Circle Flowers

This was a really fun card to make. I had punched out all these circles from the DCWV Prints Mat Stack a week or so ago and when I straightened my desk up the other day I found them. I had used some of them on a previous card then set the rest of them aside. Last night while I was trying to go to sleep I started thinking about them and came up with this idea.

Luckily I was tired enough to go ahead and go to sleep rather than get up and make this card.

I gathered the circles together and got out my Papertrey Ink Basic Buttons set and got to work. I started to stamp out the flower stems and then realized that I wanted them to go completely across the page, what to do, I had already started in the center of the card stock so I took another piece and butted it up to this one and stamped part of the flower stems on each piece. I ended up with two sets of flower stems to add circles to and thus two cards. I took some green card stock and used my new Martha Stewart Fringe scissors to make the grass. Across the top I used the EK Success Bumpy Road punch ( to me it kind of looks like clouds).

I really like how this card turned out, it seems to be such a happy card. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

A Punchy Wedding Card

I was cruising through some blogs the other day and came across a card that was just so beautiful. It was layers of card stock that had been punched with different border punches. It was all white and looked fabulous.

Last night I was still awake at 1:15 AM and got to thinking about that card. I got up and decided to try and recreate that card. Boy howdy was that a mistake. I finally finished this card but it was a real struggle. My first mistake was using a white card base and then using Cryogen white for my layers. Not such a good look. I ended up putting a strip of Cryogen white at the bottom so the hearts didn't show the white. I finagled with these strips for quite awhile until I got the look I wanted. The top strip is and EK Success punch the rest are Martha Stewart's. The card that was my inspiration (I went back through a whole bunch of web sites looking for it and couldn't find it any where) had no stamping on it but mine needed something so I used this Congrats Rose stamp from Stampendous at the top. I used the palest pink and green Copics to give it just a touch of color. I think it will make a perfect wedding card don't you? Thanks for stopping by.

Karen's Doodles Challenge

Spent some time tonight cruising the web and found out about this challenge from my friend Sandy.

It's a challenge over at Karen's Doodles and since it is recipe challenge I decided to join in.

I quickly went through mu Doodle images and chose this one. I just love these Peek a Boo kids.

I chose the DP from the DCWV Citrus pack.

It has been such a gloomy, rainy day here I thought these cheerful colors would be fun.

I colored with Copics and border punched the edge with a new EK Success punch (I think it is called bumpy road). The ribbon is some I picked up on sale at Michael's a long time ago. I put some gems in the flower centers and in the corners and was done.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Christmas Reindeer

I got the bug to work on Christmas cards. ( I got a call from my sister asking for 15 cards and that got me going).

I really wanted to work some more with embossing powders and this set seemed to cry out for this technique. It is an Inkadinkado clear set that is really beautiful. I'm using very fine detail white embossing powder and it works great.

The sentiment is also Inkadinkado, but a different clear set.

I used a snowflake edge punch from EK Success.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Christmas Redo

I tried this same design again, but with slight differences. Using the same punches from EK Success (trees) and Martha Stewart (village) but with different color paper for the trees. With the CuttleBug embossed layers I simply cut them at an angle (these were the leftovers from the previous card--waste not want not) and added the snowflake brad with the blue flat back pearl from the Recollection Autumn collection I picked up at Michael's. The Merry Christmas is from a Christmas set by Fiskars. I think I like this layout a bit better but that's just me. I may play with this some more and see what I come up with. I still need to finish my Thanksgiving cards for my church group and design more Christmas cards for next months card gathering at my cousins. Lots of fun coming up. Hope you like it.

Christmas

I am going to my cousins in a couple of weeks to work with some friends to start the Christmas card making. Whoowee it's coming too soon (Christmas I mean).

Anyway I saw a similar card to this at Stamp On It in Grand Rapids. It uses the tree border punch from EK Success and the village punch from Martha Stewart. It's a really cute design. I changed it up a bit by adding the two layers of CuttleBug embossed (Divine Swirls and Swiss Dots) to it. It's hard to see from my poor photography but there is allot of stickles on there also. The blue metallic paper gives a little shine. I did use my Prismas to add a little color the trees. An easy card to make once I had the layout set. Hope you like it.

Cabin

I found this wonderful stamp "Cabin" from Northwood Rubber Stamps at Stamp On It in Grand Rapids. It just jumped into my hand and said "Guy card". I made a similar card as a B'day card for a friend and it was an easy card to make. It's stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa, then lightly colored with copics on a parchment card stock. The corners were done with an EK Success Leaf punch. I look at this and see relaxing in front of a crackling fire with a good book (after a fun day of stamping of course). Have a fun day.

Multi Purpose Card

I fell in love with this stamp as soon as I saw it. It works great for all kinds of cards. In this case it could be a wedding, anniversary or even a birthday card. It is Impression Obsession's Hydrangea Ribbon stamp. I colored it with my Copics then on the ribbon I used Shimmerz Opal to give it some shine. The sentiment is Hero Arts (great all purpose stamp) and punched the bottom edge with an EK Success punch. For a finishing touch I ran my gold leafing pen along the edge. It is a little hard to see but the DP is a soft gold paisley that works really well with this color combo. Have a great day.