Soft Fall Hydrangea

 Nothing like a beautiful Hydrangea amongst your fall floral displays.  I love Hydrangeas.  I made this one with lots of lacy accents.  

 The die cuts on this card are spellbinders.  The border and butterflies are a Martha Stewart punch.  I topped off the embellishments with Recollection pearl swirls.  The pearls around the focal point are Kaiser Kraft.  The image was colored with copic markers.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I sure do appreciate it.  Can you believe how fast the Holiday's are approaching.  I've done some Christmas shopping on line in the past week to get a jump start.  It's great not to have to leave the house and it will be delivered right here too!!!  Have a great week!

Fred She Said Blog Hop-Peony in Jar

Well greetings Blog Hoppers. Welcome to the Fred She Said Blog Hop. If you just happened upon the blog hop then you can go here to start at the Fred She Said Blog. If you arrived here from Lora, then you are on the right tract. We would love to have your feedback so please leave us a comment.

At each stop on your way, there will be a special code word... collect them up and there will be instructions at the end of your journey on how to enter.

The winning entry will receive $20 GC for the Fred She Said Store AND.... (AND!) ... a $20 USD Gift Certificate for CropStop so you can get that punch, or dies, inks, or embellishments you have been having you eye on :)

We will receive entries until Thursday August 5th Midnight EDT.

Here is the order of Blog Hop participants in case you lose your way.

Michelle

Lora

Carol H You are here!

Maria

Darsie

Sonya

Shelly

Tracey ( end of your journey and blog hop entry instructions)

For my card I decided to use the peach colored peony. Did you know that peach is back in style. It went out for a while but it is coming back. After not using peach for so long, I am enthralled with this color!! This card actually features both the Colored Peony in the Jar and the Colored Corner Peony which you can find at the Fred She Said Store here. I broke out of my usual habit and learned how to flip the image to go the other way so I could bookend my focal point. It was a piece of cake.

You can see I cut out an extra bottle a pop dotted it for dimension here. Then I used glossy accents on top to make the glass shine! The flowers have a light accent of stickles for just the right about of sparkle.


My special word is "to".

Please go to Maria next and don't forget to leave us a comment. Thank you so much for visiting.

Bear Hugs,
Carol

MMSC#60 Sugar Hollow Creek-Bee Digi

Bzzz Bzzzz!!! Hey everyone, what's the buzz? Now don't you just love this Bee image. Yes, I knew you were going to say that!!! Well, it is from Sugar Hollow Creek from my Design Team Sister Tracy. Oh when I saw this, I knew I had to put my creative flavor to it!!! You can click on to the store here to get your own. It comes in a set-one bee, one butterfly. Both are gorgeous.

I used some plain ole Crayola markers on the bee and then dabbed it real good with Rangers Distress ink in tea dye. I also glitter up the wings. Now, as you can see, I have dimension to my wings. What I did is made several copies of the bee, colored and cut out the wings. I made a slit in the main bee image next to where I want to place the wing and cut tabs in the wings, stuck them through the whole, then turned back the tab and glued it. It came out perfect. I got them to stick up and give me dimension-that was where I wanted to go!!!

My papers are from Deja Views-called Global Trek. I used the other half of my pearls from last weeks MMSC card on this one. Rangers distress tea die ink and VersaMagic Purple Hydrangea was used. Thanks for stopping by today to see my card. I really appreciate it.


Challenges Entered
The Corrosive Challenge - Flowers, Flowers, FLOWERS (what is a flower without a bee!)
Fresh Brewed - Anything goes
Digi Doodle - Anything goes
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Summertime
My Time to Craft - Zig Zag's (My Stitching)
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Stitching
ABC Challenge - X is for Xtra Dimension
Crafty Catz Weekly - Let's Go Digital
Lexi's Creations - Decoupage Layers
Pile It On- Fold It, Bake It, Do Something over the top with Paper

MMSC#59- Butterfly

My creation this week was made with Prisicllastyles digi Butterfly found here. All I can say is WOW. This will not be the last time you see this Butterfly from me. I absolutely love the details it has. You are going to love this.....and I heat embossed it. Yup, you heard me right!! How did I do it you ask? With a Zig Emboss it pen!!!

Here is some close up detail of this gorgeous butterfly. Shhhhh, I used crayola markers on this butterfly, then I took Rangers tea dye distress ink and pounced it all over the top. Then I cut it out and place crystal effects over the whole image. I then used a very fine glitter that I very carefully sprinkled all over the image.

The orange flowers are Prima flowers called Got Iced. I took my Ranger Distress Tea Dye ink and applied it to them as well to tone down the orange to a more vintage looking color. Then I randomly applied some glue and applied Diamond Dust to give them a frosted look.

This is the matching envelope. Throughout the card I used the Martha Stewart Butterfly PATP punch, Spellbinders die cuts both scalloped round and oval. The Sizzx leaves and flourish die.

My papers are from K & Company. I used spiced marmalade and peeled paint Rangers Distress Ink sponged around the outside of my papers.

