May Key Ingredients Blog Hop

Happy Monday, everyone!  I hope you had a great weekend!  We had a garage sale on Saturday, which we made a good chunk of change on!  Plus, it is so nice to be rid of a bunch of unwanted stuff in our house!  We sold a lot of it, and the rest we donated to the Teen Challenge thrift store.  Our friend Meagan hung out with us all day on Saturday, and we had a great time!

Today is the May Key Ingredients blog hop, and the theme is "May Flowers".  The kit has these cute mistable flowers in them, but I don't use/have any mists.  So, I kept them as is for my card, and just molded a little bit of shape to each petal.  I think it turned out really pretty!!  Here is what I created!

"A Friend Loves..." supplies:
Cardstock/Paper/Flowers/Ribbon/Button: May Key Ingredients kit

Stamps: Taylored Expressions (Faith In Bloom set)

Ink: Tsukineko (Versafine: onyx black)

Border Punch: Fiskars (upper crest)

Instructions:

1. Make A2 card from red cardstock.

2. Punch two upper crest borders to green dotted paper strips. 

3. Adhere the borders to each side of a floral paper strip; then adhere to the card front.

4. Give the petals on each canvas flower some dimesion; then layer together to the front.

5. Cut a banner from yellow paper and stamp the sentiment to it.

6. Adhere to the front, tucked between the flower layers. 

7. Tie a bow from dotted ribbon, and adhere to the top of the flowers with a pink clear button. 

Card Challenges: 

-Clean & Simple 191- sketch

-CAS-ual Fridays #53- punches or dies

-The Friday Mashup! #59- decorative edge &/or ribbon/bow

-Simon Says Stamp challenge- clean & simple

Be sure to check out what the rest of the Key Ingredients team has come up with for your inspiration as well!! 

Taylor VanBruggen

Debbie Carriere
Jessica Diedrich
Jessie Rone
Monika Davis

We're also challenging our subscribers to play along and be entered to win a free stamp set of your choice. Here are all the details you need to know for playing along:

1. Create a card or project to fit within the challenge theme using your May Key Ingredients kit (TE Stamps are not required). This month's challenge theme is "May Flowers"! You're welcome to enter more than one project for more chances to win!

2. Post your creation to your blog or online gallery and then go to Taylor's blog post to link your post using the InLinkz at the bottom of her post.

You have until June 8th to participate in the challenge and we will be announcing the winner when the June kit debuts on June 10th. The random winner will get to choose one stamp set of her choice from the TE Store! Just in case you missed the announcement earlier this month, Cindy Coutts was our lucky winner from the April challenge!

Check out all the details of our kit club subscription HERE.

I hope that you have a wonderful day!! ♥♥♥

Until later,

~Lea L.