The Twofer Blog is in the flower business...

I finished up a couple of cards today so that I could enter them into the Twofer Challenge Blog. This month's theme is "flowers," and what's more fun than adding flowers to our cards?

There are just two days for you to enter this fun challenge, as well. I especially love it because it forces me to make two cards at one time, using the same image.

The first thing I did in creating these two cards was to stamp and die-cut a slew of flowers. These flowers call for five layers of stamping, so instead of doing one at a time, I cut 4" X 4" pieces of white cardstock so I could create four flowers on each piece.

I set my cardstock in the corner of my stamp positioner and then stamped the first layer in one corner, gave my cardstock one turn, stamped another, etc., until I had stamped that layer in all four corners. Then I went on to my next layer. Using this method, I created three cardstock squares with four same-colored flowers on each one and one last square with eight leaves on it.

The background was made using my NBUS brick wall stencil that I had created with my Silhouette at least a year ago! Why did I let it sit there unused for so long?  I simply placed it over my front panel and used a blending brush to add some gray ink. Since I've used this NBUS stencil, I'm also linking this card to the current NBUS Challenge Blog.

My "hello" was cut from some black foam board (purchased at Dollar Tree) and the sentiment was stamped directly onto the background with Versafine ink.

My cluster of flowers was glued in place with the pink one popped up on foam tape.

I scattered a few tiny pink pearls for some added dimension.

My second card is a slim line card. It's only 3 1/2" wide by 8" long. I'm not sure if those are the usual dimensions of the slim line cards that I'm seeing all over the web. I just happened to have this card blank in my stash--no idea why--so I decided to use it.

I wasn't quite sure what to do with it, but since it was made from some nice, heavy cardstock, I simply added some scored lines for a little somethin'-somethin' in the background.

My sentiment is die-cut out of some heavy, dark gray cardstock. I see that my Y is a little wonky, so I'll have to fix that before I send this out.

I glued my leaves directly to the card base (which actually does match the pink in my flower IRL), but popped my flower up on a couple of foam squares.

Both cards have a blank, white panel inside so that I can use them to write a personal note.

Here are a few photos of real flowers currently gracing my yard:

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl