More May Flowers & Big News!

You've got 5 more days still to play along with our May flowers challenge and we'd love to see what you come up with!  The prize to one random entrant will be a $10 gift certificate to our NEW ONLINE STORE which is opening TOMORROW!  Woohoo! 

Please check it out: creativeaccentsonline.ca

For another chance at winning a $10 gift certificate, please visit our regular blog and leave a comment with your fave paper or stamp company :)  You'll also have another chance to win if you're a fan of Creative Accents on facebook!  Lots of opportunities to win!

I have another pretty card to show you with some handmade flowers on it- this one by our guest DT member, Dorothy!  She made those lovely flowers with a rolled flower die... love them! 

We hope you'll play along with our May Flowers Challenge, we can't wait to see what you create!

Handmade Flowers- take 3!

I think the hardest part about our current challenge is narrowing down which sort of flowers you want to make... at least that was the hardest part for me :) Here's a couple more flowery projects to hopefully inspire you to create some flowers (when you're not outside gardening and admiring the real flowers out there this May long weekend!)

by Tara

by Sarah

Hope you'll join us in our May challenge!  Click the link on the left to find the post with the inlinkz gadget :)

More hand made flowers!

I'm back with some more samples of hand made flowers from our Design Team!   You've got until 11:59pm on Thursday, May 31 to play along- we hope you'll join us!  We'd love to see your hand made flowers!

by Julie

by Leslea

I also wanted to share with you some more links I came across with flower tutorials... there's so many great ideas out there! 

• Twine Flowers
• Spider Rose (made with an old t-shirt!) on Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog
• Washi Tape Rose on American Crafts Studio Blog

Hope you have fun with it!

Oh yes- you're probably wondering what we're playing for this month, right?  Once again, we're giving away a $10 coupon to be used on our soon-to-be-open online store (or local customers can use it in the store)!

You can scroll down to enter, or click the link on the left sidebar of the blog :)

May Challenge: hand made flowers

It's time for another monthly challenge at SCCB!  Spring is in the air and we're excited to share with you a challenge to create hand made flowers, there are so many possibilities and types of flowers you can create!  We hope you'll play along and we look forward to seeing what you create! 

Here's some samples from our Seriously Creative Design Team:

Janet

Roxy

Need some more inspiration and ideas?  Check out these links:
- Scrapbook Etc. has a few how-to's (it's also where I found the inspiration image for this month!)
- Tim Holtz has a great video with some tips for using his rosette dies
- DT member, Roxy, has a Pinterest board full of hand made embellishments... including a lot of flowers!

April Challenge Winners!

It was so much fun seeing the diverse styles of projects that were submitted to our April Challenge to use Sprays & Stains- I loved visiting each of your blogs and seeing what you've been creating!

I (Tara) am totally, full on in INKY mode- last weekend I had the thrill of attending Ranger University in New Jersey, getting immersed in all things inky spending 3 FULL days with Tim Holtz, Claudine Hellmuth & Dyan Reavely.  It was so much fun and so inspiring, and even though I was already very familiar with Ranger products, I learned a lot from the masters :)

I don't have a new challenge to present to you today... but I'll be back on Monday with the details and some inspiration from our Seriously Creative Design Team!  Things are a bit busy right now since today is National Scrapbooking Day and we are in the middle of our fabulous Scrapbook & Cards FIESTA weekend!

I brought back some Dylusions sprays (so fun!) and Mom & I had to open them up and create some inky goody bags for the weekend:

Aren't they fun and colorful?  We pulled out some random chipboard letters and put them on brown paper bags for a quick mask, then got wild with Dylusions sprays!  Here's hoping the inky-ness will never end :)

Before I announce the winners, here's a quick look at my 'graduating class' of Certified Ranger Educators:

And now... we've used Random.org to select the winners of our April challenge... Yes TWO winners, as we had 10 entries! Each of these ladies will get a code for $10 to spend in our online store, which is opening later this month!  As our store isn't open yet, I'll also include an inky goodie from Ranger in your package when we ship it off to you!

And the winners are...

• #2 Tanya S.
• #5 Donna Arkle

Please send us an email and we'll send the coupon code to you when the store opens up!

Thanks for playing along!   Check back on Monday to see what we have for you in May!