Hello Friend

I had a bit of time to craft today, so I made a card with this beautiful magnolia stamp called Thankful Magnolia from Gina K Designs. I stamped it twice on my panel and coloured it with my Copics before stamping the sentiment from Blessings of Spring stamp set, also by Gina K Designs. I then die cut a simple rectangle frame and adhered it in place. I dry embossed the panel of coloured cardstock in the background with a Penny Black embossing folder called Filigree and adhered the stamped panel onto it with foam adhesives before embellishing the card with some black gems. 

I'm entering this to:

* We Love Stamping: April - Spring

* Stamping Sensations: April - Inspired by Nature

* NBUS: Challenge #85 (my Never Before Used Stuff is this Thankful Magnolia stamp that I'm using for the first time) 

Daffodils

Happy Easter to all who celebrate! I don't really make Easter cards but I made this spring card with these beautiful daffodils from Altenew. This stamp is Build-A-Garden: Daffodil Delight and I coloured the image with my Copics before die cutting it with its matching die. I wanted to make the flowers pop so I used a black panel on the background and I think you can faintly see in the photo that I used Intricate Stitched Ovals coverplate die from Pinkfresh Studio on it. I die cut the arch frame from gold cardstock with Spellbinders' Essential Arches dies and placed it behind the daffodils. The sentiment is also die cut from gold cardstock and it translates as 'Hugs'. Lastly, I embellished the card with some gold sequins.

I'm entering this to:

* Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Anything Florals Goes with optional mood board #39

* The Paper Funday Challenges: April 2026 Challenge #86 - Anything Goes

* Alphabet Challenge Blog: Y Is for Yellow Flowers

Endless Florescence

When I visited my lovely friend Nonni the previous weekend, she very kindly gifted me with this gorgeous stamp, Endless Florescence from Altenew. This is such a good one for colouring! I made a simple, almost one-layer card with it. I coloured the image with my Copics before masking the edges and ink blending the panel very lightly with blue Distress Oxide ink. I then stamped my sentiment (it says 'Congratulations' in Finnish), matted the panel onto a piece of black cardstock and my cardbase, and embellished the card with some clear gems.

I'm entering this to:

* Addicted to Stamps and More!: Challenge #513 - Birthdays

* Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

* Inkspirational: Challenge #364 - CAS

Guest Designing at Just Us Girls - Challenge #816

This is my 4th and final week as the Guest Designer at Just Us Girls. It's been such a joy to guest design and I want to thank the team at Just Us Girls for having me. This week is Stencil Week so for Challenge #816 Anything Goes as long as you use stencils.

I used layering stencils for my card. This is Altenew's Build-A-Garden: Rocktrumpet and I used Altenew inks with the stencils to colour these florals before die cutting them. The floral image in this stamp set is actually pretty large and this is only half of it, which is fun as you can make two cards with one ink blended image. I kept my background simple and masked a rectangle on my panel, ink blended it with Distress Oxide ink before spattering it with blue ink. I heat embossed a sentiment from the same Rocktrumpet stamp set onto a strip of black cardstock and adhered it with foam adhesives. Lastly, I embellished the card with some clear gems.

Please head over to Just Us Girls challenge blog to be inspired by the cards made by the very talented Design Team. And while you're there, don't forget to join in the fun!

I'm also entering this to:

* Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

For You

I just had the best weekend! I visited my dear crafty friend Nonni and spent a long weekend colouring, chatting, and eating good food. Perfect, right? I very much think so :) This is one of the stamped images I coloured last weekend, it's the gorgeous Dahlia Bright Eyes from Altenew. As usual, I used my Copics to colour the image and then masked the flowers and the edges of the panel before ink blending Distress Oxide inks in Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean to form a rectangle on the panel. I used a die cut sentiment that translates as 'For You' on my card and embellished it with some clear gems.

I'm entering this to:

* Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Clean and Simple

* TIME OUT Challenges: Challenge #309 - In the Clear (I used clear gems)

* TGIF Challenges: #tgifc569 - Inspiration Challenge

Guest Designing at Just Us Girls - Challenge #815

It's time for challenge #815 at Just Us Girls challenge and also my third week of guest designing for them. This week is Mood Board Week and you can see the mood board if you scroll past my card below or visit Just Us Girls.

I took quite literal inspiration from the mood board and have colourful flowers on a dark background on my card. The stamp set I used is from Pinkfresh Studio and it's called Thanks for Being There. I took inspiration for the colours from the flowers in the mood board and coloured the image with my Copics before die cutting it with its matching die. I then used Frame It die from Penny Black to die cut the frame from black cardstok and adhered it onto a piece of black cardstock to create the background. I adhered my florals and stamped and die cut the sentiment from Cherry Bliss stamp set by Pinkfresh Studio and adhered it in place. I then splattered the background and the flowers with some gold and white splatters, adhered it onto a white cardbase to lighten it up a bit, and embellished the card with some white half pearls.

 

Now please visit Just Us Girls challenge blog for some amazing inspiration from the Design Team and please do come and play with us! 

Big Blooms

I love floral stamps, especially if they're gorgeous and big - just like this one from Trust the Magic stamp set from Gina K Designs. This is simply a stunning floral stamp and such a joy to colour! As usual, I coloured this with my Copics before die cutting it with its matching die. For the background, I die cut different sized panels with Spellbinders' Scored and Pierced Rectangles dies, layered them together and adhered the blooms on the panels. The sentiment is die cut and translates as 'Congrats'. Lastly, I embellished my card with some matte gold half pearls.

I'm entering this to:

* TIME OUT Challenges: Challenge #308 - Birthday Celebration CASE (I didn't CASE the whole design of the card, but I was inspired by the gorgeous big blooms taking the spotlight in the centre of the card and wanted to replicate that)

* Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Beautiful Blooms