AAA Birthday challenge #88 - flowers

Good morning lovely friends and welcome to August, although I'm not sure what happened to July!  I remember we had a heatwave and my birthday and that's about it haha!  It's hard to believe that another few weeks and we will be rolling into autumn (but I love autumn so that's ok).  

As it's the first of the month it means we have a brand new challenge over at AAA Birthday challenge. This month's theme is 'flowers' and we all love our flowers and pretty colours so I'm sure it will be a popular challenge. Our guest designer this month is Susan aka auntysue so please pop over to her blog and leave her some love.

Whenever I think of flowers I always reach for my Gina K Designs stash as she designs some beautiful floral images.  The flowers I used were actually left over from a previous project so that was a plus for me!  I think my card turned out so pretty and I hope you like it too.  

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

So as I said the flowers were already embossed, coloured and die cut and ready to go from a previous card I made here.  I cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and used master layouts 18 to cut out the stitched frame and inside rectangle and decided to emboss the inner rectangle to add some extra interest.  I die cut some leaves from green card and ink blended around the edges for some extra definition.  I cut a black mat layer using master layouts 2 and adhered the frame and inner rectangle onto this layer using liquid glue.  I adhered the flower in the lower left corner using foam squares and tucked the leaves around it using liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment onto white card using black ink and cut it out with the coordinating die (I also cut another 3 more to stack up).  The sentiment was added with liquid glue and I finished off with some black pearls.  I added some scrap white card behind the panel for stability and dimension and then this was adhered to the card base using double sided tape.  For the inside I cut the white panel and black mat layer using master layouts 2.  I embossed a thin strip of white card and added it to the bottom of the white panel and also added another flower and 1 leaf using liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink before adhering the panel to my card base using double sided tape.

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

Allsorts challenge - colours of summer or ATG

Atlantic hearts challenge - sketch 692

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - ATG with a twist of celebration

Creative Friday challenge - dry embossing

Cut It Up challenge - emboss it

Girlz and the Art of Letters challenge - letter F (flower)

Little Red Wagon challenge - one thing (one large flower, 1 sentiment)

Moving Along With The Times challenge - feminine 

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - stitch it (I used stitched dies)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - flowers with an optional mood board

Try It On Tuesday challenge - summer blooms

TGIF challenge - bonus inspiration challenge (I went with lots of white with a pop of purple)

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs.

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed. I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Gina K Designs - blossom trio 3d embossing folder, dies and colouring stencils

Gina K Designs - master layouts 18

Gina K Designs - master layouts 2

Gina K Designs - tapestry embossing folder

Gina K Designs - foliage fillers dies (for leaves)

Gina K Designs - courtyard silhouettes stamp & die set (for outside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - designer dots stamp (for inside sentiment) *scrapbook.com exclusive

Gina K Designs - gold, black & silver metallic pearl mix

Gina K Designs - ink pads - light lilac, medium lilac & dark lilac, marigold

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card (for card base)

Limetree Craft - 220gsm black card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

I have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my links as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

Just Us Girls challenge #828 - moodboard

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. I am here to share my card for this week's Just Us Girls challenge and it's our 'mood board week' and I am your hostess. It's such a pretty floral mood board and I'm sure you'll all have a lot of fun creating from it and I cannot wait to see all your gorgeous creations.

There are so many flowers and in so many colours in the mood board.  Obviously the flowers are the focal point but the colours and fun squares in the layout could also call to you.  I decided to go with multi coloured flowers on a dark background, which I don't do often enough, as I love the look.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting my navy panel to 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" and scored some lines horizontally using my score board (they are hard to see in the photos but are more obvious in real life).  I die cut the flowers from coloured card from my scraps bin and the centres from white and then ink blended the centres using a slightly darker ink.  I added the centres to the flowers with a tiny foam square.  I die the 'hello' word from gold mirror card and the shadow from vellum and adhered them together with liquid glue.  I heat embossed the sub sentiment onto the navy card using white embossing powder and used a sentiment strip die to cut it out.  I added some scrap white card behind the navy panel and adhered this to the card base using double sided tape.  I added the flowers to the panel again using a tiny foam square and both the sentiments were added with foam squares (cut really small).  I finished off with some gold pearls and also decided to add some white dots using my gelly roll pen to the flower centres and randomly in the background.  For the inside I cut a white panel 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" and added a piece of the navy card (although it looks black in the photo) to the bottom.  I die cut one more flower and added thatto the bottom left with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment using navy ink and then adhered the panel to the card base with double sided tape.  

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

Allsorts challenge - anything goes from the garden

Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge - sketch #686

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board

Crafter's Cafe challenge - ATG optional blooms

Creative Moments challenge - pastels or brights 

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - summer flowers

Triple B challenge - birds, butterflies, blooms optional mood board

Unicorn challenge - flowers

Such a great mood board and I cannot wait to see what you create. Please pop over to the challenge blog and leave some love for the rest of the design team. Our guest designer is Kellianne, so please leave her some love too.

