Happy Easter!

Hello, and Happy Easter to all my fellow stampers! Today, I am sharing an egg shaped Easter card and matching basket.  The Easter card was made back in February by my club ladies, and I recently decided it needed a matching basket. : )

 I had to use Mr. Bunny to hold up the card in the first picture.  The picture below is with the card untied and standing open along with a side profile of the basket.  The paper handle appears to be scrunched a bit! I guess I have been handling it too much! : )  I don't see any candy in it...hmmmm

 The next two pictures are just close ups of the card and basket showing the layered flowers.  We used Pool  Party embossing powder and embossed the Secret Garden flowers onto Pool Party, Tangerine Tango and Rich Razzleberry card stock.  No painting or coloring required!

 A very bright and cheery card for Easter!
RECIPE:
STAMPS: Secret Garden, Feeling Sentimental (SAB 2013), and Teeny Tiny Wishes
INK: Island Indigo, Summer Starfruit and Vera Mark ink
PAPER: Rich Razzleberry, Tangerine Tango, Pool Party and Sycamore Street DSP (SAB 2013)
ACCESSORIES: Secret Garden Framelits, Ovals Framelits, Occasions Paper-Piercing Pack, Bitty Banners Framelits, Pool Party Embossing powder, Tangerine Tango Satin ribbon (SAB 2013)  Basic Pearls, Subtle Glimmer Brads, and Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch.

May you have a blessed Easter celebration!

Last Day to Sale-a-brate! :(

It's the last day of Sale-a-bration!!!  OMG!  I have been having so much fun with this years FREE stampin' goodies!  How about you?  Today, in honor of the last day to sale-a-brate, I am sharing two cards made with the Feeling Sentimental stamp set.  I will be honest with you and tell you that at first glance of this set, I wasn't sure if I would like it. WRONG!!!  With all the beautiful samples out there by fellow stampers...it joined my ever expanding/changing "must have" list. : )
I love, love, love this card!!!!  It goes right into my favorites.  Basic Gray ink on Very Vanilla card stock is absolutely lovely!

 Sponging Basic Gray onto the Labels Collection Framelit shape along with paper piercing makes it soft and elegant.

 The 2nd card here is very similar except I added the Chevron Embossing folder and take a look at the "Happy Birthday".  Do you know where it comes from???

 If you said the That's the Ticket stamp set, you are correct!  I just trimmed it down to make a banner for the bike.

 RECIPE:
STAMPS: Feeling Sentimental (SAB), Perfectly Penned and That's the Ticket
INK: Basic Gray and Pool Party

PAPER: Basic Gray, Very Vanilla, Pool Party, Pink Pirouette, Primrose Petals and More Amore Specialty DSP 

ACCESSORIES: Basic Gray 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Festive Paper piercing template, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, Basic Pearls and sponge daubers. Chevron Embossing Folder, Pool Party Seam Binding,  Basic Rhinestones.

Thanks to all of you who placed orders with me during Sale-a-bration!!!!  Happy stamping!

Rapid Recover card

I made this card rather rapidly (ha-ha!) this morning to send off to one of my husband's friends who recently came home from surgery.  I hope he thinks its cute...and that I'm not too weird- LOL!  Stampers understand this humor....

RECIPE:
STAMPS: Patterned Occasions
PAPER: Red Glimmer paper, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Soft Suede, Whisper White, and Early Espresso Core'dinations card stock.
INK: Crumb Cake and Early Espresso
ACCESSORIES: Woodgrain Emb. folder, Owl Builder punch, Small Heart punch, Ovals Collection Framelits Die and Early Espresso 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon.
Have a great weekend!

Mojo Monday 283 (on Friday)

Today I played along with the Mojo Monday 283 sketch. I used the Print Poetry DSP as my color pallet and found a beautiful piece of of DSP from the Patio Party collection to add to it (the Summer Starfruit base). click HERE to see the sketch layout.

I used lots of fun Stampin' UP! goodies to create this card.  It was so nice to not have to cut anything out for this card.  If the stamp set has a matching die or a matching punch...consider it a must have-for me! : )

Although you can purchase items from the Spring Mini catalog until May 31, 2013, if you want to get FREE saleabration goodies like the very unique and classy stamp set that I used here called Feeling Sentimental, you must place your order with me before March 22nd!  Don't miss out on FREE goodies!!  Contact me today!

RECIPE:

STAMPS: Feeling Sentimental, Secret Garden and That's the  Ticket

INK: Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit and Gumball Green

PAPER: Print Poetry and Patio Party DSP, Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green and Very Vanilla card stock.

ACCESSORIES: Ticket Duo punch, Secret Garden Framelits, Summer Starfruit Dahlia flower, Midnight Muse Stitched Satin Ribbon, Delicate Doilies Sizzlits Die, Paper piercing tool, mat and guide and sponge daubers.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great weekend!

 

Oh, Whale Baby Boy card

Boy-o-Boy (tee-hee) was last week busy!  My youngest son, Zachary turned eleven. I had hostess club night and then we had district play-offs for Zachary's hockey team.  They played very well and took home the 1st place trophy as District Champs!  Very exciting! : )
Here is one of the cards we made on club night.  We used the Oh, Whale stamp set and matching Sunshine & Sprinkles DSP.  Although this is a baby boy card, I picked it because it can easily be changed into a girl card using the same DSP paper (see the pink and blue whales?). Just change the background color to Pretty in Pink or Pink Pirouette and you will have a cute baby girl card. : )

 I used Bashful Blue card stock as my base.  The whale is stamped in Marina Mist.  We used two folders: First the Honeycomb which we sponged White craft onto. Next, we punched out a 2 1/2" white circle and ran it thru the Cloudy Day folder.

 And notice the stitching? I absolutely love the Needlepoint Border embossing folder.  It's very easy to use and can add that extra detail to give any card that special touch.  Accessories, to me, are a necessity!

Recipe:
Stamps: Oh, Whale
Paper: Sprinkles & Sunshine DSP, Bashful Blue, Marina Mist and Whisper White
Ink: Marina Mist and White Craft
Accessories: Honeycomb, Cloudy Day and Needlepoint emb. folders, Happy Whale Clearlits Die, Island Indigo Bakers Twine, Scallop Trim punch and Basic Pearls.

What do you think?  Thanks for stopping by...and hope you get to stamp-a-latte!!