Charmed Cards

I found these Vintaj charms at Hobby Lobby in the jewelry supply aisle and thought they would be 'charming' on a card.  I hear all those groans.
All puns aside when I started to make these cards I really was pleased that I had found them, they are sturdy enough to stand up to mailing but delicate enough not add a lot of bulk to the cards.  I kept the cards really simple to highlight them and as you can see I used the same DP on both of them and for the life of me I'm not sure if it's Basic Grey or not.
The sentiment is from Papertrey's Sending You set.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Some cards just fall together. A few weeks ago I met my friend Sandy for lunch and shopping at Hobby Lobby. I found this DP from the Paper Studio and thought, okay I can use this for my March cards. So I bought a sheet and some cards stock for the base and figured I'd find a stamp or digi image to use. Well then I was in Michael's the other day and found these glittered shamrocks on a display and thought they'd make and easy peasy card.

Can anyone have too many shamrocks???

There are so many Irish blessings that could be written on the inside that it's hard to choose, but there is an Irish saying that I really like and would be a boon for many people. "When God made time He made plenty of it" Wouldn't it be nice if time was a bit more elastic and we could stretch out a day now and then. Of course when time snapped back into place it could really sting lol.

Hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

The Black Butterfly

"The Black Butterfly" doesn't that sound like a title from an old black and white film from years ago?

A lesson I've learned when wandering through Michael's and Hobby Lobby is never to bypass the jewelry making aisles.

I found this black butterfly by Traditions in the jewelry components section of Hobby Lobby. I'm not sure how it would be used as jewelry but I couldn't resist it for a card.

I had found this DP from the Paper Studio on the same shopping trip and last night as I was cleaning up my desk and getting ready for bed I came up with this idea.

I knew I wanted to make this a black and creme card so I found some scraps to mount and mat the butterfly on and assembled this card in just a few minutes. I just love it when I think of a card and I can make it come together the way I want. In that same aisle there were some medallions in gold and bronze that I'm itching to work with so I'll have to stay up late again and think. Hope it works.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Lockhart Cupcake

I was so excited yesterday when I spotted Lockhart stamps at the Novi Show. This Morning Glory Cupcake stamp just jumped into my hand and screamed take me home. Well not really but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Well any way I played with it last night and colored it with Copics and today I assembled a card. I had this paper and decided to mat the image using my Nestabilities. I had found a reference to a tutorial on "A Touch if Grace" for easy bow making using "Bow Easy" Hmm, I thought to myself 'I have one of those" so I dug it out and after finally reading the directions and looking at the pictures (after I watched the video 3 (yes 3) times I finally got it!!!! So I added ribbon and bow (Hobby Lobby), and finished the card. Hope you like it