A Field of Flowers

 

Hi, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from Calendars.com.  I absolutely loved the color combo of this pocket calendar, so I used purple and aqua ink to create a Wrinkle Free Distress panel. Once the panel was dry, the 'Botanical Beauty' background (from Taylored Expressions) and sentiment from 'Large Peony 4' (from The Ton) were stamped.  The panel was cut out with the Pierced Rectangles Dies from Divinity Designs LLC and layered with the Matting Rectangle. Though the camera did not capture them, there are a few tiny gemstones and some stickles here and there as well.

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Blessings,

To The Moon and Back!

Hi, everyone!  This week's Friday Free4All Challenge over at Splitcoast is to create a guy card.  My card today was created for my hubby's birthday.  The following items from Divinity Designs LLC were used: Stamps: Rocket Man; Dies: Slimline Tree & Hill Silhouettes, Slimline Thin Pierced Frame, Tree & Hill Silhouette Dies, Slimline Card Base, Sentiment Strips 2.  Blending Brushes were use to create the soft background and the layers plus sentiment panels were popped up with foam tape.

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Blessings,

Amazing Day

Hi, everyone!  Brrrr...it's only 15 degrees here in Indiana today, but I'm dreaming of my magnolia trees being in full bloom....hurry up, spring!!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from Kia's Afternoon Tea Pinterest Board.....I chose this beautiful set as my inspiration piece.  A few month's ago, at a stamp show, I picked up a couple of stamp sets from 'The Ton' stamp company , which I had never heard of before.  Today I am inking one of them up for a birthday card for a friend.  The magnolia image and sentiment were gold embossed on watercolor paper; the blossoms and background were water-colored.  Since the tea cup and saucer had gold rims, I used gold metallic paper for mats and gold cording to coordinate with the gold embossing powder.  The main panel was cut out with the Pierced Rectangles Dies from Divinity Designs LLC. The pretty gemstones are also from DD.

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Blessings,

Hello, Cupcake!

Hi, everyone!  This week's Color Challenge over at Splitcoast is to use Granny Green, Mango Melody, and Melon Mambo....I didn't have all of the colors so I tried to get as close as possible.  Since I still had this Sprinkles stencil and cupcake set on my desk from Saturday's card, I made another quick card for another niece's birthday.  After stenciling and coloring the image, I added stickles for some sparkle.....most little girls love sparkles, right?  The sentiment was cut out with the Double Stitched Pennant Flags Dies by Divinity Designs; the stencil and stamps are from My Favorite Things.

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Blessings,

Happy New Year!

Hi, everyone!  This week's Clean and Simple Challenge over at Splitcoast is 'New Year, New Stuff'.....today I would like to share one of 16 Happy New Year cards I mailed out last week.  I finally invested in a Misti (stamp positioning tool) and it is definitely a life changer!!  I was able to stamp all 16 cards in an hour...would have been quicker but I used the same snowflake so each card had to be stamped three times.  Gemstones were added to the centers.  The snowflake stamps are retired from Divinity Designs LLC (Snowflake Mini Set) and the sentiment is from the White As Snow Stamp/Die Duos set.

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Blessings,

Hey There, Cupcake!

Hi, everyone!  Happy New Year!!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from Distintivs.....when I saw the sprinkles on this game, I realized I had not used this fun Sprinkles Stencil yet from MFT (retired) and the stencil led me to the 'All The Cupcakes' set and the word dies (also retired). After stenciling the panel, it was cut out with a Pierced Rectangles Die from Divinity Designs LLC. This is a birthday card for my niece who just turned three. 

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Blessings,

You're Like, Really Old!

 

Hi, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from Bluebellgray.....this gorgeous water bottle helped me to create this 50th birthday card for my step-mom. (My step-mom is younger than me, so I was able to get away with this sentiment!)   I dug out some marbled designer paper by Craft Consortium, along with these custom dies from Divinity Designs LLC: Large Numbers, Sentiment Strips 2, Pierced Rectangles, Matting Rectangle, and A2 Landscape Card Base with Layer. The funny sentiment is from Sassy Pants Birthday Greetings 3 by My Favorite Things.

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Blessings,