Corner Bookmark

I was "cleaning" out some scraps today and came across a 4 x 4 piece of velvet embossed cs from DCWV - I almost pitched it in my waste basket and thought no I think this would make a cute bookmark. I found the instructions on Bob's web site and then I added the ribbon on my own. It still needed just a little something more so I embossed a small flower from a retired set Fanciful Flowers (which was one of my favorites) and put it on the front.

Purses

These darling little purses were a "special" in January I believe - you got 2 stamp sets plus DP, and since Mabelle was the designer I thought I needed them!!! Besides purses are big right now. This card is for a friends birthday - and yes she loves purses - I paper pieced all three of them, then added a big of bling to each individual purse. It was so much fun to bling up each purse. I then cut them out with labels 10 which I love. Now the problem is I can't remember what this retired dp is called but it worked perfect for this card. I hope my friend likes her special card.

Seeing Shamrocks

Today is the last day to share our Shamrock cards over at TAC. Once I got out some stamps I realized I could put a wagon full of shamrocks from Mini Sampler (retired) in the hedgehogs wagon - set is a hostess set called Hedgehog Happiness. What a fun set this has been - and what fun it was to fill this wagon with good luck shamrocks. Again I used my stampa-ma-jig to place the shamrocks (as well as masking) in the wagon. I colored the images with copics, used the greeting from Trendy Greetings, stamped the shamrocks in giverny green palette ink to make my bg paper, a bit of green ribbon, and of course a bit of extra on the wheels. Mounted on the extra piece of Patch cs I had left from yesterday.

Shirley Hotop

This weekend is a fun blog hop over at TAC Seeing Shamrocks. I started my mission to find a shamrock among my collection of TAC stamps and came up with the shamrock from a retired set Mini Sampler, Date Discs (which is current) and my sentiment is from a hostess set called Blessings to You. Using my stamp-a-ma-jig I place the shamrock in the center of the March disc, colored them with copics, punched them out and popped them onto a circle of Catelynne paper ( perfect match). The blessing I also popped up and added just a wee bit of bling to the top of the sentiment. It still needed something else so I took the shamrock stamp and some versamark and random stamped the shamrocks on V397 Patch cs. I do have a bit of Irish in me - my mother was a "O" Casey, my dad was Scot. What fun this hop was to figure something out using what I already had. Love to be challenged.

OLWs Christmas

I have admired these one layer cards so often and just didn't like what I came up with. I have often seen a bare tree with a single red bird done up for a Christmas card also and started searching through my "huge" collection of stamps. In fact the set I used was in my "for sale" box but after playing with it it is back on my shelf. I think I like the birds in flight from Hope Perches I used burnt umber palette for the tree and a lady bug memento ink for the birds. I tried to change each one up a bit - so let me know which one is your favorite.

Teddy Bo

This cute, adorable little girl bear is from Teddy Bo printed out and colored with copic markers, . I did not like the cs I used to print her out on therefore I did not get real good shading on her purple dress. I have trouble shading purple anyway and the cs didn't help. I used a fancy oval nestie and wove some sheer purple through the holes, tied in a little bow at top. I colored little cotton pom-poms on her hat with pink copic and glued them onto the bottom of her hat strings. A couple of pearls on her hat brim, sentiment hello there from TAC and what a cute card. I think I am going to have to get a couple more of these images.

Springtime Garden

Today over at TACs Savvy Projects Blog the theme is ANIMALS - and we had had quite a selection already up. I am so ready for spring that I chose these 2 darling bunnies from Springtime Garden - very simple - embossed with white embossing powdered, cut out with oval nestie - left in nestie and stippled lavender palette inside, I then took a soft paper towel and rubbed the ink off the white embossing powder. It needed a bit of color so I colored the flowers with Atyou glitter pens which I love. Pounted on varying sizes of nesties ovals and scalloped ovals, tied a purple satin ribbon and used a darling pearl embellishment from Gem Collections on page 117 of the Inspiration book. For the background paper I used printed from a dear angel Christine so go visit and pick up so beautiful springtime/Easter backgrounds.