Friday Fun Challenge- Flowers for Mom

This week Kim challenged us to make handmade flowers.  No Prima's or store bought flowers on our projects. I had fun playing with this.  Here are a few of my prototype flowers:

I kind of winged it with the white flower and just twisted and turned until I had a little rose.  Pretty cool huh?

For my project I found this quote and had to make a card to go with it. "A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."  ~Peter De Vries  My kids aren't quite to that stage yet, but I know it's coming.  I think this may be a cute card to give to some of my neighbors.

I think I am the last one to post today.  Please be sure to leave some love at all the other FFC Blogs. 
Check out the rest of the Friday Fun Girls:

Kim 

Sherry

Christi

Jimmi

Sara

We would love to see your hand made flowers too, so give us a link here in the comments.


Details
Stamps: Minivan-a-Bella - Stamping Bella
Paper: Melon Mambo, White, Welcome Neighbor DSP, Bermuda Bay
Ink: Memento Black, Copics
Accessories: Ribbon, Jewel Brad

Girls Just Wanna Have (Friday) Fun

 When the working day is done,
Oh,girls,
They wanna have fu-un,
Oh,girls,
Just wanna have fun....

Did you hear me busting out the Cyndi Lauper?  March is Woman's History Month and in honor of all the fabulous women my challenge this week is to make a female inspired card.  Easy Peasy!

Did I happen to mention that I got some new Nesties this week?  Wahoo!!  I feel like I have just taken a giant leap into the present. 

Details

Stamps: from Stamping Bella
Paper: So Saffron, Old Olive, White, Perhaps-BasicGrey
Ink: Memento Black-Copics
Accessories: So Saffron Ribbon, Buttons, Nestabilities Labels Two

Don't forget to check out the other creations from the lovely Friday Fun Ladies!

• Christi Snow
• Sara Henton
• Sherry Campbell
• Jimmi Mayo

More WCMD Cards

I am having fun stamping the day away and thought I would show you a couple more cards for today's challenges.

WCMD09C
This card is for Stamping Bella's WCMD Challenge:
Challenging you to show me what you and your girlfriends do to have some fun! For an extra bit of flair, throw in some some 1980's-ish colors and/or DP!

I love to get together with my friends to stamp. You can often find the Team Fort Meade girls having a mini SBS. The pink and gray are my 80's color combo and if you look at the dp it has some big pearly paisleys in the background. I can see that as wall paper in the dining room of any one of my relatives homes.

Stamps: Stamping Bella
Paper: Going Gray, Pretty in Pink, White, DCWV Old World DP
Ink: AMuse Black, Copics
Accessories: Gray Ribbon-Offray, Adhesive Gems-EK Success

WCMD09D

This card is for the WCMD09D sketch challenge. There were 3 guidelines:
- Make a thank you card
- with CHOCOLATE or other browns and
- using Beate's sketch
I would like to say Thank you to  our lovely hostesses for this challenge.  What do you think, could this be the three of them in about 30 years?

Stamps: Hitting the Town-Inky Antics
Ink: AMuse Black, Copics
Paper: White, Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Bella Rosa
Accessories: Pink Ribbon-Offray, Ghost Flower

First Crazy 4 Challenges Card

Today is the first Crazy 4 Challenges weekly card challenge. I hope to be able to participate in these challenges regularly as I know the group is super talented and will have some wonderful ideas.

I made this card following the sketch by Cindy Haffner at Crazy 4 Challenges and when I was done I looked up and saw some orange bath fizzies sitting on my desk that I just had to incorporate. I grabbed a little piece of acetate and used a few scraps and came up with the perfect little gift for a friend that needs to just take a break. There may be a few fizzies missing as I had to promise my girls they could use them in the bathtub tonight, but that was a small price to pay for being able to stamp this afternoon and getting to play along with this fun challenge.

A close up of the image. You can see a hint of the stardust gel pen outlining the bubbles giving just a hint of shine.

A close up of the fizzy holder. Extra little shreds of the decorative paper made from some scraps that I hand "crimped".


Details

Stamps: Bubblebella
Paper: Only Orange, White, Bliss Blue, Lime Rickey by Basic Grey, Acetate Sheet
Ink: A Muse Black, Copic Markers
Accessories: Brads-Lime Rickey by Basic Grey, Glaze gel pen, Stardust gel pen, Orange Ribbon by Offray, Paper Piercer, Cricut Accent Essentials Cartridge, ScorPal

Inky Impressions 2nd Design Team Call

Hi all. I found the cutest little girl stamps last week that I just had to order, and they happened to have a design team call as well, so I figured I would apply just so that I can get the chance to play with these little girls. Here is my first card using Inky Impressions stamps.

Isn't she just adorable? When Mackenzie and Reganne saw the images they were convinced they had stamps made that looked just like them. I had to get that sentiment too. The girls will often say, "Mom, did you forget to remember..." I swear these stamps really were made just for my girls.

Here is a shot of which markers I used to color LiLi.

Details

Stamps: LiLi's Birthday Cake & Awe Shucks... by Inky Impressions
Paper: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, White, Eva by Basic Grey
Ink: AMuse Black, Copic Markers
Accessories: Cuttlebug Flower Die, Rhinestone Brads, Thick Purple Ribbon, Purple and Pink Rick Rack Ribbon, 1-1/4" Circle Punch



Since my Inky Impressions stamps just arrived yesterday I prepared a second project earlier in the week using my newest Bella, Fashionistabella.
I am really proud of this little sewing kit. I don't normally sew on my cards because I don't want to go through all my sewing supplies to find everything. I figured that by making up this little tin I would have just enough to sew on my cards. This particular kit will be going out as a RAK so I added some ribbon, thread, needles and button.

Oh, but look at that thread. Yes, I made the thread card using my spiral punch. I feel so innovative.

A shot of the markers I used.


I actually used the E74 with the airbrush system to color the top metal edge of the tin. I love the way it colored the tin but left the metallic effect. I didn't get a good picture of the side of the tin to see the ribbon I wrapped around it. Sorry about that.

Details

Stamps: Fashionistabella
Paper: White, Perhaps by Basic Grey, Rose Red
Ink: AMuse Black, Copic Markers
Accessories: Buttons, Copic Airbrush System, Hinged Window Tin, Corner Rounder, Light Olive Grosgrain Ribbon

As you can see I have had a fun couple of days playing with some new toys. Thanks for taking a few minutes to look.