Petite Petals Simple Sentiment

This was a card I made that was included in a set of birthday and thank you cards I made for a friend of my sisters.  I thought it was so simple and pretty, and I think I just might make some more in different colors.  Check it out:

Recipe

Paper:  whisper white, soft sky

Ink:  soft sky, memento black, blushing bridge, wild wasabi

Stamp Sets:  petite petals, bloom with hope

Accessories:  basic pearls

I made the blocks from one of my clear blocks, dipped in soft sky ink pad.  That's how I got that design for the card.  There's never a loss for what you can do with just the simplest items you have in your possession.

Hope you like the card as much as I do.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Easter Treats

I saw this cute idea for Easter treats by Maui Stamper.  I fell in love with it and thought I could make those for my family for a sweet treat for Easter.  Each year, I make something fun for my father, brother and sisters, nieces, and of course, my family.  This was an easy, fun, and pretty idea that I just had to make.  Check them out ...

I put Reeses peanut butter eggs inside, as I didn't have Dove eggs.  But never-the-less, they are adorable.

Hope you had a nice  Easter, and wishing you the best of the week to come.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Easter!!!

This is my Easter card for you today.  Enjoy this special day.

See you tomorrow!

Back to Basics For The Library

For my library classes each month, I always make two cards and one project.  This card is one of the ones I made for my March 2015 card class.  Everyone really loved the card, and because the stamp set is so versatile, you can use it for just about anything.

Recipe

Paper:  very vanilla, blushing bride

Ink:  memento black, pear pizzazz, blushing bride

Stamp Set:   butterfly basics

Accessories:  butterfly framelits, basic rhinestones

The card is very simple, as I like to keep them that way for my Library class.  There are beginners, and experienced stampers that come to my class, so I have to make sure I make something that everyone feels comfortable with.  They certainly walked away loving this card - so I was happy.

Stop back tomorrow to see the other card I made for the Library.  Until then, see you on the flip side!

A Birthday Full of Hot Air

I was very busy making cards using the balloon framelits and celebrate today stamp set and never realized that there's a hot air balloon basket stamp that comes with the set.  Well, how could I have not noticed???  I thought hard about what I wanted my card to look like, and I saw someone on Pinterest made their balloon 3-D, so that's why I chose to do mine the same way.  Here's how it turned out:

Recipe

Paper:  soft suede, gold foil, garden green, whisper white, gold soiree DSP

Ink:  garden green, memento black

Stamp sets:  celebrate today, sassy salutations

Accessories:  gold bakers twine

I might try my hand at another card similar to this using other colors - but at first thought, I wanted to use the gold soiree paper for the hot air balloon and matched the remaining colors to it.  So up up and away.

See you tomorrow...

Painted Blooms Thank You

The painted blooms DSP is simply beautiful, and there's no end as to what you an do with it.   I thought I would do something a tad bit different, so I dug through my framelits and found the adorning accents edgelits (retired) and decided to use it for this card.  I love the way the card turned out, and the colors are so pretty and vibrant in person.  I hope you like it too ...

Recipe

Paper:  whisper white, blackberry bliss, painted blooms DSP

Ink:  blackberry bliss, tangelo twist, hello honey, mossy meadow, lost lagoon

Stamp Set:  bordering blooms

Accessories:   blackberry bliss ribbon

I know it's a bit hard to see the lost lagoon in the picture above, but if you look at the berries on the vine, that's where you'll find it.  I love, love, love this card, if I must say so myself.  

Well, until tomorrow, keep stamping!

Celebrate 88!

April 1 was my dad's 88th birthday!  Can you believe it ... 88 years young.  I know how much he loves my hand-made birthday cards, so of course, I wanted to make something fun and special for him.  This is my first shaker card that I've made.  I actually wasn't sure if I was going to like it, and the more I look at it, the more I really like it.  See for yourself:

Recipe

Paper:  lost lagoon, very vanilla, rich razzleberry DSP

Ink:  lost lagoon, stazon white, pear pizzazz

Stamp Set:  celebrate today

Accessories:  bow builder punch, frosted sequins embellishments, acetate, foam backing

So how fun is this?  I did glue a few of the sequins in the background though just so they all wouldn't fall to the bottom of the balloon and you wouldn't see them all.  

Hope you enjoyed the card and will try it yourself too.  Until then ... ttfn.