Happy Father's Day by the Tide - The Paper Players Challenge #146

I wanted to make a Father's Day card using the stamp set "By the Tide", and I struggled a bit with how I wanted it to look, and after three tries, I finally got it right.  I really love the way it turned out.  Now, since the Paper Players' challenge for this week is clean and simple masculine,  I thought I would join in the fun and play.  So here's my card ...

Recipe:

Paper:  very vanilla, early espresso, soho subway dsp (sneak peek from new catalog)

Ink:  baked brown sugar, smoky slate, coastal cabana, crisp canteloup, pistachio pudding, gumball green and gold embossing

Stamp Sets:  by the tide, teeny tiny wishes

Accessories:  twine, basic rhinestones, glitter

I love the Soho Subway paper behind the picture.  It really looks awesome and fits the card perfectly.  I hope you like it.  Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to check out The Paper Players .... there's some awesome designs on their blog.  Happy Stamping!

My Mother's Day Card from Aileen

I wanted to share my Mother's Day card that I received from my daughter, Aileen.  It is so pretty, and it was made in by the indigenous people in El Salvador.  The flowers were pressed and dried, and the basket the flowers are in was made from banana skin.  How clever ... I just love it, and the colors are just beautiful.  Take a look for yourself and I'm sure you'll agree.

It was just too beautiful not to share.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.  I will definitely be preserving this so it doesn't get ruined.  What a lovely day I had, and being a mother is the best thing in the world.

Team Swap - Sending Love and Sympathy

Here's another card that Eleanor made for our team swap last month:  the theme was "sympathy".   We can never have too many sympathy cards, unfortunately.  This one too is a keeper.  Thanks Eleanor!

Don't you agree, it's very sweet?

I'll have some current team swaps for you coming up.  Stay tuned.  Thanks for stopping by!

Secret Garden Bouquet - Team Swap

This past week, I received in the mail the team swap from my dear friend, Eleanor, who lives in the Poconos.  She can't join us every month for our team swaps because she lives a distance from us, and I miss her when she's not here.

So you can just imagine when I opened my mail and saw two of her swap cards from last month, I went bonkers.  They are just so beautiful.  I thought I would share them with you.  Today's card features secret garden, and tomorrow, it will be a sympathy card.  Check it out ...

Isn't the card just beautiful?  I love the cone with all the flowers in it, and the leaves and ribbon just finish it off nicely.  I will definitely have to CASE this one .. it's truly a keeper.

Until tomorrow .... keep smiling and stamping!

Coloring Down the Lines - Very Vanilla

Hi Everyone!  Welcome back to this week's Coloring Down the Lines blog hop.  This week wasn't too hard ... the color choices were:  Very Vanilla, Regal Rose, Not Quite Navy, or Very Vanilla, Perfect Plum, Rose Red. I chose the first color pallet and designed my card around that.  I hope you just arrived from Carol's blog .... however, if not, make sure you backtrack and check her design out this week.  Here's my design for this week's blog:

Recipe

Paper:  very vanilla, not quite navy

Ink:  not quite navy, regal rose

Stamp Sets:  mixed bunch, itty bitty banners

Accessories:  basic pearls, itty bitty banner framelits

Yes, pretty simple this week.  Sometimes clean and simple just works.  Hope you like it.  Now let's check out Joni's blog and see how she put her pallet together.  Happy Stamping and Thank You for checking us out.

Flourishing Flowers Wedding

A friend of mine asked me to make her a wedding card for her friend whose wedding she's in next weekend.  I was happy to do that for her, and having just made one for the wedding I attended over the weekend, it was perfectly fitting.  So I sat down and put a couple thoughts together and here's what I came up with.  The color of the bridesmaid's dresses is royal blue.

Recipe:

Paper:  whisper white

Ink:  pacific blue, lucky limeade

Stamp Set:  flourishing flowers, petite pairs

Accessories:  delicate designs EF, designer frames EF, ribbon, basic pearls

The card is simple, but elegant.  I hope she likes it.  It's been fun making wedding cards ... I guess I may just make a few more to keep on hand.  Have a happy day!

Team Swap - Baby

We had to do two team swaps this month, and one was "friendship" and the other was "baby".  I saw so many cute baby cards on pinterest and the stampin connection, I didn't know what I wanted to do.  So then I found one I liked, and then decided not to make it.  I wanted to make something a bit more simple.  Well, as I sat down and cut out all the pieces, I wondered why I thought this card was going to be simple.  It was a bit more time consuming that I had anticipated, but I truly like the way it turned out.  Here's what I made:

Card Recipe

Paper:  daffodil delight, very vanilla, luckly limeade, sunshine & sprinkles dsp

Ink:  daffodil delight

Stamp Set:  papillion potpourri

Accessories:  artisan label punch, 1" round circle punch, fancy fan EF, sizzlits alphabet, bitty butterfly punch, lucky limeade bakers twine, basic pearls

I don't know if you can see it clearly or not, but the artisan labels are on dimensionals, as well as the dsp letters that spell "baby".  Of course, so are the butterflies ... and they added just the touch I was looking for.  Hope you like it ... until tomorrow....have a happy stampin day!