Posies

Wow, I have been drowning in busy this month. I do have a few things I made a couple weeks ago...

Starting here! Well, the photos came in the wrong order and I can't fix it, but! A couple weeks ago, I made this layout double for my niece. The colors of the flowers came from our clothes. I love this retired flower set because it's fast to put together and always looks great. But this time, I liked the flower collage so much I made a quick card too! 

So here's the card: 

And here are the pages!
(The second photo is lousy but my edits messed up the original photo sooo this is what I have!)

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies, Whimsical Alpha Upper & Lower

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Moody Mauve, Boho Blue, Basic Beige, Old Olive

Paper: Basic White card stock

Journaling Font: Goudy Old Style

Retired Posies

This was one of my favorite long-retired-now stamp sets and I like that it's big and fun for my daughter. So I used the ink colors she picked and retired accessories and whipped these two cards up! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies (retired), Good Greetings (retired)

Ink: Moody Mauve, Misty Moonlight, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow

Paper: Very Vanilla card stock

Accessories: Embroidered Ribbon (retired)

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies (retired), Good Greetings (retired)

Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Smoky Slate, Coastal Cabana, Soft Sea Foam

Paper: Basic White card stock

Accessories: Coastal Cabana & Granny Apple Green Reversible ribbon (retired)

Floral Thanks

Today's card uses some newly retired items, but it was for a challenge so its fine, haha. Actually, I figured that since the SUO Color Challenge used two newly-retired colors I'd go ahead and use my favorite newly-retired stamp set too. And I used it my favorite way- to just stamp the whole panel! I combined it with the sketch from Just Add Ink. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies (retired)

Ink: Highland Heather, Old Olive, Misty Moonlight, Rococo Rose (retired), Seaside Spray (retired)

Paper: Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Seaside Spray (retired) card stocks

Accessories: Blender Pen, Dimensionals

Honestly, I don't love the way I added a bit of Seaside Spray ink between the flowers. I used a Blender Pen and the ink pad, but it didn't work how I'd envisioned it. Oh well. I think it still turned out pretty and I think I know exactly who I'm going to send it to! 

What are you making this week?? 

Birthdays!

Happy Monday to you!
Today I have two birthday cards because this week we have three important birthdays in our {extended} family that needed cards! Fortunately none of the birthday girls live in the same house, so making two possible card options that "match" was totally okay! 

For these, I used the latest Freshly Made Sketch and a whole assortment of different supplies! For one thing, I used the 'snowbank' die from the In The Woods framelits, which are about to retire. I used this pretty floral print that was part of the Sale-a-Bration freebies in January and February. I used a birthday greeting from my almost-retired Gorgeous Posies stamp set and I put that on the two punches from the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies (retiring)
Ink: Just Jade, Flirty Flamingo
Paper: Basic White, Just Jade, Flirty Flamingo,  Flower & Field DP (retired)
Accessories: Lovely Labels Pick a Punch, In The Woods Framelits (retiring), Dimensionals

and a couple close-ups...

Comfort & Peace

I am in need of a sympathy card and this challenge ended up perfect. The As You See It Challenge was to make a card inspired by spring blossoms, in 10 minutes or less. I am happy with how it turned out and I really think it's perfect for my friend, so it is on it's way now! 
The stamp set, and the Rococo Rose ink and card stock (peeking out from behind the front panel) are both on their way out, and I love both, so that makes me sad too. Don't miss out on your chance to get these lovely items! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies
Ink: Blushing Bride, Petal Pink, Rococo Rose, Mint Macaron

Paper: Mint Macaron, Rococo Rose, Whisper White

Fussy Cut Flowers

The cards I made today used a LOT of product, haha.... Usually I stick to one stamp set and maybe it's coordinating dies. That's a lot less overwhelming if you're new and looking in to creating with me. Today I just used a bunch of different things! 
I also combined challenges... I used the colors, plaid and flowers from Global Design Project to CASE the designer, and I used the Mojo Monday sketch for my card. And! I know exactly who it is going to!

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies, Well Said, Buffalo Check

Ink: Seaside Spray, Misty Moonlight, Highland Heather, Basic Gray, Misty Moonlight marker

Paper: Whisper White, Highland Heather & Misty Moonlight card stocks

Accessories: Well Written dies, Tin Tile embossing folder, Seaside Spray ribbon, Wink of Stella pen, Glue Dots, Fine Tip Glue Pen, big shot (retired)

And for further details, I have Wink of Stella on the flower centers, for the silver in the sample card. I used the straight edge from my Big Shot to draw the lines to make the background more "plaid".

