Flowers Make Me Happy

Hello everyone and happy Saturday! Today is the start of a new challenge at Allsorts and Gail is hosting. Her theme for the next two weeks is.......What makes you happy. A fun and easy theme but as always there is the Anything Goes option if you prefer. We have prizes from Buddly Crafts. 

There a lots of things that make me happy and I decided to go with Flowers. 

I didn't always love Geraniums, somehow it seems to me like a very "old-fashioned" flower with not the most pleasant scent, but in the recent years it's become one I purchase every year. Love that it's available in a variety of colors, they are very heat tolerant and last three seasons long into late fall with minimal upkeep. So for my card I selected this beautiful Penny Black stamp Light Touch which features a beautiful brushstroke Geranium. 

Brushstroke stamps need a stamp positioning tool (in my opinion) and that is what I used along with Distress inks/oxides (Picked Raspberries, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron). When the ink was dry (I used my heating tool to help it along) I stenciled a mini tile design on the background (Tim Holtz stencil). Then I randomly stamped a Nature verse on the background which is part of a Tracy Evans set (Miniatures by Aall and Create). This set is retired but possibly still available through some retailers).

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For the sentiment I chose Especially for You from the Penny Black set Blooming sentiments. I added this with a couple of staples along with a piece of crimped paper. I've had my paper crimper tool for many years since my early cardmaking days and when I recently decluttered it almost had to go because I simply never use it. Well, here we are, it still has a place in my craft room and it was time to put it to work :) Anyone else having such a hard time parting with tools even though used so rarely?

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I plan to share with these challenges:

• Beautiful Blossoms - Flowers
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - Stencils
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - AG
• Dragonfly Dreams - One or more butterflies
• Neglected Stuff Challenge - Something neglected (my paper crimper tool)
• Path of Positivity - something positive
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - AG with PB Stamps
• Sisterhood of Crafters - Flowers
• Sparkles Forum Challenges -Flowers
• The Paper Funday - AG
• Triple B - Blooms, Birds or Butterflies
• We Love Stamping - Nature
• Word Art Wednesday - AG

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