April Challenge - Flowers!

Debbie here posting my first challenge at Berry71bleu!

It's April and the saying is "April showers bring May flowers", so for the April challenge I want you to create a project using flowers. Premade or homemade, let's see lots of flowers! I love spring time and working outside in my flower gardens.  I hope you can draw some inspiration from my picture board.  All of these lovely flowers are from my garden.

Our sponsor for the month of April is Inkido.

Papercraft Scandinavia is a manufacturer that design and make unique material for scrapbooking, cardmaking and other craftings.

We design stamps, patterned paper, lace, flowers and much more in romantic vintage style. Our products are of high standard, inspiring and amazing to create with. 

Welcome to us!

http://www.papercraftscandinavia.com/

http://www.inkido.blogspot.com/

Our design team members each received Inkido's collection Beautiful Memories to design with.

If your project for our April Challenge includes products by our sponsor, Inkido, please  also link up your projects here:  https://www.facebook.com/papercraftscandinavia

The winner of our April challenge will win this Beautiful Memories collection from Inkido:

 

I chose to use a picture of me when I was a little girl.  I am in my backyard and surrounded by the flower gardens that my parents had.  I have to admit that as a child I disliked flowers and working in the garden.  It was more of a chore then an enjoyment.  As I grew older I took from what my parents taught me and embraced gardening.  In the Spring and Summer you can find me outside tending to my flowers.  For my background paper I used the Pink Memories paper.

 I really love the handmade tag Marivic sent me to work with.  

Gorgeous colors and embellishments!

Here I cut out a butterfly from the  Butterfly Borders paper and added it to the top of Marivic's tag.

More Inkido butterflies.

 Lot of gorgeous flowers from my stash.

Lots of stamping and misting add that special touch to my layout.

For my title I made a homemade rub on.
I will be back next week to share a tutorial with you on how I made my rub on.

The second place winner will receive a prize package from Um Wow Studio:

 

We're a US based company who has recently changed directions and moved to chipboard embellishments! Our designs are fresh, new and on trend. We pride ourselves in the quality of our chip and our dedication to the trade. With our passion for paper crafts and our knowledge of industry we can safely say you'll love our goods and their high quality! Our website: http://umwowstudio.com - our facebook: http://facebook.com/umwowstudio - our blog: http://umwowstudio.blogspot.com. We'll be having a Guest Creative Team call soon! So keep your eyes peeled :)

Here is what the winner will receive:

 

One Random winner from our April Challenge will win their choice of 3 Pearly Mists from 13 Arts.
You can find the colors here in their store.


Looking forward to seeing what you create for my challenge!!

. . . Debbie

Rules

1. You are allowed to make a an altered/off the page project as long as you follow the challenge specifications.

2. Projects must be linked up to our linky tool in the sidebar, using the URL of the ACTUAL POST not your entire blog.

3. You may submit as many entries as you want and combine your entry with up to 2 other challenges.

4. It is required that you mention in your blog post that you are playing along at Berry71Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog.

5. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT EST on the last day of the month the challenge was posted.

6. Entries to be submitted via the linky tool at the top of the sidebar ONLY, not by email and not by linking up in the comments section please.

 Information About Our Challenges

1.  Berry71Bleu Challenges are open to anyone, anywhere in the world.

2.  Our Design Team do their best to comment on all entries, you can make their job easier by turning OFF your word verification.  Try it and if spam is a problem you can always enable comment moderation.

3.  Challenges are held monthly and each month TWO winners are chosen.  One winner is chosen by our design team, who all vote for the project they consider to be the best,while another winner is chosen by random draw.

4.  Challenge winners will always be announced within a week of the challenge closing and winners are then required to contact our DT Coordinator, Debbie at mdjsburns@aol.com.

5.  Prizes not claimed within 2 weeks of the challenge closing will be forfeited.

6.  The Merit winner will have an image of their project featured in 

the winners post, together with a link back to the home page of their blog.

7.  Merit winners will be awarded a Winner's Badge to post on their blog - full bragging rights included!