Dazzling Snowflake

SUPPLIES:

• stamps - teeny tiny wishes
• cardstock - bashful blue, white
• ink - not quite navy
• accessories - holiday frame EF, snow flurry Bigz die, button, dazzling diamonds, two way glue pen; ticket, modern label and word window punches

French Foliage Thanks

I saw this card technique posted on Stampin' Connection by Marian Garcia. I loved the simple effect of the masking and sponging. I changed the colors and added the tab at the top.

Mask off the top and bottom of the card leaving the width exposed that will be sponged. Sponge in graduated colors - dark, medium, light. I began by sponging the daffodil delight on the right and worked my way left, adding calypso coral to the middle and melon mambo to the far left side. Whie still masked, use espresso to stamp the leaves that will only be inside the masking. Remove the mask and stamp the rest of the leaves that overlap the masking in espresso; add the dots and and round paris stamp in melon mambo. Stamp sentiment and add word window punch to top with button and baker's twine. Cardstock is so saffron.

Thanks for Everything

This is one of those simple cards that look elegant, but are so easy. Used daffodil delight, real red, and whisper white cardstock; daffodil delight, real red and basic black ink; PAPILLON POTPOURRI, EVERYTHING ELEANOR, PETITE PAIRS & SINCERE SALUTATIONS stamp sets. Accessories: fancy fan EF; word window, circle, itty bitty shapes, elegant butterfly punches; labels framelits; cherry cobbler seam binding ribbon; pearls.

Simple Black & White

This card is simple, simple, simple! No coloring, just stamping with black ink on whisper white paper! The stamp set is happiness shared; thank you sentiment is from the old hostess set faith in nature. Just stamp floral image as background print; mat with daffodil delight. Stamp image again on white and cut with window frame framelits; add black decprative label punch to accent edges. Mat with larger window frame framelits in daffodil delight after running through square lattice embossing folder. Add itty bitty punch shapes, ribbon, and sentiment punched out with word window punch. Elegant, classy and easy!

Bright Flower Thanks

These flowers are from the Best of Everything set. I have a lot of thank you cards to make and haven't played much with this set. It is fun and colorful : ) When inking the flower stamps, I inked only the top portion of the flower in the color, and then colored the stem and leaves with a lucky limeade marker.

SUPPLIES:
cardstock - pretty in pink, melon mambo, whisper white
ink - calypso coral, real red, pretty in pink, lucky limeade
stamps - best of everything, thank you kindly
misc - itty bitty punch, word window punch, petals a plenty EF, scallop trim border punch, 1/2" circle punch, pearl rhinestones, ribbon

OLD TRUCK Mancard

The idea of this card was a love you or valentine MANCARD. This truck is from the countryside stamp set. The background paper is cajun craze, baja breeze, soft suede, black and floral districut DSP. The truck was stamped in stazon brown on watercolor paper, then colored with markers and blender pen. I stamped LOVE on baja breeze and added to tailgate of truck. I had to piece together the "all i want is you" phrase and "love" from different stamp sets. After I cut the truck image with the labels framelits, I also used the labels framelits on soft suede, then trimmed off the bottom portion and adhered to the truck image. Then added a small strip of black.

SUPPLIES:

• baja breeze, cajun craze, soft suede, watercolor, black cardstock; floral district designer series paper
•  countryside, pennant parade (love), best of everything (all i want is), tiny tags (you)
• timber brown stazon ink
• word window, tiny tag punches; labels framelits; argyle embossing folder

Poppy Window

I was testing out my new Pleasant Poppies backbground stamp. I made it a "window" of poppies by first embossing the wild wasabi mat with the vintage wallpaper, then cutting out the frame with the labels framelits. I colored the poppies using pumpkin pie, calypso coral and mellow moss. The butterfly is from the new Papillon Potpourri set and is stamped in calypso coral and then punched out with coordinating butterfly punch.

• carstock: calypso coral, wild wasabi, whisper white, black
• stamps: pleasant poppies, papillon potpourri, because i care (old hostess)
• ink: stazon black, calypso coral
• accessories: modern label, word window, and elegant butterfly punch; labels framelits; black rhinestones not SU