I used only things I received in my Zany Zinnia June feminine kit, including packaging of materials and the kit itself. The hemp string is from a Jenni Bowlin tape tag, the horizontal strip is from a Prima packaging of flowers, the handmade flower uses a circle punched from the paper bag that held my kit (printed with vintage newspaper ads) and several circles from the green tissue paper that wrapped my kit, too. the sentiment is a little word cut from one of the patterned papers in the kit (the backside of that dotted paper, actually). The three little flowers are cut from another sheet of patterned paper in the kit, as is the vertical strip of paper. I inked the edges in black colorbox ink. The bubble in the center of my flower is from the Prima pack that was in my kit, too. I love this card, and the photo doesn't do it justice.
*Edit: I didn't win. The card that won is fantastic! You should go take a look at the SRM sticker blog. I did gain a new card sketch that I love and can see myself using many times. I also had the excuse to break into my Zany Zinnia kit. I have this thing about putting off using kits for as long as I can torture myself, lol. It's still so new, I say. In fact, I still have the Scarlet Lime December kit I haven't used yet. I opened it up and played with it, used the fabric and a couple of embellishments from it to make a flower embellishment, then I played with the glimmer mist and some tissue paper and made a rosette embellishment. Then I put it all back in the bag. except for the stamp and glimmer mist. Their homes are elsewhere.
Here is Challenge #23: 5 types of fabric (ribbons) + 5 buttons + 5 rub-ons + 5 tags + 5 different colors.
Next is challenge #24: 20 different manufacturers. To the best of my memory, since I do not store my supplies by manufacturer, everything here is made by a different company. Some of the items are even handmade.
Challenge #25: Exactly 100 things, excluding cardstock, patterned papers, photos, ink, and paint. I've started a collection of Story People (story-people.com) prompted layouts with this page. More to come. :)
HMITM Challenge #26: 50 pieces of chipboard. I punched 50 butterflies from a sheet of chipboard, and I absolutely love the results! I added gold and silver tiny rhinestones to each butterfly, so the layout actually sparkles a lot more than shown.
This one is for Challenge # 27: 10 patterned papers + 10 buttons + 10 stickers. There's that butterfly punch again (it's the one from Martha Stewart). For the journaling spots, I simple punched a circle and traced around it in white gelly roll pen, free-handed lines, and voila!
Last, but not least, Challenge #28: 30 pieces of ribbon. I let my son choose all of these ribbons. Later, after the page was finished, I noticed a theme. If you look for the shamrock ribbon (under the first "L" in the title) and continue clockwise around the photo, you get this: St. Patrick's Day, which is right after his birthday, then 4th of July, follwed by Halloween, and eventually Christmas closes the gap. A whole year, coming full circle, until it is finally his birthday agin. Isn't that neat? I wish I had done that on purpose!