Strawberry Slumber

I have a lot of birthday cards to make this month and I rummaged through some stamps I hadn't used in a while. I always love the house mouse stamps - they are so adorable! The dots are the distressed dots background SU stamp, and the happy birthday is from itty bitty banners. The EF folder is new to me - fancy fan. I didn't think I liked it at first and then it grew on me.

Deep In Thought

This scene was created by masking off, brayering, and sponging. After stamping the lady in the boat in stazon black, I colored the image with markers, then a versamarker pen and embossed with clear embossing powder. Then masked off the skyline and the sand and brayered bashful blue and marina mist for the water. Masked sun and water and brayered blush blossom and bashful blue for the sky. Sponged in river rock, sahara sand, daffodil delight, soft suede for the sand. Stamped palm tree in black and colored with markers. Added shadows and white highlights. The lady in the boat is from an old SU set called summer by the sea. The happy birthday is from the itty bitty banners and is cut with bitty banners framelits. Palm tree is from all night media.

Birthday Blues

This card is done in my favorite shades of SU's blues :) I first stamped the flowers from everything eleanor in basic gray on whisper white cardstock. Colored them in with pool party, baja breeze, night of navy. Cut into strips and matted with pool party. Matted poppy parade designer series paper with pool party; adhered all 3 to basic gray panel. Stamped another flower in basic black on watercolor paper; colored with markers and cut out. The lacey scallop circle mats in basic gray are from the lacey circles by spellbinders nestabilities. The pool party scallop is the 2 3/8" punch. Colored the happiest wishes sentiment with night of navy and baja breeze pens and punched with 1 3/4" circle punch.

In case you wondered, pearls are a cover up of an unfortunate and frustrating smudge at the end of the card, as is the placement of the ribbon :) So many of my cards get some added elements to cover up boo boos!

Elegant Butterfly Best

I like the simplicity of this card. The butterfly is from the papillon potpourri set and punched with the elegant butterfly. I first stamped butterfly on the vanilla cardstock, then stamped again and punched out; adhered to top of other stamped butterfly. Cardstock is pool party, basic gray, very vanilla. Baja breeze ink and seam binding ribbon. Best wishes is from retired set sincere saluations.

Sunflower Mashup

I was inspired by the thought of fall being just around the corner. I stamped the large sunflower stamp in crumbcake on very vanilla, then stamped the leaf from french foliage in basic gray; embossed with square lattice EF. Added the basic gray cardstock also embossed in square lattice, a strip of vanilla, and itty bitty shapes flowers with a few rhinestones. Ribbon is very vanilla seam binding with a decorative brad. Congratulations is from itty bitty banners and is cut with bitty banners framelits.
Thanks for looking :)