A Bright and Cheery Dahlia

Another grey and dreary day here in the Pacific Northwest! So that must mean its time for another bright and sunny card from Saturday's Spring Fling.

     And this one truly is bright and cheery, thanks to Gelatos!

     The Impression Obsession Dahlia was stamped and embossed in white on watercolor paper. Then colored with yellow and orange Gelatos and waterblended together using our fingers.

     The sentiment is from Flourishes You Inside & Out set. The inside aptly states "brighten my day!"
     A simple card but it surely brightened my day.
     Please come on back tomorrow for Dreamweaver Thursday. I really like the simple Tiny Treat project I created.
     Until then, wishing sunny skies to all of you!

When flowers bloom...

I had an absolutely wonderful day on Saturday. I got together with a great group of friends for a Spring Fling cardmaking. The theme this years was "It's All About the Flowers" so we made five cards with a floral stamp as the focal point.

This is one of the cards we created:

The Lily of the Valley stamp and the sentiment are both from Flourishes Botanical Bookplates 2 stamp set and the coordinated die is Flourishes Botanical Bookplate die. The Houndstooth stamp (which so perfectly matches the Flourishes stamp) is from Impression Obsession. The cardstock is also all Flourishes.

The other two dies are Spellbinders and the embossing folder is ProvoCraft's Swiss Dots.

All the stamping is done with Stampin' Up's Garden Green and then the image was colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Pleated ribbon and ruffled rose were both created with May Arts sheer organza ribbon.

Since my birthday is in May and Lily of the Valley is the flower for May, I have a special fondness for them. That is why when I saw this stamp set, it instantly was put into my "MUST HAVE" list!

Since this card focuses on blue and green, I thought it would be perfect to submit for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Blue and Green challenge!

Thanks for stopping by today. Tomorrow I'll share another card we created on Saturday.

Hugs and happy creating!

It's All About the Flowers!

This weekend I am getting together with a great group of friends for our annual Spring Fling. The theme this year is "It's All About the Flowers". The focus will be on simple designs which highlight the stamps and not so much on pretty papers and embellishments.

Here is one of the cards that we will be creating.

Both the sentiment and the flower stamp are from Flourishes Sunflower set. And the paper is G45's French Country.

Very simple but fun to create and isn't that what it should be all about?

A Green Kinda Day!

Good Monday Morning!

Spring officially begins at the end of this week so I thought I'd start celebrating a bit early with some spring flower creations!

My first card for the week is one that I created using papers from the Graphic 45 Place in Time collection and the Pansy stamp set from Flourishes A Year in Flowers 1 stamp set.



Flourishes Year in Flowers 1 Pansy
and Graphic 45 Place in Time March Cut-Aparts



Pretty simple but definitely has me thinking about spring and watching everything wake up from its winter's nap.

I hope you'll stop by tomorrow when I have another Spring creation to brighten your day. (Can you tell I actually set some time aside this past weekend to color and play!)

Until then, take some time to enjoy the changing of the season!

Cherylynn