Floral Gift Basket ~ CCS

Happy May friends!  I've got a new project up over at the CutCardstock blog.

  

If you'd like to see more details on how this project came together, I'd love for you to visit CutCardstock.  I ask a probing question at the end of the blog post, so please stop by and tell me your ideas.

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Pretty Pastels for Mom ~ CutCardstock

Rabbit!  Rabbit!  Happy April Fool's Day! Happy Tuesday or happy spring!  However you look at it, I hope it's a beautiful day in your neck of the woods.

 

Today's card was made for the CutCardstock blog, featuring pretty pastel colors, giving honor to the mother's in our lives.  If you'd like to see more details about how this card came together and all the wonderful cardstocks I used to make it, hop on over to the CutCardstock blog.  I so appreciate your encouragement and your support.

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Color Hues Round 2

Good morning to you friend!  Happy Mother's day to you, if you wear that hat.  I'm so glad you stopped in for a visit. I enjoyed the color swatch from Color Hues so much, I wanted to do round two using florals.

I pulled out an old favorite stamp set of mine from PTI, Gran's Garden.

I layered the flowers over some scripted papers from my stash.  

The bookmark label is also from PTI but unfortunately, I don't remember the name of it.  ETA:  It is called "Basic Bookmark #3", from PTI.

I think I'm getting this card into the Color Hues challenge just in the nick of time.

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Garden Cart ~ ScrapbookPal

Share the gift of love with your favorite gardener.  Did you know that the month of April is declared  National Garden Month? But May and June are just a few steps away, with Mother’s Day and Father’s day on the horizon. 

I’m revisiting one of my favorite Spellbinders collections, “Add To Cart” for ScrapbookPal. 

Choose from the Add To Cart “Right Facing” or “Left Facing” and then fill your cart with your favorite gardening items using dies from “In The Garden”, “Plant It Here” or “Shopping Run”.

I don't know about you, but a shopping cart filled with things like this just makes me happy!  I enjoy being outside working in the yard and flower gardens, and visiting my favorite garden spots in the spring brings joy to my soul.

My love of gardening was passed down from my dad, who's mother, my grandmother, passed it down to him.  I have vivid memories of both of them tending to their beautifully landscaped yards.  My gardening skills don't hold a candle to their skilled hands, but I enjoy the process and the peace and solitude of being outside working in God's beautiful creation.

I had a few leftovers, so they found their way to another card.  No sentiment, just CAS.

I hope you enjoyed today's cards.  You can find all the products I used at ScrapbookPal.

Entire Spellbinders Add To Cart Collection
Add To Cart - Right Facing
In The Garden
Plant It Here
Shopping Run

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Lovely Spring Dogwood Blossoms ~ ScrapbookPal

I love everything about spring, especially when all the trees and flowers start coming back to life.  Honeybee Stamps had an amazing spring release a few weeks ago, and I had the pleasure of working with the Honey Cuts, Lovely Layers: Dogwood and This One's For The Girls clear stamp set.

These Honey Cuts Dogwood Dies are pure spring delight!  Let me show you more details on how this card came together.

 

I started by cutting all the die elements out of 80# white cardstock. 

I separated them by flowers, leaves and flower centers and colored them using Copic Markers.  You can see the colors I used in this photo. I was inspired by this photo of a pink dogwood blossom I found online.

 I also colored the single solid die, where the small elements will be placed.  I glued the flowers, leaves and buds onto the branch using Bearly Art Precision Liquid Glue, lifting the edges of the petals and leaves to add dimension.  

Once the flower branch was assembled, I created the base of the card by die cutting a white A2 size card panel that I die cut using Lawn Fawn's Quilted Backdrop, to add more texture to the card.  I found the striped scrap of paper in my stash that fit the sentiment from Honeybee Stamps "This One's For The Girls" clear stamp set, just perfectly.  I LOVE this stamp set!  It has so many wonderful sentiments but it also has a variety feminine names, including some in Spanish.  You could use this stamp set for so many special occasions.  

Once the flower stem was adhered to the card front using liquid glue, I added some Lime Green Stickles to the centers of the flowers, just to add a bit of sparkle.

So sweet!

