Glitz and Glitter

Don't you love it when you learn something new. This morning Gina has a new tutorial on StampTV on how to glitter up an image and not have glitter everywhere. She uses a Gelly Roll Startdust (glitter) pen. I have one of these pens but have not used it because I didn't think to use it over colored items. How pretty this looks. I had to take my picture at an angle so you could see the glitter. Do you see it on there?

For her challenge today, you are to use this technique and glitter your entire main image. I used Gina's "Tropical Windows" set which is a free set when you purchase three. I chose this flower image from the set because I thought it goes so well with the card stock and designer paper that is in the "Signs of Autumn" Showtime kit that just came out on StampTV.

I used the Nestabilities "Labels Four" and "Large Labels" to create the frame. I layered them together on the card stock at the same time then cut them out. Since this is a solid stamp, I used Memento Dew Drop Cantaloupe and Potter's Clay ink pads on the flower and New Sprout and Bamboo Leaves on the leaves and stem. It is easy to do this with the Dew Drop pads because they have a sharp point at one end which allows you to tap the ink into small areas. I purchased these ink pads from the Gina K store. After I had all the ink on the stamp, I spritzed it with water to blend the colors then stamped it on Ivory card stock. After I made sure the design was dry, I used the Stardust pen to give it the glitz and glitter look. On the leaves, instead of coloring the entire leaf, I drew in veins. I cut the flower out to fit under the frame and used dimensional tape to mount it. I forgot to mention that before I mounted the design under the frame, I use a sponge dauber to add Cantaloupe ink around the design.

On each end of the frame, I added a corduroy brad, from SU. The border under the frame was cut on So Saffron card stock using a Martha Stewart punch. The verse is from the Tropical Windows stamp set. I cut it out with Nestabilities tag but couldn't figure out how to layer a tag so I liked it. I decided to cut off the end with the hole and just mount it in the center without a brad.

I used the beautiful green card stock, also from the Signs of Autumn stamp kit and embossed the top piece with the new Cuttlebug Victoria embossing folder. I think this design goes so well with this pretty flower. I used one of the new Cuttlebug border embossing folders for the trim on the bottom of the card. I purchased these embossing folders from Joan's Gardens.

I'm off now to upload my card to Gina's challenge. Be sure to check the challenges out on StampTV. Each time you submit a card to a challenge, you are eligible to win any Gina K stamp set valued up to $24.95.

Have a wonderful day.

Under the Sea

My granddaughter, Shannon, came over this morning and said she needed to make a thank you card for her cousins, who live by the ocean. She had some "ocean" ideas that she was playing with. She got really excited when she found this designer paper because it looks like water. She thought this was the perfect paper to go with the Sea Horse from Gina's Eclectic Summer Showtime Stamp Kit and decided it would be fun to use Melanie's Inspiration Mosaic stamp for the background.

She stamped the sea horse using the Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea ink pad. She cut it out and added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter. The Inspiration Mosaic was stamped with VersaMark and embossed with Detail White Embossing Powder. The greeting is from the same set and was also white embossed.

The sea horse was mounted with dimensional tape. She found some green velvet rick rack and thought it would make good sea weed since I didn't have that kind of stamp. I wasn't sure it would work, but she played with it and I think it looks great. She has a great eye for designing. It was attached with Scor-Tape. The three sea shells and rhinestones were added to complete the card.

Birthday Cards

Today is my grandson's birthday. Jake is very athletic and has been a baseball champ many times. Melanie's "Sporty Accessories" stamp set , available from Gina K Designs, is just perfect for his birthday card. I made it to match his uniform using Red, White and Blue.

This is Luke. His birthday is August 28. His team just won the championship in soccer. He is the goalie. I again used Melanie's set "Sporty Accessories" and her new set "Inspiration Mosaic" for his card and matched the colors in the photo. I am so proud of all their athletic accomplishments.

My son and his family were just here for a two week visit. We always love spending lots of time with them. They will be back in December for another two week visit.

Happy Birthday boys!

