Made to order card for a wedding

Here is a card I made that a friend ordered for a wedding.  The theme was eat drink love so I used that as my message.  Papertrey stamps used for the background and foreground with some gold embossing and an amber rhinestone.

Mother's Day Card

Here is the card I made for my mother.  Love my new Twinkling H20s!

DCWV textured pink paper, Staples card stock, Paper Source flower stamp, Paper Trey Ink Mega Mixed Messages, Paper Trey Ink stripes, Versamark ink, white embossing powder, Twinkling H2Os

Inspiration from around the world

Here is some of my latest inspiration via others' creations.  It's amazing how many beautiful designs are out there ...

from The Kraft Room:

Divine, aren't they?

And now, from the Bald Dragonfly:

Love the juxtaposition of colours ....

Okay, next one is Recapturing Wonders:

Fabulous composition, n'est-ce pas?

Verve Stamps - a thank you set

I have gotten a lot of use out of my new Verve clear stamps.  I bought a thank you set, another one with this circular design and a few others.  Love them!!

Flowery Birthday

I am loving this Amy Butler China patterned paper pack.  There are such cool colour combinations.  I used a flower I had found in the wedding section (go figure?)  of Target for next to nothing for a big pack.  Amazing the finds you can make!

Swirly thank you

 

I am always looking for easy ways of layering and making thank you cards.  Here's what I came up with using my new Verve stamp set of Thank You's ....

Distress Inks and Multi colour inking

This is my new favourite technique and I learned it from Jennifer McGuire.  I love my Tim Holtz Distress inks and I now have vintage photo, antique linen and broken china.  For this card, I used a Papertrey Ink flourish and a Verve sentiment stamp.  I inked in the lighter broken china ink and then did some areas over again with vintage photo.  Voilà!

Gold embossed First Nations images

 

I love these images.  I found them when I was on vacation this past summer in Tofino on Vancouver Island.  They are First Nations stamps that I used with some gold embossing powder.  Simple, quick but effective.

 

A corner rounder punch, some glittery patterned paper and voilà!

I just love this combination of colours - a lime sort of green with a purply shade.  This card was a quick one to make.  The black and white paper has sparkles on the flowers but it's hard to see with this picture.

Embossing and flourishes

I have really been enjoying a set of stamps called the Bonjour stamp set from Cavallini. There is a nice selection and they look gorgeous and old worldly. And you know how much I love flourishes so I added them on the corners. Voilà - card done!