5 Challenges - 1 Post!!

I'm back again and I'm having a fabulous morning. It's my day to work from home in the morning and then the rest of the day is free!! And today especially because my husband took my car to work this morning so I can't go anywhere (it's a good excuse to stay home a create!) I've had some fun this morning creating for a few different challenges. This first card(s) I'm going to show you are for the Color Q blog. The challenge was to use these colors as inspiration :

I really liked the colors but as you may or may not know I'm not really known to create such soft color palats. But I thought I'd give it a whirl and I really like to first card so I decided to make two. The card format came form a different challenge over at : MoJo Monday. I'm always looking for different card layouts and I really liked this one!! Here's the sample sketch followed by my take...

My Take :

And for PART 2 of the challenges I decided to play along with...

Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge

it was to *BLING* our creations. Although both of the cards on this post have *bling* - it's easrier to see the *BLING* on the second card.

and the

 Trigger Challenge over at Moxie Fab World

the challenge was to use this photo as inspiration :

  

and I used the sketch from Caarvarks

I used patterned paper from Kaiser Craft and American Crafts. The flower were created by punching two different sized flower out of tissue paper. And then I inked the edges and glued them all together using a glue pen. I thought the layers kinda looked like the layers of the cabbage.