Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge - 6 May 2011

Another fortnight has come and gone and we had a small but wonderful selection of cards for the challenge for the last fortnight.  Thank you all so much for taking part.  The challenge this fortnight is called "shower of flowers".  Well I am sure that this topic will please so many people.

Here is the card that I have made for the challenge.  Unfortunately I hadn't planned on my project being this colour but all I will say is that me and acrylic paints are a not match made in Heaven and using some at the week-end made me poorly!!  In the end I decided to go for a totally different colour scheme and picked shades of purple.  I used one of my new Crafty Purple Frog images called Eglatine in Dawn - isn't she just gorgeous?  Shall I tell you something - the wonderful Amy has made some more decoupage and pyromage sheets and they can be found here and I think I'll have a splurge at the week-end.  Don't blame me if you get addicted though!!

The backing papers I have used are mainly DCWV along with scraps from the scraps box and purple mirri card with all the edges inked as per normal.  One backing piece I decided to keep plain card but when I stuck it down but it just didn't look right so out came my tapestry stamps and Seed D's to decoate the edge with more flowers, scrolls and greenery.  The card is finished off with with die-cut flowers from a booked which were inked with Tim Holtz's Milled Lavender and Dusty Concord Distress ink pads and the edges were rubbed over with Cosmic Shimmer glitter glue and purple square brads in the centre.  The final embellishments were a punched piece of cards cut with a swirl X-cut punch, purple lace, organza ribbon and the most gorgeous brad I've ever seen - all purple and glittery and from Papermania's Henbury Lane.

It would be lovely if you could come along and see the creations from the rest of the Design Team and try to play along with this fortnight's challenge.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

ABC Design Team - April showers bring May flowers

Aly's Sunday - Shaped cards

Cute and Girly - Anything goes

Pollycraft Monday - Anything goes

Kaboodle Doodles - It's the B's knees - brads

Try it on Tuesday - Something old, something new (old is the tapestry and See D's stamps and new is the Crafty Purple Frog image and the ribbon)

Top Tip Tuesday - Open challenge

Digital Tuesday - Ribbon and lace

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - Cute and girly

Paperplay - Show us your style

Do You Stack Up? - Purple

Pixie Dust - Under the sea - hope this mermaid is OK

Southern Girls - Let's get girly

Gingerloft - Under the sea - hope this mermaid is OK

Paper Romance - Use your favourite die - I like using ones that I can make flowers with

Shelly's Images - Terrifically Thrilling Thursday - Girly or sweet

Craft Your Passion - Anything goes

Inspire me Fridays - Anything goes

Emerald Faeries - Anything goes

Delicious Doodles - Fantasy and mythical

Bling it On - Photo inspiration

Divas by Designs - Anything goes - wishing all the Design Team all the best in their new venture with this Challenge Blog.