Thursday, April 8, 2021

Pretty Pink Blossoms


Hi everyone!  I hope you're having a wonderful week!  We got our second Covid vaccines this week, and now we're looking forward to the weekend! 

My fiber arts friend, Karen, spun up a beautiful skein of pink and green yarn which inspired me to reach for those same colors for today's Stamp Simply project for a girlfriend's upcoming birthday.


I used sentiments from three different stamp sets for this card. The leaf is actually from an Autumn stamp set, but who says it can't be used for Spring as well?!  I cut several of the same die and glued them together and then popped the whole thing up on dimensional adhesives.


If you look closely, you can see splashes and splatters of diluted clear glitter Wink of Stella.  This was done inside and out because who doesn't love some glitter on a girlie card!?!    

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Thursday, April 1, 2021

I Love You to the Moon and Back!


Tuesday night when I went to bed there was a giant full moon shining brightly into the bedroom window.  Next day, up in my stamp studio, I came across this beautiful designer paper from the Amy Design Amazing Owls pad, and decided to make this simple, shimmering celestial card.  


This was another instance of the paper being too pretty to cover up, so I went for a go-to CAS layout, the perfect accompanying sentiment, and a few shimmery splashes and splatters of silver ink.  


A single silver rhinestone and a silver metallic cord bow are the only embellishments on the card front.  


Inside there is another beautiful designer print, a wonderful sentiment, more splashes and splatters, and a single wooden heart (turned silver by a smoosh onto the silver ink pad).  

We saw Moonstruck again not long ago!  I love that movie!  The music is so awesome and there are so many great lines in it!  A great big low-hanging moon always makes me feel as though God is looking down from Heaven, watching over me.  I love that thought and I'm always glad for the reminder!  

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Thursday, March 25, 2021

He Lives!


Welcome back, and welcome Spring!  I am sure you've noticed that I have been enjoying the new Stamp Simply He Lives stamp set SO much!  I've used it several times in the last month, and I'm amazed at how versatile it is...these lovely daffodils look as great on a very clean and simple background as they do on a fancier, busier designer paper.  In this case I wanted to allow the flowers and sentiment to speak for themselves for a CAS Easter card.


The flowers are stamped, colored with Copics and die-cut, then popped up on a background of soft blue from Craft Consortium's Bloom and Wild pad upon which the sentiment was stamped directly.  

That yellow dotted Swiss ribbon makes me smile...when I was young I had a pinafore style dress made out of this same fabric! Do you remember getting all dressed up in fancy clothes, hat and white gloves for Easter Sunday?!  


It's nearly impossible to catch the sparkle that clear Wink of Stella lends to a card, but I tried!  


Once again, the inside is also very clean and simple, using a scrap of the same designer paper.

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Jesus Loves You


Happy day-after-St. Patrick's Day!  I'm here with another Stamp Simply Easter card, this one combining our Stick People QUAD bundle with a new bundle, Easter Is For Jesus.  


I traced around an oval die for the basic shape of this fussy-cut conversation bubble, adding color to the edges with a Copic marker.  (Stamp Simply has several dies for conversation bubbles, so I need to order some and then I won't need to fussy-cut one!)


Most other major elements of this card were die-cut, but I did do a bit of fussy cutting with this cute little guy and his Easter basket (cut from the designer paper), mainly because I wanted the colors to be clear, clean and bright.  He wore green for St. Patrick's Day, and he's ready to celebrate that his grandparents got their COVID vaccines so now he can visit with them and give them BIG hugs!  


The inside includes one of the cute printed paper squares from the Easter pad, and a sentiment constructed with a phrase and the number 2 from the Stick People sets.  

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Thursday, March 11, 2021

Clean and Simple Hello!


I have really been enjoying finding different combinations of florals and sentiments to use with our Spring/Summer Seasonal Wreaths set!  Today I've used the daffodils from He Lives, and it is so fresh and Springy!  


The flowers and wreath were stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copic markers, then given a bit of sparkle with clear Wink of Stella which doesn't show up at all in the photo.  I used pale 000 and 0000 BG and BV markers along with a few tonal greys to shade the petals of the paper-whites.


Same simple, happy colors on the inside with a sentiment from the wreaths set.

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Thursday, March 4, 2021

God is smiling down upon you!


Hello friends!  

I know there's still plenty of cold, ice and snow in lots of the country, but here in Florida the azaleas are blooming and Spring is making its appearance.  One of my favorites among those Spring blossoms is the daffodil, aka narcissus, and I absolutely adore that Stamp Simply now has a beautiful Easter stamp set which includes them!      


Yellow is always like a dose of sunshine and happiness, isn't it?!  I just love the idea of God smiling down upon us!  


