Presents, Prizes and a Bouquet of Roses

Happy Saturday and welcome! It's time for a special celebration at the Allsorts challenge blog where we are celebrating Allsorts' 16th Birthday with lots of prizes and a super easy theme!!!  Lots of challenge blogs have come and gone since then and it's so great to be part of this long-running challenge blog for "all sorts" of crafts. I've been a part of this team for 8 out of the 16 years. How time flies!!

To celebrate this special occasion, we have  several prizes to give away: Four prizes of products from AALL and Create, a $25 store voucher from Lawn Fawn, three stamps from Colorado Craft Company and a $25 store voucher from Gina K Designs. Our theme is simply Anything Goes! 

I have two cards to share this time... first up is a card I made using this darling stamp by Colorado Craft Company - Big Love. 

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I stamped on Copic Xpress It card with Memento Tuxedo ink then colored with Copic markers. Next I added washi tape along the edges for a mask and inked inside the mask using Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink. A polka dot stencil was used for a little more interest on this otherwise CAS card. Sentiment is part of the same stamp set. I embellished with a little button and some white twine.

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I plan to enter this card with these challenges:

• A Place To Start - For a child
• C.R.A.F.T. - AG
• Crafty Animals - AG with Animals
• Crafty Gals Corner - Anything adorable
• Creative Inspirations Challenge  - AG
• Critter Crazy Challenges - Critters
• Everybody-Art-Challenge - Birthdays
• Fab n' Funky - Add a sentiment
• FarmQuest General Store Challenge - Anything Farm/Country goes (a country mouse)
• Just Us Girls - AG with a stencil
• Let's Craft & Create Challenge - No designer paper
• Paper Shelter - Dots or Stripes
• Passion For Markers Challenge - Must use Markers (I used copic)
• Simon Says Stamp - Bright and cheerful
• The Paper Funday - AG
• We Love Stamping - Four Legged Friends 
• Word Art Wednesday - AG

For my second card I used a stamp by Aall and Create which I was lucky enough to win a couple of months ago - Roses in Bloom.

The embossed background was done with a Cuttlebug embossing folder I've had for a long time. To add more interest to it I wiped a rose red ink pad over the raised texture. The image was stamped with Versafine Onyx ink and colored with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. The "script" stamp I used on the background is part of a retired roses set by Aall and Create (Sent with Love #831), I thought it would be a perfect fit for this bouquet of roses. The sentiment stamped in black is part of the same retired stamp set.

Finally I added a small layered butterfly (Penny Black die Soaring) to finish off the card. 

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I plan to share this card with these challenges:

• 613 Avenue Create - Floral Delight
• A Perfect Time To Craft - AG
• Ally's Angels - AG
• Beautiful Blossoms - AG
• Crafts Galore Encore - AG
• Creative Fingers - AG
• Cut It Up - Send me Flowers and a die cut
• Do-Al(l) Kreatives - Flowers
• Double D - May Flowers (my roses just started to bloom!!)
• Little Red Wagon - Flowers
• Pattie's Creations - AG with an image
• Sisterhood of Crafters - Flowers
• Stamping Sensations - Feminine
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Flowers
• The Crafting Challenge - Flowers
• Tic Tac Toe Challenge - I chose the last row: colored pencils, embossing folder and flowers

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Thanks so much for visiting. I hope you have a great weekend and maybe you'll find some crafty time too :)