MC June/11 - Coiled Flowers

I came across these coiled flowers at a rubber stamp store recently, and thought they'd be interesting to make and real easy... The ones I saw, were made from twine and had a misc circle for a center and that's it. Mine are a bit more involved with the outer layer of petals, but just as easy, & I think a lot nicer BIG GRIN...

I had done the cream toned ones first, but then some of the challenges were calling for red/white & blue, so made the white ones. Finished that card, and went directly into making the second card. I love them both.

They're both using Quietfire Design sentiments or quote stamps - the latest batch that came out this month.

Anyway, click on either card to see all the details and descriptions - both cards are on the same web page. Enjoy

The 1st card fits for these challenges:
Die Cut Dreams #92 Red, white & blue.
Pile it On #25 Show some metal (staples and metal charm)
A Spoonful of Sugar #157 Ribbons & bows
Creative Craft Challenge Make your own backing paper.
Everybody Art Challenge #147 Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday #39 cross something (crossed staples)
Crafts & Me Challenge #40 Stitching faux or real (the crossed staples)
Crafty Creations #124 anything sparkly
Crafty Purple Frog #18 Swirls & pearls
Meljen's Designs #64 Stripes or plaid
Penny's Challenge #56 Red, white & blue
Wednesday Stamper Circles
Paper Play Challenge Wk#25 Stars & stripes
Shelly's Images Stars & stripes
Stamp Insanity #64 Stars & stripes
Alphabet Challenge H for Half a dozen (6 swirls or 6 circles around each small flower)
Card Makin Mamas #23 Red, white & blue
Crafty Catz Weekly #88 add a charm
ECP Challenge #41 add the color gold
Phindy's Place #61 circles
Polka Doodle #24 Red, white & blue
Stamp Challenges Red, white & blue
Stampin for the Weekend #11 My Favorite things (making flowers and Distress stamp pads)
Totally Gorjuss #85 Pearls & swirls
Totally Paper Crafts #72 Spots & stripes
Creative Inspirations #52 Stitches faux or real (crossed staples)
Secret Crafters Saturday #140 Embossing

The 2nd card fits for these challenges:
Just a note - the boot is used as a vase, because spring rains are in the past aren't needed anymore and summer sun is here...
Inspiration Avenue Summer sun (see note above)
TSG Clear Stamps #112 use 3 different sets of stamps (I used 4)
Anything Challenge #43 anything summery (see note above)
My Time to Craft #145 use more than 1 image
Papertake Weekly Here comes the sun (see note above)
Tuesday Taggers anything summery (see note above)
Belli Challenge #120 use something that starts with the letter G (Glitter or galoshes)
Delightful Sketches Fun in the sun (see note above)
Fab 'n Funky #78 Summer loving
Stamping with Sarah Kay #145 Butterflies
CCEE Stampers Wk 11-25 Include pink
Do You Stack Up #25 Mauve, mustard & pink
Dutch Dare #118 Clean & simple
Moving along with the Times #104 Clean & simple
Simply Create #46 Something with wings
Wags 'n Whiskers #57 Summertime
Mark's Finest Papers #61 make it sparkle