Calendar Girls Flowers

If you are looking for my Melonheadz Challenge card, please scroll up.

 

It is the 28th of the month, so I am here to welcome you to another round with the Calendar Girls! We are now in our fourth year of posting and it has been a blast.  Wonderful Challenges--Great Fun--Sweet Creations--and Awesome Friendships!

Who are the Calendar Girls? We are a group of bloggers who want to have a place where friendships blossom, creativity abounds, and encouragement prevails! In keeping with that dream, this blog group has been created so we will have a place to interact and enjoy being fellow bloggers.  Carol is the hostess this month and she posted the following challenge

For the challenge this month, I thought quite a bit about the challenge. As you know, we will be posting after Easter so with that in mind I thought I'd do a Mothers Day challenge. When I was a child my mom would encourage my dad to get little carnation corsages in pink or red for each of us girls and mom to wear to church on Mothers Day. According to her (and the intranet), if a woman's mother was alive the females in the family would don a red or pink flower (mostly carnations, but not a rule) and if her mom had passed, the female would wear a white flower, and would visit the grave of her mom and place a white carnation on her grave. My mom's dad would do this when she was a child and mom loved the tradition. What I would like you to do this month is create a card or project using the color that would describe your mom. As an extra I would like for you to share a special memory of your mom from when you were little (if you are comfortable with that) so we can learn a bit about the wonderful ladies who raised such beautiful paper crafters... 

I do have quite a few stamps with flowers and debated between two.  One had Iris flowers on it and this one with Lily of the Valley.  My mom had both of those flowers around the house  where I was raised and I loved and still enjoy both of them.  However, I went with this image as we have some Lily of the Valley growing at our house that came from my mom's garden. It is one of the spring flowers I look forward to seeing pop through the ground and bloom.  Plus, they are white, which reflect back on Carol's challenge.  I also added some glimmer glitter in the middle of the embossed flowers honor of Carol--our glitter queen!  I used my yellow Wink of Stella glitter pen, which has been used very little since I bought them a few months ago.  I also fussy cut the image, which I rarely do--though I admire it on many of the cards that my Calendar Girls create!

 
Here is the inside of my card: 

Image/Sentiment—Sparkle 'n Sprinkle Lily of the Valley

Cardstock—Gina K White; Stampin' Up Old Olive, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Petals & Paisley Designer Series Paper

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—Yellow Brads; Copic Markers; SU Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder; Zig Wink of Stella Glitter Pen

Please check out the blogs of all of the Calendar Girls—there are 10 of us.  I am sure you will enjoy all the wonderful creations!  All of the blogs are listed on my left sidebar. Thanks for joining us this month.

Glittered Dancing Ladies

 

 I am back with another card for The Crafters Café Challenge Blog (TCCCB).  

The theme for this weeks challenge is Add Glitter and the challenge runs from April 23rd to the 29th

Our sponsor this week is Rick St. Dennis

These ladies look like they are having a wonderful time!  I used pink glitter paper for the background, a purple brad in the corner and white glittered ribbon as an additional embellishment.  I think the card meets this week's challenge--do you?!

 

 

Image/Sentiment—AP Style Dancing Ladies

 

Cardstock—Gina K White; Stampin' Up Strawberry Slush, Raspberry Ripple, Pink Glitter Paper

Accessories—Glittered Brad, Glitter Ribbon, Copic Markers

I hope you will play along this week with The Crafter's Café Challenge Blog too! Be sure to go to the blog and add your creations for the challenge this week! You can also check out the rest of the DT Creations with the links on the left sidebar.