Mother's Day 2018

I hit my January scrapbooking goal today with this page!
I had forgotten that these pictures were printed and I decided to use my current favorite floral stamp set to make this page. It's simple but I think it turned out pretty. And strangely, for scrapbooking for me, the only retired product here is the alphabet set! Hooray! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies, Taffy Alphabet (retired)
Ink: Blushing Bride, Pear Pizazz, Mossy Meadow, Crushed Curry, Petal Pink, Mossy Meadow marker

Paper: Petal Pink & Whisper White

Accessories: Basic Pearls 

Birthday Flowers

Continuing on with my plan to mail out more cards, I wanted to use this pretty flower again. I loved it stamped directly onto this DP for my Jan 1 blog hop, so I tried it again with a different sheet and different flower colors. I even know exactly who they're all going to! Love that!!  

This time I'm using the SUO Challenge, to simply make something new! I also borrowed Christy's idea to color the fussy cut flower with Wink of Stella. I was excited it shows up at least a little on all three cards! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Gorgeous Posies
Ink: Crushed Curry, Just Jade, Pretty Peacock

Paper: Whisper White, In Good Taste DP

Accessories: Flowers for Every Season ribbon, Wink of Stella Pen, Glue Dots, Iridescent Pearls (retired)

And another color combo... 

Supplies:
Stamps: Gorgeous Posies
Ink: Cinnamon Cider, Just Jade, Pretty Peacock

Paper: Just Jade, In Good Taste DP

Accessories: Flowers for Every Season ribbon, Wink of Stella Pen, Glue Dots

and still another! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Gorgeous Posies
Ink: Melon Mambo, Granny Apple Green, Crushed Curry

Paper: Melon Mambo, In Good Taste DP

Accessories: Flowers for Every Season ribbon, Wink of Stella Pen, Glue Dots

You should mail out some cards too! People really do appreciate being thought of. 

We Create Blog Hop: Crisp Creases

And just like that, 2020 is behind us! I hope you're ready to make the most of whatever 2021 brings! For a start, we have a great blog hop to get you creating so lets get on with it! 

This month we're showing off some fancy folded projects. You might have noticed I really don't do um...anything, at all, like that. I stick to a basic, fold-in-half card, haha... So this was totally trying something new for me. I pulled up Pinterest, typed in "fun fold cards" and used THIS post as my inspiration. It really was very easy. Trim the card front at an angle, then score and fold the card front in half backwards. I used this fabulous DP rather than plain card stock, and I think it turned out really fun! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies
Ink: Seaside Spray, Just Jade, Cinnamon Cider, Misty Moonlight

Paper: Just Jade card stock, In Good Taste DP

Here's a slightly different angle... 

And best of all- this card has already been mailed off to someone special! 

Now hop on over to Cheryl's blog using the button below, and see what she has created to inspire you today! Then hop on through to everyone's blog (there are only a few of us). And leave us your thoughts! Everyone loves feedback! 

Then! make something of your own to share with someone! It's a great way to start off the new year! 

Kimberley Morris 
Jeanna Kay
Tricia Butts
Libby Fens
Tanya Harvey - ME! 
Cheryl Curtis

A New Flower!

I got a new order delivered yesterday and apparently it was just the thing I needed to carve out some crafting time! Today I managed to get FOUR new cards made!

This new stamp set is a little bit hidden... It's designed to go with a beautiful kit but at the moment, I don't need any more kits, haha. But I really liked the flower and I like the fonts that are included and I hoped it would work just fine without the kit.You'll find it at the bottom of page 8 in the current Annual Catalog. 

I used the latest sketch from the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge as my starting point, altho they didn't all quite follow it. This first one comes the closest - 

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies

Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Pear Pizazz, Mossy Meadow, Crushed Curry

Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Whisper White card stock

Accessories: watercolor brush

This second card uses a similar color scheme, but this time it came from the latest TGIF color Challenge. Almost.... I actually meant to use a different card but my final touch was adding the stripes and this time I used the Light Old Olive Stampin' Blends marker, which messed up the *exact color challenge. Other than THAT it's perfect, haha.... The leaves are stamped off with the veins in the first inking of Pear Pizazz. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies

Ink: Blushing Bride, Pear Pizazz, Soft Suede, Light Old Olive Stampin' Blends

Paper: Blushing Bride & Whisper White cardstock

And then I kept going with a couple other colors, to use up the full sheet of Whisper White card stock which was trimmed down to be a card front, ha! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies

Ink: Misty Moonlight, Pear Pizazz, Old Olive, Crushed Curry

Paper: Old Olive & Whisper White card stocks

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Mint Macaron, Garden Green

Paper: Rich Razzleberry & Whisper White card stocks

Do you have a favorite one? Do you prefer the strips with the sketch or the scattered bits of whatever? haha.... Looking forward to playing with more colors soon!