Special Day

I love to make cards for special people in my life!  This card was made for a friend of mine who's birthday was last month. I also love a punch for my flowers because it makes the whole process so much quicker. 

I stamped the flower with calypso coral and then added dimension with my coral stampin blends and my white water color pencil. I used a few of the new dies: stitched nested labels and wild rose.

The sentiment is from the stitched all around stamp set and the designer paper is from the bird ballad DSP. I saved the negative portion to use on a future card. Check back and see what I did with that. Make someones day special and create a work of art for them! Enjoy!

Clean, simple, serene

I really like how this card came out.  I had colored the flowers and butterfly and was not sure what I was going to make when I started. I knew that I wanted the card to have a lot of dimension. I love dimension on a card. So I stamped the corner piece and then used the matching framelit to cut out the leaves. The framelits only cut out a few of the leaves and I really like how that looks. 

I used my stampin blends to color the images, I wanted to keep the entire card soft and serene. I used the sentiment from the stitched all around stamp set, I really like the fonts in this stamp set.

When I had finished I thought it needed a little something and so I turned to my basic adhesive backed sequins. I love the soft colors of these sequins and since they have adhesive already on them they are so quick and easy to attach! I hope you enjoy this card as much as I do.  Sometimes a simple card can bring such joy and I hope that the person I send this to feels the same serene joy in their day!  Enjoy!

You are so fabulous

Don't you just love the new stitched all around bundle! I had so much fun playing with this set and this is just the beginning. I created a gift for my stamp club hostess using this set. It was the first time that I had inked the set up and used the dies.  And now I can't wait to use it again! The greetings in the set are so beautiful. I love the fonts and they go so well with the framelits. I used one of our pizza boxes for the small 3 x 3 cards that I placed inside. I used Mossy meadow cardstock as well as the designer series paper for the outside of the box, heat embossed the sentiment and sponged a piece of the white polka dot ribbon with mossy meadow ink.

 I kept the cards very simple. After stamping I used the framelit to cut out and then punched a small coordinating color of cardstock to mat behind. I decorated the envelopes with another stamp from the set.

This really is a quick and easy project to put together. Hopefully my hostess liked the gift! I always like to spoil my hostesses because I really do appreciate them opening their homes up to have our stamp club. I also do appreciate all of my club members! I hope that they know that it is because of them that they make my job as a demonstrator so fun!