get well

Hi friends.  Today was ways to use it challenge on SCS -- the challenge -- shape up or shaped cards rather than the usual rectangular ones.  Since I had created a bottle shaped card for my class today, I decided to use the same template and change the colors to meet the challenge, which asked for some pink. 

The pills are made by punching two colors with the word window punch, cutting them in half, trimming one color to about 1/2" & gluing them together. 

Since I wanted it to look like a prescription, I created a label on my computer & pulled some clip art for the symbol. 

It was a pretty easy card, although putting the pills together was rather time consuming. 

Thank you so much for spending time with me today. 

hope you can cling to days 16 and 17

Hi friends.  Here I am with more cards for the breast cancer awareness challenges on SCS.  Click here for more information. 

Challenge nineteen - pocket full of hope.  A card with a pocket, either pink or orange, and using either stars or hearts. 

I had a really hard time making this card; I think because technically, this is really three challenges in one.  So I went digging through my designer paper for something either pink or orange.  Since I don't use pink much, I decided to go with that and use some of it up. 

I made a double pocket card (tutorial here).  But then it took what seemed like forever to figure out the rest of the card.  I used stamps from SU, with pink passion and chocolate chip ink, to make two pull-out tags.

Challenge twenty - stand tall.  A card that is 3-1/2"x6". 

This card went together very quickly.  I stamped field flowers (SU) with old olive for the stems and peach parfait and groovy guava for the flowers.  The sentiment was stamped in vintage photo distress ink.  I made a little spirelli corner for an accent. 

My third card is for the ways to use it challenge on SCS today.  We were to use chipboard on our card. 

I glued some pattern paper (black market paper society) onto some cereal box chipboard and then die cut some butterflies (beautiful butterflies die - SU/Sizzix).  I added a strip of grape(?) card stock on a white base and then popped up the butterflies on that strip.  The sentiment is a new stamp (door county rubber stamps) I bought at the stamp fair last month.  I used seedless preserves distress ink. 

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

another dress

Hi friends.  I made another card today using the dress up dies from SU.  The ways to use it challenge on SCS was to use gingham, so I dug in my fabric stash to find a piece.  I don't think it's true woven gingham, just printed, but I figured it would work.  And it was just big enough to die cut one of the dresses from the dress up dies.  I cut the same dress from card stock to put behind the fabric for stability. 

The dress form was cut from a chipboard box and then stamped with wood grain cover-a-card stamp from Impression Obsession using vintage photo distress ink. 

My card base is mustard.  I embossed a piece of white with flourish and dots embossing folder and sponged mustard ink over the raised area.  I added faux stitching around the part that wasn't embossed. 

I added a strip of black card stock at the waist and a flower that is 4 blossoms punched with my Martha Stewart 3 in 1 hydrangea punch, with a black pearl in the center.  

The sentiment is from fanciful tags (Gina K Designs). 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. 

five challenges in one

Hello friends.  Tonight I checked out the inspiration challenge on SCS, and as I looked at the sample inspiration pictures, I realized that I could combine this challenge with some of the others for this week.  The inspiration sample that I chose to work with is a girl in a denim dress.  The other challenges are mix-ability (rip it, paste it, ink it), free for all (geometrically speaking), ways to use it (girls rule), and technique lovers (transform a map). 

I started with a white card base.  I had a photo copy of an old map, so I tore it into strips, inked the edges with vintage photo ink and glued the strips to my card base.  Then I inked over the whole thing with faded jeans ink. 

I traced around the insert from a used tape roll on some denim from an old pair of jeans and then cut out the circles.  I could have used a die and my cuttlebug, but was too lazy to pull them out. 

I chose a lady stamp from Stampendous.  I stamped her on white card stock with jet black archival ink, traced around a small container, and cut that out.  Then I sponged faded jeans all around the circle, just leaving her face uninked. 

The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farms.   Both the lady and sentiment circles are popped up on dimensional tape. 

I gave the card a bit of a frame by adding the fancy photo corner punches. 

Thanks for checking in. 

20 hearts - #12, #13

Hello my friends.  I haven't blogged for a few days, because I've been busy preparing for my technique class today.  But now that is done, so I can concentrate on more fun stuff.  Last evening I sat down and worked on some more hearts for the February monthly challenge at Motley Soul Mixed-Media Art.  I finished two and have a couple more in progress. 

