September Flowers

Daring Cardmakers Day again and as it's the first challenge of the month we're looking to the flowers associated with September for our inspiration.

Sadly even though the flowers are lovely this month - Asters and Morning Glory - I didn't feel at all inspired.  I think the old mojo is off somewhere taking a break.  I hope it comes back soon because I have masses of stuff to get done in the next few weeks!

Thankfully, my Teamies didn't have the same sort of issues though, so there's lots of lovely crafting to see over on the DCM BLOG today!

I thought tasters would be perfect for one of these fun pop up cards where a (relatively) flat card that will fit in a regular envelope pops out to form a box base with "bits sticking out" - that's a technical term, don't you know? hehehe

In my head it looked ok, but I think maybe a different choice of papers would have been better.  Never mind, you can't win 'em all.

I used:

Echo Park "Springtime" papers and stickers

Craft Robo to cut all the pink flowers, Hand cut leaves, Stems are wire covered with strips of paper

Punches for white flowers and the yellow centresYellow Button, Yellow Stickles, 

Turquoise seam binding (Creative Treasures)

Spellbinders labels die

Not happy with this card, I then made another - which I like even less! but thought I might as well share anyway as I like the idea of the bowl of asters - I think I should definitely have used the KISS (keep it simple, stupid!) theory with this one - it would have worked so much better - mind you I don't like that shade of yellow either, even though it's from the same set of papers as the rest..

I used:

Fancy Pants papers,  Tobo template for flowers, punch for centres

Spellbinders dies (I used a plain circle cut down for the bowl), Tiny letter stickers

Clear and Yellow dewdrops

Flower Lace, Pale Blue and Pale Pink seam binding all from Creative Treasures

With a bit of luck I won't make as much of a pig's ear of the crafting projects I need to do today - please wish me luck!

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