Spring Flowers

A friend sent me a link to making the butterflies out of grossgrain ribbon so I thought I would give it a try this afternoon. With snow still on the ground and temps still in the teens I thought a spring card was in order. I used one of the sayings from the new Level A hostess set in the new Serendipity magalog (which I won for having $$ in sales). I used nestabilities to cut my oval sponged with some blue and green before stamping my image then colored with copics. The link to the ribbon butterflies is: here

Ducky Day

For lack of something better to call this set - I am calling it Ducky Day - this is one of the NEW images from the MRO line to debut in the new Serendipity magalog Feb 1This was so much fun to color and embellish with the buttons and bling. I colored with Copics, embellished with the Limeade mono buttons and some Hero Arts bling. I had a scrap of Tutti Fruiti paper which went well with all of my colors. A little Scor-Pal accent, punched circles from the Tutti Fruiti line and my card was complete. Love the saying with this set, it has so many cute Easter greetings.

Calendar

I guess I should have posted pictures of the completed calendar - here is a side view and a front view - requires 1/2 piece of black cs to make completed calendar, tied with ribbon to make a tent so it will stand up.

2010 Calendar

Every year I do a little desk calendar so when I saw Squirrely Girl this year in the Inspiration Magaloge it was just perfect for this project. I used the saying from a retired set called Its the Little Things which worked perfect. I colored with my Copic Markers which was so much fun and added a little extra embellishment with fun fur and glitter.

Will you Be???

As some of you already know my dear granddaughter Paige is getting married in Jan 2011 (I know another year but she has to finish nursing school first), She is the light of my life and my "crafting" buddy so when she came the other evening and told me she wanted to make a personal invitation to her bridesmaid/maid of honor we came up with this idea. Her theme is going to be snowflakes and her colors are blue/lt blue or silver so this seemed perfect. She highlighted each snowflake with our sparkle pen and I think they turned out just perfect.

Tag Wreath

My angel friend (and supervisor) gave me an absolutely darling tag wreath for Christmas - I just had to share this and will probably case it too!!! She die cut tags out of our papers stamped and paper pieced a "retired" angel on them, paper pieced the angels and then stamped saying on other tags scattered around the wreath. She used a formed wreath and then bent some of the tags just a bit to make it fuller, paper flowers, some fibers and talk about a treasure - love it. If you click on the wreath to enlarge you can really see the detail. I need "photo taking 101!!!

All Wrapped Up Blog Hop

We are having a fun blog hop at Paper Wings so follow the paper trail of names and you will get some great fun gift wrap ideas.
This year I hosted the annual TAC gift bag swap and had some really cute ideas. I made 4 different bags for this swap posted above. The red handle bag and the vintage green/kraft bags were very easy to make using the Vintage Santa on the red bag and the Joy of Christmas on the vintage bag.
The bright lime bag was so easy peasy and perfect for the smaller gift - I punched snow flakes from silver cs and then embossed Winter Cheer from Ready, set, snow set.
The teal blue bag was my favorite and most fun to make - I used Ornamental snowflakes and Winter flurries for this bag - which is just a lunch bag that I can only find at Meiers in Mishawaka IN. I made some snowy rolling hills by tearing the cardstock and then tucked my little image under one of the hills. I am a stickles and glitter gal so had to use both on this bag.
Go ahead and hop on over and blog hop to see what everyone else has created for some fun useful ideas.

Laurie
Jen
Laine
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Chris
Diana
Angela
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