The first one is another one using the image transfer technique with sticky back canvas.  I used a piece of patterned paper.  The shimmer is from matte gel medium that reflects my camera flash. 

For the background, I glued on a piece of patterned paper, then sponged through a harlequin stencil from the Crafter's Workshop with weathered wood, faded jeans, tea dye, and vintage photo distress inks. 

The script is a Donna Salazar stamp, stamped randomly with jet black archival ink. 

I doodled some scalloped around the heart with a black Pitt pen. 

The Bible verse is computer generated. 

My second heart today is also part of the ways to use it challenge on SCS (sponging) and for a Quick Fire challenge from OWSE Yahoo group, which was to make something that represents spring fever.  Probably the thing that I most await for in Spring is for my lilacs to bloom.  I have a lilac hedge along one side of the back yard, which I've planted over the years since we've lived here.  Some were dug up from my parents' home up north, and others were purchased.  I have several different varieties - purples, blue, pink, doubles, and one that blooms almost a month later than the others.  They are all so pretty and I just love how they smell.  Even though, once cut, they don't last long, I always have to bring at least one bouquet into the house. 

The background on this heart is made using the Crafter's Workshop 6" brick stencil and mowed lawn distress ink with a sponge. 

The heart is die cut with Spellbinders nested hearts die and the lilac blossoms from a Sizzix die called build a flower, lilacs.  I cut the leaves and branch freehand.  I sponged the heart and flowers with shaded lilac distress ink and added some pearls to the flowers.  The leaves were white and I sponged mowed lawn on them to change the color, and then edged them with pine needles distress ink. 

My sentiment was computer generated. 

Thanks so much for stopping in for a visit today.  I hope you have an enjoyable weekend. 

how excellent is Thy name

Hello, my friends.  We've been having more spring-like temperatures here and tonight we are supposed to get all the way down to 25 - brrrrr.  But that means frost and since my asparagus has been up for a couple of weeks already - tastes yummy, too, I either need to pick what's up or cover it.  No brainer - I'll pick it, even if it's tiny little shoots.  I also have one lilac that is partially open.  Frost will kill those blossoms.  I don't know whether I could cover that or not, though.  It's pretty tall.

Last night I finished another journal page - this one for the Divine Design Bible Verse challenge 2012 on SCS.  This will be my April page.  Quite by accident, this page also fits the ways to use it challenge today on SCS.

The background has a very cool technique that I found on willowing.ning.com, using acrylic paint, a stencil and water.  (I think you may have to join the site to view the video.)  Unfortunately, I thought it background was too dark and ended up covering most of it with watered down white paint.  

I stamped this great big Hero Arts flower (using some masking) over the paint with black archival ink and then colored with prismacolor pencils, blending with the colorless blender pencil.  I kinda like the way the brush strokes show through the coloring.  I drew the leaves on and colored them the same way. 

The butterfly (SU - wonderful wings) was stamped on a piece of white card stock and colored the same way as the flowers, and then glued onto the page. 

I printed the verse on my computer, cut it apart and edged the sides with black marker. 

To finish off the page, I added just a small amount of doodling around the edge. 

I'm really enjoying doing art journal pages.  I think the biggest draw for me is that there are no rules, and no expectations, which means I can just play. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day.

a little recycling

Hello, my friends.  I made some time to stamp today and did a little recycling in the process.  I love being able to use free materials.

I started by cutting some pieces from a brown grocery bag and rolling them around a bamboo skewer and gluing the end to form tight rolls.  I didn't want them all the same size, so I made sure I varied the width of the pieces I was rolling.  I used a few pieces of newspaper as well.  Then I pulled out my distress stains and dyed them all with various browns.  After arranging them how I liked, I stuck a sticky note to the front so I could flip them and glue them to card stock on the back without going through the process all over again.  Once the glue was dry, I added a bit of matte multi medium in between the rolls for more stability.  I then added a piece of raffia tied around the rolls.

My card base is creamy caramel with strips of more mustard and DCWV Indian Summer fall stack.  

I used Tim Holtz/Sizzix movers & shapers mini branch & leaf set dies to cut the leaves and branch from chocolate chip & pumpkin pie card stock.  I scored the leaves, folded them and ran them through my crimper and then sponged over the ridges.  I love the look that gives.  