Y'all might remember that I've used this same gorgeous paper before!  For this card I had just enough left to cover the card front but wanted to use some for the inside too, so I cut an oval from it before adding my focal image layers.  


It makes a beautiful back-drop for the cross from our new Easter is for Jesus set.  You can see here that this simple cross from a rather "kiddie" set can look quite elegant when paired with lovely paper and sentiments with fancy fonts!    

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Stamp Simply's New Easter Release!


Hi everyone!  I'm so excited to share our new Stamp Simply Easter release with you today!  


We've got a gorgeous bunch of new images, dies and great sentiments that coordinate together, and there are lots of options for how to use them and how to purchase them (individually or bundled) too!

For today's project I combined an image from one of our seasonal wreath sets with its new coordinating die, and our new Easter is for Jesus Bundle (shown in the top right corner of the image above), using a sketch that I found on Pinterest.  I have an egg-shaped hand-formed grapevine wreath that I made from some vines last year that still needs to be decorated, and that thought is what inspired today's card.


This new set includes not only the cute eggs, rabbit, and sentiment shown here, but also a simple, rustic wooden cross and several sentiments that are perfect for cards for kids and adults alike.


Here's a peek at the inside.  This would be so cute tucked inside an Easter basket alongside some chocolate eggs and colorful jelly beans!


Here's a close-up.  Isn't this bunny absolutely darling?!  So sweet!  

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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Always & Forever


Hi everybody!  This week is a busy week, with Valentine's Day, President's Day, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and my son's birthday!  In the midst of all that we are remodeling our master bathroom, so it has been kinda hectic around here!

I hope you have been able to stay warm and cozy...I've been keeping an eye on my family and friends in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  It has been so much colder there than usual, and with all the power grid issues and lack of water, I've been so concerned. I sincerely hope that things are getting better.  My friends in Cajun Country have been making the most of that ice and snow!  I've seen videos of kids being dragged around in crawfish pots, sledding behind golf carts, or sliding down driveway "hills" in kayaks.  That's the true spirit of SW LA and with all they've endured this past year (they've had two hurricanes and now also two winter storms) I have to say that I am mighty proud of them!  They make do with what they've got and do their darndest to make the best out of a dire situation and keep their smiles in the process.  I am so impressed and love 'em to pieces.   


My Stamp Simply project for this week uses one of our newer floral sets and the matching die to go with it!  If you have ever fussy cut this image, you know that having these dies is a BIG deal!  It makes everything so much easier!  


These Craft Consortium papers are so beautiful!  I've been seeing the camellias blooming in my neighbor's yard, so I was drawn to these pretty pink roses!  Such a lovely soft watercolor look!  

I couldn't resist, here at the beginning of this season of Lent, pairing this well known verse with the "Always & forever" tag from our Wedding and Anniversaries set.  ❤️  It seems so fitting!

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Pandemic Plans


This designer paper print from mades me think of handmade quilts, so my Stamp Simply project for today just had to be a Grandma card!  We've just released a couple of new sets to go with our original Stick People sets, and I had a blast playing with all the little bits and pieces!


The new sets include new characters and lots of small stamps that add personality to them.  I used the little paper bag for their masks, trimming off the handles and scoring/folding/sculpting them to fit their faces. 


The new stamp I used for this "grandma" is actually intended to be used to stamp a mom with a baby belly, but I thought it would work just as well for an older woman who is a little squishy around the middle!  I drew in a granny-bun-on-top hairstyle and colored it with grey Copics and clear Wink of Stella for some silver sparkle.  The sentiments here are from our original Stick People sets.  
  

The boy is from the original Stick People release, but the sentiment paired with him includes one from the new and one from the old, combined.    


Here again I spliced sentiments together and added a cute little iPhone...the "Soon" is from one of the other sentiments in the new set.  The phone number was the phone number of the house I grew up in, where my parents lived for 60+ years. (Disconnected after they passed away, and I sure hope it hasn't been reassigned!) 

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Thursday, February 4, 2021

Easter Blessings


Today's Stamp Simply project is a simple, classic Easter card featuring our lovely Cross dies and several of our stamp sets in combination.   




The beautiful hyacinths in Graphic 45's Fairie Wings designer paper inspired the floral focal point atop the center of the Cross, which was die cut from pearlescent metallic copper paper.  The flowers were fussy cut from the center of one of the floral clusters in our Spring and Summer Seasonal Wreath set.  I chose to cut right up to the ink line and to cut away some of the smaller sprigs and leaves.    


I love the beautiful flourishes of the font used for this sentiment, stamped in Celestial Copper to coordinate with the Cross.  


More of the floral paper is inside, along with another classic Easter sentiment stamped in the same shimmery copper ink.

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