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Flower Soft All That Glitters Blog Hop!

Today the Flower Soft Design Team has teamed up to showcase the new Diamond Range colors - Emerald, Ruby and Amethyst.  I love the beautiful new colors and think they are perfect for making unique Christmas projects. Be sure to comment on everyone's blog as you hop because Flower Soft is giving away a pot of Ruby, Emerald and Silver Diamond Range to a randomly selected commenter!  To get started on this hop, go over to the  Flower Soft Blog.  You don't want to miss a single project!

Here are my projects for today's hop.

For this project, I used Flower Soft Diamond Range Silver for the middles of my poinsettia flowers. 

Here is a close-up of the Poinsettia flowers.

Supplies Used:

• Stamps - sentiment from Hero Arts
• Cardstock - Neenah Solar White #110, Silver Ore Metallic, Mountain Rose Metallic cardstock (Discount Cardstock)
• Dies - Layered Poinsettia, Orchard Harvest Tags & Accents (Spellbinders Paper Arts)
• Flower Soft - Diamond Range Silver, Flower Soft Glue

Here is my second card.  It's very simple and should be easy to mail!

Here is a close-up of the little Christmas tree that I used Diamond Range Ruby, Gold & Amethyst.

Supplies Used:

• Stamps- sentiment from Hero Arts
• Flower Soft -Flower Soft Glue, Diamond Range Gold, Ruby and Amethyst
  
• Dies - Standard Ovals & Big Scalloped Ovals - Spellbinders
• Cardstock - Neenah Solar White Cardstock #110 - Discount Cardstock

 

Your next stop on this fun blog hop is the beautiful Dina Kowal.  I know you will love everyone's projects, so have fun and don't forget to comment to WIN!!  You until October 29 to comment and the winner will be picked October 31.  Good luck and enjoy!

Here is the hop list in case you get lost along the way!

• Jennifer Buck
• Cibele Glazer
• Deb Felts
• Debbie Seyer
• Dina Kowal
• Gini Cagle
• Jeanne Streiff
• Linda Beeson
• Lisa Murphy
• Vicki Garrett

Flower Soft Orange & Black Challenge!

Hello!  Today I have a Flower Soft project for you.  Our challenge this week was to use Orange and Black in our project.   To see what the other Flower Soft Design Team members made for this challenge, just check out the Flower Soft Blog.  

This challenge worked out pretty well for me because my daughter (who is in college) called and asked me to make her some Halloween decorations for her dorm room.  I think this wall hanging will work, don't you?

For the base of my wall hanging, I used the largest die in the Creative Book Pages die set from Spellbinders Paper Arts™.   I cut out 2 piece of lightweight chipboard (cereal boxes, LOL) and glued them together.  Then I covered them with Posh Black Linen Cardstock.  I added layers of Posh White Linen cardstock and patterned paper (Haunted Hallows from Teresa Collins) all cut/embossed from the Creative Book Pages set.  The graduated sizes in that die set really work for this wall hanging.

To make the Jack-O-Lantern, I cut/embossed  the largest pumpkin in the Nested Pumpkin set from Spellbinders™.  Using Flower Soft glue, I drew the eyes/nose/mouth and added Flower Soft Ultra Fine Black.  I think it turned out really cute.  Here is a close-up of the Jack-O-Lantern.

I actually used Flower Soft glue for this whole project.  Liquid Adhesive works great for projects like this.  Plus I know that this particular project will be put thru alot and I want it to stay together!

Here are a few more close-ups!

Here you can see the Nested Lacey Pennants I used for my letters.  I also used the Lacey Circles to create rosettes out of white cardstock.  The letters are stickers that I added some black ink to the edges using a sponge.

That's all for today!  Hope you have a great day and rest of the week is good, too.  I was excited to get my designer copy of the November CardMaker magazine in the mail last week.  I have a Christmas project in the issue.  Talk to you soon!

 

Flower Soft Fall Fun Card!

Hello!  Here is my card for today.....it's a fun card using some really neat Flower Soft products.  For the base of my card, I cut/embossed a piece of  Posh Milk Chocolate Felt Cardstock using Grand Nestabilities Label 11. 