My sentiment is from an older SU set called Season by Season, stamped in jet black stazon.  

My card fits the following challenges:

Ways to use it #341 - Back to School Week 4: Lunch Sack

Inspiration Challenge #303 ~ Creature Comforts: Inspiration Daily - inspired by cinnamon & spice #3

September Quick Fire challenge at OWSE Yahoo group (membership required) - autumn themed with at least one die cut 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful week.

 

have a delightful day

Hello, my friends.  Today my card is quite simple.  Since I ordered all the newly released distress stains (except for picket fence, which wasn't part of the deal) last night, I decided I should open the ones I have and use them.  So that's what I did, well... I used ONE anyway on my card.  I swiped wild honey three times across the white card stock.  So fun how quickly the stains fill in the area and the colors have so much depth.  Then I stamped the butterfly and sentiment (vintage butterflies from Cornish Heritage Farms) with jet black stazon.  I backed the piece with black card stock.

I used the same distress stain to dye a piece of white ribbon, since I didn't have any the right color.  I dried it with my heat gun and tied it around the black card stock.  I used summer sun for the card base.

To finish off the card, I added some little half pearls.

My card fits the ways to use it challenge and the free for all challenge on SCS this week. 

I hope to get some more stamping done later today, because it's a mini VSN on SCS.  What's VSN?  It's a fun, fast-paced stamping marathon, with a new challenge every hour and just 45 minutes to complete each one.  For more information, click the link and check it out.


Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful weekend.

you've got style

Hi, my friends.  I seem to have my days mixed up this week.  I guess that  usually happens when there is a holiday.  It actually feels like Friday today. 

Today's ways to use it challenge on SCS is to use doilies, so I pulled out my French pastry doily die from Cheery Lynn Designs and die cut a couple of doilies from white card stock.  I also cut a couple of dress forms with my Tim Holtz sewing room die.  I had this idea to make a dress using the doilies and hang it on the dress form.  There was a lot of figuring and manipulating involved, so this ended up taking me all morning to do, but I'm really happy with how the dress turned out.  I can see where I should have added some other dark accents to balance the sentiment, but otherwise I really like it. 

The background paper is really old and was pulled out to match the bashful blue ink sponged on the dress.  I also embossed it with Swiss dots embossing folder. 

The top and base of the dress form is colored with gold metallic rub-on cream and then shaded with vintage photo distress ink.  I added a double layer of card stock behind the dress to pull it away from the dress form a tiny bit. 

All the paper started out white, except for the blue dp.  The frame, which is die cut with fancy ovals from Spellbinders, was sponged with tea dye and vintage photo. 

I added some pearls to the dress to fancy it up a bit. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Your comments are always welcome and appreciated. 

Some old roses

Hi my friends,

Today, the ways to use it challenge on SCS was using die cuts.  Well, I have many dies to choose from, so I decided to play along.  I first die cut a piece of white cardstock with the mini baroque movers & shapers die from Tim Holtz.  Then I pulled out an old, much loved SU stamp set called Roses in Winter.  I stamped the rose in pink passion and rich razzleberry and also used the rock 'n roll technique.  The leaves were stamped with pear pizzazz and always artichoke.  I sponged a very narrow edging of rich razzleberry around the edge and on each layer of the card.

The next layer was die cut in certainly celery with frame back ornate #3 die from Sizzix and then embossed with retro diamonds embossing folder (Quickuts).   For some color in the background, I stamped lattice backgrounder (Cornish Heritage Farms) in certainly celery and added some mini photo corner punches.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

turquoise

Hello, my friends. I hope you're having a pleasant week. It snowed again this morning. I went out around 1:00 to shovel. I think we had about 3 inches.

I wanted to enter cards for this week's sketch and color challenges on StampTV. Since the color challenge was due today, I pulled out some turquoise, chocolate and white cardstock and ink to see what I could come up with. I also checked the ways to use it challenge on SCS and found that it was to use rainbow colors. I ended up making a card for the WT and StampTV sketch challenge first, but had plenty of time to make one for the color challenge as well.

I wasn't planning on making two cards that were turquoise, but after I brayered some cardstock with ink from my kaleidacolor calypso pad, I thought turquoise would be a good background. I stamped freesias (Cornish Heritage Farms) in black stazon over the rainbow colors and then die cut a circle with a nestabilities die. The black layer behind it is die cut with eyelets pendant die. After gluing them together, I inked the piece with versamark and embossed with iridescent ice ep.