I appreciate you stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Spellbinders - be bold blooms die set

Spellbinders - hello smile die set (I only used the hello)

*Gina K Designs - a little hello stamp (for outside sub-sentiment)

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips die set

Gina K Designs - layered carnation stamp (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - in the navy ink pad

Gina K Designs - gold, black and silver pearl mix

Limetree Craft - white 300gsm card (for card base)

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

WOW! - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Stampin' Up! - card stock vellum (retired)

all coloured card from my scraps bin

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

Stencil Fun IG Hop - June 26

Hello again friends; I am back to share my card for the Stencil Fun IG Hop organised by my lovely friend Jane. We a group of crafters who are determined to use their forgotten and neglected stencils. I'm definitely guilty of this; I have so many stencils but usually forget to reach for them so this hop is perfect for me. The theme is always anything goes but we will have an optional theme to use if we want to. This month's optional theme is 'flowers', which I'm sure will be very popular, and I'm excited to see what everyone has made.

I used a new-ish stencil from Uniko from their ink & flip line called 'retro flowers'.  These stencils are so clever and create the most amazing designs.  I went with a purple and teal colour combo and I think it turned so pretty.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the flowers:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" as I knew I wanted a strip to use on the inside of my card.  I used 2 shades of purple ink and 2 shades of teal ink to stencil the background and it's such a pretty colour combo.  I used a nesting rectangle die set to cut out my panel 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" and also a smaller rectangle to cut out the centre 1 1/2 x 2 3/4".  I added a thin black layer to both rectangles. So that the centre wouldn't dip I die cut a scrap piece of card using the smaller rectangle and adhered it in the gap using double sided tape.  I added some scrap white card behind the smaller rectangle and then lined up it over the background so that the pattern would match up.  It really gives a fun look I think.  I stamped the sentiment onto white card using black ink and used my paper trimmer to cut it out; I also added a thin black layer to this too.  I adhered the sentiment across the centre of the smaller panel using a mix of foam squares and liquid glue.  The panel was adhered to the card base using double sided tape.  I finished off with some tiny black pearls.  For the inside I cut a white panel 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and added the left over strip of the stencilled background to the bottom with double sided tape; I also added a thin piece of black card above it.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink and adhered the panel to the card base with double sided tape.  I've just realised that I forgot the black layer on the inside panel but I think it still looks ok!

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

AAA Colourful challenge - colour board #28

Allsorts challenge - anything from the garden

As You Like It challenge - favourite sentiment (has to be happy birthday as 90% of my cards are birthday cards)

Aud Sentiments challenge - monochrome and/or birthday + sentiment

Colour Dare challenge - #708

Craft Rocket challenge - birthday

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - summer flowers

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - add a sentiment

Stencil Fun challenge - use a stencil optional theme butterflies

Tic Tac Toe challenge - stencil, free, black/gold

Triple B challenge - birds, butterflies and/or blooms

Unicorn challenge - flowers

We hope you will be inspired by our Stencil Fun Instagram Hop and will pop over and check out all the gorgeous cards along the way. If you would like to join us please visit my Instagram page or use the hashtag #stencilfunJune2026 and we will find you.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend. 

Lots of love

card supplies:

Uniko - ink & flip stencil: layering retro flowers

Uniko - floral vines stamp (for outside sentiment)

Uniko - pure florals: cosmos stamp (for inside sentiment)

Hero Arts - precision layering A2 A die set

*Gina K Designs - ink pads - blue lagoon, ocean mist, wild wisteria, light lilac

Gina K Designs - black, gold & silver pearl mix

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

Just Us Girls #823 - DT card

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. I am back to share my card for this week's Just Us Girls challenge and it's Word Week and Lisa has chosen 'flowers'.  I'm sure this is going to be a really popular week and I cannot wait to see all your gorgeous creations. 

I wanted to use another of my new embossing folder bundles from Gina K Designs and even though my stencilling went a little bit awry in places I think it still turned out great.  I don't use lilacs often enough but I really like this colour combo.  I hope you like it too.

Here is my card:

Plus a closer look at the details:

I decorated the inside:

I tried to capture the shimmer:

I began by embossing my white panel with the gorgeous floral embossing folder; it looked so pretty just white but I knew I wanted to add some colour.  I used the coordinating layering stencils to colour the flowers and leaves and I went with a pop of yellow for the flower centres.  I trimmed the panel down to 4" x 5 1/4" and added some scrap white card behind before adhering it to my card base. Unfortunately the stencil shifted on the smaller flower so I embossed and die cut another one, coloured it with the stencils and added it over top with foam squares.  I stamped and die cut the sentiment, using the same colour inks for the larger word and adhered it with foam squares.  I finished off with some black pearls and shimmer pen for a bit of extra sparkle.  For the inside I cut another white panel and added a strip of the embossed background to the bottom with double sided tape.  I ink blended some colour over the embossing with a very light hand and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I added the panel to the card base with double sided tape. 