Thankful For You

Isn't this a cute image! This card was made using the new "Autumn Garden" stamp set from Our Craft Lounge. As soon as I saw this set, I knew I had to have it.

To start with, I stamped the fence on a piece of white card stock. On a scrap, I stamped the scarecrow and cut him out. I used Copic markers to color. The sky and grass were sponged on using ink. The scarecrow is mounted with dimensionals. The flowers are brought to life by adding lavender Flower Soft. I purchased this from Joan's Gardens.

The piece on the upper left hand corner was made by stamping the leaf (from SU) with VersaMark on Glossy card stock then embossed with Detail Clear Embossing Powder. I then used sponge daubers to add fall colors over the piece. The Chocolate Chip background was "half" embossed using the Cuttlebug Argyle embossing folder. The main image and the leaf piece were matted with Basic Black card stock.

The Thankful For You verse is from the Autumn Garden set. I used petite oval Nestabilities to cut two scalloped frames. The top piece was pierced in each scallop. The main image was mounted with dimensionals. A yellow Prima Flower and some rhinestones were added to complete the card.

This card makes me smile. I love all the dimension on it.

I wanted to let you know that Shannon's baby card was a very big hit at the baby shower yesterday. Everyone was very impressed with her work.

Have a wonderful day.

Red and Brown Color Challenge

Today I decided to make a card for Lee's Color Challenge over on StampTV. The colors to use are red, brown and cream. I wanted to use the basket from the new StampTV kit "Signs of Autumn" because it has apples I could color red. I stamped the basket with Black Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. I love how you can blend with them. I used a red, orange and yellow so I could get a highlight on the apples. I cut the image out. I wanted to add some Fall foliage around it so used the leaf and wheat stamps, also in the kit. I am having so much fun using the Memento Dew Drop pads I just bought from Gina K Designs. I needed to keep my card within the color scheme so used Cantaloupe and Rhubarb Stalk inks to pat the ink directly onto the rubber then spritzed with water to blend. I love the colors on the leaves. I cut them out but they looked kind of "flat" so I decided to turn the leaves over and use a stylus to draw on veins on each leaf. Can you see it on there? I love the texture. I also inked the wheat in the same way and cut it out.

I layered red card stock onto the Vanilla card base. I ran the brown card stock through the new Herring Bone Cuttlebug embossing folder I purchased from Joan's Gardens. The frame was cut using the Spellbinders "Frameabilities Classic Frame". I had to cut this twice because I wanted the outside frame to be red and the inside to be brown. I didn't like the plain brown background, so I drew some score lines on it using the ScorPal. I added some brads from the Gina K Kit to each corner of the frame.

The verse is from Gina's Showtime Stamp Kit "Thanks a Million". I used the Memento Cantaloupe ink to lightly stamp the wheat, on Vanilla card stock, then used Versafine "Vintage Sepia" ink to stamp the verse. I cut it out using Petitie Oval Nestabilities then punched holes in each scallop.

The frame, the basket and the verse are all attached on dimensionals. The leaves and wheat where attached with adhesive tape.

For such a little card, it took a lot of steps to complete this card, but I am very pleased with it. It has a lot of texture. Now I will go add it to the StampTV challenge which closes Monday.

Shannon's Baby Card

I have had a very busy day. This morning I needed to clean up my stamp room then had to leave for most of the day. When I came home, my granddaughter Shannon, who just turned 12, asked if she could come over and make a baby card. Since I have not had time to stamp today, I asked her if it would be ok if I post her card on my blog and she was happy for me to do that.