To follow the sketch, I pulled out a piece of summer sun and stamped it with a wheat stamp from Signs of Autumn (Gina K), again using the calypso pad. When I pulled out a piece of black to layer behind it, I found it was a bit too short, but I decided to use it anyway and just change the way the layering looked. I used the same type of layering for the sentiment, which is from Stampendous.

My second card is for the StampTV color challenge. I stamped the Hero Arts flowers in chocolate chip ink and then colored the centers with colored pencils and blended them just a little bit with gamsol. I added some white highlights with a white gel pen. Then I die cut the piece with petite scallop circles nestabilities, with a layer of chocolate chip.

The fancy lacy bits are a die cut called Decorative Butterfly Border (Spellbinders). The card base is chocolate, with layers of white and turquoise. Some white dots in the corners and inside part of the lacy pieces complete the card.

Thanks so much for stopping in today. Be blessed.

coffee & poppies

Hi my friends. It's not so windy today, but much cooler. I've had to keep the heat on today.

Can you believe it? The month of October is almost over. That means there are only a few more Hope challenges remaining on SCS. I hope you've been playing along. Today's challenge was to make time for friends.

I chose a coffee cup image (Rubbernecker) and an accent border (also Rubbernecker). I colored both with copic markers. I'm still learning how to use these. I don't have a great selection of colors, so I have to use what I do have.

After coloring the cup, I cut it out with a labels eleven die (spellbinders) and added sponging and faux piercing. The brads are just cardstock punched with a 1/8" circle punch.

The sentiment is computer generated.

I also had time to make a card for the ways to use it challenge on SCS -- use a frame on your card.

I made a faux wood frame. It's a good thing I don't work in a framing shop. I had a really hard time matching the corners.

The image is an old PSX stamp of poppies, which I stamped twice and colored with copic markers. I used white paper and thought it was too bright, so I sponged creamy caramel ink over it to soften the brightness a bit.

The background on the lower portion is pretty pattern (CHF) stamped in daffodil delight on natural ivory cardstock. The sentiment is A Muse.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Happy Saturday

Hi, my friends. I made two cards today. It's a wallyball night for the rest of the family, which meant I could leave my stuff out longer, allowing me more stamping time. Since I was teaching classes yesterday, I didn't get a chance to do any creating, so I was playing catch up today. I did double challenges on both cards.

The first card is for yesterday's Hope challenge on SCS (handmade embellishments), as well as the ways to use it challenge of using fabric. On the card base, I stamped my denim background (Cornish Heritage Farms). The background image on the next layer is silhouette grass (Hero Arts) stamped in cherry cobbler.

I die cut a denim flower and then crocheted the center. Then I embossed a paper fastener with dark denim embossing powder to put in the center and hold the flower layers together.

The leaf is a new set I bought last weekend at a stamp expo in Milwaukee. It's a set from Heartfelt Creations called Open Falling Leaves. This is one of their stamp sets that has matching dies you can get. I didn't get the die set to match these stamps, but I will probably get it sometime. But for now, I just cut out the leaf. The diagonal strips are navy and cherry cobbler. The sentiment is from Endless Creations.

The second card is today's Hope challenge and this week's sketch challenge. We had to use 3 different pieces of designer paper. I seldom use dp, because I guess I'm intimidated by all the different patterns and colors. I really shouldn't be, since I use that kind of thing in quilting all the time. I guess the difference is that each piece of fabric is just a very small part of the whole quilt, but on a card, each paper is a large section of the card. But every so often, a challenge like this forces me out of my comfort zone. I used a 6" pad called Indian Summer by Basic Grey. It helped to have papers that coordinate well with each other.

The flower image is from Local King Rubber Stamps. I stamped it in tuxedo black memento ink and colored it with copic markers. I've been trying to use those more often, but I'm finding that I am seriously lacking a nice variety of colors. I decided that I should buy a few every month or so, slowly building up my collection. So today I went out and bought five more. Not so many when there are over 300 colors.

This challenge also required two different embellishments, so I added some brads and pearls. The last requirement was ribbon, so I tied a small piece of black grosgrain ribbon around one panel.

