Party Pennants and Chantilly

These two cards were lifted from Karen Pedersen, for my May Card Club.

 The borders are stamped with images from Party Pennants in coordinating ink on Twilight and Cotton Candy cardstock.

The cardstock colours are Cotton Candy and Buttercup. Both butterflies are cut from Chantilly and the background patterns are also from Chantilly. The sentiment is from Joyful Birthday.

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Stamps: Joyful Birthday; Party Pennants

Paper: Chantilly

Ink: Twilight; Cotton Candy; Black; Ruby

Cardstock: Twilight; Cotton Candy; Buttercup; Black; White Daisy

Embellishments: Sparkles

Tools: Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge

Fly Away.....Butterfly

Boy, my headings are getting really corny...so sorry!

This is one of the many cards I created for sale at one of the coffee shops. I used Claire patterned paper with a Sunset mat. I added ribbons of Ruby; Lagoon; Sorbet and a spritzed White Daisy cardstock. The butterfly was cut from Chantilly paper. The sentiment shape and card base are Colonial White. The actual sentiment is from Fringed Phrases.

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Paper: Claire; Chantilly
Stamp: Fringed Phrases
Cardstock: Colonial White; Ruby; White Daisy; Lagoon; Sorbet; Sunset
Ink: Ruby
Embellishments: Glitter Red Sparkles
Tools: Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge

A special request card

Recently, I was thrilled when a customer at one of the coffee shops I sell cards at, asked if I would make a special card. This is the card I created.

This card was for a gal graduating to high school and her favourite colour was green. It was her Grandmother who had stopped for a coffee, saw my cards, and inquired if I did special requests. Well, of course I do and I set out to make this card as special as I could.

This card is 5.7 and uses patterned paper from retired Lucy; Dotty For You; and Chantilly. The base is a White Daisy, so I coordinated sentiments with that, then have Whisper and Lagoon cardstock, also. I used our wonderful Houndstooth Irrestible Dimensional Elements Alphabet for the name. I rubbed some Pear ink on then either stamped or wrote with Lagoon or Whisper ink. I added some Sweet Leaf Bigger Brads and Sweet Leaf grosgrain ribbon.

All supplies are Close To My Heart.
Paper: Lucy; Dotty For You; Chantilly
Stamp: For Every Occasion
Markers: Whisper; Lagoon
Ink: Lagoon; Desert Sand
Embellishments: Sweet Leaf Bigger Brads and Grosgrain ribbon
Tools: Art Philosophy and Artiste Cricut cartridges

More Animal Cracker cuteness.

Here are another 2 cards I made with my Animal Crackers My Stickease stash.

 I added some Dutch Blue; Holiday Red and White Daisy cardstock to these Animal Cracker My Stickease;  paper pack and stamp set. Some Red glitter sparkles for the lion and that is all that was needed.

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Stamp; Paper; My Stickease: Animal Crackers
Cardstock: White Daisy; Holiday Red; Dutch Blue
Ink: Dutch Blue
Embellishments: Red Glitter Sparkles

Animal Crackers

I was digging around in my paper stash and found these sweet animal My Stickease, from retired Animal Crackers. I dug out the coordinating paper pack and put a few cards together.

 Here I added Ruby cardstock stamped with a flower from a retired border set. I used Keyboard Kraft alphabet stickers for, "Hello", on the monkey card. For the hippo card, I stamped the sentiment from the Animal Cracker stamp set in Dutch Blue. I also stamped with an image from, Spot On Backgrounds, in second generation Dutch Blue ink.

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Stamp: Animal Crackers; Spot On Backgrounds
Paper: Animal Crackers
My Stickease: Animal Crackers
Ink: Dutch Blue; Ruby
Cardstock: White Daisy; Dutch Blue; Ruby
Embellishments: Keyboard Kraft Alphabet stickers

A lined up scrappy Thank You!

I am trying to find creative uses for my hundreds of scraps....rather than recycling them. Here is one example of using up just cardstock.

My card base is Colonial White and the scraps are Sweet Leaf; Holiday Red; Buttercup; Dutch Blue; Blush; Sunset; Sunny Yellow and Sky. I stamped the sentiment shape with the chevron image from, In The Background. The sentiment is from, 4 My Friend. The flourishes and sentiment are stamped in Outdoor Denim ink.

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Stamp: 4 My Friend
Ink: Outdoor Denim
Embellishments: Stardust Glitz
Tools: Artiste Cricut cartridge

Back after Canada Day!

I hope my Canadian friends had a Happy Canada Day! We had a scorching hot day for Victoria, so hiding in our basement was mostly how we spent the day!

Here are another 2 cards my club made for June.

 We started with Twilight cardstock, then added Chantilly patterned papers. I cut a 1" strip of Chantilly textiles for each of the cards, then ran a large basting stitch through it. The sentiment is from, Thank You, and is stamped in Ruby and Twilight inks.

All supplies are Close To My Heart.
Paper: Chantilly
Stamp: Thank You
Ink: Ruby; Twilight
Cardstock: White Daisy; Twilight
Embellishments: Chantilly Textiles; Green Sparkles