Shannon loves Melanie's stamp set "Wee Tees" and asked to use it. I pulled out other baby stamps but she went over and pulled out Melanie's set. She knew I had used that set for my baby card (which I have already posted), but she assured me her card would be different. She knew exactly what she wanted on it. She decided to do paper piecing. She found some designer paper in the color she really liked and made the above card. She is so cute because she is very familiar with my stamp room and started going through all the containers with buttons, brads, and other embellishments. She found the things she liked then looked for a Cuttlebug folder she thought would be good for her baby card. The folder she used is called "With Love". Shannon totally did this card on her own. She is as hooked on the Cuttlebug folders and the Nestabilities as I am. She used the petite oval nestabilities and the petite circle Nesties for the background for the hand. She even embossed the frames. She really wanted something for the lower left and corner. She had a hard time deciding what to do. She found the baby feet punch. She had a hard time getting it to punch out on the Sky Blue card stock. The only thing I did for her was use a sponge dauber and added some SkyBlue ink to a piece of computer paper so the punch would work. She was delighted with that. The reason she has a "C" on the tag is because the baby's name will be "Cooper".



It is always a joy to have Shannon come over to stamp. She is such a neat little girl. She always gets up and puts everything away and leaves my stamp room nice and tidy.



I think she did an excellent job designing and completing this card. I'm sure the new mom will love it. I will be going to the Baby Shower with her tomorrow.

A Fall Thank You

We are having a very cloudy day and I can not get a good picture of this card. It feels like Fall is in the air! The colors are actually much brighter. It is made with stamps from Gina's new Showtime Stamp Kit "Signs of Autumn". All card stock and the designer paper are from Gina K Designs.

I started out with a piece of card stock from the kit and cut out the center with Nestabilities Labels Four. I embossed it while still in the die. I attached a piece of the designer paper, from the kit, to the back then mounted it to a piece of Gina's Chocolate Kiss luxury weight card stock.

I did something different to color the leaves. I used four colors of the Memento Dew Drop ink pads to color. These are new ink pads I just ordered from Gina K Designs, and I love using them. The pads used are: Cantaloupe, Bamboo Leaves, Potter's Clay, and Rhubarb Stalk. I gently tapped each pad directly to the rubber in the order listed. I then gave it a couple of spritz of water to blend then stamped and cut them out. I love the colors on the leaves. I then stamped the pumpkins twice and rubbed the Cantaloupe Dew Drop pad all over using mostly the tip of the pad. Using these small pads made it easy to color with them. I cut the smaller pumpkin out of the second stamped image and layered it with dimensional tape. I then stamped the flowers and colored them with Copic Markers and also cut them out. I then layered everything adding a few "fern" type leaves punched with a Martha Stewart punch. A Prima Flower was added at the top with a large gold brad and a gold sticker added inside the frame.

My husband asked me for some Thank You cards and this will be one of them.

Autumn Blessings

Good Morning. Boy yesterday was kind of a wild day. We had many thunder storms going through our area and we lost our electricity for most of the afternoon. We needed the rain but I don't like the lightening. I was a little worried wondering if I was going to be able to bake my husband's birthday cake. I did get it baked and decorated before his party.

The above card was made with one of the new JustRite stamp sets called "Autumn Blessings". This set has 6 stamps plus 6 interchangeable borders. I purchased this set from Joan's Gardens.

I used the Cuttlebug Argyle embossing folder for the top portion of the background and a piece of designer paper out of my scrap bin . . . I think it might be SU. I stamped the design using the "Autumn Blessings" border and colored it using Copic markers. I chalked the background with yellow. It was cut out with Classic Oval Nestabilities and mounted on a Real Red scalloped oval. For the border across the middle, I cut a narrow strip of Real Red card stock and scored it a couple of times on my ScorPal. The three leaves are brads and were added to give it a little more feeling of Autumn.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Happy Birthday

Today is my husband's birthday. He is an avid golfer so naturally I had to make a "golf" birthday card. Gina did a StampTV tutorial today on how to ink a Cuttlebug embossing folder. She made a beautiful card and her technique is easier than what I have done in the past. You can watch her video here. I loved the card she made and thought this would be the perfect background for my card.

I used the Cuttlebug Argyle embossing folder, Vanilla card stock and Sahara Sand ink pad. Gina did this with a small ink pad and I think it would work much better but I didn't have a soft neutral color, in a small pad, so used a regular size pad and a brayer. Don't you love the way this technique brings out the texture of the embossing! I mounted it on Night of Navy card stock.

