Thoughts of You

Beautiful Blossoms challenge starts today,
the challenge that is all about blooms!  As always there is a pretty
inspiration floral to inspire but any floral is invited! 

I had fun stamping and coloring this card with Copic's and
using a pretty Simon Says stamp set Vintage Garden.
I stamped two of the four floral images in this set.

The set also includes several  large sentiments, one of which

I used on this card.  A Poppystamps Nordic butterfly was added
left over from another project.

We would love to see YOUR florals over at Beautiful Blossoms!

Entering the following challenges:

Allsorts #858 ..... Thinking of You~Get Well~Sympathy
Aud Sentiments  #341 .... Thinking of You + Sentiment

Poppies

 It's time for a new challenge at Beautiful Blossoms and we have a pretty
board for inspiration, but you can create anything as long as it's a floral!

I kept my card very clean adding nothing more then the stamped image itself,

I like it though, it appeals to me 'clean!

The image is a VERY old JustRite stamp set 'Poppies'. 
I never 'purge' my stuff unless I know I will never use it again
so I was happy to ink this one up again.  I just wished I had moved the
poppies sentiment down a bit lower, but once stamped it was too late!!

After stamping and coloring I die cut it with a Cottage Cutz 
Nested Stitched Rectangle.

I grow poppies in in my own gardens, here are a few pictures of them:

So, get out your flowers and come on over to Beautiful Blossoms

and join in our floral fun!!

Entering the following challenges:
We Love Stamping ..... Summer Blooms

Inkspirational # 374 .... Gardens
Elliebelle's Garden Party #18 .... Anything From A Garden
Time Out .... Cas~Floral are my Pick 2

Crocus In July

It's Beautiful Blossom challenge time
and we have a mood board for inspiration. 

I know it July and the Crocus has long since bloomed but I had this image

done and colored and it seemed to work perfectly for this challenge

and who doesn't love a House Mouse??

The stamp was purchased from Spellbinders House Mouse Bouquet for You (2023).

I left a sentiment off for now, making it useable for any celebration.

We would love to see YOUR floral creations at Beautiful Blossoms.

Happy Birthday Rose

It's time for a new challenge at Beautiful Blossoms and we have a
beautiful mood board for inspiration!
You can however, create anything as long as blooms are 
your focal point!

 A long while back I saw a beautiful Rose stencil from
Simon Says Stamp and it just had to become part of my

stencil collection!  I chose to go with the more peachy/coral colors
of the mood board and used Altenew inks

Pink Pearl~Coral Bliss~Heart Beat~Hunter Green.

This was such an easy stencil, quick, but looks amazing.

I can't wait to make more in different colors!

Come and join us at Beautiful Blossoms with YOUR blooms!

Entering the following challenges:
Fab N' Funky .... Summer Flowers
Allsorts #851 .... Anything Goes From The Garden

Birthday Wishes

Beautiful Blossoms has a beautiful inspiration photo for May.
I love it as May was my Mom's birthday month and
Lily of The Valley is the May flower  and I always made
her a lily of the valley card for her birthday.
She will have been gone eight years this year and not a day goes by
that I don't miss her!
You can create any kind of blooms, this is just for inspiration!

So, naturally I had to create a Lily of the Valley card using an older die

from Tutti Designs.  After die cutting I colored it in with my Copics.

The underneath piece is a leftover negative from an order I had

to make a dozen cards for, and thought it would make the perfect backdrop
for my flowers.  The sentiment is Altenew.

Hope to see you over at Beautiful Blossoms,

check out all the pretty inspiration from the Design Team while there.

Entering the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon #858 .... May Flowers
Simon Wednesday Challenge .... Use Dies
613 Avenue Create .... May Flowers

First Class Mail

There is a new challenge starting today at Beautiful Blossoms
and we have a pretty floral mood board for inspiration,
but you can create any color floral you want. 

