Just Beautiful

I got some cards made, playing with soon-to-be-gone products!
Today's uses one of my favorite stamp sets and what I think are very pretty colors. I used the latest fusion sketch for this one.

Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Moments
Ink: Memento Black
Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Balmy Blue, Light Daffodil Delight, Bronze, Ivory
Paper: Balmy Blue & Basic White card stocks, In Good Taste DP
Accessories: Flowers For Every Season ribbon 

The DP is retiring and about 50% off, and ribbon is retiring and discounted! The stamp set has already sold out!! They're not kidding- things always sell out from the retiring list, so you really do want to hurry and order! 

Thinking of You

Happy Monday!
Today's card quickly became one of my favorites! I used the latest As You See It challenge for this one. I chose a stamp with grass, I used the only current embossing folder I have (I have got to change that!), I used a bit of gingham ribbon and twine, and some Crumb Cake to give a nature-y feel to the card. And I had someone in mind for it to go off to this morning!  

Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Moments, Inspired Thoughts
Ink: Memento Black, Flirty Flamingo, So Saffron Marker

Stampin' Blends: Light Melon Mambo, Bronze, Dark Petal Pink
Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Crumb Cake, Basic White card stocks
Accessories: Gingham Ribbon, Linen Thread, Bark embossing folder, Dimensionals, Big Shot

Send out a card this week! Really, really! 

Thinking of You...

Today I have the third card for my upcoming class. I used a sketch from Splitcoaststampers.com. This one will actually give the crafter a choice- pink or yellow?

Which one do you like best?

Supplies:

Stamps: Beautiful Moments

Ink: Memento Black, Magenta Madness marker, Bumblebee marker

Paper: Magenta Madness, Whisper White, Basic Black card stocks, True Love DP

Accessories: Circle Dies, Big Shot (retired) 

Supplies:

Stamps: Beautiful Moments

Ink: Memento Black, Bumblebee marker, Cinnamon Cider marker

Paper: Bumblebee, Whisper White, Basic Black card stocks, True Love DP

Accessories: Circle Dies, Big Shot (retired)

I'm enjoying this plan because with it having been SO long since I've had a class, all the stamps, all the accessories (so far) and almost every color is new-to-my-customers, unless they've ordered it. All of the current In Colors are newer than my last class! That's crazy to me...! Clearly, it is past time for this class!

Graduating Girl

This card is for a friend's daughter's graduation. The color combo at Sunday Stamps matched the shirt in her graduation announcement perfectly, so I had to use it! I also used the latest Freshly Made Sketch. 

I used this fantastic stamp, and combined it with the March Paper Pumpkin, which is where the words come from, as well as the sunshine stencil. I sponged Balmy Blue all over the white panel but that's really hard to see.... 

Supplies:

Stamps: Beautiful Moments, Here's To You March 2021 PP

Ink: Memento Black, Daffodil Delight, Balmy Blue

Paper: Calypso Coral, Basic Black, Basic White

Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Here's To You March 2021 PP Stencil, sponge

Graduating Girl!

Posting today because I try to share my cards with you asap AND I wanted to post that I played with a challenge in time, haha. This card is a double challenge- I used the SUO Challenge for focusing on women, and the Freshly Made Sketch for the layout.

Also, I just checked, and this stunning DP is ON SALE so run place your order HERE now! It is GORGEOUS and so versatile! I have used it over and over and over! (I'm kinda proud that I can say that, hahaha!)

Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Moments, Silhouette Scenes
Ink: Memento Black, Blackberry Bliss
Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Night of Navy, Dark Blackberry Bliss, Dark Old Olive, Bronze, Ivory
Paper: Night of Navy, Very Vanilla card stocks, Perennial Essence
Accessories: Very Vanilla Scalloped Lace Trim, Pearl Basic Jewels

This card is for my niece's graduation. SO many kiddos graduating right now!! She and my son are the same age, just a few weeks apart, so we had to get a cap and gown pic of them together.

Because like, last week, they looked like this....

We Create Blog Hop: Showers of Greetings

Today it is April! Has March been dragging for you? It sure has for my family... But a new month means a new blog hop, so here we are!

How are you holding up out there? Since the whole world is experiencing the weirdest time in our recent history, this month we wanted to remind you that sending cards is always kind of a big deal, and right now it really can make a huge difference to someone you love.

Today I'm hoping to brighten your day with some happy colors, a sweet image and some friendly daisy paper! I hadn't colored these two girls yet so I was excited to play with them now. I used the latest sketch from the Sketch Saturday blog for the layout. Also, I love this greeting. I'm not even certain who this card is for yet- but it is true!
"YOU are somebody's blessing!"
I don't always put a greeting on a card, but the greeting you choose to send can be pretty powerful. We have SO many fabulous sets full of any kind of greeting you could want!

Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Moments
Ink: Memento Black
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Daffodil Delight, Dark & Light Old Olive, Light Petal Pink, Bronze, Color Lifter
Paper: So Saffron & Whisper White card stocks, Perennial Essence DP 
Accessories: Metallic Pearls

I hope you are finding time to create. Stamping, coloring, playing with pretty colors... it definitely helps keep me a little more calm and a lot more sane through all of this. Maybe you could send some cards out in the mail too!
Now hop on over to Cheryl's blog and see what she's got for you today.

Then continue on to everyone's blog and let us know what you think. So many easy ways to brighten someone's day!

Sisters!

I finally got another couple pages done again. They're identical, haha! I made one of these for each of my daughters, and this page is why I bought this cute stamp set! This particular stamp image is an awful lot like my girls, so this was a perfect match.

Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Moments, Taffy Alphabet (retired)
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Rococo Rose & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Buttons (retired)
Stampin' Blends: Bronze, Dark & Light Blackberry Bliss, Dark & Light Night of Navy, Light Old Olive, Light Petal Pink, Dark So Saffron

Beautiful Moments

Look! I made cards! I actually made several, so you'll have some card inspiration for a few days, haha!

I saw an idea to do a card class where you use one sketch for every card to show how any layout will work with any supplies. Sketches ARE my favorite way to start any papercrafting project so that was definitely something I wanted to try. I used the sketch from the guitar card on page 57 of the Occasions Mini. I've got five cards using that sketch that all have a totally different feel, in my opinion.

I've really wanted to play with this new stamp set and I couldn't make up my mind which DP to use so I went ahead and used both ideas! Those who attend my class can use the side of DP they like best and color their girl however they like. Since these cards are colored, I'm putting it with the SUO Challenge of "coloring".

Supplies: 

Stamps: Beautiful Moments

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: Petal Pink & Whisper White card stocks, Perennial Essence DP

Accessories: Scalloped Lace Trim

Blends: Bronze (hair), Light Petal Pink (skin), Dark Daffodil Delight (flowers), Light Old Olive (grass)

Supplies: 

Stamps: Beautiful Moments

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: Petal Pink & Whisper White card stocks, Perennial Essence DP

Accessories: Scalloped Lace Trim

Blends: Bronze (hair), Light Petal Pink (skin), Dark Daffodil Delight (flowers), Light Old Olive (grass), Dark & Light Blackberry Bliss (dress)

and here they are together! 

Which one do YOU like?