You're Fabulous!

What do you get someone for that milestone birthday who has everything or can buy whatever they want or need?  That's when I dig into my stash of rubber stamps, decorative papers and bling.

I love to celebrate my friends' birthdays with a personalized birthday card.  Stamped images are easy to personalize with colors and decorative "add-ons."  Mount the image on decorative paper and adhere to a blank card.  Add a special message inside and your gift becomes something special from your heart.

I decided to enter the card Concept #59 challenge and STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge.

   

THANK YOU!

TEXTURE, 3-D AND GLITTER

I love to say thank you with a handmade card.  I think it shows how much you care because you can make it personal.  I try to use their favorite colors, designs, and themes.

While scanning the Jolee's boutique stickers at Michael's, I saw these adorable cherry blossom stickers.  I noticed them because they were 3-D and had tiny pearls and glitter accents.  I HAD to buy them.  I wasn't sure what I was going to use them on but I had to buy them.  Then when I was leaving the aisle, I saw a Sampler Pack from CANVAS HOME BASICS in pinks.  It caught my eye because of the pretty papers and especially the pink burlap.  Then I realized the stickers would look great with the papers and this card was created.

HAPPY 1ST DAY OF SCHOOL!

It's that time of year again.  Kids are picking out their favorite school supplies, deciding what to wear for their first day, hoping they like their teachers and they don't get too much homework.

I found these in the kids' craft section at Michaels.

A little girl named Lillian is starting kindergarten very soon and I wanted to surprise her with a bright poster to make her day extra special.  Her favorite colors are pink and purple so I used pink and purple alphabet stickers for the wording.  I also found some really cool felt flower stickers to add dimension and brightness.

Family and friends can add their best wishes or dates in the white space of the poster to make it more personal!

I hope Lillian loves her poster and has an awesome first day of kindergarten!
 

It's A Boy!

A new baby has been added to our long-distance family.   We are so happy for them and happy for me because I get a chance to make a baby card.  I haven't made very many and I knew I wanted to work a quilt pattern onto the card.   I found the sweetest baby boy stickers from Recollections and they're 3-D, which I love.  I am all about texture, 3-D and colors.  This card has them all.  I love how the card turned out.  It looks nothing like the vision I had in my head.  Isn't that the way it goes sometimes!  

 

 

HAPPY SPRING!

 

Happy Spring???  Today on the east coast it is cool and grey and we had some rain mixed with snow.  Not a very Spring-like day.  So I thought what a great day to make a card with Recollections' bright color splash and boho themed collection.  The ombre ink pad and wood stamp gave me inspiration for this card.  Then I saw the pretty paper flowers, and the trim...etc.  Lucky for me they were on sale at Michael's!

I designed the background with the boho wood stamp and ombre ink pad on white paper.  The stamp was wooden so it didn't give as sharp an impression as a rubber stamp, but I liked the way it turned out.  I also used the same ink pad to color my wording.  Added some cute trim across the lower half.  Mounted this on orange and fuchsia paper and attached these adorable paper flowers.  Thought it still needed something, so I stamped green leaves, cut them out and tucked them among the flowers.  I am so happy with the way it turned out!

I have decided to send a little "Hello" to a friend of mine who lives in Florida. Her favorite color is orange and she always loves to receive handmade cards.   I hope this gives you inspiration to send a little 'Hello' to a friend.

Happy Spring Everyone!

Patti

When I saw the latest inspiration photo for Fusion's card challenge, I was excited to enter because I remembered that I had some papers in my stash that would work perfectly with this.  It also gave me a chance to work with this color palette, which I had never used before.  I think this was the quickest card I ever made.

I decided to combine the photo and the sketch.  I used Stampin' Up soft pink to stamp flowers on the face of the card.  Then I cut different size rectangle pieces of patterned paper and adhered them to the card, stamped my sentiment and added the pretty pink butterflies.  The butterflies make me wish Spring was here!

PRETTY IN PINK

Putting My Heart into It!

So cute and just in time for Valentine's Day, these decorated heart-shaped cookies caught my eye.  I love the tiny floral decorations.  They look so yummy!  Time to get out my heart stamps and play along with The Card Concept #48 challenge.

First, I used a 1 1/2" punch to cut tan squares.  Then I used a 1 1/4" punch to cut squares in light, medium, and dark pink.  Couldn't wait to open my Inkadinkado clear heart stamps and start embossing hearts on each pink square.  Attached the pink and tan squares together.  Used my Stampin' Up Loads of Love for the sentiment and found a tiny flower stamp that I embossed with red, cut out and attached.  I think it turned out sweet!
  

Also entered the Double D challenge when I saw their "Pretty Pink Hearts" inspiration photo.

Double D Challenges