Monthly Archives: April 2007

Im so excited that I finally got around to trying out my brand new Lizzie Anne Designs Stamp set! My first set is called Funky Florals.  I just love the little stitched-look stems! Darling! I just knew I had to use a little of my sewing machine stitching with it! The Lizze Anne Designs stamp line are rubber unmounted stamps that come pre-trimmed with a fabulous foam/cling mount that you can attach directly to your clear stamp block. This gives you the best of borth worlds…a great rubber impression with the ablility to easily see where you are stamping and the storage aspect is fabulous! The stamps come in little clear CD cases and take up very little space!

Stitched Thank You

For this card, I decided to start off with a Blush Blossom card base. Why do I never use this color…so fresh and pretty for spring and nice and light for stamping directly on! I paired it up with Kraft and Whisper White for a pretty, girlish look. The flowers I colored directly on with my SU markers and then stamped once and then again for a lighter look on some of the flowers. I just love adding a little bling to my designs! I pulled out my Hero Arts gemstones and added little rhinestones to the centers fo my three main flowers….good things always come in threes, you know! 😉 For my blush card piece, I stamped it all in the darling dotted circles stamp in Blush Blossom. The Kraft layer is stamped with Sahara Sand in a darling little sketched daisy. I find that Sahara Sand ink works great with the Kraft paper. The top edge was scalloped with my large corner rounder by EK Success. I then stitched a double row along the bottom. The image needed a little definition so I zig zag stitched around the central image. I found that the dotted soft pink organy ribbon works perfectly with Blush Blossom and tied it through a couple little eyelets I set with my Crop-a-dile.

Supply List:

Cardstock: Blush Blossomm, Kraft, Whisper White – Stampin Up

Stamps: Funky Florals – Lizzie Anne Designs

Ink: Regal Rose marker, Rose Red Marker, Old Olive marker, Blush Blossom Classic, Sahara Sand Classic, Chocolate Chip

Other: Sewing machine, ribbon – Michael’s, white eyelets – Making Memories, Crop-a-dile – We R Memory Keepers, gemstones – Hero Arts

With Mother’s Day coming up four weeks from today…I thought I’d share a Mother’s Day card I designed. I’ve been having fun alternating my styles from a Shabby/Distressed look with a cleaner fresh look for Spring. I decided to have a little fun creating the “image” with embellishments and just use stamping for the sentiments on this card. One thing I like about this card is it would not have to be specific for Mother’s Day. Moms are pretty special people and more than worthy of being cherished every day.:)

Cherish Mother

When I was making this card, the color scheme came directly from the products I had on hand. I had noticed that I had Prima flowers that matched my  dotted organdy ribbon from Michael’s. Why not make the stems from the same color? Fun! I added a stitched sentiment border across the top to highlight the word cherish. For the “mother”, I took a little “bite” out of the side of my card with my circle punch. I then took a circle punch one size smaller and punched a circle out of the Cool Caribbean. I adhered it to the inside of the card so that it peeks through the card and is visible both when the card is closed as well as open. The excess of the circle was folded to the back of the card and after stamping the sentiment, I set a little white eyelet with my Crop-a-dile. To add a bit of “pop”…not a technicle term I know!….I tied black gingham ribbon through the eyelet and also throught the clear buttons that I used for flower centers.
Supply List:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Cool Caribbean – Stampin Up

Stamps: Warm Words, Everyday Flexible Phrases – STampin Up

Ink: Basic Black – Stampin Up

Other: circle punches – EK Success, Martinique flowers – Prima Marketing, sewing machine, white eyelet – Making Memories, Crop-a-dile – We R Memory Keepers, ribbon – Michael’s, Clear Buttons – Stampin Up

It’s been a busy day here but I just had to sit down, take a break and make a quick card while the boys were napping. I just adore this darling little sweet pea stamp from Papertrey Ink! It is part of their Green Thumb set which is my favorite set of theirs to date. Now that is a tall order as I love them all and knowing Nicole Heady, she has lots more fabulous ideas to come!

Sweet Pea

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This card is clean and simple…a nice way to go for a baby design. I STILL cannot put my kraft paper away…this time I’ve paired it up with white and barely banana with a tiny dash of Celery. I’d been wanting to use my new Prima flowers…I just love these cute plaid flowers! I had an awesome order arrive this week from Jacksonbelle…so many new goodies to try! I first came up with the layout for this card…it just popped into my head and then I went looking for some stamps that would work well with it. When my eyes fell on the sweet pea…I knew it would be darling. To give some fun dimension to the card…I used a large size pewter brad, covered it with Certainly Celery Craft Ink and then embossed it with clear embossing powder. I just love the flexibility this gives you….you can always have a brad that matches your ink! Celery brads are hard to come by and you know how often I like to use Celery! I decided to add a little band around the card front to break up the design. I cut a long strip of cardstock and wrapped it right around both sides of the card front. I torn the overlapping edge of the band that adheres at the front for fun. The leaves were once again fashioned from a small scrap of Celery ric rac from StarlitStudio and were adhered with SU’s fabulous glue dots. Wishing you all a fabulous weekend. I hope you are enjoying the sweet days of spring!