Flourishes Floral Finesse Challenge

It's almost time for another Flourishes release! In anticipation of the release, Flourishes is hosting a Floral Finesse Challenge. The challenge is to use your favorite flower color as inspiration for your card. As you can tell from my blog's name, I love violets. I have them in my garden from fall through spring. And the first Flourishes set I purchased was Sweet Violets. So I had no problem choosing the inspiration for this card. I colored the violets with Prismacolor pencils. I gave my card a vintage feel with the trim, and what a find that button was! When I finished the card, it reminded me of my grandmother. I think my love of gardening comes from my grandparents who grew beautiful flowers and had such a neat little green house.


While my violets are struggling right now in the cold, they still have some blooms along with a the camellias (of course, I have to have camellias--my given name is Camellia). The violets' smiling faces make me happy when I look out the kitchen window.

Cammie

Supplies:
Stamps: Sweet Violets (Flourishes)
Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento)
Paper: Plum Pudding, Vintage Cream (PTI)
Other: Trim (Wrights). ribbon (Hobby Lobby),Button -Plum Pudding Vintage Buttons(PTI)

Flower Fairy Christmas Tags

Good Monday morning. How are your holiday preparations progressing? I haven't finished my shopping. I still need to find gifts for my sister and a few for my husband. His main gift is a new driver that he ordered.
I needed to make some more Christmas tags since I gave my sister all that I had made. Yesterday I finished my Christmas cards, did a little more Christmas decorating, and then made a few tags using these delightful images from The Graphics Fairy.

I have always been fascinated with fairies. I even searched for a fairy ring in Ireland as I explained here. After printing the images, I used Nestabilities to cut the images and the bases. I aged the tags using Antique Linen (Ranger).A Gelly Roll pen adds shimmer to some of the berries. The sentiments are from Mixed Messages, Mega Mixed Messages, and Signature Christmas (all PTI) and stamped in Pure Poppy ink (PTI). The holly was cut from gold glittered card stock from Hobby Lobby.

Thanks for stopping by,
Cammie

Sugar-Coated Saturday

Sugar-coated trees. Cotton-flocked shrubs. Our first snow of the season fell this morning. Although paved areas are clear now and the ground is peaking through its white blanket, the woods are a wintry delight, while I'm cozy inside with one cat curled in a chair and the other patiently perched on his table, watching Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal dine at the snow covered bird feeder. A perfect day to finish the Christmas decorating and to make some cards.

This card is for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge. This week's host, Maki Jones, challenges us to make a clean simple card. I love this Flourishes stamp, Winter Bouquet, which I colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cammie

Supplies:

Stamps:Winter Bouquet (Flourishes), Vintage Labels (PTI)

Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento)

Paper: Vintage Cream, Berry Sorbet, Holiday Vintage Prints(PTI)

Other: Holly Punch,Glitter (Martha Stewart), Craft Board(Ellen Hutson), Satin Ribbon (Hobby Lobby)