Elements of Style

Hello Friends,
Happy Sunday! Today's card is one of my all time favorite cards that I have ever made. The picture is beautiful but if you saw it in person you would see just how gorgeous it really is. For example, the adorable hummingbird has a tiny white pearl for his eye and he is covered in Dazzling Diamonds Stampin Glitter. The other part of this lovely card that is hard to see is the floral element is embossed.

I love this card. In fact, I am going to make it again in a variety of color schemes and then frame it as a four piece collection. I think it will be such a beautiful piece of art for my home.

Stamp Sets Used: Elements of Style, Love and Care, and En Francais

Colors Used: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Whisper White, and Night of Navy

Accessories and Tools Used: Pool Party 3/8" Ruffled Ribbon, Basic Pearls, Dazzling Diamonds, Stampin Glitter, Clear Stampin Emboss Powder, Dimensionals, Decorative Label punch, Ticket Corner punch, Night of Navy Classic Stamp pad, Pool Party Classic Stamp Pad, Island Indigo Classic Stamp pad, and sponges 

Love & Care

Hello Friends,

Happy Weekend!!!

I cannot express how beautiful it is outside today. So I decided to make a card that expresses beauty through nature. Hope you like it.

Beautiful, isn't it?

This card was so easy to make. Notice, I didn't use any embellishments? Well, I wanted to make a card with just some ink and paper. I wanted to express the fact that you do not have to have everything in the Stampin Up catalog to make a great card (although my dream is to have almost everything :o), or that sometimes less is more!

What makes this card stand out? Well instead of using an ink pad, I chose to use my Stampin Write markers so that I could layer three different pinks to make the flowers look more alive rather than flat. I also used my best tool; my hands, to make a few tears in my layers to give the card a different edge. Then once I tore my edges, I used a dauber and rubbed some ink onto the edges to bring out the torn paper texture. Sound easy? That's because it was super easy! I hope you enjoyed stopping by today, I am off to enjoy the beautiful day, you should too!!!

Stamp Set Used: Love & Care

Colors Used: Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Always Artichoke

Accessories or Tools Used: daubers and Stampin Write Markers