Thursday, May 14, 2015

May Flowers - Crafty Gals Challenge

Spring has finally hit North Dakota in the form of torrential rainstorms. Woohoo! Unlike most people, I prefer a good drizzly, overcast day to a bright, sun-filled one. It makes me less guilty about wanting to hole up in my craft room, getting my fingers all inky. 

Over at Crafty Gals Corner, we're celebrating spring, too! May Flowers is our current challenge and I decided to go a little vintagey with my design. 

I used some digital paper from Graciellie Designs Floral Frame paper pack and a digital image from QKR Stamped called Girl Reading.



I just colored in bits of her dress by watercoloring with gelatos do give that old photo feel. I wasn't really sure what sentiment to put on the card and have playing around with hand-lettering lately so I wrote my own sentiment to match. 

So if you're thinking about getting all floral-y this week, let me give you a little nudge for why you should duck over to Crafty Gals Corner and link up. 

We've got >>3<< Sponsors this week!

Our sponsors this week are:


My Besties

Prize: 3 of the Digital Images the DT used





Prize: 3 Digital Images



Prize: Floral Frame Digital Paper Pack


So lots of prizes to be won!

I'm also going to link my card up to the following challenges:
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes 
Creative Inspirations - Shabby Chic



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On a more personal note: If you guys would join me in welcoming my little sister, Allie Kreft, to the bloggy world, I'd be forever grateful! She just started a blog called Crafting Crazy (because she is) and made her very first blog post today. I know it would mean the world to her to get a kind comment or two. :)  

Thanks for popping by!

30 comments:

  1. A gorgeous vintage style card Becca, the paper is very pretty. Carol x

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  2. wonderful card Becca - keep on with the hand lettering - it was perfect for this card!!

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  3. This is gorgeous!! I love the beautiful floral paper!! The image is so sweet!! Vintage and fabulous, Becca!! Love it!! Have a great day :)

    Lisa
    A Mermaid's Crafts

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  4. Love the vintage vibe this has Becca and I'm swooning over those pretty little forget me nots in the background!

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  5. Becca I love reading how you create your cards, you do things I can't even imagine doing. How I would love to be able to design that way. This is so beautiful, I love that quote.

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  6. What a great card-I love the background paper-it looks like linen. The writing is perfect and so is the saying

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  7. Beautiful vintage card ! Loved the distressing .

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  8. very pretty vintage card Becca. Love your hand written sentiment

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  9. Love the dp you used are they forget me nots? A pretty vintage card Becca. :)

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  10. Oooh! Such a lovely Old Fashioned girl & love the way you've done the sentiment.....fabulous! And ummmm.....you LIKE the rain? Hmmnnnn....I would, if it wasn't cold I think:):)

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  11. What a lovely card Becca! The black is such a wonderful contrast to the splashes of bright blue! Great image and I just adore that sentiment! hugs :)

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  12. Thanks for the warm welcome, Becca! Wonderful vintage design! I love how you've colored the image!

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  13. What a beautiful card and your hand - lettering is so perfect for this!!! Looks so lovely and I am super excited about your sister's blog - going to head right over and give it a peek!! Thanks for ALL you do - you are marvelous!!!

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  14. This is just lovely, thank you so much for playing this time at Party Time Tuesdays. Good luck and hope to see you again soon. Andree (DT)

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  15. such a pretty card, love the bow in the front!!! Great colors too!!!

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  16. Clever to make up your own sentiment and it works so well with this beautifully colored stamp. Wonderful card.

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  17. Beautiful card Becca. Love how you coloured in your image. Your sentiment looks great. Just hopped over to your sister's blog. Well, obviously great crafty talent runs in the family :-)
    Have a wonderful day.
    ♥ Lena - DT
    Lena’s Creations

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  18. What a lovely card Becca, gorgeous colouring and love your design.So sorry I haven't been by this week or so, life has gotten in the way of blogging lately..Hugs Carole Z X

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  19. You did a fab job on this! I love the colors!
    ♥ Samantha
    Designs by Sammy

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  20. Wonderful card and amazing job on the hand lettering! I really like the die cut in the background as well. Awesome sauce! Headed over now to your sisters blog!

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  21. Sun or rain never feel guilty about doing what you love and if that's getting inky well so be it lol. I'm with you on this! I've not got any gelatos and have looked at them from afar for a while, I didn't know that you could colour with them like this, it's the perfect choice for your image and definitely gives it the old world feel.

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  22. A beautiful creation! Thanks for playing at Creative Inspirations! xxx

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  23. What a fabulous card, Becca...beautiful, yes and most definitely inspiring! We need to encourage young people to read, read and read more...and then we need to encourage them to create, create and create more...with words, with images, with 'whatever.' Arts and crafts, in my world, would be mandatory "subjects" at school (but that's just me). Okay, enough with my soapbox...my niece would love this card. She's 5 and with kindergarten starting in September (eek!), another chapter of her story is about to begin...
    Hugs~c

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  24. Vintage-y goodness! What a gorgeous card! And look at you, with a hand written sentiment! You go girl! Off to check out your sister's blog!

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  25. Oh wow this Vintage style design sure is stunning!! Love the colors and the image looks beautiful!! :)

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  26. So pretty...you amaze me with the range of your cardmaking gift.

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  27. I absolutely love this!!!
    And oh dear, once again leading your sister down the path to destruction....being older is AWESOME!

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  28. Lovely distressed layers, intriguing card.

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  29. I love your distressed layers too
    look so old and vintage and I adore this Becca
    i just have time to catch up
    hope you too Becca
    Miss your encouragement
    I always smile and happy if Becca one talented lady give me encouragement
    sometimes I see oh no one visit my card it means my card BAD hehehe
    Love your DT card Becca...
    Hugs, Monika

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