I stamped the golf bag (retired from SU) with black Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. The reason I use Memento ink is because the ink does not smear when using the Copic markers. You can use other inks, but you usually need to heat set them first. I used a silver Copic's glitter pen on the head of the golf clubs to make them look like metal. After getting it colored, I cut the image out. I used the Long Rectangle Nestabilities to cut out a Sahara Sand card stock frame. I mounted that with dimensionals onto a piece of Night of Navy card stock.

The "Happy Birthday" is from SU. I cut it out using a the SU Word Window Punch. I added two brads in the tag and mounted it on dimensionals. The golf club is an embellishment I have had for a while and decided to add it to this card for more dimension. I used Scor-Tape to attach it. I then stamped three golf balls using VersaMark and Detail White Embossing Powder.

The inside of this card holds a gift certificate for him to go play at a very nice golf course he has been wanting to go to. We will be having a special dinner and party tonight.

It's Not The Years

Melanie is having a BLOG HOP tomorrow for her new "Inspiration Mosaic" stamp set available from Gina K Designs plus some BLOG CANDY. This stamp set was so popular that it was sold out within a couple of days but Gina now has them back in stock.

I am not part of the blog hop but just received my stamp and this is the first card I made using it. This mosaic stamp is going to be really great for making lots of different cards. I can hardly wait to see all the new ideas the designers will have tomorrow. Be sure to click on the top icon in my side bar to join in on The Inspiration Mosaic Blog Hop.

For this card I found a piece of designer paper with a light design then stamped the Mosaic, using Momento Black ink. I love the new set by Nina Brackett "Elegant Post", also available from Gina K Designs and decided to use one of the stamps from that set. The verse is from the Inspiration Mosaic stamp set. Both the birds and the verse were black embossed. The mosaic was then mounted on Real Red card stock before attaching to the white card. A Prima flower was added as well as a few red pearls to complete the card.

This was a very quick and easy card. Be sure and check out Melanie's Blog Hop tomorrow for a lot more ideas.

Thanks for visiting.

Another Blog Award

Today I received an award from my friend Olga.
Thank you Olga for presenting me with this pretty award. Now this award comes with some conditions. I have to tell you 5 things I like to do then pass this award on to more 5 people.
Here are the 5 things I like to do:
1. I love spending time with my family.
2. I love to spend time stamping/blogging
3. I love to travel
4. I love to visit with friends
5. I love to read
Here are 5 Bloggers I am passing this on to:
Mary Anne
Linda Payne
Nina
Priscilla
Sue

Birthday Wishes Hanging Basket

Today I made a card with another new set from Gina K Designs. This is a beautiful set designed by Nina Brackett called "Elegant Post". It is definitely elegant. It has three greetings in a beautiful font.

I have had some embossing powder, for years, that I have not used. I thought it would be great with this flower pole. It is called "Green Verdigris", which is a mix of green and I think gold and maybe a little black. I decided to use Black pigment ink to stamp the pole, then embossed with the Green Verdigris embossing powder. I tried to emboss with VersaMark and didn't like the coverage so decided to use black pigment ink and it turned out perfect. I stamped the pot of flowers with Black Memento ink on a separate piece of card stock, colored with markers, then cut it out. I didn't put it on dimensionals but it still gives it a little dimension. I used a piercing tool to punch a border then mounted it on Green Galore card stock.

The top piece of background paper is from the Basic Grey "Sultry" Paper Pad and the bottom piece is from the DCWV "Fun in the Sun" Summer Matstack. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border. In the upper corners I use the Cuttlebug corner die and added some green rhinestones to the center of the flower. I also added a few other rhinestones to complete the card.

The Birthday Wishes is from the Elegant Post stamp set. It was cut out with Petite Oval Nestabilities and attached on dimensional tape.

Dino-mite Baby

The time is almost here. My neighbor is going to have her baby in a few weeks and I will be going to her baby shower. When Melanie's new stamp set "Wee Tees" came out, I knew it would be the perfect set to make a baby card. I actually made this card back in May but have not posted in on my blog yet. I have not made baby cards for a very long time so this one was a lot of fun to work on.

