Flowers of every color!

(hint-hint, check out my post today at Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker too,

there is a flower in that one)

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Todays post is full of flowers and flowers of every color. For the cards, color is the key ingredient with a couple challenges, Moxie Fab and Embellish Magazine.

This is this weeks Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger. A bowl full of pink and red roses is just so elegant.

I chose to focus on the green vase and the pink roses. You have to love the cardstock for the card base, it is brand new from Core'dinations and Cosmo Cricket. The embossed design is already in the cardstock and all it takes is a little sanding.

And, here are my paper roses. I used this wonderful, woodgrain patterned paper by American crafts.

Here are three of the four layers of my roses. Layer one is a punched scallop circle, layer two is a circle that I roughly cut out and then I folded back the outside of this circle, (the backside of the woodgrain paper is green), not taking care to have it too perfect. The third layer is a punched circle with the edges roughed up with a Tonic Paper Distresser. The last little layer is another punched, scallop circle. I added glue to the back side of the second circle that I folded the edges back on and glued it to the white, scallop circle layer.

The next card and challenge is a color challenge from Embellish Magazine.com.

Gotta love how elegant these colors are together and this also happens to be almost the same colors in the Play Date Cafe challenge for this week. Theirs is really an orange instead of the red.

With this card I got to show off my most recent purchases, this wonderful flower wood stamp from Hero Arts and the Spellbinder, Nestabilities label shape.
The flowers are stamped on Curious Iridescent Cryogen white cardstock with a black Versafine stamp pad and then embossed with clear embossing powder. They were then colored with Copic Markers and cut out. I coated the buds only with Aleene's Paper Glaze for a glass-like finish.

The cardstock that is the card base is a text patterned embossed cardstock from Jenni Bowlin and Core'dinations cardstock. The color is from the Black Magic collection so it is black on the front side and brown or tan for the core and reverse side. Sanding exposed that great brown/tan core and makes the text design really show up. What I really like is that the card is black but the inside is lighter for the sentiment.
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I also wanted to share more photos from my trip about 2 weeks ago to a garden we have in our area. While it is spring and things are just starting to bloom, there was still a whole lot to get photos of.

You would almost think that these flowers were the exact inspiration for my previous card!

Orange blossoms with an orange in the background. If you have never smelled these, you have really missed something amazing.

This sign just cracked me up, not knowing there could possibly be a plant with that name!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

PINK ROSES card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Cosmo Cricket Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – American Crafts and Jillibean Soup
Circle punch – Papershapers/EK Success
Scallop circle punch - Marvy
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Pearl brads - Doodlebug
Sandpaper

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RED FLOWERS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials and Core Impressions/Jenni Bowlin/Core’dinations
Flower stamp – Hero Arts
Spellbinders Nestabilities die
Copic Markers
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.

3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Ribbon
Sandpaper