Crazy 4 Challenges-Flourishes Bingo

Hey everyone, and welcome to this week's Crazy 4 Challenges, challenge. Before I get into today's challenge, I want to introduce this month's sponsor which is Flourishes. They have some gorgeous stamp sets, so why not hop on over to their web site when you are finished here.

We also giving away two gorgeous Flourishes Sets for this weeks challenge prize! One winner will get it all....play along and the Wedded Bliss and Seeds of Friendship Set could be yours! We will announce the winner with next weeks post.

For our challenge this week let's play some bingo, you need to select 3 items that are in a straight line, either horizontal, vertical or diagonal and use these on your card/ project.

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C101. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

For my card today, I used the gorgeous April Showers set from Flourishes. My "line" on the bingo card was straight across the bottom row: Paper Piecing, Ribbon, and 2 DP's. I threw in some brads and paper piercing....because I love them. My paper is from the MME Lost&Found Market Street pack. My paper is Berry Sorbet(PTI), Aqua Mist(PTI), and Fossil(MFT). My ribbon is also from PTI. I paper pieced one of my four umbrellas.

Well, that is it for me for now! Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day! Be sure to check out the other Crazies to see what they have been up to!

• Angela Wood
  
• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Frances Byrne
• Jessie Rone<--you are here!!
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lynda Benden
• Maria Bell
  
• Silke Kittman
• Silke Ledlow
  
• Tammy Hershberger
• Vicki Garrett

Oh my HECK!!

So, I wanted to play in today's Inspiration Challenge, but when I tried to go to the website provided, it wasn't working. That forced me to have to be inspired by the provided pictures...which isn't a bad thing, but still. I was gonna do the deer, but I though that wasn't CHALLENGING enough, so I chose to do this one here. Only problem...I looked at it a few(like 12) hours ago...so, I guess I didn't quite remember what I had seen, hehe!! This is what I saw in my head, so I guess that is good..but it is a TINY BIT TOO BRIGHT for my taste. After seeking the VERY honest opinion of my girl Jodi, she said it is AWFULLY BRIGHT but in a good way and to post it...so I am. Forgive me if you need your sunglasses to view, LOL!! I used my Spring Ephemerals and Many Sentiments by Flourishes. I stamped my image( I think it is the Forget Me Not) in Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango and Pacific Point. I added some K&Co. pearls and my sentiment tag. The white ribbon is from My Little Ribbon Shop(SO YUMMY and I LOVE that it is SHINY on one side..makes me giddy)... all the other is from SU. I attached it using some spiral clips. The DP is from the Kiwi Kiss patterns DSP and the base is Gina K. White. Okay, you can take off you sunglasses and move on...thanks for looking, LOL!!

THIS Is Why..

I don't do the Technique Lover's challenge most of the time!! Talk about tricky!! I don't know if it was me, or lack of sleep, but I swear the directions are written in Greek.....thank goodness for pictures, LOL!! What am I babbling about, well, today's TLC was to make a card of project using this triangle fold medallion. You can find the directions here. I decided that I would try to use up some scraps, so I dug out my retired Ginger Blossom DSP from SU and got to work. I made my medallion according to the directions and then added a flower brad to the center(don't remember the brand, but I got them at Archiver's). I layered it on another piece of the DP and then layered it with River Rock, Groovy Guava, and Ruby Red. The base is Whisper White with the flower stamp from Embrace Life stamped all over, colored with my markers and ink pads, and then the edges were sponged. I added some GG and RR stitched ribbon and also some spiral clips and brads. The sentiment is from Flourishes, part of the Many Sentiments set, and the hardware is from We R Memory Keepers. I am super tired tonight, so I am off to bed!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

For Ali...

I made this card for a girl named Ali. She is Laurie's (Lauraly) daughter and she has become very sick. Right now, she is in Seattle having some tests done to determine the best possible action to take. If you'd like to know about her progress, there is a thread HERE on SCS where friends of Laurie's have been giving updates. If you'd like to send a card to her while she's in the hospital (it could be two weeks or more), email me and I'll get the address to you. Her favorite colors are pink and green, so when I saw today's color challenge, I knew I would use it to make my card to send to her. I started with my Poppy Patch set from Flourishes. The flowers were stamped with Black Stazon on PTI white and colored in using my SU markers, reinkers and blender pens. I stamped the lower flower twice and cut out the flower to give it a tiny bit of dimension(also to let it slightly hang off the oval). My sentiment is also from Flourishes and is part of their Many Sentiments set. I layered the image panel with Pretty in Pink and Riding Hood Red. The horizontal panel is some Bella Rose DSP layered with Riding Hood Red and Pretty in Pink. Before layering it, I ran it through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder to give it some texture. The other DP is Kiwi Kiss Patterns paper and it was run through the Cuttlebug with my houndstooth folder. I added a white organdy bow, gold cord, and some gold brads too.

Be sure to check back later for the first EVER MFT BLOG HOP!!!! How exciting!!! The fun starts at Kim's blog and you can follow the links from there, so be sure to go to Kim's blog at 12pmEST to start the hop!!