I hope you enjoyed today's project.  You'll find these products and so many more when you visit ScrapbookPal.  

Here's a list of products I used today:

Honeybee Stamps Honey Cuts Lovely Layers:  Dogwood

Honeybee Stamps This One's For The Girls Clear Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop

Copic Markers

Bearly Art Precision Liquid Glue

Lime Green Stickles

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Heart Shaped Treat Boxes ~ ScrapbookPal

Hello peeps!  Treat boxes are on the top of my list of favorite things to make.  They're so fun to make, so fun to give, and hopefully so fun for the recipient to receive.  

The Bunch of Blossoms dies and stamps from Concord & 9th made for beautiful decorations for the Happy Heart Box Die, also from Concord & 9th, that was released last year.  

I started by creating the three Happy Heart Boxes using heavy weight cardstock.  These boxes went together very easily and they're oh, so adorable!

I cut out several flowers using the Bunch of Blossoms dies in different colors of cardstock.  I blended Distress Oxide Inks onto each of the petals and leaves.  I then glued the bottom two layers of petals together and added dimensional foam squares to the two top layers of the flowers, which included the stamen and the top petals.

Once the flowers were assembled, I gave the flowers and leaves a spritz of gold shimmer spray. I arranged the flowers and leaves onto each of the boxes and added a few gold leaves to a couple of the boxes.  

I stamped the sentiments from the Bunch of Blossoms Stamp Set onto cardstock and cut them out using the coordinating dies from the Bunch of Blossoms die set and popped them up using dimensional foam squares.

These turned out super cute and are ready to fill with sweet treats for my crafty friends.  

I hope you enjoyed today's project.  You can find all the products I used linked below.

ScrapbookPal
Bunch of Blossoms Dies~ Concord & 9th
Bunch of Blossoms Stamps ~ Concord & 9th
Happy Heart Box Die ~ Concord & 9th

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Elegant Easel Card

Hello~  There's a new challenge starting up over at The Sisterhood of Crafters and we're looking for easel cards.  

I enjoy making easel cards but I don't make them often enough.  They're the kind of card that has that wow factor when opened.  

For this card, I used the elegant dies from Creative Expressions, Australian Collection.  The background and the Brisbane label are from two different sets but they're made to go together. 

 I cut both of them from gold mirrored cardstock and backed them with white. 

 I also layered on pink and red cardstock to coordinate with the rose image that I found online and printed on my computer.

The final touch is the bow that was cut using Memory Box Stitched Bows.  This card will go to my hubby's mom for Mother's Day.  I love how this turned out!

I hope you'll hop on over to The Sisterhood of Crafters blog to join in on the fun!

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Pretty in Pink Tulips ~ Dies R Us

Good morning stamplings.  It's time for a new challenge over at the Dies R Us Challenge blog.  The theme is now "Anything Goes" all the time!!  

I started by creating a base using patterned paper and Elizabeth Craft Designs Scalloped Rectangles.

Elizabeth Craft Designs Scalloped Ovals and Stitched Ovals make the setting for this sweet Impression Obsession Stitched Tulip. 

 I also made a cute little Spellbinders Treat Bag to go along with it.  It's the perfect size to hold a gift card or other small goodies.

You can find more inspiration and join in on the fun at the 

Dies R Us Challenge blog.

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Vintage Easel Card for Mother's Day

Hello and Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate being a mom!  I made this vintage style easel card for my mother-in-love for Mother's day.  She's the only parent we have left between my hubby and I.  I miss my own mom so much, especially on Mother's Day and her birthday, and Christmas, and Easter, and flag day and National Whoopie Pie Day......  I miss her every day, so I'm very thankful to have this dear, sweet woman in our lives to celebrate.

I used beautiful papers by Mintay called 7th Heaven.  ~Swoon~   

 The clock face is from Marianne Designs, I cut it from gold foil cardstock. 

 I added some leafy greens and baby's breath both from Taylored Expressions.  The flowers are from Prima and the bird is from Tim Holtz botanical ephemera.

I love how this card came out and hope that she'll love it too.

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Use a Die Cut or a Punch

Inspired By ~ Flower Me With Color
Crafter's Castle: May Challenge ~ Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations: May ~ Say It With Flowers

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