Since this is a "boy" baby card, I used three retired pieces of SU designer paper in pale blue for the background. The onesie was white embossed and cut out. I used my Peerless Watercolors to achieve a tie-dye look. The little dinosaur was perfect for a little boy card. I mounted the onesie on 3 mats, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, and Barely Banana. I used my rectangle Nestablities for the two top frames. I have had the cute little baby embellishments in my "stash" for years and thought this was the perfect time to use them. I used some celery velvet rick rack across the middle border.

I'm looking forward to going to this baby shower with my granddaughters next weekend.

Today I am going to spend time with my daughter. We are going to a movie then will go shopping. I always love to spend time with her.

A Flower Soft Project and Storage

Today my granddaughter came over and spent most of the day with me. We always love to stamp together. I received a package of Flower Soft I ordered from Joan Fricker from Joan's Gardens. I was excited to get all the new colors today. I love to organize and have things easy to work with. I found it hard to try and pull out a little Flower Soft when working on a card and getting it back in the bottle. I store all my embossing powders, glitters, etc in little storage drawers which makes it so easy to work with. I decided to store my Flower Soft in individual drawers too. Shannon helped me label the drawers with all the colors of Flower Soft then we emptied each jar into a drawer. Here are some pictures so you know what I am talking about.

I bought these drawers at Wal-Mart. I believe they are suppose to be used in the garage for screws, bolts and nuts but they are perfect in my craft room and not very expensive.

When I am using embossing powder, glitter, and now Flower Soft, I can just pull the little drawer out and put in on my work table. If my project doesn't fit in the drawer, I work in a Powder Pal tray, or on a piece of computer paper, to pour what ever I'm working with back into the drawer. I hope my organizational tip with help you if you are looking for an easy way to store these products.

Now I will tell you about the card I made today. This is a Flower Soft Topper card. These are like a post card. The design is already printed and you just need to add the Flower Soft to complete them. I added a few extras to it. When you purchase a package of these Toppers, you get 6 in each package. All you have to do is use Flower Soft Glue and apply the different colors of Flower Soft to each of the flowers. I added a little green to some of the leaves, but not much. It is very quick and easy and brings the card to life. I really love the texture it gives a card. I mounted it on a 5"x7" card. Shannon and I each made this bicycle card. Isn't it a beautiful picture. We completed the card a little differently but both cards turned out so pretty. I added a border down on the bottom made with a Martha Stewart punch, some butterflies to the picture, a gold brad to each wheel, and a small green bow.

I have more ideas for using Flower Soft for Fall cards that I will be posting them later. Using Flower Soft is so fun and very addictive!!!

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Thanks for the Memories

I am so excited. My StampTV kit arrived this afternoon. I was so excited to receive it that I went out to meet the mail lady. She saw the big smile on my face and said she could tell this was a package I was excited to receive. The name of this kit is "Signs of Autumn" available from Gina K Designs. This is the third kit I have received from Gina K and each one has been fabulous. You receive two stamp sets, card stock, designer paper, lots of ribbon and brads. Everything you need to make beautiful cards. Everything I have used on this card is from the kit with the exception of some of the card stock for the leaves and the leaf punch.

I stamped the sunflowers with Memento black ink on Gina's Pure Luxury White card stock and colored them with Copic markers. I then stamped it again and after coloring just the flowers, cut them out and added them with dimensionals on top of the other ones. The background was lightly chalked with yellow. I cut the frames out with Oval Nesties. The pumpkins were stamped with Vivid brown ink and also colored with Copics. Again, I stamped the design twice so I could cut out the front pumpkin and attach it on a dimensional. I added the pumpkins over the bottom of the sunflowers. I thought the pumpkins need to be "grounded" so added some punched leaves.

A piece of ribbon from the StampTV kit was added across the middle and a brad, also in the kit, was added on each end. The verse is from the other stamp set in the kit called "Thanks A Million!". There are ten verses in this set. The background designer paper is beautiful with these fall images and again, is included in the kit.

