Monday, January 19, 2015

Valentine



Hello, my share for you today is a sweet little Valentine.  I saw something like this on Pinterest but it was a baby card.  I love the soft colors on this card.  My base is smoky slate topped with a layer of silver fancy foil designer vellum.  I then cut one of the white tea lace paper doilies in half for my next layer.  I topped it off with a blushing bride dsp pennant.  I used the sweetheart punch paired with heart from the itty bitty accents punch pack.  I also added some of the heart sequins from the 2013-2015 in color sequin assortment.  My xoxo was cut with the circle thinlits from silver glimmer paper.  I layered it on top of an xoxo cut in basic gray.  To finish it off I used a vintage faceted designer button tied with blushing bride bakers twine layered on a strip of smoky slate chevron ribbon.  Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate you.
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Butterfly Basics




My share today is using the butterfly basics bundle in the Occasions catalog.  Gosh, there are so many wonderful sets in the catalog, I want them all.  This card starts out with a base of whisper white.  Layered on top is a piece of pear pizzaz, stamped with the background stamp in this set with pear pizzaz ink.  I then used a piece of Something Borrowed dsp for the bottom half of this layer.  I covered the seam where I joined the papers with Sahara Sand 7/8" Lace Trim.  The next layer is Sahara Sand stamped with the border line from the same set in Sahara Sand ink.  For my flowers, I stamped them on whisper white with momento black ink and then used blendabilities makers to color them.  The butterflies are images from the set as well.  For the big butterfly, I used the coordinating framelit to cut it out.  The little butterfly is punched with the bitty butterfly punch. I colored the pearls with the blendabilities makers as well to finish off my butterfly.  Thanks for stopping by.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Crazy About You


 
Hello, my share today is using another new stamp set from the Occasions catalog called Crazy About You.  I love, love, love all the sentiments that are included with this set.  The possibilities are endless.  My card base is Whisper White with a layer of Birthday Bash dsp.  The yellow ribbon is new as well and it feels wonderful.  It's called 5/8" Quilted Cotton Ribbon.  It feels just like a baby's blanket.  I stamped my flower in Night of Navy and fussy cut with my paper snips.  The leaves are stamped in Mossy Meadow and fussy cut as well.  A crushed curry candy dot finishes it off.  Thanks so much for stopping by, I appreciate it!
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Monday, January 12, 2015

Lotus Blossom


 
Hello, welcome back.  The 2015 Occasions catalog is in full swing and so is Sale A Bration.  I have to say, I am in love with this new stamp set.  What's even better is that it's free.  Yes that's right, free during Sale A Bration with a qualifying order ($50 before tax and shipping).  This is a triple step stamp set and the beauty of it is you can use just one ink pad for all three steps.  I started with stamp 1 at full strength, then stamp 2 at full strength and then step 3 I stamped off once and then added it to my card.  My ink color is Bermuda Bay.  My card base is smoky slate and the dsp is from the Birthday Bash pack.  My little banners are made from the Irresistibly Yours dsp, also free in the Sale
A Bration catalog.  I sponged it with Tangelo Twist and Bermuda Bay.  Love how you can make this paper look so different by adding a little color.  I didn't add a lot of bling to the card because my goal was to keep them as flat as I could for easy mailing.  Thanks for stopping by!
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Butterfly Basics



Hello, welcome to my blog.  My card today is based on a card I saw from Debbie Mageed.  I just loved her card and had to make one.  I used Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla and Soft Sky for my color scheme.  I love the Butterfly Basics stamp set found in the new 2015 Occasions catalog. I embossed the Very Vanilla with the hexagon embossing folder to match the background stamp from this set.  The flower image is great to color with our blendabilities markers.  I used the Calypso Coral and Wild Wasabi markers to color the flower.  I used the oval framelits  #5 (counting from the left) to cut my image and then sponged it with Soft Sky.  I used the 4th oval to cut my background oval in Calypso Coral.  The stamped image is mounted with dimensionals and then I used the oval paper piercing templates on the Calypso Coral.  That does it for today's post, thanks for stopping by.

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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Valentine Scrapbook Pages 2015


 
Hello, welcome back to my blog.  It's been awhile since I posted and will try in 2015 to post more frequently.  I did some Christmas pages similar to this a couple of years ago and liked the layout so I thought I would use the new Valentine products in the 2015 Occasions catalog.  I used my stampin trimmer to cut most of my black card stock out of the middle, leaving a 1" border all around my vanilla pages.  I then glued my vanilla onto the black and started adding some washi tape.  I used both the sweetheart punch and the thinlit heart that is with the treat bag thinlit.  I also used the heart border punch for my tiny hearts.  I used the Skinny Mini alphabet set to stamp my title.  Some red and gold glimmer paper with some pearl accents finish off the pages. 
Thanks so much for stopping by.
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