Raining Flowers…

Kind of a silly title for a stamp set if you ask me but I do LOVE the stamp set!  I was looking through some old pictures and found this card I made this July.  I love the colors of this.  I think the picture is a little off for the colors but if I remember correctly the colors are Tangerine Tango, Pool Party, Early Espresso, Pear Pizzazz(?) and Blushing Bride.  Really some fun colors with a fun two step stamp set.  I hope those few people who received this card enjoyed it!

Truly an Easy Card

Here is a card we made at my Open House Bingo night.  Now typically, I have a hard time doing "simple" cards.  I always want to add a little of this, a little of that, a punch here, a dab there… LOL.  But I purposely tried to go simple with this versatile new stamp set called "Easy Events."  So here's the card…

So, what does it use?

Well….

Stamp Set: Easy Events
Card Stock: Basic Black, NEW Wisteria Wonder, Watercolor Paper, and Very Vanilla
Ribbon: Certainly Celery striped grosgrain
Inks: Jet Black Stazon, Wisteria Wonder marker with aquapainter, Pear Pizzazz marker

And a few dimensionals, mini glue dots, and adhesive!  Truly Simple and still pretty! 

A Thankful Butterfly

I held my first 10/10/20 class a few weeks ago.  We made 10 different cards that should've taken about 10 minutes each to create and the fee was $20.  Here is one of the cards my guests made…

As you can tell it uses some retired items (the button, the DSP) but those are very easy to replace!

I'll be doing another 10/10/20 on July 6th if you'd like to join us!  RSVP to save your spot!

New Goodies!!!

Who doesn't like new things???  I wanted to play with my new items from the Spring is Blossoming promotion but was awfully tired last night with little "mojo" when it hit me… it was Monday!  Duh!  MojoMonday!  So I went to their web site and looked at this week's sketch.  Hmmm… didn't grab me… seemed a little busy to me but I went for it! 

Here's the sketch:

Here's what I came up with…

So, I like it… but I don't love it.  Only because I think it's too busy.  I feel like I don't know where to look first!  Too many big focal points for me.  So I came up with a Mojo alternate.  

So basically I just eliminated one element, the linen thread but in taking out those 3 horizontal lines and bow it removed a lot (I think!).  I also made under the sentiment simpler giving the sentiment more of a chance to be seen first, rather than the ribbon behind it.  But then it hit me that the flower could use some "leaves" so I put a little ribbon there.  I think it works but I definitely wouldn't say this card is not busy… just slightly less busy than the first. 

We all have preferences – that's what creativity is all about!  What's your preference?

Supplies:

Four Frames Stamp Set
Because I Care Stamp Set
Paisley Petals DSP
Early Espresso Card Stock
River Rock Card Stock
Not Quite Navy Card Stock
White flower painted with my aquapainter in Not Quite Navy ink.
Antique Brad
Crumb Cake Seam binding
Linen Thread (on one of them!)
Scallop Edge Punch
Decorative Label Punch

Derek’s Thank You Notes

So really… I try hard… I do! But my poor baby didn't have his 2nd birthday invitations hand stamped by his momma.  (hanging head in shame)  But I did get his thank you notes done!  I actually stamped them a couple weeks ago but have yet to send them out.  But hey, in my world I'm still way early!  LOL

So here are this thank you notes…

These were totally inspired by Cyn's Regionals swap card from last month.  Isn't it great?  I loved it (obviously) and knew it would perfectly for my little monkey. I love the Early Espresso background layer Cyn has but I was out of it at the time.  Oh well!