Thanks so much for stopping in for a visit. Have a wonder-filled weekend.

are you normal?

Giggle! Hi there. Do we even know what normal is? Is it just being like everyone else? Most people like to think they're normal. We don't want to be classified as different, odd, weird, rebel..., right? Stay on the main road - follow the crowd - dress like everyone else - join the club...

Well, some of us have always had a bit of that rebel in us. We want to be a little different - not a clone of everyone else. But we have a fear of being too different, so that we might stand out and be mocked or made fun of. So what do we do? We pretend to be like everyone else - normal.

I made this card for today's ways to use it challenge on SCS. The challenge was to use just one sheet of cardstock and no designer paper. We could make more than one layer as long as we only used one sheet.

All my stamping is done on the card base. The only extra layer is a die cut oval (spellbinders classic ovals nestabilities), which I sponged with creamy caramel, chocolate chip, poppy parade and cherry cobbler. The faux brads are also colored with a marker and punched from the same piece of cardstock.

The bird stamps are A Muse, the border is Cornish Heritage Farms, and the sentiment is River City Rubber Works.

Thanks for stopping by today. Now go out and be different.

seconds

Hey everyone. It is so hot here today - 95 and extremely humid. The only time I stepped outside was to walk out to the mailbox and get the mail. I am so thankful that we have air conditioning.

This morning was one of my monthly classes - today was cuttle club. I'm going to show you two of the cards we made and then a couple I made from the extra kits. Hopefully I can get them in order.

The friendship card was the class card. I altered the kit and used some different paper for the flowers and leaves. I'm not sure why the background color looks so different, since the card base is the same on both cards. I made this card for the ways to use it challenge on SCS today. Usually after I teach a class, I'm too tired to be creative, so I'm pleased that I was able to make two cards this afternoon.

The blue heron was a class card. I used the extra kit for the old truck. I trimmed the cardstock the truck is stamped on, punched a border on the navy and used a different embossing folder. I love how changing the layout makes a completely different card.

Thanks for stopping by. Be blessed.

sunshine after the rain

Hi everyone. We finally have some sunshine today after many days of clouds and rain. And I have a very bright card to show you. Yesterday's ways to use it challenge on SCS was to use yellow.

Since I was teaching a class in the morning, I didn't get to the challenge until sometime in the afternoon. And then I forgot to post it here yesterday.

I pulled out some summer sun cardstock and stamped the open flower from fast & fabulous (new SU hostess set) a few times with black stazon, cut them out and sponged the edges of the petals with ruby red ink. I backed the flowers with some black circles and popped them up on dimensional tape on a green galore card base.

On the left side of the card, I punched the eyelet border punch on both sides of a strip of black, added a strip of summer sun sponged with ruby red and then punched a bunch of tiny black butterflies with a Martha Stewart punch and added them on the summer sun. And there you have it - a nice bright sunshiny card.

Thanks so much for stopping in today.

It's not red white & blue

Happy Thursday. Today's ways to use it challenge on SCS was just that - a real challenge. We needed to make a card in honor of Canada Day or Independence Day in the US without using any blue or red. Yikes! That was very hard, but I did manage to come up with something, although I spent the better part of the day struggling with it before I was satisfied.

There is very little stamping on this card, just the sentiment from SU's fundamental phrases, which is stamped on twill with black stazon ink.

I decided to use a Sizzix die, stars #2. The large star is from a corrugated cardboard box. To remove some of the outer layer, I wet it and let the water soak in a bit. This makes it easy to pull off the flat layer and reveal the texture underneath. I like to leave some of the layer on and then paint it with acrylic paint. In this instance, I used white. Then I used chocolate chip ink to sponge around the edges.

The small star is die cut from chipboard and sponged with chocolate chip. I used my crop-a-dile to make a hole through both stars to attach the brad.

The card base is naturals ivory, then a layer of chocolate chip, and a layer of confetti tan. Both the ivory and tan are sponged. I used a nestabilities circle die to make a hole in the tan layer. Chocolate chip is sponged around the circle and then I added faux stitching around the circle and the outer edges of the tan piece. The stars are attached with dimensional tape.

I glued the twill tape down and then punched holes just above and below it so I could add some hemp to make it look like that was holding it on the card. Some antique copper brads finish off the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

a little trash

Hey, everyone. Are you glad the week is almost over? After several days of severe weather, including tornados in some nearby towns causing some major damage, we had a nice sunny day today.

