Daffodil Afternoon

Did you get some of this great paper during Sale-a-bration? Pull it out and get creating with it! There are so many ways to create cards fast. You need to let the designer series paper sing! 

The Daffodil Afternoon designer series paper needed to get cut at my house. I know I struggled to use this paper at first because it is fairly dark and spring shouldn't be dark colors in my mind. Once I started cutting it up, though, I was able to get several cards made. 

Amazing Silhouettes

Amazing Silhouettes was a free set that I got from Stampin' Up! for attending one of their conferences. I'm not sure I would have purchased this set on my own but I might was well use it since I have it! Here are three cards using this set. 

This card has a Gorgeous Grape base. I used the blending brush to add some ink to the Basic White background cardstock. The butterfly does have Wink of Stella on it but you can't see it.

Tidings & Trimmings

 Trimmings & Tidings is retiring in just a few weeks but I had so much fun creating several different cards with very different looks. I love that challenge of using the stamp set in different ways. 

This first card starts with Soft Suede card base. I stamped the star with Crumb Cake ink to create the background for the main image. The stars were die die as well at the berries and leaves. The string star is cut from gold foil paper. 

Jar of Flowers Scrapbook Pages

I love the challenge of creating scrapbook pages with stamp sets. I pulled Jar of Flowers from my shelf and took the challenge to make some scrapbook pages with it. I think I succeeded! 

Sunshine & Rainbows

Another class that I'm hosting very soon is the Sunshine & Rainbows class. At this class you will be getting a half of a pack of the Sunshine & Rainbows designer series paper to make these cards and then the rest of the half pack is yours to take home with you!

Cactus Cuties

My Class at Home this month is featuring the Cactus Cuties bundle. This bundle includes a coordinating punch and really is cute! Option 1 is the gotta have it all option. It includes Cactus Cuties Bundle (stamps and punch), Sponge Daubers, Paper Snips, Linen Thread, Supplies to create 6 cards (2 each of 3 designs), and a PDF Tutorial for $60.

Garden Wishes

I was given this stamp set a long time ago. I don't remember if it was a freebie from Stampin' Up! for attending some conference or if I won it from one of the stamping groups I am part of. I do know that it sat on my shelf for a very long time! I don't know why I never pulled from the shelf. Now it is retiring and I wanted this set to see a least a little ink so here we go!

I started with a simple technique of stamping the image with VersaMark ink and then covering the ink with pastel dust. It gives the image a hazy look but I really like how it turned out. 

For Unto Us

The stamp set For Unto Us is a fantastic religious Christmas greeting set. It was part of Stampin' Up! for 2 years and has now retired. I will be keeping this set in my collection for a while as I love the religious nature of it and find that hard to find once in a while.

This card is a base of Smoky Slate with Basic Gray and Basic White as layers. The music was embossed and then I ran the ink pad over the top so that the embossing would pick up that ink. 

Spring Butterflies Scrapbook Pages

The Daffodil Afternoon papers that were part of Sale-a-bration were a little darker than I would have guessed and I wasn't sure about them because of this. I learned to work with them and am very pleased with the way these pages turned out.

Simply Marbleous Daisies

Did you see my post where I shared how to make these chevron cards? Well, you can see it HERE if you would like to take a peek. When I was creating those cards, I made a boo-boo. I couldn't throw away that boo-boo and this gorgeous paper so I worked with it and created this card. My mistake was that I made 2 pieces with the slants going the same way as the other one. It so happened that they were opposite each other and worked well to create this card with the blues and purples. 

Awesome Otters

I didn't get to play with this set much while it was available, so I had to play a bit more before I put it away. I used the color palette of Pacific Point, Balmy Blue and Real Red. Here we go!

The Basic White layer was embossed with the Bark embossing folder that I used a blending brush and added some Pacific Point over the top lightly. It sure does feel like water! I colored the otter with blends.

Nature's Harvest

Nature's Harvest was an instant favorite of mine when I saw it in the July to December mini. I admit that I did hesitate to purchase it because I felt like it was very similar to Quiet Meadow and I already had that but in the end, the coneflowers got me and home this bundle came.

This card is pretty simple in that I didn't do anything fancy with it. The base is Calypso Coral with a die cut from Pear Pizzazz. The layers are Basic White and Petal Pink. The flower was colored with blends and die cut. I added a couple of gems, a greeting and a bow from linen thread. Nothing too fancy.

Happy Holly-Days

How are those Christmas cards coming? I am working slowly on getting ahead for the coming season. I hope that you are making some headway on getting those cards ready to go.

This stamp set was part of the July--December mini catalog. It's called Happy Holly-Days. I have a weakness for holly on Christmas cards. This set also has a beautiful bird. You can see several cards I made with the bird HERE. 

This set was part of a bundle that had a coordinating punch. The punch created a holly border. You can see how the punch worked on the bottom of this card. I added some Real Red cardstock to the back of the Basic White so the holly berries are red. The holly on the top of the card was stamped with VersaMark and then I used some Mossy Meadow and Poppy Parade pastels to color it.