Monday 27 June 2011

Make My Monday Sketch and Floral Challenge

Good morning all on a very warm and sunny Monday. I hope you all had a lovely weekend with some sunshine and managed to sit in the garden for a while as I did.
As it's Monday, we have a new challenge over at Make My Monday and it's the last one with this month's flower theme - it's a lovely sketch from Jacqueline this time which I really enjoyed doing.



I've gone for one of my favourite colour combinations, lilac and green, and have used a gorgeous iris stamp from Circa Design which I stamped with VersaFine Smokey Gray and coloured with Prisma pencils.
I set the floral panel on an embossed lilac mat, larger on one side so that I could added some punched flowers made from inked paper and pearls to tie in with the sketch.
My background squares are green Bazzill card embossed with the Craft Concepts butterflies folder and some decorated paper from my bits box. It was created using Artifacts stamps from The Stamp Bug and VersaColor inks in purple, lilac and pink.
I finished off with a sentiment from Hobby Art over-stamped with flourishes and Lilac Posies Memento ink for added texture.

You have until 12 midnight on Saturday 2 July to enter and good luck!

My card is for the following challenges:
Paper Sundaes - Choose At Least 2 from Purple, Gems. Wings, Paper Piercing
Sew Many Cards - Dry Embossing
Stampin' For The Weekend - My Favourite Things (Making my own background papers, dry embossing and my Prisma pencils for colouring)

Thanks for looking,
Fliss xx
PS: Can't wait for the next challenge as July is my month to choose the theme and I'm sure that those of you who know me can probably guess what it is (clue - it begins with a v)

12 comments:

Valerie-Jael said...

Lovely card, Fliss, very summery. Here is warm and sunny today, too! Valerie

Brenda Brown said...

Fabulous card Fliss, I love the colours and your colouring up is amazing.
Have a good week, lets hope we keep some of the sunshine.
luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

Cath said...

Love the colours you have used on this card. Cant wait to start next months theme.

Cathx

Claire Phillips said...

What lovely Iris's Fliss and fab colours as always! Cheers Claire x

Jacqueline said...

This is so lovely - love the stamp and the colours you have used - Jacqueline xx

Daniele said...

this is stunning such beautiful colours
hugs

Sally H said...

Oh wow! That is absolutely stunning! I love that stamp! I bought a couple of stamps from them at Doncaster.

Dolly Daydreams said...

Oh so pretty gorgeous colours great combo love your embossing too.

Marie

Amanda R said...

Very pretty, love the embossed papers and the little flowers on the side. Thanks for joining in this week at Paper Sundaes!

Vicky Hayes said...

Lilac and green is a lovely combination. I love your beautifully coloured flower!

Chris said...

OMG that iris is gorgeous. I used to grow them when I lived up north, you don't see them around here in FL. Thanks for sharing your beautiful card with us at SFTW.

Kate's Makes said...

You've done a great job with this card! Thanks for sharing your favourite things with us over at SFTW and good luck! Kate x