Cat tails

Here is a card I did a while back with the inspired by natural set. This grass stamp is so versatile and I have seen it used so many times. The colors on here are whisper white, kiwi kiss, really rust, old olive and basic black. I spritzed the entire card except for the kiwi layer.

Black, white and shades of grey

I am not a big rose person, but the Lilly in this set sold me! To be honest I kind of fell in love with the rest once I got the set. I remember thinking when I saw the decor elements-Manhattan flowers-that I hoped they came out with a coordinating set. This set is Fifth Ave. Floral. The DSP is retired and the card stock is whisper white, basic black and basic grey. I embossed all the flowers, the ones on the black base were embossed in clear, then I colored them with a black marker so they popped a little. The two cut out of DSP were shaded with a blender pen and basic grey ink, then highlighted with white gel pen.

Hippo card

As most of you know we have a challenge at my moms down line meeting every month. A few months back now this was the card I made. To be honest I don't remember what the exact challenge was...it may have been the layout?!? The colors used are so saffron, basic grey, whisper white and ridding hood red.

Our New Little Man!!!!

Zavian is here! He was born yesterday-March 26th 2010, at 8:02pm. He is 7lb 14oz and 21" long. He is doing great and we will be going home tomorrow! I can't wait because I miss my girls.

Amazing

This was one of my favorite sets, and I was very sad to let this one go. Well I didn't exactly let it go, it just moved from my current cabinet to finding a home in my retired cabinet. I did this card a while back now, when it was still current, as a challenge card with my uplines group. The challenge was the colors. We could only use bold brights and two neutrals. Anyways this is what I came up with, it is just such a happy card!

Father's Day Set

It is always had to do anything masculine, and with Father's Day coming around the corner soon, I thought I would try to come up with a cute box and matching card. The DSP is To the nines, which is actually textured card stock. I hand cut the tie and shirt collar, added a button and used the word window punch(with my favorite teeny tiny wishes set) as my tie clip.

Easter Lily Tutorial

Easter Lily Tutorial

Step 1: Items Needed

Whisper white CS, 1/8" circle punch, linen thread, 5 petal flower punch, yellow ink pad, q-tip, spritzer, brown marker, and scissors.

Step 2:
Punch out two flowers and cut linen thread to 4" (per Lilly)

Step 3:
Cut one petal off each flower, and punch a 1/8" hole in the center of one

Step4:

Add yellow ink to the center of the flower with the hole punched out, spritz with brown ink to your liking, curl petals down with bone folder or scissors

Step 5:

Twist the petals around so that the edge two over lap, this will form a "cone" type shape. Attach with a single glue dot to hold together. For the flower with the hole punched, firsts fold you piece of linen thread in half and then half again. Insert the thread in the hole that was punched, and repeat the instructions above with the linen thread in the middle. See picture above and below for end results.

Step6:

Trim linen thread on top and bottom if necessary. Add two to three glue dots at the base of the flower.(on the linen thread flower only)

Step7:

Insert the linen thread flower into the empty flower, off setting the petals. press together to secure, add tombo liquid glue between the two flowers if you are worried about the separating.

Here is the finished product! Hope you enjoy!

You're a hoot!

I love owls! They are so cute and I am so glad they are so popular! Here is a square card I made with the Owl Together Now set. The DSP is retired and called Bella rose. I water color all of the owl images and used So Saffron, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, and Old Olive Card stock!

More gifts for Zavian

On Monday i had my normal club meeting-it was moved up a week due to the fact that I will be having a new little one soon and wasn't sure how it would work if we had it on the regular date. Well everyone came early and brought me a little something for the baby! It was very sweet and I love everything I got. Here are the hand made cards a bags I received! Aren't they so cute! Here is the card Theresa made me. Her blog is listed to the side-called Card kitchen, if you want to check out any of her other amazing creations!

Here is the shaker card Sandy made

The cute bag and matching card Bobbi made

And the cute bag Elaine decorated!

Thank you all so much!

Monday Night stamp club-March

Sorry about the late post! I thought I had this scheduled, but I guess with everything going on...I forgot! Here is the second project we did for stamp club this month. I love this little bunny, so I thought I would make him in white, milk, and semi-sweet chocolate! Put together with soft sage and to the nines DSP. Close up of the card option w/the envelope peaking out!

Close up of the 12x12 scrapbook page.