I used a postage wildflower stencil from Waffle Flower and inked it
with all Altenew inks.  The sentiment and postage stamps are also
part of the Waffle Flower postage series.  I stenciled in all pinks
but you can stencil in many colors for a pretty summer mix!

Come on over to Beautiful Blossoms to see all the
beautiful inspiration from the team!

Entering the following fun challenges:
Allsorts  #847.... In The Garden

Daffodil

It's Beautiful Blossom challenge time and we have a beautiful Spring
mood board for inspiration! 

You can always create anything floral but this gorgeous board had me
from the minute I saw it!  I used an old Flourishes stamp set

A Year In Flowers 1, this is a pretty set with other flowers, Pansy, Crocus,

and Primrose. Of course it has the names and months like I have stamped on my tag.

Not sure of the paper as it was a single sheet and to look through all my

many papers to find it would take me at least a day lol!

We would love to have you join us at Beautiful Blossoms!!

Entering the following challenges:

Daisy Chain .... Flowers
Make My Monday .... All Tied Up

Crafty Calendar .... Spring
The Paper Shelter .... Flowers~Twine~Pretty Papers

It's Your Day

It's time for our challenge at Beautiful Blossoms and we
have a gorgeous bouquet for inspiration.
Doesn't it make you long for Spring?
I know it certainly does me!! 

For my card I used a never been used before stamp and die set I bought a few years
ago from Sunny Studio's Spring Bouquet.  It's a layered stamp for
three different Spring flowers, easy peasy.  The flower pot is 
The Greetery Pretty Pot die. it's hard to tell but the pot has a bit of detail

on it.  The sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress.
The ink I used is all Altenew.  The under die is from Cottage Cutz
and I had used some 'powders' spattered on it.

So, get out your pretty blooms and come and join us at Beautiful Blossoms!

Entering the following challenges:

Make My Monday #271 .... Use 2 Dies
Craft Rocket #133 .... Flowers
Ellibelle's Garden Party #12 ... Anything In A Garden

I Spy With My Little Eye .... Something You Love  (flowers)

You Bring Joy

The fifteenth of every month brings us to a new challenge at
Beautiful Blossoms, always with a 'mood' board to inspire
but you can create anything with floral  blossoms
as that is what we are all about.

There were some gorgeous colors in this mood board to choose from or work with

and I used a LDRS Joyful Blooms stamp and stencil to create my card.
I used mostly all Altenew inks and one Simon Says ink for my colors.
Once all the stenciling was done I went one step further and

ran my panel thru my Big Shot with a The Greetery Aida Cloth texture plate,

which gave my card a completely different look, which I happen to love.

Come on over to Beautiful Blossoms and check out all the pretty

inspiration from the Design Team and have some 'floral' fun with us!!

Entering the following challenges:
Dragonfly Dreams ... Floral
Art Nudge .... Inspiration photo (bottom left)

Beautiful Blossoms December 2025

Hello friends, here we are in the middle of December and it is hard to believe
that another year is almost to the end.  At Beautiful Blossoms we have another
floral challenge for you starting today and a beautiful bouquet of flowers for inspiration. 

Last year (winter of 2024) I purchased a set of Katy Sue 3D designs.
They come on a sheet that are numbered that you punch out and
use pop ups in-between each layer.
They are stunning IRL, wish you could really see all the details.
They are also a bit addictive, as soon as I created the three I did I ordered
more, which will or have already shown up on my blog.

When I created these I put each on a different color card base just to change them up a bit.

Here is a look at how the 3D is, but they sure are much more beautiful IRL!

So, come on over to Beautiful Blossoms and have some 
floral fun with us, you don't have to use our colors,

any colors are okay as long as you have florals on your project!

Beautiful Blossoms November 2025

Hello friends, here we are again with a new monthly challenge
at Beautiful Blossoms and a pretty bouquet of flowers for inspiration. 

