spring flowers card

I've had this stamp set, A Flower For All Seasons, for awhile but haven't had a chance to use it yet. It was sitting on my desk, begging to be colored! So I decided to put my birds aside for one evening and color some of these! I love coloring images. For this one I stamped it in basic black and colored it using blender pens and the watercolor pencils. I love how it gives it a hand-painted look. This stamp makes a great spring card. I paired it with the scatter sunshine wheel and the scallop border punch. It's a really simple card but I love how springy it looks!

stamps: a flower for all seasons, scatter sunshine wheel
ink:basic black, watercolor pencils, summer sun
paper: summer sun, apricot appeal, bashful blue, whisper white, certainly celery
other: scallop border punch

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Sweet birdies!

I made this little ensemble using the cheep talk set. I just can't get enough of this stamp set, it's so adorable! I had a little orange notebook so i wanted it coordinate it with that. I stamped the kiwi kiss with flowers to make a background texture and then I stamped the bird and branch and framed it with tempting turquoise card stock. The ribbon is some ribbon I got at Michaels on sale. It's from American Crafts.

For the treat header I used pumpkin pie card stock, punched the edge with the scallop edge punch. Then I stamped two flowers using pumpkin pie and tempting turquoise.

stamps:cheep talk
ink:tempting turqouise, kiwi kiss, pumpkin pie, regal rose
paper: whisper white, pumpkin pie, tempting turquoise, whisper white.
other: striped grosgrain ribbon, cello bags, stapler

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Late easter bunny..

I didn't get a chance to post this before easter but I wanted to share it ... I made these super cute little bunny baskets for my family for easter. They're very small and hold 3 mini york peppermint patties. I made the bunnies using punches.

check out the backs:
I hope you had a fabulous easter! I will have more projects to share later this week!

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Simple Thank you card

I'm using a different set today, Eastern Blooms. This is a really beautiful stamp set. I love the Asian floral feel of it and the simplicity of the images. For this one I just inked the three flowers with different markers (I chose bright colors:pumpkin pie, taken with teal and rose red) and stamped them for the main image. I then framed them with pumpkin pie cardstock. The back of the card is using old olive and the top part is taken with teal, which I stamped a background of branches on. I've never tried this color combo before but I really like it. For interest, I used a glue dot to attach a button to the last flower. The sentiment on the bottom is from the Heard from the Heart set.

stamps: Eastern Blooms, Heard from the Heart
ink:taken with teal, pumpkin pie, rose red
paper:taken with teal, old olive, whisper white, pumpkin pie, black
other:button, glue dot

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trendy trees...in pink!

Happy Monday!! Another weekend gone by so quickly!

Here is another take on the tree set. I thought, "why not pink?" for the trees and I love how it looks. I think this color combo works great! Sometimes it's hard for me to stray from the colors that things "should" be but I usually love it when I do. I must remember to be more imaginative!

For the card, I started with pretty in pink for the base, then used a piece of rose red that I put through my cuttlebug to add dots on. Then I stamped the trees in rose, chocolate and Kiwi kiss and chocolate chip. I framed the trees with kiwi kiss and chocolate chip card stock and attached it on the card with pop dots.

stamps: trendy trees
ink:kiwi kiss, chocolate chip, regal rose
paper: pretty in pink, chocolate chip, regal rose, whisper white, kiwi kiss
other: pink taffeta ribbon, dimensionals, cuttlebug

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Trendy Trees

Besides the two Bird sets from the catalog, this set was my other "must have". I absolutely love it! Not only are the trees adorable, but it's so versatile you could use it for almost any occasion and for a guy or girl. Here is one of the first cards I made for it. It's a thinking of you card using my favorite new color combo with this set: kiwi kiss, baja breeze, chocolate chip and barely banana. I love the look of these colors together. It's a simple card with just a few extra accents, the double-stitched ribbon and button brads (not from SU, I think they're EK Success).

Here is another cute and simple card using nearly the same color scheme. This one I just used solid cardstock in layers of color and the paper piercing template to create interest.

stamps:Trendy Trees
ink:Chocolate chip, Kiwi Kiss,
paper:Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Barely Banana, whisper white
other:paper piercing template, kiwi kiss ribbon, double-stitched ribbon, (button brads from EK success)

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Birds again...with pears

I've seen cards with this layout before but this is the first time I've tried it. I thought this would be a perfect set to use it with! I used some more neutral colors on this card and stamped the birds and pears and punched them out with the circle punches. Then I put them on a kiwi kiss background and matted that with white to help it stand out and scallop punched the bottom of the white. The base of the card is more mustard (I definitely don't use this color much but love how it looks with the kiwi). Then I finished it off with some kiwi ribbon and the hello there sentiment! So cute!

stamps:Cheep talk
ink:Kiwi Kiss, more mustard, really rust, black
paper: whisper white, kiwi kiss, more mustard, really rust
other:kiwi kiss ribbon, scallop border punch

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