from Dover Publications (every week they share free images!). As you can see I've also used various other embellishments from my stash of Valentine themed goodies. I'm loving this theme and I hope you are too.

Sharon

I've used a tag die cut to make several "layers" of tags to mount this great vintage image on along with some scraps of paper, skeleton leaves, love ticket and old lace. I love the vibrant colours of the image so I tried to make the embellishments compliment those bright colours.

Cindy

"LOVE Hanging"

This hanging was created on a metal sign and blinged up with lots of "love"-ly elements! Every piece was altered...either with Distress Inks/Stains or alcohol inks. The roses started out as white wedding flowers that I altered using Distress Stains and Stickles.

Petra

Romance without words

The card is built around an image from: On The House. It is so telling and so very romantic. I cut it with Nestabilities oval shapes and glittered it around the edges. I layered it on Authentique patterend paper cut with a Sizzix Tim Holtz Alteration die and adorned it with some paper and fabric flowers and a lace bow.

More "Special" Cards

I hope everyone is having a great Sunday.  In Tennessee today it is 95*.  After church and lunch, I'm staying inside.  I know I say I like hot weather, but with the humidity here in TN, it is a little much....now if I lived out west, it wouldn't be so bad.

I hope you are enjoying the challenge that is running now.  So far there have been some great "special" entries.  You still have a week to enter if you haven't already.  Just a reminder - I always notify the winner that she / he has won.  That way you don't to constantly go back and forth to my blog to see if you have won.  Also, the winner's entry is put in the top corner on my sidebar.   Unless stated otherwise  in a post, the winner is chosen by random generator.

Petra and I have a couple more "special" cards to inspire you.

Vicki

Here is an encouragement or friendship  card.  I am using another flower from Our Daily Bread Designs' flower sheets.  These are really great to embellish your card or on a mixed media project.  The backgroud shape is made with a Spellbinder and the background cardstock of my greeting itself is made with embossed webbing, a Technique Junkie technique.  The greeting is a digital from Sweet and Sassy.

Petra
Encouragement

Now and again every single one of us needs a little bit of encouragement, wishing us good luck when facing a new situation, attempting something new. The card was created in this spirit, a card which combines something old and a lot of new. For the old I 're-cycled' the inside of old envelopes and created the square inset, the new bit is everything else (lol): a square white card - a square frame cut with nestabilities from white card - birdcage and birds are from Prickley Pear stamps, the sentiment from Waltzing Mouse - the birds are coloured with VersaColor ink - birds, birdcage and sentiment are embossed.

I'm So Pleased

I am so pleased with the way this card turned out.  It  uses a flower sheet from my sponsor of the current challenge, Our Daily Bread Designs.  Besides stamps, ODBD offers numerous other products for card making and this is one of them.

The flowers are placed on the card in 3D fashion.  Since I wanted the flowers to be the spotlight of my card, I made a simple mat background using Spellbinders.  The greeting is by Sweet and Sassy.  As an added touch, I put two little stones on the greeting and a butterfly sticker on the flowers.    Below are various views of the card.  I hope you like it.