Floral Frenzy

The May challenge at Hobby Art is Floral Frenzy so I was going to use my poppy stamps but I can't find them anywhere - time for a clean up I think! So I've used this bear from the Flower Bear set and used this sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Hobby Art Flower Bear stamp set
Hobby Art Scene-it Windows stamp set
Dovecraft Basics DSP
Cuttlebug Roses Embossing Folder
Craftwork Cards butterfly sentiment

I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:
Ruby's Rainbow Challenge - Blossom & Butterflies
Digi Choosday - Pretty In Purple
Melonheadz Friends - Flowers Everywhere
Stamp & Create - May Flowers

Cardz 4 Guyz Halloween Challenge

It's Tuesday so time for another challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz and this week we want to see your Halloween creations. For my card I've followed this sketch from Meljen Designs

I don't have much in the way of Halloween stash but this cute image is a CC Designs stamp called Vampy Hansel which I won from My Mum's Craft Shop blog a couple of years ago so he tends to come out of hiding every year. The papers are from the Bazzill All Hallows Eve paper pack and the spiders are a memory box die. I only have one small piece of the diamond paper (it's the reverse of the lighter paper) so I carefully cut it into pieces to fit the sketch so I'm also entering this into Pixie's Snippets Playground

I'm also entering this into the the Ruby's Rainbow challenge which is to use a freebie or prize

Ruffled Flower

I just love this Hero Arts Ruffled Flower stamp. It makes a great background as well as a main image. I thought of it as soon as I saw that the challenge at The Technique Twist was 3D Paper Piecing. I think an image would have been more true to the technique but tome was short so this didn't really need too much thinking about. My twist is that I've stamped on vellum rather that paper. The white embossing really stands out against the bright pink vellum

Here Arts Ruffled Flower
Versamark and white embossing powder
Stampin Up's Oval all and matching punches
Sheena Douglas Grand Floral embossing folder

I'm also entering this into the following challenges:
Lia Stampz - No Patterned Paper
Ruby's Rainbow - Stamping
The Sisterhood Of Crafters - Monochromatic