Springtime Garden

I am so ready for SPRING and this set sure puts me in the mood. Today we are supposed to have temps near 65 (but how many times has the weatherman been wrong). For my card today I used Springtime Garden which has several images to make you think spring. I also used FREE downloadable digi background paper designed by an angel friend Christine and it worked perfect for my card. I colored the image with copics, put a fluffy white tail on my bunny with white flocking and used the free digi paper to put on my sign - how perfect is this. I stamped my image on the digi bg then cut out, distressed it a bit and glued it on the signboard. Then I used the darling little chickie again colored with copics and cut out, popped up with a bit of foam tape, and the greeting Happy Easter along the bottom. I used More Mimi DP as it went so well with my coloring and a new nestie labels 11 to cut out the focal image and DP. Go check out the free digi papers and see what you can create.

Pea Pickin

These are 2 cards I made with inspiration from The Angel Company the Savvy Blo postings that TAC has had for the month of February. I had this set Pea Pickin and had actually put it in my "for sale" box when the inspiration was posted so I dug the set out and made up 2 cute cards, which I ended up sending both of them to my Chemo Angel patient. The set now has found a home back on my stamp shelf for now!!!

Distressed Color Blocking

Every other month I get a wonderful publication called Technique Junkies - they have some wonderful (and some that I don't care for) new techniques and I try to make at least one if not more of the new techniques. This month I made 2 and used the technique called distressed color blocking. Easy Easy to do and I love the results especially with the Hope Perches card. For the Happy Trails card I used distress ink Brushed Corduroy and Vintage Photo, DP from a mat stack Pet Stack by DCWV and loved the western feel it had. I punched the bottom of the DP with a "rope" punch . I had a piece of leather so I stamped the horseshoes on it with Staz-On and used it as an embellishment. I used some really tacky glue that my friend Pat gave me. A little scrappers floss and the card is done. I have wanted this set forever and in fact have borrowed,and begged stamped images from this set so I finally decided to go ahead and get it.
The Hope Perches card is from a hostess level B set and it had never seen ink but I am thinking it is going to see more now. I used Crushed Olive and Peeled Paint distress inks along with DP from Me and My Big Idea. I cut the focal image with labels 1, layered on a wine color mat then on the DP, it still needed a bit more so I tied a lt gold satin ribbon to the side and I think it just tied all the colors together. This one is for my cancer patient that I send cards to through Chemo Angels.

February Blog Hop

It is time for our monthly BLOG HOP at Paper Wings - this is a monthly hop and the theme of this months hop is "hostess sets". I chose to use Thanking God which is a level B Hostess Set from the Fall Supplement. Every year I make these cute little calendars and tuck some in Christmas cards, give away at the office, my Chemo Angel patient etc. It takes 1/2 sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 cs to make the base and they are so much fun to make. Every year when the new inspiration book comes out I look for a stamp set that will be suitable for this project and when I saw this set I knew this was the one!!! I colored the little birdies with copic markers, added some fun fur to the winter bird, some gold gel pen to the spring and just embellished each up a bit but yet kept it simple. I hope you enjoy hopping around to the other angels blog and seeing what they have created.
Rita
Angela
Laura
Carol
Chelsea
Kerry
Seleise

Cup of Love

This is another Cup of Love card I made - (can you believe I had this set for 3 months and it had never seen ink??). I colored the daisys with copic markers, fussy cut them out and used yellow flower soft in the center. I had some beautiful Daisy DP and I thought it would be perfect for this card. I stamped the cup on Kraft cs and colored the flourishes rim etc with a clear gel pen and love the look, fussy cut it out also and tied a narrow yellow dot ribbon around the handle (maybe to cover up an oops!!) I popped the daisys up on top of the card and used a fancy label nestie for the sentiment.

Months Pages

This will be the last of the posts on my pages for the Watch Me Grow Album - in fact I mailed the baby album and onesie off today. (I did make copies of all my pages so I could make more). I used Toodle Do DP for this album and it just all went together so easy with using the DP and matching Bazzill CS. I have a baby boy one to make here in the next couple of weeks so that will be fun, change it up a bit from the frills and lace. You put a page a month up to 12 months in the album plus the little extras I put in the front and in the back I put the poem Why God Made Little Girls.

Watch Me Grow

Here are 2 more pages in the Watch Me Grow Album - I used a "retired" set called Special Delivery which is just perfect for this album - you can paperpiece or color the images or leave them uncolored but they work very well. I should have made a slideshow (but I don't know how!!!). I will show 2 of the pages in which to post the month pictures on my next post.