Water color petals

This will have to be quick post for today. I am still enjoying my "coloring time" and wanted to share my card for today. I started by silver heat embossing the petals from the perennial essence bundle. This bundle comes with a great punch that coordinates with this stamp. I made 2 sets of petals to stack for a 3D effect. I water colored the petals and I really like the colors and how they blended. It made the most beautiful color!

I used the stitched label die to cut out a base for my sentiment and continued the silver heat embossing. I was afraid that you would not be able to read the greeting but I was pleasantly surprised that it showed up nicely!

I did not want to leave the background completely white and so I sponged on some balmy blue with my brick looking stencil. I thought turning it sideways would give it a different look and I was very happy with that but after putting the card together I decided that I think it would have looked better if I used a soft green in the background. I think the blue just didn't really go well with the rest of the design. Have a beautiful day! Enjoy!

Tea for Mothers Day

Hello, I hope you are having a great week and getting ready for Easter.  The card I made today has a spring feeling to it, I think it is because of the bright, pink tea cup!  I love bright, bold colors, you can tell by looking at this card. I stamped the tea cup in momento ink so that I could color it with stampin blends. After I finished and used the framelits to cut it out I thought about doing the same with the tea pot, however I liked the idea of the tea pot just being in the background. I didn't think that it needed to also be pink. I decided to stamp it on gray granite and cut it out. I added a few highlights with a white gel pen and decided that was good enough.

The sentiments in the tea together stamp set are beautiful and I love the fonts that are used. I stamped the greeting in gray granite and then used the stitched label framelits for a beautiful, dainty look. Mother's day is still a while from now, but I love to make cards so I have an option. Plus you know how crazy life and get and before you know it, it will be here.  I better get working on some Easter cards, since that is just in 2 weeks.  Do you send Easter cards? Normally I do not but I was thinking of sending a few this year.  Have a beautiful day! Take some time out to make a card for someone special! Thank you for visiting my blog!

Need a baby card?

Today I have made a cute and adorable little baby card. It can be given as a boy or girl card. This card I added the cute greeting "mama's boy" and so if you wanted to make it for a girl you could use another greeting from the stamp set. It was so easy to make and I love the way it turned out. Sometimes I feel like simple cards are just right.

How sweet is that little onesie? I just love how cute it came out, colored with the Stampin' blends and then I added the cute little heart from the stitched label framelits. I wanted the onesie to be the focus on this card and so I layered it with the stitched shapes framelits, and the scallop punch. For the background I used a piece of whisper white and randomly stamped the little accessories from the set with the pool party ink and then used the eyelet framelit to finish off the bottom edge. I mounted it all on the pool party cardstock that I had embossed with the sparkle embossing folder. Finished it all off mounted on a piece of thick whisper white cardstock.

I would love to know what stamp sets you like to use for baby cards? 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!