If you have visited me the last few months you have probably seen me mention
that I purchased some 'sketchy' Floral stamps back in February.  Well, this is
the last set of them from Paper Rose Sketchy Floral 'Hello'
I stamped the image in Could 9 ink and then colored it with a mix of
Olo (my favorite), Copics and Altenew alcohol markers.  The sentiment is
part of the mentioned set above.  The background paper is
Honey Bee Gingham Galore Fall.  To finish I added a few gems for bling.

We would love to see your pretty florals over at Beautiful Blossoms!

Beautiful Blossoms October 2025

 Hello friends, look at this pretty bight and colorful inspiration
board for our October Beautiful Blossoms monthly challenge.
Doesn't it just cheer you up?

You can always use any color floral or be inspired by the colors
like I was!  I bought a few new floral stamps back on February

(because I didn't have many...hahaha, that is too funny)!!

But I saw this new Paper Rose release with the Sketchy stamps and

they had my name all over them!  This one is Sketchy Floral 'Thanks'
and I purchased them from Ecstasy a newer online shop to me I discovered last year, they 
have fabulous sales!  I colored my image in with Olo's and stamped a

sentiment from Spellbinders Garden Favorites stamped in Altenew Azurite ink.
I left it as is, so simple to mail with the cost of postage now.

Hope to see you at our pretty floral challenge at Beautiful Blossoms! 

Happy Birthday To You

Hello friends, it's time for our fun challenge at Beautiful Blossoms
where we are all about blossoms! 

We always have a pretty floral mood board but you can create any color as
long as flowers are you main focus.

I went with in a very different direction this time around using a beautiful

wildflower A2  card front from Picket Fence.  I added a foiled sentiment
gifted to me from one of our prize winners.

Very simple but gorgeous just the same!

Hope to see your pretty blooms at Beautiful Blossoms!

Beautiful Blossoms August 2025

Hello friends, it is once again time for our monthly challenge at
Beautiful Blossoms where blooms should be the focus of
your card.  As always we have a beautiful inspiration  board
but you can create anything floral.

I had to let the vase inspire me as who can resist a beautiful vase of pretty sunflowers?

I purchased this stamp set way back in February when it was first released from

Paper Rose (Sketchy Handpicked Bouquet) knowing exactly where I wanted to use it!
I stamped it on a cream color card stock with  Cloud 9 solid back ink, it has become my favorite
new black ink. I used my Olo alcohol markers to color.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set mentioned above and inked in Dew Drop Rich Cocoa.  The bit of designer paper peeking out
is a very old somewhat textured Stampin Up paper.  This was a rather large stamp so I had
to break down and make an A6 card, not my usual A2.

We would love to see YOUR florals at
Beautiful Blossoms!!

Entering the following fun challenges:

NBUS ....Never Before Used Schtuff
2 Sisters On The Blog .... Flowers In A Vase
We Love Stamping .... Flowers

Beautiful Blossoms July 2025

Hello friends, it is once again time for a new challenge at 
Beautiful Blossoms where we are all about flowers! We have a basket full of blooms for
inspiration but you can create any floral you want.

It's July and it is lily blooming time at my house so I went with a bright
orange lily using an old Flourishes Siberian Iris stamp set
(obviously I never get rid of anything lol).

Iris are one of my favorite flowers in my garden so it was no hardship to

stamp this image and color it up.  I stamped with Cloud 9 ink
then colored mostly with Copics.  The sentiment is from Spellbinders Garden Favorites

stamp set as it was sitting on my desk from another project.  The gingham paper is

Honey Bee Gingham Galore Fall (it works well for summer too)!!
I used a round corner punch on all the corners.

Hope to see YOU at our pretty Beautiful Blossoms challenge!

So Very Thankful

Hello friends, we have pretty vase of flowers for inspiration
that is perfect for our June/July  monthly challenge at 
Beautiful Blossoms
but you can create any colors as long as it is floral! 

