There's a Brand New Challenge in Town! Beautiful Blossoms

Hello, my friends!

How exciting! A Brand New Challenge to begin the New Year!

HERE'S THE LOW-DOWN:

Beautiful Blossoms is a fun "mood-board-inspired" monthly challenge which features Flowers as the main focus. The Mood Board is a starting point. 

You do not have to follow the theme of the Mood Board, but you do need to use it as inspiration.

You may enter up to 8 projects in our challenge. Projects are truly anything goes as long as florals are the main emphasis, including paper crafting, home decor, apparel, etc.

Details are on the blog. Hope to see you there! 

I was inspired by the warmth of earthy brown tones, and the icy-clear blueness of promises to come.

On today's card are several NBUS items - the Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Flowers stamp, the Anna Griffin Die Set, and the "You're Delightful!" sentiment from My Sentiments Exactly.

Stamped with Acorn VersaFine Clair and heat set with clear detail embossing powder, these "beautiful blossoms" were colored with Copic Markers. There are very few pieces to this pretty card, including a dry embossed, slightly distressed die cut:

Because I wanted to use a paper clip embellishment on the sentiment, a little something was needed to help with dimension to keep the tag all one "level":

The image is quite pretty in person because of the heat embossing:

The finished card uses Craftwell's Modern Stripe embossing folder.

Looking forward to seeing your Beautiful Blossoms projects each month in the challenge! 

Products: Simon Says Stamp "Beautiful Flowers 2", "You're Delightful!" sentiment from My Sentiments Exactly, VersaFine Clair Acorn & Pinecone inks,  Walnut Distress Ink, Clear Detail Embossing Powder, Copic Markers, Anna Griffin Ornate Slimline Concentric Die Set AG-1248H-AS, Taylored Exp Banner Stacklets 1, Craftwell Modern Stripe embossing folder

Supporting these fine challenges:

1. World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #1 AG DT 2/15
2. As You Like It (Jan 12) Favorite Reason to Send a Card (I enjoy sending "thinking of you" type cards because they can be used for sympathy, cheering up, get well, thank you, a reminder someone is thought of, and just because) 2-25
3. A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge #1 AG 2/1
4. C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #663 Something New (1st entry) (the Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Flowers stamp, the Anna Griffin Die Set, and the "You're Delightful!" sentiment from My Sentiments Exactly - all new to me) 1/18 (check weekly and monthly)
5. The Outlawz Challenges Twisted Thursday (Jan 12) theme: It's New To Me (the Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Flowers stamp, the Anna Griffin Die Set, and the "You're Delightful!" sentiment from My Sentiments Exactly - all new to me) Feb 1.
6. Classic Design Challenge #1 AG 2/1
7. Sweet Stampin (Jan 7) theme "New" 1/20 (listed week after sep post) (the Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Flowers stamp, the Anna Griffin Die Set, and the "You're Delightful!" sentiment from My Sentiments Exactly - all new to me or NBUS)
8. Allsorts Challenge #711 AG with Winter Blues 1-20 THANK YOU, BRENDA!

Stamping Hugs,