More challenges from CK Club on NSD! This one was put together by Autumn, who demonstrated a cool flower making technique. This challenge resulted in yours truly nabbing a super duper prize. I am so looking forward to getting my new goodies!!
I quickly cut the tag from blue card stock and made the flower per Autumn's instructions from simple light blue card stock that I stamped with a music sheet stamps. I chose to cut two sizes of petals rather than one and then attached a big pearl embellishment in the middle. I had a remnant of GlitterRitz'ed card stock from the Scrapfest, which I attached on a larger green piece, topped off with a ribbon that came with the cool Mom metal accent in the Mother's Day kit. The metal butterfly I pinned on the flower came in the same kit. I had some Doodlebug glitter floss and that was it. It will be great on mom's present!

On Saturday I was just going cray-zee with all the challenges - and occasionally I had to feed the guys too but they were wonderful, and so very understanding that mom was in a complete creating and mess making mode. I loved all the challenges and did quite a bunch so now it's time to post. I had a blast making this frame thinking of my sweet baby niece. It was super easy and for once I did not mind the fussy cutting.
A while ago when INVU closed I nabbed a couple of gorgeous books with high end wallpaper samples. When I saw Stacey's challenge I thought "how great, I get to play with flowers!" So I decoupaged my way around a simple Michael's frame with the wallpaper, then added a quick ruffled trim from Webster's and a metal butterfly accent that came in a Mother's Day kit. Done!

As I was reading this challenge late last night I was thinking "why don't I use my stamps anymore"? I think I like all my new Cricut cartridges so much that stamping does not seem as much as fun as it used to... or at least not for titles. What I have to remember is that I can use the stamps to emboss, add flocking or glitter... lots of possibilities! This was a great way to prompt me to make progress on Alex's baby album and I think (fingers crossed) that by the end of the week if I follow through on all the challenges I started yesterday i will have completed two albums and a few mini projects. Maybe it was just the kick in the pants that I needed!