**Monday challenge ~ use flowers…**

Hello Fiskarettes!  Hope you are having better weather than we are in Bristol and Worcester!  Its raining….

Maybe this will cheer you up though - todays challenge is all about flowers…

We would like you to make a project and add three different types of flowers to your project.  These could be stamped flowers, three different ranges of paper flowers, patterned paper flowers, a punched flower or anything you can think up.  Have fun and do send in photos of your projects for us to share.

Jaynes tin: I have decorated a tin with strips of patterned paper and then added punched flowers.  Use this Squeeze flower  punch.  I’ve also stamped a few flowers using this Fiskars flower stamp and added a few paper flowers too.

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Caroline:  This is a card I made to give to my Brother and Sister in law (hubbies brother) - they had a little girl on Sunday morning called Amelia, a little sister for Sylvia.  So I am an auntie again!  Looking forward to going to see her and having a cuddle….

I embossed a piece of lemon paper using Fiskars Whimsy Texture Plate from the Expression Set, and sewed this onto some kraft paper which I cut from a file folder - you can get packs of 100 for next to nothing in stationery stores and certainly cheaper than buying kraft cardstock…

I then sewed a frame around the scallop chipboard and cut through the middle of it using the very useful  Fingertip Craft Knife.

The three different types of flowers for this challenge are: the embossed flowers on the lemon paper, the little pink flowers around the acetate bookplate, and the paper roses.

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We hope you can join in and look forward to seeing what you do!….x

Caroline and Jayne…x