I went with the inspiration colors of the red, white, and blue.
I used mostly dies for this card starting with the background
Waffle Flower Lacey Layers 2, die cutting a Doodlebug Yankee Doodle paper.
I die cut a Memory Box (2014) Blushing Bouquet then colored in the red 
and blue flowers with Copics.
Because it was a cold and dreary day when making this (in March) I
added some cheerful bits of PinkFresh Studios (Glacier) bling to each flower center.
The sentiment is Easy Expressions from The Ton.  The eyelet die is
Cottage Cutz.

Come and join us for some pretty 'floral' fun at Beautiful Blossoms.

Every Flower Is A Soul

 Hello friends, we have a new and beautiful mood board at
Beautiful Blossoms where we are all about BLOOMS.
You can create any color but just keep flowers as your focus!

First card:

I used an Altenew Sweet Spring Stencil and Altenew
inks.  this is only a 2 step stencil so it was a little difficult to get the three colors in without overlapping on each other.
I used a Spellbinders Garden Favorites sentiment and a few PinkFresh Studio gems.  The die is PinkFresh Studio Mini Slimline Essential Bundle.

Second card:
This is the first I created but decided to do another as I 
wasn't quite satisfied with it.

This card kind of through me for a loop as first of all I thought the stencil
I used was Roses until I went to list it and saw it is actually Peonies.
It is a Hero Arts 4 layer stencil that I used Altenew and PinkFresh Studio inks
in purples and orange colors for the florals.  I am wondering if I used lighter and a dark color if
it would show more detail.  The sentiment strip is Stampendous and I added
a few purple sequins for a filler.

Come have some floral fun with us at Beautiful Blossoms.

Beautiful Blossoms April 2025

 Hello friends, it's mid-month and that means it's time for our new
challenge at Beautiful Blossoms.
We have this pretty inspiration board but you can create 
anything as long as florals are your focus!

I used a Pink Fresh Studio blanket stitched circle for my image.
This die cuts out the inner circle and leaves the outer blanket stich on
the card front.  Once I added my images 'Graphic 45 Flight of Fancy' Rub-ons,
I popped the circle up and placed back within the negative space.
The sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress ink and die.

Hope to see YOU over at Beautiful Blossoms!

Beautiful Blossoms March 2025

Hello friends, Beautiful Blossoms has a new inspiration board
to hopefully entice you to join our challenge this month! 
I loved it as I used to have a vase exactly like the one in the photo.
You can however use any colors as long as you make your
focal point on your card BLOSSOMS.

I used for the first time a Sizzix Free Style Floral die
cut from white scrap paper and colored in with inks and various
alcohol markers from Copic, Altenew and Olo.

Once arranged my flowers were popped up for dimension.
I added a green vellum piece and a paper doily from my stash,
a few gems and a sentiment from The Ton Easy Expressions.

Come on over and see all the pretty florals from the design team at
Beautiful Blossoms!!

Entering the following fun challenges:
Simon Wednesday challenge.... A Bit o Green
Ellibelle's Garden Party .... Anything In a Garden
Tic Tac Toe .... Flowers~Spring~Dimension

I Spy With MY Little Eye #23 .... No Designer Paper

Beautiful Blossoms February 2025

 Hello friends, today is the new challenge at
Beautiful Blossoms
where we want to see all your pretty blooms.
We have a pretty and colorful inspiration photo
but you can create any color as long as blooms are you focal point.

Do you remember when Flourishes had stamps?  I have always loved their stamps
and used to do a lot of their challenges and won many a stamp
from them, let alone purchase some.
That is what I have used for my card today, a Flourishes Garden Picks stamp and sentiment.
I stamped on the Spellbinders Hemstitch Oval.

Background paper is Prima Nature Lover.  A few gold gems were added.

I tried to stay within the color range but not sure how successful I was,
but I do like how it turned out!  Make sure to come and visit us at

Beautiful Blossoms and see all the pretty flowers there, it's like a breath of Spring air!