April Showers Bring May Flowers

The May Challenge over at Scrap It Girl is "May Flowers". Use flowers on your creations, cards, layouts, home decor--just pile on the flowers! Make sure you stop by Scrap It Girl and link up your creation! The prize package will be from me and it is shown at the bottom of this post.

I've been so anxious to share my project that I made for this challenge. 

It is a Mixed Media Canvas piece.  

(click on picture to see larger)

All supplies are from Close To My Heart unless otherwise stated:

Simple Pleasures Paper Pack (retired)

Twilight, Desert Sand, Cocoa, Creme Brulee, Olive and Vanilla Cream cardstock

Flowers, leaves, flourish, letters, "lace" looking piece under family,

and the diamonds were all cut with the 

Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge (Z1686)

Glitz Glitter Gel, Bronze (Z1485) and Stardust (Z1313)

Timeless Charms (Z1689)

Chocolate Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad (Z2111)

Garnet Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad (Z2121)

Sponge (Z697)

Edge Distresser (Z1297)

Embroidery Floss Neutral Assortment (Z1096)

Ruler, (Z1471) this ruler has guided holes for evenly spaced stiching.

Perfect Pearls Mist by Ranger

The red sprigs are from Joanne's floral department.

A small flower paper punch from Michaels that I have had forEVER--and had never used!!

The butterfly is a free download from Lisa Nazario-Gregory's blog What a Beautiful Mess. I've been a follower of Lisa's for quite sometime. Make sure you browse her blog, she has tons of flower tutorials and loads of inspiration!

Here is a close up of the floral cluster with butterfly.

Heart 2 Heart Challenges also has the flower theme for their May Challenge so I'm entering this over there. If you are using Close To My Heart product in your creation, you can enter over there too!

I also made a 4x4 card--just to show ya that your flowers don't have to be huge! These flowers were made with a regular hole punch and that little flower paper punch I mentioned above. Just add some bling to the centers and you have a real cute little flower!

 Supplies used for card:

Close To My Heart's Dotty For You Paper Pack

A Garden stamp set (A1119)

Black Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad (Z2105)

Tulip Exclusive Inks Marker (Z2366)

Heavenly Blue Exclusive Inks Marker (Z2326)

Lagoon Cardstock (X5762 or (X5904)

White Daisy Cardstock (1385)

Sparkles, Bitty (Z1263) and Red, Pink, Purple assortment (Z1326)
This card was CASED from a talented card maker at Inking Idaho.

Now for the prize package:

Prize package includes:

Close To My Heart’s May Special, the Dotty For You paper pack

Filigree Charms set

Soft Suede Pinwheels

Sparkles

An assortment of paper and crochet flowers

Nine sheets of Die Cuts

Close To My Heart’s May Stamp of the Month (not shown)

WoW--a lot of information!
If you want to go shopping click here!
Thanks for stopping by today,
hope you can make it a crafty one!