Lace and Pearls

Kinda girly stuff and perfect for Mother's Day! This is the card we're making today for my hostess club meeting. I have almost every butterfly stamp there is from The Angel Company so it's important for me not to forget the "oldies but goodies". Butterfly Bits is a perfect example because it's great for quick and easy cards and I love the extra doodads included in the set to make unique backgrounds, which I learned from either Trudy or Laurie.

For this card I used the Red Orange Bazzill monochromatic packs we carry and first stamped the solid image in Versamark Dazzle. It has just the tiniest sheen to it, very nice. Then I came with the top image and overstamped the solid with Versamagic Pink Grapefruit. Initially I had planned to stamp Happy Mother's Day with the same Pink Grapefruit ink but when I laid my stamp down to give me an idea where to stamp the butterflies, ink remained on my paper in the most unfortunate place. Not being one to throw away a good piece of paper, I layered it with a darker shade of Bazzill and added a strip of lace. In the end, I love the sentiment popped up and I added the pearls to help "fill" up some of the empty space. Phew, disaster adverted!!

Card Materials: all stamps and papers from The Angel Company

Speaking of Mother's Day, don't miss out on these great Father's Day stamps available this month only from The Angel Company...and,

Happy Fourth!

I hope this finds you happy and well! We are spending the day at the beach...

I wanted to share a few of my catalog submission "rejects". sniff, sniff!!

Card Materials:

Stamps: Everyday Events

Accessories: Tag punch, Sands of Time (including the "B"), spiral clip, ribbon, colored pencil

Card Materials:

Stamps: Butterfly Bits

Accessories: Scor pal, vellum, pigment ink, Catelynne paper, buttons, ribbon

Enjoy your weekend and be SAFE!

CAS. Clean and Simple

Oh how I love that term. It just sounds so much fancier than "here's my easy-peasy" card. What made them so simple is that I stuck to just two colors. Many of you can match designer paper with no troubles at all but I struggle to achieve the right balance - of colors, patterns and solids.

In each of these cards though I did try and add a little something extra to make it "pop".



I added gel pen (shiny dots) to the scallop and then covered the ladybug (just colored with a tombow marker) in Crystal Lacquer.



Card Materials:
Stamps: Squiggle Ladybug
Papers: DCVW and Lilly Anna Soar with it Collection, Scallop punch, Tombow markers, gel pen, crystal lacquer

Pearls seem all the rage these days and I found some little ones at Michaels. The lighter butterfly is just a second generation of the first (ie. I didn't re ink my stamp after stamping the first butterfly so that I got a lighter one in the same palette).



Card Materials:
Stamps: Be Still, Butterfly Bits
Materials: Pink Bazzill paper, palette ink

All the supplies listed here can be found on my online shopping site but be sure to contact me if you ever want to order! The Angel Company has free stamps as a Gift with Purchase but I must place your order for you.

PSST! I'm still looking for Orna A. who won my last blog candy. Please contact me before 31 May or I'll have to send it to the runner up. Thanks!!

A hit!!

I know you are thinking this is stamping related but, my son had his first hit in a baseball game today! woo hoo!! And, he made a great play on second base and got the runner out. I'm such a proud mama...tee hee. I'm also pooped! I will never, ever complain about football in the fall.

I wanted to share a card I made last week -- inpsired heavily by one I saw on the Hero Arts blog. I painted in the green and blue background on watercolor paper. The butterfly was first inked up with a pink pigment ink and then I came back and kissed the stamp with a purple palette ink. Once I embossed the butterfly, I cut it out. This set from The Angel Company is perfect for two step stamping or "kissing".

Lastly I attempted to paper pierce like my good friend Silke does on many of her cards. It's actually harder than it looks and I managed to get a little crooked on the bottom, hence the buttons and ribbon! sigh...Maybe I should have just started over for a cleaner look but with buttons being all the rage, I thought it might "work".

Card Materials: Butterfly Bits, hello retired

CPS Sponsor - Last Day!

sigh...this has been an exciting week for me. I have been delighted with the different cards the design team came up with over at the Card Positioning Systems (CPS) blog. They picked from a variety of stamps and papers from The Angel Company and then did their magic!!

Many thanks to:

CPS Design Team
Tami Mayberry (sketches)
Charity Hassel
Debbie Olson
Jeanne Streiff
Kandis Smith
Keri Sereika
Laura Williams
Lea Lawson
Linda Beeson
Melissa Phillips
Sherry Wright
Stacey Kingman

The sketch itself was super and I enjoyed playing along too -- I hope you'll post your card over there with Mr Linky if you haven't already! Here is my last card but if you have time, please check out my last 3 posts...they are all very different takes on the sketch this week.

Card Materials:

Stamps: Butterfly Bits, The Angel Company

Paper: Mimi Soar with it Collection and cardstock

Accessories: palette ink, dew drops