With Love and Flower Soft!

 

Hello my friends!
  I'm sorry it's been a while since I posted!  I have been busy working "behind the scenes" on some things that I can share with you soon, but today I thought I'd share something that I do when I need a quick card and just don't have time to stamp an image, color it up and create a card.  This is a Flower Soft Scenic Window Set, available HERE. 

It has a variety of fully colored images, and all you have to do is put one on a card!  If you wish to let it just go the way it is, you certainly could!  If you want to add some great texture and interest to your card, then go ahead and add some fun Flower Soft!  I added a wrinkled seam binding bow, and I popped up the curtains that also some in the Flower Soft set, using small dimensionals to adhere.  These Flower Soft cards pack quite a punch, and take little time to complete!

I will be back later this week with some sneak peeks for you!  I can't wait to share what's coming your way in June!

Blessings,

Thinking of You with Flower Soft

Hello friends!  Happy Wednesday!  Who's ready for something spring?

Today I have a Flower Soft card to share with you.  I love this stuff!  This is a preprinted topper from the Country Village Kit, that I simply decorated with flower soft and popped up parts of the image.  I added the sweet fence from a custom fence die from Our Daily Bread designs, and the flower soft sentiment.  I used a Coredinations base and some Martha Stewart seam binding and done. 

To shape the flower soft more than just scattering it onto the glue, I like to place the glue where I want it, pour on the flower soft, tap off the excess, then I use my piercer point to carefully gather it together and shape it. So for the lilacs for example, I kept pushing the edges into little vertical lines which created a definite edge, and popped up what was in the center of the lilac more, giving more definition.   As it dries it becomes very easy to "mold" to the exact shape you want.  If you use your piercer, don't use it like you are piercing your paper, but hold it closer to perpendicular to the paper... so you are using the point but not risking piercing the paper.  I hope I'm explaining that OK!  LOL!

These kits are very fun to work with and you get a lot in a pack!  I encourage you to give them a try!!!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
 Creative Mondays -  Anything Goes, Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes, Make it Monday - always Anything Goes,  MyGrafico - Flowers, Paper Pretties - Spring, Stamps R Us -  Anything Goes, The Crazy Challenge - Use a Die or Punch, Stampin' Sisters in Christ - Your image must be or include a flower, Scrappy Frogs - Die Cuts,
Have a blessed week!

Special Flower Soft & Our Daily Bread Designs Blog Hop with Prizes!

Are you ready for a Blog Hop?

Come join us in a special blog hop with The Flower Soft  and Our Daily Bread Designs Design Teams!

As you make your way through the hop make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be two prize winners chosen randomly among the blogs.

The blog hop ends on August 30th. The prize winners will be announced on The Flower Soft blog and Our Daily Bread Designs Blog on August 31st.

If you came here from Gini Cagle's blog you are in the right place. If not please start at the beginning at the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog. If there are any broken links, please see the complete list on the Our Daily Bread designs Blog or the Flower Soft Blog!

Now, here is my card.

I used the Springtime Card Toppers Collection from Flower Soft for my image panel, and stamped my Scripture using Our Daily Bread Designs Customer Favorites Scripture Series 2.  The verse I used was submitted by Jan Castle and I just love it!  I know I will use it often!

My card base is Coredinations (T Holtz new 12 x 12 pad).  The designer paper is Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Collection.  The doily is Cheery Lynn Dutch Scallop Square Frame.  I used the following colors of Flower Soft to give dimension to this card:  Delphinium Blue, Lilac and Lemon.  What a quick way to give a card some real wow factor!  I sewed my lace (a gift from a sweet friend) to my dp, adhered my image panel to the doily, then added that to the card with foam dimensionals.  I added a few cut outs from a large lace motif I had found in a thrift store and finished with a soft pink sheer bow and pink pearls.  I finished off the inside with an MS edge punch of the dp layered onto white cs.  I hope you enjoyed my creation!

Now hop on over to Dina Kowal's amazing Blog!

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This card is also my sample this week for ODBD's Stamping In Time Challenge(SNTODBD42)! The assignment is to use Our Daily Bread Design stamps.  The challenge this rotation is lace! Lace can be a lacy background, die cut, punch, lacy paper, lacey stamp, or real lace.  Remember, the more you play the more you increase your chance to win! We look forward to seeing what you create using ODBD stamps! 

The challenge runs from Thursday 9 am EST (August 25th) til Wednesday (September 7th) at 6 pm EST. You have two weeks to enter. You can enter as many times as you like!

Be sure to check out the ODBD Stamping in Time Post on the ODBD Blog for all the  challenge details!   

Our Guest Designer is Heidi Steinhebel

Please be sure to check out her creation! 

Here are some of the other DT members who made samples:

Sabrina Jackson

Chris Olsen

Betty Wright

Debi Southard

Marie Berquist (guest designer)

 Thanks for stopping by and for sticking with me through a long post!  Have a blessed day!