The Floral Flower Soft blog hop

The Flower Soft Design Team is hosting a blog hop today (Wednesday the 29th) and the theme is Floral or Flowers.  What a great theme and how much fun to add in some Flower Soft goodness with it.

There will be TWO prize packages!

One prize package will be given away on the blog hop.

 Another will be chosen among people who make a card

using Flower Soft and post it in the

Splitcoast Gallery using the keyword FSC05.

Both prize winners will be chosen and announced on the Flower Soft blog on October 6th.

The winner of the Splitcoast Gallery challenge will have their card featured on the Flower Soft Blog on 8th!!!

If you didn’t start at the beginning of the hop please go to the beginning at the Flower Soft Blog.

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!) :

Moments in Time Stamp set Little Friend
Polar White
Ultra Fine Strawberry Flower Soft
Flower Soft Glue

I tried something new-to-me on my card for the hop.

I used a piece of woodgrain embossed Core'dinations cardstock for the base of my card.  I followed the Get Sketchy card sketch for the design of my card.  To keep with the theme of Floral/Flowers, I added punched circles to match the sketch and glued small flowers to the middle of each punched circle.   

I love to experiment so I pulled out my Scotch Double Sided tape.  I taped it to a strip of paper and started sprinkling the Citrus Crush and the Toffee Ultra Fine Flower Soft to that.  I then "pressed" the Flower Soft into the tape.  I kept adding more Flower Soft onto the tape and kept pressing it into it until I felt it was thoroughly "filled".  I still wanted a little more Flower Soft on my tape so I took the Tacky Glue and added some here and there along my tape and added the Sunshine Yellow Flower Soft in the wet glue.

Next, hop of over to Dina Kowal's blog where you will find the cutest creation using Flower Soft. 
(Want even more inspiration? Do you like video tutorials? Make sure and visit Flower Soft TV!)

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HEARTFELT WISHES card

Materials list:
Citrus Crush and Toffee Ultra Fine Flower Soft and Sunshine Yellow Flower Soft
Tacky Glue – Aleene’s/Flower Soft
Double-sided Scotch tape
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Flowers – Recollections
Sentiment stamp – Savvy Stamps
Black Versafine stamp pad
Circle punch - Papershapers
Sandpaper

Flower Soft Blog Hop brought to you by the color YELLOW!

Ready for a hop? How about a challenge too?

This week’s challenge – Use your favorite color (or colors) of Flower Soft!!!

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 FSC01. Both prize winners will be chosen and announced on the Flower Soft blog on September 8th. The winner of the Splitcoast Gallery challenge will have their card featured on the Flower Soft Blog on September 10th!!!


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!) :

Moments in Time Stamp set Man of the Match
Ultra Fine Toffee Flower Soft
Ultra Fine Sage Flower Soft
Flower Soft Glue


The prize winner will be announced on the Flower Soft Blog on Wednesday September 8th. Good luck!


If you didn’t start at the beginning of the hop please go to the beginning at the Flower Soft Blog.


Now on to my card for the HOP.
When you ask me what my favorite color is I am going to normally say red but this time, I just have to say the wonderful Sunshine Yellow Flower Soft. 

I combined using the yellow on this little duck image and my card goes along with the Card Positioning Systems sketch for this week. Flower Soft is the sponsor at CPS all week long. 

Look at this close-up of the duck. Is this just too much! The cupcake stamp is by Impression-Obsession. I colored it very softly with Copic markers and then gave the duck a coat of the Sunshine Yellow Flower Soft.  Not only can you win some Flower Soft through the blog hop today but also through CPS, all you need to do is make a card using the sketch. 


We are already talking about yellow so I wanted to share this card using the Get Sketchy sketch for this week. 

The circle designs are actually button stamps by Pink Persimmon.  Gotta love these BasicGrey papers with that yellow.

All I did for the button circles was to stamp then with black ink and then I embossed them with clear embossing powder.  I punched them out with a circle punch and then rubbed a Fluid Chalk stamp pad directly to the image and to the paper to completely color them yellow. 