Challenges Entered
Paper Playtime - Bugs, Bees, Ants or Ladybugs
The Shabby Tea Room - (Photo inspiration) Cottage Comfort
Challenge Up Your Life - Vintage
Crafty Creations Challenge - It's a Stitch Up
Crazy 4 Challenges - Paper Flowers
KL Stampin N Scrappin - Let's Get Shabby

MMSC#58-Gurlee Girl Lexi Summer Fun

It's Summertime and the heat is on! Time to go to the beach and cool off and have some fun in the sand and surf. That is exactly what "Lexi" from the Gurlee Girl Collection by Chelsea is doing! I just the new Martha Stewart PATP Shell collection punch to set the scene. The shells are real shells from a personal collection that I have in a jar from some of the beaches I have been to in Florida. What is so cool that I don't think can see in the picture is I applied stickles to them which makes this card sparkle and shine beautifully!

The Martha Stewart branch punch was used to the sea weed. I made my own "sand" for this card that I will show you in a tutorial how to do later this week. I also stickled the white shells on the border which really doesn't show up real well in the picture. This card is so much prettier IRL.
Challenges Entered
Meljen's Designs - Glitter, Sparkle, & Bling
Lexi's Creations - Something Old (My shells-about 10 years)
Practical Scrappers - Glitter or Flocking
Crafty Creations - Child's Play
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Summer Delights
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Enjoying the Sunshine
Tuesday Throwdown - Celebrate Summer

Fred She Said Lilly of the Valley

Good morning bloggers. I trust you all had a very Happy Easter. Today's card is made with the Lilly of the Valley Fred She Said Digi which can be found here. This flower evokes memories of my beloved Grandmother. She had Lilly of the Valley in her garden every spring. They are such a beautifully fragrant addition to your garden with these delicate little bell shaped flower.
I colored my image with pencils and blended the colors in the leaves and left the flower part of this digi white. I cut out my image and created some dimension by adding an extra stamen pop-dotted into the middle. I added crystal effects to the entire image and then put a touch of stickles on top of the flower. This picture shows you the effect achieved which adds a special effect.
Martha Stewart - Loopy Around the Page Punch, Deep Lattice Border Punch, Large and Small butterfly punch
Sizzx-Corner Die Cut
Spellbiners- Lattice Pendant Die Cut, Lattice Border Die Cut
Paper - K & Company
Embellishments - Crystal Effects, Pearls, Stickles, Rhinestines, Ribbon, Versa Magic Oasis Green Chalk Ink.
Envelope Kit - 6 x 6 from Priscilla Styles found here.

This is a picture of the inside of the card. The edges of the some of the papers were inked with chalk ink described in detail above in the recipe. I just enjoyed making this so much! My Grandmother would have loved this card! She also had white and purple lilacs every spring - so stayed too for something I have in mind for that!!! LOL Lilacs are another fragrant flower. We used to have a bouquet in the house for as long as they bloomed.

Thanks for stopping by today. I really appreciate it. If you have a moment, I would love for you to let me know what you think. It would really make my day.

CHALLENGES ENTERED
KL Stampin N Scrappin - Recipe (1 image, 2 Desiger/Patterned Paper, at least 3 embellishments
Little Red Wagon - Rolling into Spring
One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes
Order of the Opus Gluei - Sparkle
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Anything Goes
S2G Challenge - Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant - Nature

Fred She Said Challenge #3 Think Spring

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Hi everyone! It's time for the second (2) Fred She Said Challenge. Be sure to hop on over to the FRED SHE SAID CHALLENGE BLOG and join us for this fun challenge. You can enter you card there for a chance to win a $20 Gift Certificate to the Fred She Said Store.

For this months Challenge- In March we leave Old Man Winter behind so let's create a VERY SPRING-Y project, loaded with all those lovely pastel colors!

Here is mine!

This is called the Tulip Bouquet Digi. Isn't this the most awesome image you ever saw of tulips. I left my bouquet container white but traced the design in pink then shadowed the edges of the picture in blue. Over that I applied crystal effects to get it a nice porcelain look and effect.
You know I just love Rangers China Blue distress ink, so that is what you see around the edges. I uses a Martha Stewart around the page punch and a spellbinders oval die cut. I layered my image for a 3D effect. The blue rhinestone flourish is a Recollection from Micheal's.
I did some stitching with white thread around my card. I just stickles on the tulips and all the blue distressed areas. The blue ribbon is also from Micheal's. The background white paper has been embossed with a basket weave cuttlebug embossing folder.
This is the inside of my card. I used the tulip image from the Spring Flowers collection for the lower right hand corner on the bottom of the card. The more I look at this image, the more I love it.
This last picture features the card and the envelope that I made as a set. What an awesome presentation for a card presentation for someone special in your life. It is going to be hard for me to part with this one...LOL

Now, for rules/regulations regarding the challenge:

~You must use a Fred She Said digital image somewhere on your card.

~This challenge will begin today and end on April 25th,

the day before a new challenge will be posted!

See the FREEBIES section if you don't have any right now.

Be sure to leave your creation with a direct link in Mr. Linky on the Fred She Said Challenge Blog.

These are the Challenges I have entered:C.R.A.F.T. 43 - Easter
Charisma Cardz Challenges - Spring
The Corrosive Challenge - Easter Card
Cuttlebug Challenges - Easter
Dare You to Digi Stamp - Easter
Fussy and and Fancy Friday - Easter
Lexi's Creations - Easter
PaperPlay Challenge - Easter
Simon Says Challenge - Easter or Spring with Glimmer
Stamp Something - Doodle Something (I doodled in pink over the design on the picture)
The Pink Elephant Challenge - Pastels