Happy April!!!

I thought long and hard yesterday what to do for today's post.  What kind of joke could I do for today.

Well, mother nature provided me with a joke of the day.....

This is my front yard this morning, and it's still snowing!

Today's card is made with Lucky Limeade card stock for the base, Cheerful Treat Designer Series Paper, more Lucky Limeade and Whisper White card stock cut with my Spellbinders Die and then dry embossed with a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder.  

The grass and leaves are stamped in Lucky Limeade from the Precious Butterflies Stamp Set and the Triple Treat Flower I colored with my Stampin' Write markers and then punched with my flower punch.

The ribbon is Pear Pizzazz Pleated Satin Ribbon.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

New Fascinations!!

A couple of months ago while picking up some fruit to take along to riding lessons (for us - not the horses) I found in the magazine section of a grocery of store the most fascinating publication: Cardmaking & Papercraft.  I bought my first of this publication because of the free stamp set that was enclosed with it that month, and have since then become FASCINATED with all of their publications.  Every issue comes with fantastic ideas and projects and some kind of reward for buying the issue.  I LOVE it.

For today's project I used Wisteria Wonder card stock with Cheerful Treat Designer Series Paper, and Concord Crush Designer Series Paper.  I then stamped a portion of this beautiful flower stamp set on a piece of Whisper White card stock, got out my Copic markers and colored!

The greeting is from the Touch of Kindness stamp set in the Summer 2011 Mini catalogue.  

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Oh S"crap"! It's Monday.

Digging through the box today, I found this collection of purple papers that when put near each other did not look too bad, so I decided to see what I could make with them.  

The card base is a piece of Wisteria Wonder, the next layer of paper is from the Cheerful Treat Designer Series Paper set (Stampin Up Hostess Promotional offering), another piece of Wisteria Wonder and more of the Cheerful Treat, the ribbon is a left over from ?something and it is Dotted Elegant Eggplant.  The flower is made from a front and back side of Elegant Eggplant DSP using the Fancy Flower Punch, and a Lucky Limeaide brad.  I folded the flower petals a bit on both layers to give it some dimension.  

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy