Embossed Flowers Color Trends Challenge

Hello Embellish fans! We are starting our second year of challenges and we wanted to change up a few things. We decided to discontinue our sponsorship program for the Color Trends Challenges. Although we love our sponsors, we also thought you all would like to see projects that the design team creates using products from various manufacturers. This change also means that there will not be a prize for the challenge winner; however, we will continue to highlight and feature those “hot” designs! Everything else will continue to function the same with fun color challenges and a theme to spice it up a bit! So, we welcome you to join us for the next couple of weeks and create something for the new challenge.

This challenge requires you to create a card, scrapbook layout, or altered item using the color challenge and embossed flowers. Embossing add so much character and texture to projects and we would love to see what new ideas you can come up with. Please feel free to use dry or heat embossing, but just make sure they are flowers! Let the photo inspire you.

The main colors are featured in the challenge inspiration board above. Remember, colors can be incorporated into your project in more ways than cardstock.

Upload a photo of your project to your blog or online gallery, such as Flickr, then copy the direct link to your project/post to the embedded link widget below or on one of the design team’s blogs. If you do not have a direct link to your blog/gallery posting that features the challenge, your link may be deleted. If it is deleted, no biggie, just come back and re-link the correct link! Only links left in the link widget will be considered for challenge submissions.

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We also have a Flickr Group available to share your projects. Please add your projects to Embellish Magazine Flickr group.

If you want to use the graphic above, feel free to, but make sure you right-click and choose the “Save Image As” choice to save it to your computer, then upload to your blog!

The team has created some fabulous projects with an array of embossed flower techniques, so take a peek below, then check out the projects in more detail on their blogs!

Ashley dry embossed flower die cuts for her love card.

Charlene used both heat and dry embossing techniques on her cheerful card. Don’t you just love that “smile” sentiment on the label die cut with the flower embellishment?

Cristina embraced her clean and graphic style by heat embossing a flower. The bottom weighted layout is perfect!

Mariana heat embossed a flower background and created her own patterned paper. The red embossed flower on the newsprint pattern is simply fabulous!

Sarah dry embossed her flowers. She even used a fun corrugated technique and shared a video tutorial on her blog!

Tina created a fun card with heat embossed flowers. Don’t you just love her layout?!!

Click the image above for additional rules. There are new rules, so please visit the link. Your entry may be deleted if your submission is also a part of a lot of other challenges.

Challenge ends Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST