A flowery birthday

Happy Friday! I am so ready for the weekend...but I am pretty sure relaxing will be at a minimum... haha! We have a lot of things planned!

Today's card is one I designed for the customer who wanted birthday cards. I saw THIS on Pinterest recently and thought a card with soft spring colors would be a nice birthday card- so this is my version!
I started by stamping the Hardwood on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock, and then die-cutting out the circle. Then I stamped three flower designs in three different colors, and punched them out. The greeting came from a Paper Pumpkin kit from 2014, and it fits nicely in the Word Window Punch! And I added a bit of ribbon for a little something.

Supplies:
Stamps: Hardwood, Petite Petals, Aug 2014 Paper Pumpkin kit
Ink: Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride, Daffodil Delight, Wisteria Wonder
Paper: Pear Pizazz, Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Natural Chevron Ribbon, Word Window Punch, Petite Petals Punch, Circle Die, Big Shot

I hope YOU have a wonderful and relaxing weekend, and I will have more stamped inspiration for you next week!

Choose Happiness

Remember I set a stamping goal yesterday? I totally reached it! Wahoo! *grin
This card helped me use up Dimensionals?? haha... Really, I'm featuring the new In Color Delightful Dijon. I'm not sure how much I love it, but it works together really nicely with Cajun Craze and makes for a great autumny color combination! And for the layout I used the latest Clean & Simple sketch.
I also used the Hardwood background stamp to add a bit of texture, but this time I used an old technique- to lay the card stock on top of the stamp, and "walk" your fingers across it to get a subtle touch of background stamp. I really like how it turned out!

Supplies:
Stamps: Petite Petals, Choose Happiness, Hardwood background
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Cajun Craze & Delightful Dijon
Paper: Delightful Dijon, Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Natural Chevron Ribbon, Neutral Candy Dots (chocolate chip), Regals Candy Dots (cajun craze)

And come back tomorrow for even more!

Blog Hop: May Flowers

Already we're to the 1st of May?!?!?!
The good thing about that is that we have another blog hop for you! This time we're following up with our April Showers theme, bringing May Flowers! Flowery cards are also perfect for Mother's Day which falls in May, so read on!

First up, I chose the Freshly Made Sketch for this sweet Mother's Day card....The greeting doesn't look crooked in real life....weird....

Supplies:
Stamps: Summer Silhouettes, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Wisteria Wonder, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso
Paper: Wisteria Wonder & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Neutral Buttons, Designer Label Punch, Glue Dot

Next up, I used the current Retro Sketch for this pretty tulip card, and you can see flowers work for pretty much any occasion! I used Watercolor paper for this card and was suprised the Memento black ink smudged into the pink petals. However, I also think that muddiness gives a realistic look to the flowers so that was a happy accident!

Supplies:
Stamps: Love Is Kindness
Ink: Memento Black, Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake
Paper: Pistachio Pudding card stock, Park Lane DP, Watercolor Paper
Accessories: Neutral Buttons, Linen Thread, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, Glue Dots

Finally, I used the Nacho Average Challenge for this quick birthday card. It's not my favorite card but you can't win them all... haha! I do like the colors together tho...and it's hard to see but I stamped a different little flower on the white strip to look like leaves.

Supplies:
Stamps: Petite Petals, Itty Bitty Banners
Ink: Strawberry Slush, Wild Wasabi
Paper: Whisper White card stock, Maritime DP
Accessories: Petite Petals Punch, Regals Candy Dots, Dimensionals

Aren't flowers handy? haha! I know I own tons of flower stamps, current, retiring and long retired. They're so versatile and you can make them any color you can imagine, completely changing the feel of any card you could need. Awesome feature, haha!
Now hop on over to Cheryl and all the way thru to see how everyone else used May Flowers! And leave us some comments- we love to hear what you think!

What is retiring from today's projects?

• Itty Bitty Banners stamp set
• Pistachio Pudding card stock
• Park Lane DP 
• Maritime DP
• Essentials Paper Piercing Pack
• Strawberry Slush ink

Love this!

I
love
this
DP!

I loved it the last time we had this style!
I like sponging on my own ink and making my own paper! Its very cool! And this time I really love how it turned out, haha...
And yes, I'm posting on a Sunday to help make up for my lack of posts all week!

I used the Nacho Average Sketch for the layout, sponged the DP with Wild Wasabi, and then cut down the middle of it, and spaced it out like the sketch! Then I punched the three flowers and added Candy Dots to their centers and stuck them on with Dimensionals! Super easy, very pretty!

Supplies:
Stamps: Petite Petals
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Melon Mambo
Paper: Blushing Bride card stock, Irresistably Yours DP
Accessories: Stamping Sponge, Brights Candy Dots

Workshop Make & Take

To those still wanting to place an order with my workshop Friday, I'm holding it open until Thursday. You can get your check and order to me before then, or! You can place an order online, using me as your demonstrator, and the Hostess Code 29RUCAJG. That's a great option if you want to order any downloads for MDS, or simply live too far away from me and want it shipped directly to yourself. *grin

This sweet card is what we did for the Make & Take Friday.
I based the card on the Retro Sketch #118.
I don't usually use so many stamps in a Make & Take- I don't want new people to feel overwhelmed and like they "haaave to buy allll this stuff to make one card" because they definitely don't. But I wanted to feature a punch and stamp set that coordinates, and that meant I needed words. And I like how Gorgeous Grunge just adds personality to a card!
And, the people who I expected to come are familiar enough with my stamping style to know they don't haaave to use so many stamp sets on one card, haha...

Supplies:

Stamps: Petite Petals, Gorgeous Grunge, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Soft Sky, Lost Lagoon, Smoky Slate

Paper: Soft Sky & Whisper White card stocks

Accessories: Soft Sky seam binding, Pearls, Petite Petals punch, Dimensionals

Pink Flowers

I've got my New Catalog Workshop this Friday {are you coming?!} so I am trying to finish filling my display board before then! Super handy that Tuesday was cold and rainy! (it's been in the 90's lately and Tuesday it stayed in the 60's) I decided to pull out any stamp sets that are used less than twice on the board already, haha. I thought that was a good way to show some variety!
The first card I made this round used the Nacho Average sketch that I am late for...ahem...

Supplies:
Stamps: Petite Petals, Lots of Thanks, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink: Blushing Bride, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate
Paper: Pink Pirouette, Blushing Bridge, Pool Party
Accessories: Epic Day Washi Tape, Petite Petals Punch, Big Shot, Chevron Embossing Folder, Rhinestones

Flowers & Hardwood

Two of my favorite carry-over items, from the Occasions Mini, are the Petite Petals stamps and punch, and the Hardwood background stamp! For this card, I combined them, along with a recent Freshly Made Sketch.

Supplies:
Stamps: Petite Petals, Hardwood
Ink: Crumb Cake, Strawberry Slush, Crisp Cantaloupe
Paper: Pear Pizzazz, Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Natural Chevron Ribbon (the back side), Corner Rounder punch, Petite Petals Punch, Dimensionals, Staples

Flowers on wood

This is the last sample from last week's Occasions Mini  class, and this one {mostly} uses the latest Nacho Average Challenge. We stamped the blue flowers directly onto the wood background, and we punched out the pink flowers and two are popped up on Dimensionals. I thought about having the greeting popped up too, but I liked it better tucked in the flowers. I let class attendee's decide what they liked best. Funny enough, only the greeting (hostess only) and the shade of blue (Midnight Muse) are retiring from this one.

Supplies:
Stamps: Hardwood, Petite Petals, Banner Greetings
Ink: Soft Suede, Midnight Muse, Melon Mambo, Pear Pizazz
Paper: Pear Pizazz & Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Petite Petals Punch, Dimensionals