For my focal image, I used a 3D Cutout Toppers from Flower Soft called Country-Village.  I die cut the main image using the Grand Nestabilities Label 11 and then fussy cut the 3D pieces to add.  Using Flower Soft glue, I added some Flower Soft Mixed Color - Autumn.  I actually added the Autumn to all the flowers in this picture so that it would look like a fall scene.  Then sentiment oval is a piece from the Country-Village Topper, too.

Hope you enjoyed my Flower Soft Fall card!  It was fun to make and I am going to mail it to a special friend of mine.  If you didn't know, Flower Soft mails very well!!

Anything But A Card Flower Soft Blog Hop!

Please join the Flower Soft team on an inspirational hop.  This month’s theme is Anything But a Card.  The blog hop starts on the Flower Soft® Blog on Sept 7^th at 8:00am CT and ends Sept 15^th at midnight CT. The winner will be announced on the Flower Soft® Blog on Sept 16th^th. If you get lost along the way the complete hop list will be posted on the Flower Soft® Blog.

If you are following the hop you should have come from Vicki Garrett's blog.  If not, please head on over to the Flower Soft® Blog to start off your hop!

Here is my Anything But a Card project for today's hop!

    

For this wall hanging, I used the Grand Nestabilities Label Four (#6 - largest) to cut out some Ivory Premium #67 cardstock and adhered this to a piece of lightweight chipboard using Flower Soft Glue.  This glue works great on 3d projects!  I use it on almost all of mine!  After adhering these together, I sponged the edges with Galaxy Gold Brilliance ink.  Using the Grand Nestabilities Classic Oval #6, I cut/embossed Gold Polish Cardstock adhering that to my base.  Using my printer and word processing program, I printed out the poem (found here) onto the Ivory Premium #67 cardstock and then cut/embossed using the Grand Nestabilities Classic Oval #5.  After adhering that into place, I added the die cuts and flowers.   You can click on the photo to see a bigger picture of this wall hanging and that will allow you to easily read the poem.

Here are a few close-ups of the flowers I made using Posy Patch dies and stamps from Heartfelt Creations.

 
For the center of my flowers, I used Diamond Range Gold and Flower Soft glue was used to assemble my flower layers. 

Be sure to comment on every blog in the hop. One lucky person that comments on one of the blogs will be chosen to receive 4 pots of Flower Soft!!!

Now its time to hop on over to my friend, Gini Cagle's Blog to see what fabulous project she has in store for us!  I know you will love it!

 

 

Flower Soft & Our Daily Bread Designs Blog Hop!

Are you ready for a Blog Hop?  Come join us in a special blog hop with The Flower Soft & 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.

Flower Soft and Our Daily Bread Designs will each be selecting a winner for a $20 prize package!  The blog hop ends on August 30th. The prize winners will be announced on The Flower Soft blog and Our Daily Bread Blog on August 31st.

If you came here from Debi Southard's blog you are in the right place. If not please start at the beginning at the Our Daily Bread Blog.

My project for today's hop is a card using ODBD stamp set called Missing You.  I love the 2 bible verses and the sentiment plus I think the beautifully detailed fence with flowers is perfect to use with Flower Soft Sprinkles.  See what I mean?

To highlight the flowers going up to the birdhouse, I used Flower Soft Mixed Colors Summer and then added some Flower Soft Sunshine Yellow along the bottom.  For me, alittle Flower Soft goes along way in highlighting any project and I think this card shows that off perfectly! 

Here is a close-up of my main image:

Now it's time to hop on over to Lisa Somerville's Blog and enjoy!!  Have a great day!

FSC34 Stitching Challenge!

Today's Flower Soft Challenge on Splitcoaststampers is to use stitching (faux or real) on your project along with Flower Soft.  Here is a card I made for this challenge!

It's back to school today for two of my daughters!  The chipboard apple is from Maya Road.  I covered it with cardstock and added some Flower Soft Ultra Fine Sage for the leaves.  I added some Flower Soft Ultra Fine Strawberry to the dots on the "2".  The stamp is from Unity.  All cardstock is from www.discountcardstock.com.  The patterned paper is from October Afternoon.  I used my sewing machine to do a zigzag stitch between the layers.  Here is a close-up.

You can find out all about this fun Flower Soft challenge on the Flower Soft Blog or in the Flower Soft Forum at Splitcoaststampers.  Check it out because there is always some great prizes to win!