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

613 Avenue Create challenge - ATG optional twist May flowers

Aud Sentiments challenge - embossing and/or flowers + sentiment

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - use an EF optional theme balloons (the flowers are a 3D EF)

Color Dare challenge - #703 (I used purple, green and yellow)

CRAFT challenge - birthday (happy 17th birthday CRAFT challenge)

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - ATG optional twist flowers for mom

Die Cut Divas challenge - celebrations (birthday)

Do-All Creative challenge - ATG optional flowers as an eye catcher

Little Red Wagon challenge - May flowers

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - use craft dies

Stencil Fun challenge - use a stencil optional theme see thru it (I used layering stencils on the flowers)

I'm sure this will be a popular challenge as we all love our flowers don't we?  I cannot wait to see what you create.  Please pop over to the challenge blog and leave some love for the rest of the design team.  

I appreciate you stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card supplies:

*Gina K Designs - blossom trio bundle (currently sold out)

Gina K Designs - modern greetings stamp & die

Gina K Designs - springy sketches stamp (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - black, gold & silver metallic pearl mix

Gina K Designs - ink pads - light, medium & dark lilac, marigold, light spruce

Gina K Designs - ink cube - medium spruce

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Tonic Studios - nuvo glitter gloss shimmer pen

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

Patterned Paper IG Hop - March 26

Hello friends, welcome back to my little blog. I'm here today to share my card for this month's Patterned Paper Party Instagram Hop. Do you love patterned paper? Do you have a huge stash that needs using? Well so do we and it's time to get it used! We will be hopping on the 20th of each month to share our ideas. We will definitely be creating cards, but maybe sometimes tags, ATCs, gift bags/boxes, mini albums and scrapbook pages too. We want our patterned paper to be used.

The theme is always 'anything goes' but each month we will have an optional twist that can be used if you like; this month the twist is 'flowers', which is such an easy theme, so grab your patterned papers and join in the fun.  I have this gorgeous paper pad from Gina K Designs that I wanted to use but I was torn which papers to use so I picked out a few to try and ending up loving them all so to solve my problem I made two cards lol!  I used a postage die and filled the spaces with the patterned paper and I think they turned out so pretty.  I hope you like them too.

Here are my cards:

Here is Card 1:

and here is Card 2:

A closer look at the gorgeous paper on card 1:

Plus I decorated the insides:

I began by die cutting two of the postage dies from white card.  Also in the same die set there is a window frame die that cuts out the frame but also the rectangles and these fit perfectly in the postage die so I used the frame to cut my patterned paper plus an extra white layer for each piece to give them a bit more stability.  I adhered the rectangles to the postage piece with liquid glue.  For the lighter papers and die cut a mat layer from a peachy coloured card and for the darker papers I cut a mat layer from green paper (that also came from the paper pad) and I adhered them together with liquid glue.  I didn't want to hide too much of the papers so I just grabbed two sentiment stamps/dies and gold heat embossed the sentiment onto white card for the lighter papers and white heat embossed onto the green paper for the darker papers.  I cut both sentiments out with the coordinating dies.  I also cut an extra 3 layers for the sentiment so that I could stack them out.  I adhered the sentiments with liquid glue.  I finished off with some gold pearls on the lighter card and pink pearls on the darker card.  I added some scrap white card behind each panel and adhered them to the card bases with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut a stitched rectangle from white card and the mat layer was cut with the peach card for card 1 and the green paper for card 2.  I added a strip of the paper to the bottom of each panel with liquid glue and stamped a sentiment (using a similar colour ink pad) to the centre of each panel.  The panels were then adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  Do you have a favourite card?  I love them both but I think the peachy coloured one just pips it for me.  

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - birthdays

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board

Daisy Chain challenge - flowers

Girlz Creative Crafts challenge - flowers

Girlz Rebel challenge - pearls

Love Those Pretty Papers challenge - use your patterned papers optional theme circles

Paper Rocks Scissors - use papers and/or scissors 

We hope you will be inspired by our Patterned Paper Party IG Hop and will pop over and check out all the gorgeous creations along the way. If you would like to join us please visit my Instagram page or use the hashtag #patternedpaperpartyhopmarch2026 and we will find you.

Thanks for stopping by and take care.

Lots of love

card supplies:

Gina K Designs supplies:

watercolour floral paper pad

master layouts 11

master layouts 2

elegant thoughts stamp & die (for card 2)

graceful greetings stamp & die (for card 1)

birthday cheer stamp (for inside sentiments)

sandy beach & fresh asparagus ink pads

warm glow card stock (came in an old kit, don't think it's available now)

black, gold & silver pearl mix

rainbow pearl mix

other supplies used:

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Cosmic Shimmer - bright gold detail embossing powder

WOW! - super fine opaque bright white embossing powder

Versamark - embossing and watermark ink pad

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x