Birthday flowers

Here's my first creation from my US trip - staying up way too late in my friend's crafty space! Designed2Delight image in Spellbinder's oval, coloured with Prismacolours and blinged up with Kaisercraft gems, pale pink glitter glue and glossy accents on the vase. Papers are Basic Grey (green), K&Compancy (circles) and pink dots (unknown). I think the sentiment stamp might be Studio G. Recollection green gems; ribbon/ric rac and buttons from my friend's stash. All materials are from my friend's wonderful craft room. Submitted to the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday #160 Sketch
Basic Grey Challenges #46 Colour Combo - Hot Pink, Lime Green, Brown/Kraft
Charisma Cardz Pink and green
Shabby Tea Room #67 Classic Patterns - photo inspiration colours (pink and green), dots
Simon Says Stamp Bingo - Shape, Ribbon, Sentiment
Marks Finest Papers Use at least one button
Stamp Something Something with pretty papers
Crafty Emma Lots of Sparkly Flowers
Crafts & Me #39 Bling It On
Going Grey Scrap Creations - Anything Goes

With sympathy tulips

Made for a close friend who recently lost her grandmother. See D's tulip stamp coloured with Prismacolour pencils and Sugarloaf marker; Spellbinders scalloped & plain circles; Stampin' Up and Basic Grey papers; Cosmo Cricket letter stickers; brads, metal leaves and ribbon from my stash. Submitted to the following challenges:

Stamping Vacation April Pick 3 (circle, pink, sentiment)

Stamp Insanity #56 Heavy metal

Simply Create #42 Time to rock the metal

The Paper Shelter #10 Inspired by nature

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #99 Flowers

AiFactory #77 Flowers in bloom

Shelly's Images TTT Challenge Show us what you got

Delicious Doodles #22 Anything goes

Butterfly amongst the flowers

This card started off with me wanting to use a Hero Arts flowers set and playing with metallic rubons (haven't used them in a while). The colouring has a lovely sheen which doesn't show up in the scan. Crafty Bitz butterfly; Fiskars border punch; Franchville purple paper; green paper and gold cord from my stash. I used this as a birthday card for a fried who has beautiful, butterfly-attracting garden.

Happy Mother's Day to my mum

Here's the card I made for my mum for Mother's Day. The tiles, swirls and small text are Inkadinkadoo stamps and the 'Happy' is from Paper Xtra; SU paper; brad and ribbon from my stash. I stamped the sentiment in pale pink and clear embossed it it didn't stand out enough so I tried running a white gel pen over the embossing and then did a second embossed layer - I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

Flowery Congratulations

One of my friends has just gotten a promotion and this is her congrats card. I have to give credit to Katie (Pretty-n-Ink) for the design as I made it a SU class that she held earlier this month. All materials are SU (flower is Pick a Petal stamp set) except for the Grace Taylor sentiment.