I have a dear friend who will be 91 years old in a few months. I am going to be sending this card to her. We have so many wonderful memories. I hope she will like it.

Water Spritz Challenge

Gina has a great video over on StampTV on how to get a pretty watercolor look when using your solid stamps by water spritzing. This is a technique I love to use. You can see the video here. She also has posted a challenge using the Water Spritz Technique. You can see the details here. I love the card Gina made and was hoping my new StampTV Kit would arrive in the mail today, but guess I have to wait one more day. I was anxious to make a card with this technique so I used a flower from Gina's Showtime Stamp Kit "Elegant Flowers"

The markers I used to color this flower are Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, and Mellow Moss. After spritzing the flower with a fine water mist, I stamped it on Gina's Pure Luxury white card stock. I used my Oval Nestabilities to cut it out, then matted it with a larger Mellow Moss oval.

The designer paper is "Cruise Stripes" by EK Success. It is a two sided paper so I cut a piece to fit the front of the card then cut it in half and put the solid side on top. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border. I added a narrow piece of black ribbon on top of the border for an accent. There is dimensional tape between the oval layers and on the bottom to give the card dimension. A green bow was added to dress it up a little. The salutation is also from the Elegant Flowers stamp set. I cut it out with the Small Petite Nestabilites die and sponged it with Pale Plum and Pretty In Pink, before taking it out. I then used a paper piercer around the scallops. The upper part of the card seemed like it needed something so I decided to add small yellow butterflies to pick up the yellow in the designer paper. The punch is by Martha Stewart.

This is a fun and easy challenge. I hope you will join in on the fun. You have a chance to win any Gina K stamp set valued up to $24.95. It is a random drawing so everyone has a chance to win. You can read all the details on the link above.

Thanks for stopping by.

Owl Tri Shutter Card

Several months ago my StampTV friend, Betty Benton, made a beautiful Tri Shutter card. She was nice enough to give us the link for the directions but I never found time to make one. I have finally done it. My card is pretty simple but I like it. I found it hard to get a good picture but I have uploaded three views.

I used Gina K's "OWl Always Love You" stamp set. There are two owl stamps in this set but neither one worked as is. I definitely wanted to use owls on this card because I wanted to use some left over designer paper from another card. I used the stamp with two owls on a branch and cut one of them off. It fit perfect for what I wanted. I used Copic markers to color then cut around the part of the design I wanted. I cut the frames with Oval Nestabilities to match colors in the designer paper and matted them together.

Pieces of designer paper were cut and matted to fit on several sections of the card. A brown ribbon was tied around one corner of the lover center piece. I stamped one of the verses from this stamp set and cut it out with Nesties and mounted in the center. I used six SU Navy Blue buttons to complete the card.


I took this picture with the card laying on the table and the picture below it is standing up so you can see the cuts.





I love this style of this card. It is kind of amazing it fits in an A-2 size envelope. I think it will be a "WOW!" card when the recipent opens it. I plan to make some more. Have you tried doing this? There are some beautiful cards in the StampTV gallery to give you more ideas. Also, there is currently a tutorial over on SCS on how to make this type of card.



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Peaches and Cream

Theresa Momber posted a Color Challenge on StampTV. You must go look at her beautiful card here. She has designed a new set called "Timeless Treasures". I do not have this set yet, but isn't her card beautiful. The color challenge is to use Peach and Ivory. I love these colors together so decided to submit a card in this challenge.

I decided to use Gina's "Take Flight" butterfly. I know I use this set a lot. I do love this butterfly. I used a piece of parchment paper and used a coral chalk ink to stamp the butterfly. I didn't use Vellum -- there is a difference between parchment paper and vellum. After stamping it, it looked "wet" so I decided to emboss it with clear, detail embossing powder. Usually chalk ink dries really quick but maybe because I used parchment paper it stayed wet enough to emboss. Anyway, it worked perfect for me. I just realized, I didn't color on this card!