New Toys to Play With!

I was pleasantly surprised to get a delivery the other day from Spellbinders Paper Arts.   I received the new Presto Punch machine.  What a neat little machine!  Take a look and see what I mean!

 

The Presto Punch machine comes with the Presto Punch templates that are in front of the machine.  The other two punch templates sets are ones that I had in anticpation of receiving this cute little machine.

Here is a card I made using my new Presto Punch machine and this week's sketch from CPS #230.

Here is a close-up of the flower I made using the Petal Pack Presto Punch templates.  In the middle of the flower, I used some Flower Soft Ultra Fine Earth.

The leaves are made using a Presto Punch template that comes with the machine.  I had alot of fun using this machine.  Special thanks to Stacey Caron at Spellbinders Paper Arts for sending it to me!!

Be sure to check out this week's Card Positioning Systems Sketch Challenge.  It is being sponsored by Flower Soft!  I bet you can win some really cool Flower Soft stuff just by making a card....so check it out!

More Flower Soft Sneak Peeks!

Here is another sneak peek from Flower Soft! 

This is the newest topper from Flower Soft's Spellbinders Vintage Christmas Toppers.  You can use your Spellbinders dies to cut/emboss the different toppers to create wonderful projects, like - cards, gifts and scrapbook pages.  I used Flower Soft Mixed Colors - Vintage Christmas.  I mixed this with the Diamond Range Gold Flower Soft.  This card has quite a wonderful shimmer that I didn't pick up very good with my photography skills, sorry!  I added some Gold Peel Off stickers around the outside of the red layer of my card to add just alittle extra touch.  I like using the peel offs because they no extra weight to my card.

I used the Scalloped Circle Lg to die cut the main image & Grand Scalloped Circle Nestabilities for the green layer.  The sentiment tag is part of the topper set so I just cut it out, added a brad and adhered it into place.  Check out more of these beautiful Vintage Christmas Toppers on the Flower Soft Blog.

Christmas In July With Flower Soft

Hello, Flower Soft Lovers!  Since CHA is just a couple of days away, I have some sneak peeks of new Flower Soft products to show you.  I know that you are going to love these!  As usual, Flower Soft has created some of the most unique card making products.  Are you ready?

This is a card I made using the new Christmas Snow Globes.  For this base of my card, I used the Oval Aperture Card.  This allows you to insert your Display Globe with the beautiful Christmas scene and then has an extra flap to cover the back of the globe so that your card looks so nice and neat inside!  It might be hard to see but I added some Polar White Flower Soft mixed with Silver Diamond Range Flower Soft so that you can shake the Christmas Globe Card and see the "snow" falling!  I added a piece of Blue cardstock that I cut using the Oval Aperture Card template and a craft knife.  I die cut a frame from some Sky Metallic cardstock and after glueing it in place, added some pearl stickers.  The sentiment is from the same sheet the Christmas scene is from.  After cutting it out with scissors, I adhered it to a fancy tag die cut from the metallic paper.  More pearl stickers were added for a fancy touch!

Here is another way you can use the Christmas Snow Globes from Flower Soft.

Here is a close-up so that you can see this unique 3d effect!

You can see all kinds of sneak peeks from Flower Soft all this week on the Flower Soft Blog.  You should go check it out!  I will have more to share with you tomorrow!

Wildflowers 2 - Die Cut Dimensions

This week over at Flower Soft, the new Die Cut Dimensions - Wildflowers 2 toppers are being showcased.  If possible, these Wild Flower Toppers are every more beautiful than the first set.  I have made a couple of cards using these new toppers.  You can check out what the rest of the design team is doing on the Flower Soft Blog.

For this card, I used the single and double punch-outs from the Wildflower Toppers for the flowers.  I used my dry embossing stylus to give all the flowers a bit of dimension and then popped them up on the card using 3d foam squares.  I added some glitter to the middle of the flowers for some bling! 

 This is one of the new toppers that I die cut using Labels 8 die templates.  After die cutting, I added some Diamond Range Gold Flower Soft to the middle of my flowers.  After I stamped the sentiment, I added little pearls along the bottom.. but I wanted them to match the centers of my flowers so I used a gold paint pen to color them.

Be sure to check my blog out tomorrow!  Here is why: