FCCB 158 - Paper Roses

Good morning and happy Monday!!  Monday means time for another fun challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut!  This week's challenge is Paper Roses - we want to see your projects with paper flowers on it.  I made this Mother's Day card for my sweetie's step-mother.

I got these fabulous Teresa Collins papers from my good friend and DT sister Missy.  Beautiful colors and patterns that can be used for so many occasions - thanks Missy!!

The flower was cut from the Flower Shoppe cartridge in multiple layers then curled by hand to give it more dimension.  A pearl in the center and a double bow tied from crinkle ribbon finishes it off.  I kept the rest of the card pretty simple so that the focus could be the pretty flower.

Thanks for coming by to take a look at my card!  Be sure to link up your projects with paper flowers to the challenge at FCCB by Sunday evening.  I'm looking forward to seeing your creations!!

Recipe:

Cardstock for card base from Recollections

Pattern papers from Teresa Collins's Sweet Afternoon stack

Flower from Flower Shoppe

Labels Four dies from Spellbinders

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set

Crinkle ribbon

Pearl gem

Anniversary Explosion Box

Happy Saturday!  I hope you're all having a great weekend!  Last Sunday my parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.  They have insisted that we do not give them gifts, but I have recently seen some wonderfully crafty ladies post explosion boxes on their blogs and just had to give it a try.  I decided that their anniversary would be a great time to put together an explosion box with various pictures of them and their family through the years.

A few years ago, my grandparents scanned a number of family pictures and put them on DVDs for us.  I went through those pictures and was able to find a lot of pictures that would work for the box from those DVDs - including pictures of my parents graduating from Pharmacy School and their wedding!

The box that I made used 3 sheets of paper, so I was able to fit 20 pictures in the box.  It's hard to fit 40 years of memories in just 20 pictures, but I managed to get pictures of my brother and I as babies, young kids, teenagers, our weddings, as well as pictures of my parent's 3 grandchildren and their great-grandbaby, so I think I managed to capture many of the milestones.

My mom really seemed to like the album and was surprised that I was able to find so many old family pictures.  I had so much fun making this album!  Thanks for coming by to take a look!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from Bo Bunny
Pair of hands from Something to Remember cut at 2.75 inches
Love from Sweethearts cut at 2.25 inches
Family from Gypsy Wanderings cut at 2.25 inches
40 from Opposites Attract cut at 3 inches
Rings from Sweethearts cut at 1.9 inches
Monogram from Tie the Knot cut at 1.8 inches
Frame from Elegant Edges cut at 2.6 inches
Flower and leaves from Flower Shoppe cut at 3, 2 and 1 inches
Ribbon from my stash

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there!!  I hope you all have a wonderful day and are able to enjoy it the way you want to.  My mother moved to Arizona about 15 months ago, so we're not able to spend the day together.  I miss her a lot, but she's coming to visit in a few weeks and I'm really looking forward to that!!

The card I have to share today is the card I sent to my mother for Mother's Day.  I recently got the Flower Shoppe cartridge (as you can probably tell from some of my recent posts!!).  I wanted to use one of the flowers from that cartridge, and I also wanted to do something a little different than a standard A2 card.  I still kept it the A2 size, but instead used the gate fold.  I also used the same patterned paper on the inside of my card for a little something extra.

I'm going to enter this card into the challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion.  The challenge this week is Mother's Day.  Thanks for coming by!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Mum flower from Flower Shoppe cut at 2.5 and 2.25 inches
Leaves from Flower Shoppe cut at 1.7 inches
Swiss Dots and Polka Dots embossing folders
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set
Pearl gem

Mother's Day Envelope

Happy Saturday!  I hope you're all having a great weekend.  Are you all ready for Mother's Day tomorrow?  Earlier this week I made a card for my sweetie's step-mother.  You can check it out HERE.  Because the flower has so much dimension to it, there's no way to fit it in a standard envelope.  My good friend Missy gave me the great idea of using a kraft bag instead.

I kept the decorations on this bag pretty simple and similar to the card.  I folded over the top of the bag, then used my Crop-a-Dile to punch holes and add eyelets to feed the ribbon through to keep the bag from tearing.  The possibilities are endless with these bags and I'm looking forward to using them some more!

Thanks for stopping by to take a look and have a wonderful weekend!

Recipe:
Kraft bag - 5.25x7.25 inches
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from my stash
'Fun' flower from Flower Shoppe cut at 1.75, 1.5, 1.25 and 1 inches
Twine from My Craft Spot
Crinkle ribbon
Pearl gems
Crop-a-Dile and eyelets

Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #63

Good evening!  The card I have to share today is one I've had in my mind for nearly a week and I finally found the time to get downstairs and get it made.  The challenge this past week over at Die Cuttin Divas is a sketch challenge.  Here's the sketch we were asked to follow:

I just recently got the Flower Shoppe cartridge.  I've seen so many wonderful creations using this cartridge recently and I decided it was one I just had to have.  When I saw this sketch, I thought a flower from Flower Shoppe would be a great addition to this card.  Because my flower turned out to have so much dimension to it, it's definitely not one that will be going through the mail.  This card will be going to my sweetie's step-mother.  I plan to decorate a craft bag as a pseudo-envelope for this card.  Perhaps you'll be seeing that post sometime soon.  :)  Thanks for coming by to take a look at my card and have a wonderful week!

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections

Patterned cardstock from my stash

'Fun' flower from Flower Shoppe cut at 2.5 inches

Martha Stewart Ribbon Loop border punch

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set

Pearl gems

White chalk on edges of flower