Chic Fortress

Happy Tuesday all!! I hope you all have had a good beginning to your week. This week I began doing some more painting in my new home. As I complete each room, it feels and looks so clean.

Today I would like to share a card I made yesterday for Splitcoaststampers CAS "Chic" Word Challenge.

When I think of Chic, I think stylish and elegant with black and white....

so I made a black bow with some ribbon and white adding a few punched flowers (the flowers themselves were left from another card that I never ended up using).

The verse is from Our Daily Bread Designs- Fortress stamp set .

The embossing folder is Provocraft scrollwork.

The sentiment is framed with Spellbinders Ovals and Twisted Metal Tags and Accents.

Thanks for stopping by today!! I hope you are somehow inspired by my creation!!

challenges I am entering my creation in:

Craft Room Challenge - Emboss It

Creative Card Crew - #10 Sentiment as Focal Point

Paper and Such Design - April Showers Bring May Flowers

Top Tip Tuesday - #76 Clean & Simple

Craft Your Passion - Lots of Texture

Friends of Speedy TV - Use 3 of Something. (three flowers)

Hooked on Crafts - Flowers

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Paper Pretties - Use Ribbon.

Have a blessed day!!!

hugs and blessings,

30 comments:

Tracey said...: Absolutely gorgeous Chris!! xx; May 8, 2012 at 6:45 AM
cheryl said...: oh wow Hun this is fantastic,hugs Cherylxxxx; May 8, 2012 at 7:14 AM
Becky said...: This is beautiful Chris. I love the verse and love those purple flowers. Gorgeous design.; May 8, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Amy Johnson said...: Wow! That's gorgeous! Love the black and white with the purple flowers.; May 8, 2012 at 10:21 AM
coldwaters2 said...: Hi Chris this is awesome, that verse is beautiful, the design is breathtaking, truly wonderful creation.
hugs
Lorraine x; May 8, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Dawnll said...: I love the elegance of this design-such beautiful colors and flowers.
Thanks for sharing; May 8, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Wow Mom!! What a amazing card!! This is so pretty!! I love the flowers!! The verse is beautiful...
The paper just pop's out with the purple!!
Hugs,
Meghan; May 8, 2012 at 5:28 PM
Danni said...: The black accents are perfect for this gorgeous card!; May 8, 2012 at 5:56 PM
Unknown said...: BEAUTIFUL!!! HUGS Leah Ann; May 8, 2012 at 7:43 PM
Karen Wilson said...: Chris, this is STUNNING! Wow!; May 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Elaine Stark said...: Lovely card. very pretty flowers and embossing. Thanks for joining Top Tip Tuesday. Elaine; May 9, 2012 at 4:43 PM
Chrissy said...: So beautiful Chris, love the flower arrangement, gorgeous.

Thanks for sharing with us at ‘Make it Monday’

Luv CHRISSYxx; May 10, 2012 at 2:02 AM
Flutterby Trina said...: beautiful! Live the flowers! Thanks for playing along with TTT with our clean and simple challenge, good luck and hope to see you soon x; May 10, 2012 at 3:40 AM
Suzanne B aka brookfies said...: A stunning card...love how the flowers "uplift"/ "frame" the sentiment. Thank you for sharing with us at the Craft Room "Emboss It" challenge this fortnight! Suzanne :); May 10, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Denise @ kc242 said...: What a lovely sentiment card! Love your design! Thanks so much for playing along with the Creative Card Crew for this challenge. Good Luck!
Denise
CCC-DT; May 10, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Cheryl said...: Beautiful! I love the rich colors of the flowers and your focus on the sentiment.

I’m stopping by from MIM. (I’m entries 70 & 157)

~Cheryl~

**I am having a couple of give-aways on my blog. Feel free to stop by if you are interested.**; May 10, 2012 at 9:45 AM
loz said...: This is a Beautiful card Chris. I saw this on MIM..Loz; May 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM
Maria said...: Oh, this is beautiful and very stylish indeed. I love the embossed background and flowers. Thanks for sharing your card with us at the Craft-Room Challenge, and good luck in the draw.

Maria x; May 10, 2012 at 3:15 PM
Janice M said...: Beautiful card!! Your flowers are gorgeous. Thanks for playing along with us at Paper and Such!; May 10, 2012 at 7:45 PM
Tammy said...: So beautiful Chris! I love your flowers and that wonderful verse!
Hugs, Tammy; May 10, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Jan said...: This is stunning, Chris. I love the lo & colours. Thanks for joining us at CCC xx Jan; May 11, 2012 at 7:18 AM
Lisa Minckler said...: Completely elegant and gorgeous card! I could look at it for hours. :)

Thank you so much for joining our challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and for linking up with us at Make It Monday. Best of luck to you.

Lisa =0); May 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Kasey ~ in Oz said...: Oh my, this is stunning!

I saw your card on Make it Monday, I'm my lucky number '7' this week.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz; May 11, 2012 at 5:36 PM
Karen said...: This is so very stylish and beautiful!

Thank you so much for sharing with us at Make it Monday this week.

Hugs Krafty Karen - DT for Make It Monday.

<br; May 13, 2012 at 2:37 PM
earthspirit927 said...: Beautiful:) Thank you for joining us at Craft Your Passions For our Torn and distressed Challenge this week:)

Melissa,DT Member
Expressionswithearthspirit.blogspot.com; May 13, 2012 at 10:58 PM
craft-roomjulia said...: This is so lovely, you can see how much work and love has gone into this. Thanks for joining us at Craft Room Challenge and good luck Julia xx; May 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Esther said...: Stunning card - such vibrant colour and gorgeous embossed background..Thanks so much for joining our Craft-Room challenge..Esther xx; May 14, 2012 at 4:54 PM
Kim O'Connell said...: Very striking! Thanks for joining us for the Paper and Such Challenge!; May 14, 2012 at 5:34 PM
Caroljenks said...: What a gorgeous card - those flowers and the bow are beautiful :)
Thanks for joining us over at Top Tip Tuesday for our CaS Challenge.

Carol x; May 20, 2012 at 5:47 AM
Kelly said...: Chris this is so beautiful and elegant!
Thanks for joining us at Hooked On Craft Challenges.
Hugs, Kelly xxx; May 27, 2012 at 2:39 AM