From my blog, hop on over to Cibele Glazer's blog to continue the hop. 


Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

THANKS SO MUCH card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Pariffin and Revitalize/Origins/BasicGrey
Button stamp – Pink Persimmon
Sentiment sticker - SRM
Black Versafine stamp pad
Fluid Chalk stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Circle punch - Papershapers
Buttons – PaperTrey, Inc.
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.

SKETCH 182 – SWEET, WONDERFUL, UNFORGETTABLE card

Materials:
Sunshine Yellow Flower Soft courtesy of Flower Soft
Tacky Glue – Aleene’s/Flower Soft
Cardstock - Core Expressions Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Ducks in a Row/October Afternoon
Cupcake stamp – Impression-Obsession
Black Versafine Stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Copic markers
Self Adhesive Pearl – Queen & Co.
Loopy border punch – Martha Stewart
Machine sewing
Word stickers - Sticko
Sandpaper
Foam Tape – 3M

Red, White, Blue and SUN

It's that time of year when we are thinking about Red, White and Blue. My first card that I want to share fits for celebrating the Fourth of July.

The text embossed cardstock is Core Impressions by Core'dinations. Isn't it just perfect on here?

My flower is actually the large Banner stamps by Pink Persimmon. I so love these banner stamps because there are several patterns, you pick the colors. The black, stitching outline is one of the stamps.

This card was created to fit the colors at Colour Q and the design fits the Get Sketchy sketch. It was fun to use the red, white and blue colors but the card isn't necessarily for the Fourth.

The red paper along the top is actually cut from a shaped piece of paper. It was the perfect piece to fit the sketch.

And my "SUN" card is my Card Positioning Systems card for this week. I just turned the sketch on its side.

The sun is cut from patterned paper and accented with White 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip. I just love the accent of little white, raised dots.

The letters for "splash" and all of the black words are SRM stickers. They made it so easy to give the finishing touches to my card.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CELEBRATE – RED/WHITE/BLUE card
Materials:
Cardstock – Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Creative Imaginations
Stamps – Pink Persimmon
Scallop circle punch – Marvy
Fiskars corner rounder punch
Big brad
Sticker letters – Cosmo Cricket
Mementos stamp pads
3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Sandpaper

IT’S YOUR DAY card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – So Sophie: Best Thing/My Mind’s Eye and Baby Safari/Little Yellow Bicycle
Sticker labels and rub-on sentiments – BasicGrey
Glitter Flowers – Petaloo
Sandpaper

SKETCH 173 – SPLASH – CHILL OUT card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Abbey Road:Whirlybird/My Mind’s Eye and Rusted Sun: Sunrise/Fancy Pants Designs
Letter and sentiment stickers – SRM
Border punch – Fiskars
White 3-D Fashion Paint - Tulip
Sandpaper
Tonic paper distresser

ColourQ and Get Sketchy

I put two challenges together for this card, this wonderful color combo at ColourQ challenge #33 and the sketch at Get Sketchy. They problem is I am late posting my Get Sketchy card AGAIN!!! Oh well, I like this sketch anyway.

Here is the absolutely wonderful color combo.

And, this is how I put it together with the Get Sketchy sketch #38. See my brand new border punch!!!???

And, take note of the background piece on my card, a piece of Core'dinations cardstock embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I think this is one of my favorite folders and they just don't work any more wonderful then with Core'dinations cardstock. Notice the little bit of sanding that exposes the core of the paper?

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And, of course, some photos!

You might remember me mentioning how much our youngest grandson and his sister's kitty love each other. This is a common exchange between them!

We found this fun water fountain the other day. It took him a bit before he would get close enough to touch the water but once he got comfortable there was no stopping him!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HOPE card
Materials list:
Cardstock – The Chocolate Box and Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper and mini letters – October Afternoon
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Scallop circle punch – Marvy
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Sandpaper
Buttons – PaperTrey, Inc.

Challenges everywhere

I love to find challenges, they inspire me.

So my first card that I want to share today was created with the color challenge of Colour Q and I also used the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch #51 for this week.

