Happy 21st Birthday from your 110 L. Friend

I think that stamp from Arts Impressions is hilarious... 

I needed a support for it and thought of mixing two of my old cards, a thank you card (THANK YOU... with a bouquet #214) 

and a Birthday card (Happy 29th Birthday... #286)

Below is the results.

I added some paper flowers, and a dab of puff paint for the hearts.

The little bow is made with baker's twine and I used a dessert fork to tie it. 

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Until next time!

Mother's Day Bouquet

Mother's Day Bouquet...

I guess I was lying to myself yesterday when I said I was done making cards for a while.

My craft fair is tomorrow and I keep wanting to add new models to my already overflowing  baskets.

This time I think I am done. The sun is shining bright outside and I am going to move on to oiling my teak furniture so I will be able to enjoy laying around without guilt this weekend.

OK, one more Mother's day card, same stamp, same circular sentiment, same baker's twine just a different color....

And a lone button to tie up the baker's twine..

Here you go:

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Until next time....

Mother's Day Bouquet

Mother's Day...
... Bouquet.

After having seen my customer reaction to her thank you cards (post # 214), I decided to use this idea on a Mother's day card, since it is fast approaching.

I used two different Martha Stewart flower stamps to make the bouquet, and tied a piece of cotton twine as a bow on top of the gathered stems.

This was glued on top of a bright pink paper that i cut in the shape of a pennon, and i added some light green ribbon to finish the card.

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Until next time.

Wishing you A Happy Birthday

Wishing you..
... a happy birthday.

More flowers, more Tiffany blue, more Martha Stewart punch....

With those elements, it could only be a success.  I have always liked cards where there is a mix of stamped image and embellishments. It gives the sentiment there are different dimensions on the overall picture.

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This is exactly what I did here: one of the flower is a paper one from recollections, (with a puffy paint center) and the other ones are stamped with a Martha Stewart flowers stamps set.

The vase is a punched image (Punch Bunch) and the spine of the card is  made with a piece of Tiffany paper punched with a martha Stewart edger.

The sentiment was printed beforehand.

Until next time....

Thank you with Bouquet

THANK YOU...
... with a bouquet.

Here comes a simple one, but still pretty unique.
I made those thank you cards at the request of one of my customer, she wanted classy but simple.

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The flowers are first printed on white card stock and then cut out, leaving a white border. i used a Martha Stewart flower stamps set as well as for the stem of the bouquet.

I then glued a little bow made out of cotton twine.

The sentiment was printed beforehand.

Until next time....

Make a Wish Blue Bouquet

Make a Wish Blue Bouquet.

A beautiful stamp from the Rubber Cafe... it just needed a touch of color and I tried my hand at this copic markers technique of coloring. Fortunately it is very forgiving and I plan on learning a little more each day.

I used my cuttlebug to make this Lattice Rectangle with a Spellbinder Nestability, and stamped the sentiment on a kraft card stock.

I then added two color ribbons to echo the two tones in the flower.

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Until next time.