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Friday 14 August 2009

The Sugar Bowl Challenge 17

This weeks challenge over at The Sugar Bowl is a sketch by Judy with the 'please include' of Handmade Flowers.

I always enjoy finding new ways of making my own flowers as it's a great way of being able to colour co-ordinate them with your card. I don't have many flower punches & can't get the EK Success Large Retro flower punch for love nor money so have to find ways of making them with the tools I've got.

I was reading a craft magazine earlier this week & saw instructions for cute little windmills & also some little flowers made with scalloped nesties. Well!!! do you think I could find the mag when I came to make this card yesterday?? No is the answer!! I really wanted to make the nestie flowers but was only able to make the windmills from memory so here they are. They're a bit fiddly to make especially so small (4cm square) but they were still too big to fit 3 on my card so I've broken 'The Dawn Bibby Golden Rule' of always putting an odd number of embellies on your card!! However I think this looks OK with only two. The first lot I made were 5cm square & were nearly as big as the image so I'll have to save them for another time lol!!

The papers & card are SU & the brads & ribbon are from my stash & the sentiment ribbon is from Click-on-Crafts.The image is from Sugar Nellie coloured with copics.

Thanks for looking.

9 comments:

  1. Thank you for your kind comments on my blog. Your cards are amazing. I added myself as a follower. You should pop over to my blog and enter my bog candy.
    Hugs xx
    Carolyn

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  2. Stunning card Sharon!! love those pinwheel flowers.. fabby!
    Thanks for joining us at the Sugar Bowl,

    Hugs, Marlene xx

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  3. Gorgeous card Sharon.Love the little flowers.Just catching up with everyone after my hols.Thanks so much for the blog award too.
    Hugs
    Cass xxx

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  4. stunning card sharon ~love the flowers ~how clever are you???
    hope you have a good weekend
    vanessa xx

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  5. Oh this is just gorgeous Sharon,,,I love this image and you've coloured her beautifully...fab flowers...clever crafty gal! Rules were mean't to be broken I think...still looks fab! bx

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  6. This is gorgeous Sharon! This is one of my favourite images {even though I do not technically own it!}. Love the colours you've used!
    Have a great weekend!
    Hugs, Vicky ~x~

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  7. Your card is just beautiful! Love the pinwheels for flowers! Awesome idea! Thanks for joining the SB challenge and hope to see you in the next one too! Have a great day!

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  8. Fabulous card Sharon! Love the summery colors that you have used and this image is fabulous!! AND WOW your handmade flowers are stunning!! They look so pretty!!!
    :)Kathy

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  9. great card, nice shape, love it

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