I used a scrap piece of designer paper for the background which had the perfect colors for this project. I used Melanie's "Arranged With Love" set for the verse. I think the verse, and font, are perfect for this card. The frame was cut with the Nestabilities "classic" frame. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border and tied a bow around it. I decided to add some layered Prima flowers and pearls to finish it off. I love the delicate look of this card.

Now I need to go add it to my StampTV page and into the challenge. Thanks for visiting my blog. I always love to read your comments.

Bird Call embossed background

Here is another idea using the Cuttlebug "Bird Call" embossing folder as a background. I cut out a scalloped Petite Oval Nestie frame then ran it through the Bird Call embossing folder. I then pierced around the top half the scallops.

The daisies are from Asela's "Flowers For Daisy" set available from Gina K Designs. This is my favorite daisy stamp. I stamped the flower with Black Memento ink then used colored pencils and OMS to color. I used a blend of light blue and purple. I added Crystal Effects to the center of each flower then sprinkled on some micro beads. It gives the flowers some dimension. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the leaves.

The background paper is from SU. The card is 5 1/2 inches square. I cut three strips of the paper and spaced equally across the card. I used a blue marker to add the lines between the strips of paper. The embossed oval was attached using dimensional tape then the flowers were added using the same tape. The leaves were attached with mono adhesive tape. The hardware is from SU.

Sunflowers

I made this card for a challenge on StampTV hosted by Dawn. You are to use Sunflowers. The sunflowers I am using are from "A Year of Flowers" available from Gina K Designs.

I started the card by layering a piece of Back Country designer paper from "The Paper Loft" on the front of the card. I then used my Labels I Nestabilities to cut two frames; one in Night of Navy and the top is Gina K's Pure Luxury "Soft Sand" card stock. Each layer is put on Dimensionals.

The sunflowers and leaves were stamped with Memento black ink on glossy card stock. I used sponge daubers to color. I used Summer Sun and Pumpkin Spice on the flowers and Always Artichoke on the leaves. They were all cut out. I used SU corduroy brads in the center of each flower and attached them to the card with dimensionals. The upper corners looked a little bare, so I cut out some corners with a Sizzix die. They were to large for this card, so I trimmed them down to fit.

My daughter brought me a box of apricots so now I am off to make some jam.

Owl Be Yours Forever

I'm back with a second post today. I have this beautiful designer paper from "The Paper Loft" and thought it would be perfect to go with this owl from Asela Hopkins set called "Framed Friends". This set is available from Gina K Designs.

This designer paper is two sided. I cut a piece to fit the front of the card then cut it off at about 2/3 of the way down. That way I had a perfect fit when I flipped the bottom piece over to get the two designs.

The owl was stamped with VersaFine Black ink then colored with Copic markers. I tried to go back with a little darker brown marker to "streak" it so it looks like feathers. I then taped the design on Night of Navy and cut around the frame and did the same with Always Artichoke card stock to layer it. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border and stamped the verse in the middle. A narrow strip of Always Artichoke card stock was attached above the border. Two Always Artichoke brads from SU were added.

Isn't this perfect paper for this cute owl!

Dreams Have Wings

This morning I have been watching a lot of really pretty birds in my backyard. I decided to make a "bird" card. I started with a piece of K & Company designer paper for the background. The bird and branch are from the "Bird Lovers" from "Craft Secrets" Clear Art Stamps. If you like birds, I am sure you will like this 20 piece set. This is another set I got from Joan Fricker, at Joan's Gardens.

The bird and branch were stamped with black Memento ink and colored with Copic Markers then cut out. I created the frames with Petite Oval Nestabilities. The card stock is Vanilla and Basic Black. I used the Cuttlebug "Bird Call" embossing folder to give some dimension to the vanilla oval. The flower was petals torn off a silk flower. I used a SU punch for the black center then added a green brad in the center to hold it together.

The verse was stamped then cut out and the SU "ticket corner" punch used on each corner. Everything is attached with dimensional tape.