Cards for all seasons IG Hop - Week 11

Hello friends; I hope you're having a great week so far. I'm back today to share my card for this week's Cards for All Seasons IG hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly. We are now on Week 11 and our theme is 'garden party'.  So think anything in the garden i.e. flowers, bees, watering can etc.  A really fun theme for you this week and I can't wait to see what sparks your imagination.

I had so many ideas running through my head for this challenge but finally settled on creating my own flower arch .  It was a lot of die cutting but I think it turned out really sweet.  I hope you like it too. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the flower arch:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting my white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and firstly masked a strip at the bottom and ink blended over some green ink.  At the top I used a cloud stencil to create a soft sky which fades into white at the top.  I die cut the picket fence from white card and added that over the join of the grass and sky with liquid glue.  At this point I decided to cut down my panel ever so slightly and it ended up being 3 3/4" x 5".  I used 2 arch dies from a nesting set to cut out a thin arch from white card and also die cut lots of flowers and leaves using coloured card from my scraps bin.  I added the flowers and leaves onto the arch with liquid glue.  I then adhered the arch on top of the picket fence with foam squares, which I cut into tiny strips.  I decided to add a few more flowers and leaves on each side of the arch and added most with liquid glue but raised the top one on foam squares.  I die cut a butterfly twice from vellum and adhered them together just down the body with liquid glue.  This was then adhered to the top right corner with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment at the bottom of the panel with black ink and as a finishing touch adding some sparkling gems to the flower centres and the body of the butterfly.  I used some scrap white card behind my panel for stability and dimension and added it onto my card base with double sided tape.  It is so sparkly in real life but hard to capture on my photos.  For the inside I cut another panel 3 3/4" x 5" and again ink blended the green ink and add a sky with the cloud stencil using blue ink.  I had a small part of the picket fence left over so adhered that to the left side of the join with liquid glue and also die cut some extra leaves and flowers and added them on top with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment at the bottom of the panel for a change in black ink.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - ATG (it's their 16th birthday celebration challenge)

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - fancy..... flower arch

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie challenge - pretty flowers

Little Red Wagon challenge - friendship

Make My Monday challenge - garden/gardening

Simply Create Too challenge - anything for a woman

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Stencil Fun challenge - must use a stencil optional bouquets

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - flowers

Word Art Wednesday challenge - ATG

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; please use the hashtag #cfascardhop2025 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you.

I'll be back in the morning with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so I hope you will pop back and check it out. Until then thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Spellbinders - mini blooms & sprigs die set

Gina K Designs - picket fence die

Gina K Designs - ink pads - ocean mist & jelly bean green

MFT - mini cloud edges stencil - retired

Mama Elephant - B2B arches die set

Clearly Besotted - happy everything stamp (for butterfly) - retired

Clearly Besotted - flower friends sentiments (for outside sentiment) - retired

Clearly Besotted - feeling sentimental stamp (for inside sentiment) - retired

Stampin' Up - cardstock vellum - retired

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - not currently available - they do have 300gsm bright white card available here

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Crystal gems from Little Things From Lucy's Cards - sadly now closed

coloured card from scraps bin