A NEW Flower Soft challenge and a give away

The design team for Flower Soft have a challenge to share with you today and a give away of some great Flower Soft products. The challenge we worked with is to use the original Flower Soft and the newer, Ultra Fine Flower Soft.

You might ask what is the difference? Both are really fun accents for a project and the main difference is the size of the little granules. The original has larger flakes and the Ultra Fine is just what the name says, a finer and smaller flake.

Be sure to visit all of the Design Teams blogs to see what they are going to share with you for this challenge.

For my card I used a stamp by Me and My Big Ideas. It is a solid flower, like a rose, and a solid leaf spray. I inked the flower with a dark pink ink and the leaves with a green ink and stamped that on white cardstock. Next I took the Aleene's Tacky Glue and gave a good, solid coat of the glue to the flower first. I used the original Flower Soft in the Heather color scheme for the flower. When that was completely dry, I added a good, solid coat of the glue to the leaves and used the Ultra Fine in Sage for that.

One thing I really liked about the results is that the colored ink still shows up around the edges and I thought that that reinforced the colors of Flower Soft that I used. In my close up photo, you can see the amount of texture you get by using the Flower Soft as an accent to a stamped image. Really makes for a stunning flower.

I am the last blog to visit on the challenge hop, you might have come to my blog from Vicki Garrett's blog but if you started here, you can go to the Flower Soft blog to see what is posted there and then to find the next name on the challenge hop list.

The BIG, BIG news is that there will be a give away of some great Flower Soft products for those who post a comment regarding this challenge. Don't get left out!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

MAKE A WISH card

Materials list:
Heather Flower Soft and Sage Ultra Fine Flower Soft

Tacky Glue – Aleene’s®
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations

Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – My Mind’s Eye
Sentiment sticker - SRM
Sandpaper

Clearsnap stamp pads

EK Success border punch

Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.

Corner rounder punch – Fiskars

Machine sewing