Flower pot

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This all started with my napkin background.  I fellow cardmaker from my group sent me some beautiful napkins that she had found on her trip to Russia and I had been hoarding them, but I decided to send her a card using one of them.  There are different techniques out there to add napkins to your cardstock, I have in the past used Mod podge to adhere it to my cardstock but this time I just applied a thin coat of glue stick to my cardstock base, added the napkin and then used my brayer to make sure it was stuck very well.  I didn't add anything on top like when I do the mod podge method I would add another layer on top to seal it.  I like that matte look this gave to it.

After I looked at the background for a while I thought it would make a nice background for an outdoor themed card, and since my mind is on flowers this time of year I went with making a potted arrangement.  I first took yellow cardstock and applied distress inks to give it a clay pot feel. I wrapped the pot around my glue bottle to give it a bit of an arch to round it out, added  foam tape to the middle of the pot to keep it rounded and added wet glue to just the sides of the pot to adhere them down.

I am not sure if the picture above shows the dimension very well or not.  I made the flowers using the small tattered floral dies, using my mat and a styles to give the flowers more dimension by shaping them.  That pretty butterfly with it was from another fellow cardmaker who sent me a whole bunch of sweet butterflies.  The  grass was made with my border punch.

Spellbinders - Flower pot die
Distress inks - Rusty hinge and gathered twigs for pot onto yellow cardstock
Sizzix- Small Tattered florals die on patterned paper
Fiskars - Grass punch inked with mowed lawn distress inks onto green cardstock
Distress inks - Shading around edges Antique linen & walnut stain
Stickles - Cinnamon, yellow and Champagne
Butterfly

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today!!

Connie

Flutterbye

Using more of the Hunkydory images for my card today, both the round circle and the wavy border and paper are from the kit.  I added some Mulberry paper behind to give a bit of softness to the image. I took a brush with water and went in a square then tore the paper to give it the torn edge.

Hunkydory - Flutterbye Wishes kit, image, sentiment, border and paper
Paper Studio - Mulberry paper
Brads

Hope the start to your week is going well.  We are enjoying having the kids home and our grand furbabies.  I had their cat on my lap for a couple of hours this afternoon and some play time with our grand dog, so nice to have pets in the house again :)

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie

Special Day

I went a little bigger with this card, it measured 4 3/4 x 6 1/2.  I also used two stamps out of this set.  I tried to google the name of the set but could not find it, and I just couldn't see it on the packaging but there was a number so I will post that below.  Once again I used mostly the Daniel Smith sample water color paints for this but added a little of my Spectrum Auqa pens.

Precious Marieke - PMCS 10011 Flowery Collection stamps, watercolored
Stamped with Dusty Concord Distress ink
Spellbinders - Timeless Rectangle die
DCWV - Old World Stack paper
Penny Black - Sprinkles and smiles sentiment stamp
EK Success - Sparkle stickers (under sentiment)

Hope your enjoying a nice weekend, we didn't end up getting the rain they had forecast earlier in the week so that is nice, it is HOT and Humid we are getting close to a record high.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie

Quick card

There are those times when you just need or want to get a quick card out in the mail, and that day was for me last week, I decided to use a piece of paper I had cut for just that occasion that I felt didn't need much of anything else.  All I did was stamp a sentiment and I was done.  For those that stop by and don't have a lot of card making supplies, you could easily find some fun papers that all is needed is a simple sentiment that could be hand written.

I am sorry I never wrote down which paper pack this came from, I have a few from different packs that I cut up one day and have on hand for just a time as this.  I am thinking it may have been from a DCWV pack because the paper is a little thicker and it has a lot of glitter on it.

The stamp is from Whimsy Stamps - Simple sentiments set

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend as we honor those men and women that fought for our freedom!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today!!

Connie

Twofer Challenge - Butterflies

I really need to get to these challenges a little sooner, I feel like I am hitting them just under the wire. The challenge at the Twofer Card Challenge blog this month is butterflies.  You have to use one stamp in two different ways and for different themed cards.  I would say probably 90% of my cards are Birthday but my great niece is also graduating from High School, so the blue one will go to her and the other one to my girlfriend for her birthday.

My first is a birthday card, I started off thinking I was going to make a wreath with my butterflies but I don't know that it actually turned out that way, but it frames the sentiment :)

Verve Stamps - Butterfly grace (butterfly)
Inkadinkado - Nature stamp set (flowers)
Stampendous - Leaf stamp
EK Success - Corner punch
Raspberry Road designs - Love lives here paper
Paper Smooches - Happy Birthday sentiment stamp
Martha Stewart - Leaf punch
Store bought flower
Lace
Nuvo - Autumn Red
Stickles - Fruit punch

This time I Stamped in blue and colored in the butterflies with yellow, adding some wink of stella clear pen to them.  Cut the leaf stem twice and layered.The sentiment has been popped up with foam tape.

Verve stamps - butterfly grace, colored w/markers and Wink of stella clear pen
Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A die
Memory Box - Fresh Foliage die
My Favorite things - Label maker sentiment stamp

You have until May 24 th to do this challenge.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and let me know you have,

Connie