Coffee Lovers Winter Blog Hop

Hello and happy Friday friends!Today I am coming to you with a special post. The Secret Garden Crafts Design Team is participating in the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop as part of Crafty City, who is a Super Sponsor over at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog for their Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

 Here is the card that I have come up with for this fun hop

Products Used:

Paper:  Vintage Cream, Frost, Latte, DP Studio Light Winter Memories

Stamp: Studio Light Winter Memories

Inks: Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Tea Dye, Memento Rich Cocoa

Accessories:  

ivory box pleated tulle trim, Venise lace in ivory, snowflake, snowflake picks, various picks, stitched oval cutting die,


Secret Garden Crafts flowers used:

Lily Flowers blue tones

Miniature Sweetheart Blossoms - ivory

Apple Blossoms - ivory

Cottage Roses - blue tones

Cherry Blossoms


This is my Winter themed card for this hop. I hope you like it. Please head on over to see what

   Karen        Martha       Patty     Archana

have come up with.

Since a Blog Hop is always more fun with some prizes, there is a chance on winning some amazing papers from Crafty City over at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog.

Here is what you can win

Well, this is it from me for today. Thanks so very much for stopping by. I hope I was able to inspire you.

Have a super creative weekend!

Hugs,

Friends Are Special Treasures....

Happy Wednesday friends! Today I am coming to you with a sweet little tag that I have made for Secret Garden Crafts. This week's theme is "Anything Goes" and on those days we can create whatever we would like with one rule, use lots of flowers. Since I love flowers I have no problems using lots of them,lol. Have a look and see for yourself


Friends Are Special Treasures

Secret Garden Crafts flowers used:

Large Gardenias - white

Lily flowers  - mixed blue

Curly Roses - white

Spiral Stamens - blue

Miniature Sweetheart Blossoms - ivory


Other Products used:

Paper: DP Stamperia New England (can be found at Craftycity.com)
            card stock in white, Bodering Blue, Soft Stone

Accessories:

tulle trim ivory, dangle lace ivory, rhinestone heart bling, pearl trim, lace trim white, ivory flat back pearls, leaf die, heart die, "Friendship" stamp set, pearl picks


This is my tag for this week using lots of flowers as you can see. I hope I was able to inspire you to get your flowers out and create something beautiful! I will be back next week with another inspiration post, so I hope you will be back as well.

To see what the rest of the Design team has come up with, please make sure that you check out the Secret Garden Crafts Blog.

Archana has created a new Facebook page just for challenges using Secret Garden Crafts flowers. If you are interested in joining this page, please check out "Play Creative". This is a closed group so you need to send a request to join. This month;'s challenges is to create a "Shabby Chic Thank You" and you have a chance of winning a $15 gift certificate to the Secret Garden Crafts store. Pretty awesome, right? You can add up to three cards, so your chance of winning is increasing. (wink)

I hope to see you there!


Hugs and blessings,

Anything Goes...Secret Garden Crafts style

Happy hump day stamping friends! Today I am coming to you with a sweet card I've made using some gorgeous flowers from Secret Garden Crafts in combination with some beautiful paper I purchased from Craftycity. I tell you Archana has some of the most amazing flowers and unique papers ever. Have a look at what I have come up with. This is a card that does not have a sentiment, this way I can use it for any occasion.

Secret Garden Crafts Flowers Used:

Cherry Blossoms -  ivory

Miniature Sweetheart Blossoms - ivory

Open Roses - ivory

Lilies - mixed blue

Large Gardenia - white

Cosmo Daisy - blue

Spiral Stamens - blue


Other Products Used:

Paper: Soft Stone, Sky Blue, DP Stamperia New England

Accessories: Label die, Oval die, ivory tulle trim, blue pompom trim, ivory lace, ivory flat back pearl trim, denim colors chalk ink (inked one of the roses and some of the lilies) 

This is my card for today, I hope I was able to inspire you all. To see what the rest of the Design Team has come up with, please head on over to the Secret Garden Crafts Blog.

Remember, if you so choose to purchase any of the above used flowers you can take advantage of

Before I sign off for today, I have to announce the winner of my giveaway from last week. Since only three people have commented, I have decided that I will send a little something to all three of these ladies. With that said, I need Patty O'Malley, Connie Griffin (Conniecrafter) and Tina Goodwin to please e-mail me your address at sjbutterflydreams@gmail.com so I can get your winnings out to you.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I will see you all next week!


Hugs,

Lace and flowers.......perfect match!

Happy Wednesday friends! Today I am coming to you with a sweet little card I have created for Secret Garden Crafts. This time around the Design team has created a square card using at least one lace and lots of flowers. If you know me, you know that I love flowers and I love lace, so this one was a real easy one for me,lol! 

Hello

Products used:

Paper: White, pink pirouette, pink, ripe avocado, DP Lemoncraft Bella Rose

Accessories: lace, tulle trim, "hello" word die, Fancy Foliage die, berry fillers



Secret Garden Crafts flowers used:

Bourbon Roses  - magenta

Peonies pink

Sweetheart Roses - pink

Sweetheart Blossoms   -pink and white pack

Cosmo Daisies - pink and white pack

Tea Roses - pink

Leaves

This is my card for today, I hope that I was able to inspire you. To see what the rest of the Design Team has come up with, please head on over to the Secret Garden Crafts Blog .

Thanks so much for stopping by today and have a happy crafty day!

Hugs,