Yesterday I spent the day at my sister's. I was planning on taking some stamping along, but at the last minute decided to take my quilting instead. Although I worked on my hexagons, I didn't get much done because I was helping her get a project completed for a friend. She was struggling with it and it always helps to have another person to bounce ideas around with.

She had just been on a cruise and had taken along a few stamping supplies to play with. There was a card she had started, but decided she didn't like how it was turning out, so she tossed it in the trash. Well, I couldn't resist -- the paper was so cool, I had to rescue it. I removed everything she had attached on the front and used it as the background for this card.

I trimmed the navy cardstock around the paper, so I could use naturals ivory as my card base. I still wanted a navy border, so I just used a sponge dauber and applied navy ink around the edges of both the paper and the card base.

Since the ways to use it challenge on SCS today was using heat embossing, I stamped the Hero Arts flower multiple times on shimmery white cardstock and embossed in gold. Then I used the reinker spread technique to add color - ruby red and more mustard. To do this technique, you mist the embossed image heavily with water and then use a water brush to add ink refill to the wet cardstock, allowing it to spread on the wet image. After allowing it to dry, you cut it out. I really love the results you get with this technique.

I arranged the flowers on the card with some glued directly to the card and some popped up with dimensional tape. I added some half pearls to the flower centers. The leaves are punched from old olive, with veins added and edges sponged with night of navy ink.

The sentiment is from the SU set Fundamental Phrases. The center of the strip is raised with dimensional tape.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Be blessed.

Zentangle

Hi everyone. Happy Friday! I hope you've all had a great week.

Even though I was teaching a couple of classes yesterday, I managed to work in some play time for the ways to use it challenge on SCS. I didn't finish the card until this morning, but I had the background all finished last night. The challenge was to do zentangle, which is basically doodling in black ink on white cardstock. You divide off areas and then fill in with doodles. I'd never done it before, but it was rather fun.

I decided to pair mine with this girl stamp from Stampington & Co. I thought the similarity was a perfect match. I printed the sentiment on my computer. I used oval nestabilities (Spellbinders) and oval punches. I wanted just a little splash of red for an accent, so I gathered a piece of organdy ribbon with a needle and thread and attached it behind the ovals. Then I added the red rhinestone jewels and colored her lips & eyes with prismacolor pencils. Both sets of ovals are popped up on dimensional tape.

Thank you so much for visiting today. Have a great weekend.

sing with joy

Hey, everyone. I decided to make a card for the SCS ways to use it challenge today, but I can't believe how many hours it took to get it done. The challenge was to use chipboard, which I love using because of the dimension and stability it gives. Most of the time, I just use cereal boxes and glue some together for more thickness, which is what I did today.

I wanted to use one of my new Sizzix dies by Tim Holtz, so I pulled out Caged Bird. I started by cutting two cages and three birds and then gluing them together. I inked the cage up with Ranger vintage photo ink, but then decided I wanted it to look shiny, so I went over it with versamark and clear embossed it.

For the bird, I first painted it with white acrylic paint and then stamped it in brilliant blue with a stamp from SU's vintage vogue set. I sponged the edges with brilliant blue. In order to get in the small area between the legs, I used a makeup sponge applicator. Because the paint lightens the ink color, it actually looks more like ballet blue.

Along two sides of the white background, I stamped flourette (Stampington & Co.) enough to make it look like a vine. Then I overstamped the little leaf from vintage vogue in always artichoke. I added some gable green with marker to brighten it up a bit.

The flowers are all stamped in ballet blue on separate paper, cut out and sponged with brilliant blue. They are just randomly placed on the vine, with some in front of the cage, so that the cage looks like it's hanging in the vine. A number of leaves were also cut out and added for more dimension.

I used a brilliant blue marker to add some detail to the flowers, a yoyo yellow marker for the centers, and an always artichoke marker for leaf veins.

When all these parts were glued down on the card, I had a very small space at the bottom for a sentiment, so what went there had to be only one line. I looked until I found something suitable (fundamental phrases) that I liked, stamped it on a scrap of white, trimmed it and clipped the ends, then sponged the edges and glued the ends down, with the center popped up. I really like how the card turned out, even though I spent way too many hours making it.

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit today. Be blessed.