You Brighten My Day

I'm so glad to be home!  My flight arrived ahead of schedule, but getting home took quite sometime in the rush hour traffic. So glad to see my parents are well.  I think my dad knew I was coming home - my mum told me he had been talking in his sleep and calling out my name.  It was extra special that he recognised me immediately.  It's good to be back.

Today's card describes exactly how I feel, not just seeing my parents' happy faces, but also thinking of my friend, Marcie who sent me the stamp set which I've used for the card.  Thank you SO much for your thoughtfulness, Marcie.  I love the stamp set!

I used the sketch from Stamp TV's challenge STVSKSP21 to create the card.  It feels wonderful to sit at my desk and look out the window and be inspired.

I hope you are having a great day too.

{{Hugs}}

Stamps : GKD Smile

Papers : Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety 6x6 pad

Ink : Versafine Satin Red and Onyx Black

Others : i-rock, twine

More Notecards

Hi, today will be the last post from cards I made over my last weekend in Auckland.  I think I ended up making more than 20 cards, but I won't post all of them here and bore you ;-).  By the time this post goes live, I should be back home, and hopefully have unpacked (maybe a little optimistic lol!).  

Today's notecards are made with the Webster's Pages journal cards.  The WP journal cards are so gorgeous, and I used one each from the Hollywood Vogue & WonderFall packs.  The notecards measure 4 x 4.5".  

 

I added some rolled paper flowers & leaves to the first notecard,  and a sticker sentiment to the second notecard.  These cards are easy to make, especially when in a rush, and needing a notecard as is or to go with a gift. 

I hope you've enjoyed my series of cards without stamping the past few days.  I shall be back soon with my regular style of cards. 

Before I go, here's a photo of beautiful Auckland with views of the waterfront, not too far from where I stayed.

Two Cards

Today I have some Webster's Pages cards to share.  I can't tell you how much I love these papers.  They are so pretty and one doesn't need much effort to create a great looking card with them.

Here are the cards:

These two cards are made out of one sheet of 6x6 paper. Amazing, right? 

For the first card, I used the top portion of the WonderFall paper, added some WP lace trim and a stacked stamped doily (My Mind's Eye stamp set) with a button to finish up the card.

 On the second card, I used the bottom section of the WonderFall paper, then added a scalloped edge paper (from the same collection) at the bottom, adhered the SRM sticker "Life is sweet", and to finish up the card, I couldn't resist adding a WP sparkler. 

Do you like the cards?

I'll be back to show you yet another fun idea with Webster's Pages journal cards tomorrow.

Have a marvellous day!

Note Cards

Hi, I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  Today I have some notecards to share.  These cards measure 4x4" and it's easy to create a bunch of them to give away or as gift cards.

The note cards were made using Cosmo Cricket Social Club 6x6 pad, and some SRM stickers.  I love the colours of the Social Club papers and they are so suitable for masculine cards.


Thank you for stopping by.  A couple more posts on the simple cards, and I should be home and back to stamping.

Monstrosity Birthday cards

Over the weekend, I've been given various papers to work on for cards, sort of a challenge.  So, I was on a roll to make as many cards as I could.  I'll be scheduling the posts over the next few days to show you what I've done, as I'll be busy finishing up some work and packing up to go home. 

Here's two of the cards :

I've always loved the Monstrosity collection by Sassafras Lass, and I wanted to make some fun cards with the papers.  For the cards below, I've used various papers from the 6x6 pad.

The first card, I've combined the cute monsters paper with the Cosmo Cricket Coredinations cardstock and some elements from Bella Blvd's Estate Sale & SRM Stickers.

For the second card, I added some SRM stickers with the Sassafras feltie which is totally cute.

More cards coming soon...

Papers : Sassafras Lass Montrosity 6x6 pad, Bella Blvd Estate Sale Bits A Bella, Cosmo Cricket Coredinations Classic Collection

Others : SRM Stickers, Monstrosity brad, Sassafras Lass Felties "zoom zoom"

Butterflies

Everybody loves butterflies... maybe it's because butterflies are so colourful and so pretty.  I remember going to my cousins' house when I was a little girl - they live on a huge estate, with a football field and a badminton court and lots & lots of fruit trees and orchids.  They had a small butterfly farm as well, and my cousins taught me how to catch butterflies, preserve them and have them framed up.  It was such a lot of fun.

Today's card is somewhat inspired by that memory...

No stamping (again!) and just using the Webster's Pages' beautiful journal card & papers.  The butterflies background was done using an embossing plate.  I inked the plate before embossing the paper. 

Here's a closer look at the stacked butterflies.  The die cut butterflies are from Cheery Lynn Designs - same technique, ink the die then emboss and cut.  Don't you think the butterflies are beautiful?

Enjoy your day!

Paper : Webster's Pages WonderFall journal card & 6x6 pad, Kraft cardstock

Ink : Versacolor Pinecone, Versacolor multi-color Icicle

Other : Cheery Lynn Designs E124 (Flutter bys embossing plate), D130 (Butterfly Dimensional die)

Card with no Stamping!

Today's card is made without any stamping!!  I find it really hard to make cards without using stamps and no colouring, but I guess it's good to try something out of my comfort zone. 
Here's my card (sorry, the photo isn't very good):

What do you think?  I used the papers from Webster's Pages 6x6 Petite Pad - I love how beautiful the papers are, and it makes everything so easy to piece together.  The dress form is cut out from Webster's Christmas paper, and I added some die cut lace borders and lace trim and adhered them to the card with pop dots.  Then I added another strip of the die cut lace border and an SRM sticker "Follow Your Heart" and the card is done. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Have a wonderful day!

Papers : Webster's Pages 6x6 Hollywood Vogue/WonderFall & Waiting for Santa/Sweet Season, Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden (die-cut lace border on the dressform)

Others : SRM Sticker #53003 Sweet, Webster's Pages lace trim, My Favorite Things lace border die