A few flower cards

These cards used really dark, bold colors.  Not my normal style at all.  I used Cherry Cobbler for the flowers from the What I love stamp set.  The card stock is Mossy Meadow.  I CASED this card and when I make it again I will not add the small brown leaves.  It is just way too busy for me.  I need more white space!  So here is the next card I made---lots of light colors and white space. Here the main colors are Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, and Mint Macaron.  My speckles are Sahara Sand. The leaves are from CASual Fridays but every thing else is Stampin Up.  I added some matching rhinestones. 

Little Debbie Boxes

Look at these cute little boxes.  They hold Little Debbie snack cakes. Each box holds 2 of the little heart shaped cakes. I used scraps of ribbon to tie them, but could have made a belly band with card stock.  I love the detail on the corner made with the new triple corner punch. 

Butterfly Basics

Today I made my cards using the Butterfly Basics stamp set.  I had used the fern before, but this time used most of the set.  They were both CASED from pinterest ideas. The first card is Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz with Sahara Sand for the mesh. I used my markers to ink the floral stamp.  I layered the butterfly with a printed vellum and used pink pearls for the body.  The card on the right has Wild Wasabi for the green, and Hello Honey for the mesh.  I used Marina Mist for the butterfly and a bow out of linen thread.  The edges of the card were sponged in Sahara Sand and the speckles are also Sahara Sand, as is the card base. 

Another Rose Wonder card

This is the card I made for my friend, Claudia.  She will be 72!  I used my aqua brush to water color, using pink pirouette and pear pizzazz.  Then the die cut frame of black was added over the top.  I also cut a few leaves out of vellum to layer under the sentiment.

Iris Folding

This is my first attempt at Iris Folding. My friend Claudia taught me.  It's very easy to do, the hardest part is choosing the paper. The center (iris) would have been better as silver foil. 

 

Anniversary Card

This is the final version of my anniversary card for JoAnne and Ed Evans.  I wanted to use the Botanical Builder framelits dies because we used them for the decoration on the party favors.  We used a white flower on gold boxes and they were beautiful.  I used the number framelits for the 50, cutting them out of gold foil. 

Guest stampers!

Molly came over to make Valentines for Dan and the kids. 

We also filled the Cutie Pie boxes for her co-workers at her new job. 

I made 10 of these for Molly's co-workers at her new

job.  Each paper and tag was different.  I used my

new Cutie Pie thinlet. 

Molly used the Sheltering Tree set for her

card for Dan.  The tree has about 4

colors of leaves and some punched tiny

hearts.  She personalized the bicycle color.

This card is so cute!  She used die cut hearts

and picked bright colors to layer behind the

panel.  She added a stitched scallop border

with a die and ran the white card stock through

that really cute embossing folder.

We used a brayer to add color to the new

World Traveler embossing folder.  The images

were placed in strategic locations to cover

ink blotches! 

 
 The very next day Brandon and Anna  came over to spend the afternoon and make their valentines for Rob, Molly, Dan and each other.  They also made one for Lindsay. 

Brandon's for his Dad                             Brandon's for his Mom                      

Brandon's for Anna                  Brandon's for Dan        

Anna's for Brandon                     Anna's for Dan

Anna's for her Mom              Anna's for her Dad

Anna made this one for Lindsay from the both of them for all her babysitting.

The kids had a good time.  They both used embossing folders and dies with the cuttlebug and my big shot. Anna did some sponging and Brandon used punches. They chose their ideas from Pinterest and changed them a bit to suit themselves.