I have wanted to use this photo that I took of some lilies and they just seemed to fit with the shape of the sketch and the colors. The white cardstock was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Notice my NEW punch! It is an 8-in-1 punch, I saw them used and just had to give one a try. Plus, I pleated some patterned paper for my accent across the bottom of the card.

This card uses the sketch at Taylored Expressions and it also uses a bouquet of roses stamp by Taylored Expressions. I thought the My Little Shoebox cloud patterned paper was a fun match.

I cut a label shape and accented that with a blue pen and some yellow Memories Mist spray. The flowers were colored with Copic markers and tiny pearls accented that.

For this card I used the sketch at Get Sketchy and some Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker papers. This paper is a big circle and I used a portion of it and that made for the perfect fit for the sketch.

The lines in the side of the card are created in the Core'dinations cardstock with a Score-Pal tool and then that was sanded.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

LILIES card
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Photo – my own
Sandpaper
Machine sewing
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Baby’s Breath punch – 8-in-1/Blue Hills Studio
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Sandpaper



THANK YOU WITH YELLOW ROSES card
Materials list:
Cardstock - Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Sky’s the Limit: Follow the Cloud/My Little Shoebox
Rose bouquet stamp and sentiment – Fresh Flowers/Taylored Expressions
Memento purple stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Sandpaper
Copic markers
Self Adhesive Pearls – Recollections
Memories Mist – Stewart Superior


YOU GO GIRL! GOOD JOB card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Scor-Pal tool
Sandpaper
Rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Machine sewing

Black, White, Red, Green, Purple

What do those colors have in common? Just my two cards that I want to share today.

This card came about because I wanted to use the Get Sketchy sketch #32. This is a brand new to me sketch blog that I found recently and I just had to use this banner stamp on it. It was like the sketch was made to go with the banner! Notice the NEW Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions cardstock for the card base. Just takes a bit of sanding and the design shows up.

I combined the round, rosette stamp, the Dutch Journal circle stamp, the banner stamp and the sentiment stamp, all from Pink Persimmon.

(here is a little secret about the sentiment stamp in the banner. The sentiments come with an arch shape to them to fit in the banner when it is stamped in one direction. I wanted the banner to fit in the opposite direction and so because the stamps are clear and cling, they are flexible enough that I could form them to arch the other way so that that arch matched the banner)

They were all stamped with the black Versafine stamp pad and all embossed with clear embossing powder.

And, I also wanted to play with the new Play Date Cafe color combo. Who can resist purples!!!

Now, the real deal is the colors are plum, lavendar and cream but I just had to throw in the green. WHY? Because this piece of green plaid patterned paper was sitting on my desk, just staring at me and I figured I could make the color combo my own by adding in the greens.

I had to figure out how to combine the greens and the purples and so I cut these flowers out of this Little Yellow Bicycle patterned paper and that did it. I cut out two sizes of flowers and layered them together with the foam squares in between. Notice my little scallop ruffles.

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Gotta share some photos too.

We have a place in Thousand Oaks, CA called Gardens of the World. It is just there for the publics enjoyment. I have found that any time of the year is wonderful to walk around there with my camera because it is new anytime.

I spent a good deal of my time on this trip around the Koi pond. LOVE the way these lily pads looked against the water.

When the sun was just right on the water and the fish were at just the right depth, I was able to catch amazing photos of them. They are just so beautiful.

And, I was taken with the white lilacs in full bloom. As a child, one of my mom's favorite flowers were lilacs. Every year se would walk around the block to pick some so these reminded me of my mom who has been gone for awhile now.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – BasicGrey and My Mind’s Eye
Stamps – Banner Outline, Vintage Greetings and Dutch Journal circle/Pink Persimmon
Copic markers
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stamp n’ Stuff
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Machine sewing
Sandpaper

THANKS A BUNCH card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Little Yellow Bicycle and Cosmo Cricket
Rub-on sentiment – Deja Views
Scallop scissors
Ribbon3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Sandpaper
Machine Sewing
Pearl Brad - Recollections