Bloomin Beautiful Again....

This is my new favourite card with my new favourite stamp set. The Cameo Coral (a very neglected colour in my collection) and the Basic Black are a stunning colour combination (in my own opinion) The flower is stamped with Black Staz On three times and coloured with Cameo Coral, Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa and Mellow Moss Stampin Write Markers. The word "bloom" is embossed with white embossing powder and the black and white gingham ribbon adds the perfect touch to the card.

Blooming With Love...Club card

This card is one of the cards my club did with the stamp set "Blooming With Love" It's almost Mother's Day so I figured I should squeeze at least one card in before the big event. This stamp set is so much fun to colour (something I am really loving to do lately) We used Stampin Write markers to colour the flowers but we used an Aquapainted with Going Gray Classic ink to colour the wheelbarrow. The card base was made with Going Gray textured cardstock and the cardstock layers were So Saffron and Pretty in Pink. I used Natural White cardstock because it is a bit heavier than Whisper White and takes the watercolouring well without warping.

Bloomin Beautiful...

This is just one of the many new cards I have made this week with my new stamp set Bloomin Beautiful from the catalogue. It's been in the catalogue for over a year and I just kept passing it by, but one of my customers ordered it and seeing it in person made me realize just how gorgeous this set is. If you love to colour you are going to LOVE this stamp set. I have been having so much fun playing with it, so much in fact, I revamped one of my cards for this weekends stampers group just so we could use this set!

Supplies Used to Make this card:

• Bloomin Beautiful stamp set
• Thinking of You stamp set ("For you")
• Silver Hodgepodge
• Almost Amethyst, Mellow Boss and Lovely Lilac Stampin Write markers
• Staz on Black ink
• Loverly Lilac Classic Ink
• White Tafetta ribbon
• Lovely Lilac, Whisper White and Lavender Lace cardstock

Flight of the Butterfly ....

If you love butterflies you are going to love this stamp set as much as I do. I just love the two step stamping ( you can pick polka dots of flowers to layer overtop of the solid butterfly) and it has great swirly verses to use with the butterflies. On this card I also used Tangerine Tango Designer Series paper and a daisy flower I cut out with my Big Shot and the Flower, Daisies #2 die.

Butterflies have been my big "rage" this spring and I am loving the butterflies in this stamp set, Simple Friendship, Great Friend (from the Occasions mini) and God's Beauty (the level one hostess set) I'll try not to let all my other stamp sets feel neglected though!

Take a class....win great stuff!

See the beautiful tin...I have both the inside and the outside posted. It's a notecard kit I made with the Great Friend stamp set in the Ocassions mini catalogue. It includes all the supplies to make 5 of the notecards pictured including envelopes, brads, ribbon, designer paper and stamped images(as well as my sample card!) Every person who attends my Simple Friendship card class will be entered into a draw to win this tin! I still have two spaces left. See all the details for the class in my April 6th post below!

Take a class in May or June and win the Full of Life stamp set (Pictured below)!!!!

For every class you take of mine (private, here at my house or 2go!) in May and June you will get a ballot to win a brand new Full of Life stamp set! While it's not pictured in the catalogue, it is still current (on the dormant list!) I will do the draw on July 1st and post it here on my blog who won! Good luck!

Simply Said....

Here is an oldie but a goodie stamp set. It's been around for years now and yet when every retirement list comes out, it's never on it. It's been awhile since I pulled it out and made some cards with it so here is a card I made this week. While I think this stamp set looks great in all colours I think it looks fabulous using the nice bright colours from the Bold Brights colour family. I stamped the image in black and then coloured it in with markers from the Bold Bright family. To do the polka dot strip I coloured the dots on the Polka Dot background stamp (not in the catalogue but still available to order) with markers, huffed and then stamped.

Cheep Talk

This is a simple little card I made with the Cheep Talk stamp set in the catalogue. I coloured all the images with markers and huffed on the stamp before actually stamping it to the paper.

The deadline for my Simple Friendship class is coming up soon (this Sunday!) Be sure to check back here later this week to see what I will be giving away to one of the people who signed up for the class. The class is also available to go if you can't make the class on May 2nd.

Thoughts and Prayers...

This card was one of the cards we did last month in my classes to show how simple and awesome embossing is! I don't emboss that much, in fact I am sure I use my heat gun more to dry images than to emboss but the simplicity of the gold embossing on the Very Vanilla cardstock is so pretty to me. In a few months I am going to start my Christmas classes (yep starting Christmas cards early this year!) so I am sure my embossing gun will get a lot more use.

Supplies to Make This Card

• Thoughts and Prayers Stamp Set
• Beautiful Borders Stamp Set ("with sympathy" stamp)
• Versamark Watermark Ink Pad
• Gold Embossing Powder
• Black Grosgrain Ribbon
• Black Staz On ink
• Black Brads
• Basic Black, Very Vanilla cardstock
• Brushed Gold cardstock

Simple Friendship Class

This is one of the five cards we will be making at my Simple Friendship class on Saturday May 2nd, 10 am at my place. Cost for signing up is $45. This price includes your own Simple Friendship stamp set to take home as well as the 5 cards we will be making in the class. Sign up deadline is Sunday April 19th so I can have enough stamp sets ordered in time for this class.

Great Friend

This card was one of the first I made with the new stamp set "Great Friend" out of the new Occasions mini catalogue. I used Baja Breeze and Night of Navy for the colours and absolutely no embellishments, which was incredibly hard for me. I have a compulsive need to add ribbon, brads or something. I may have to go back later and add something but for now I am trying to let it be!

Until the end of April, spend $50 (before shipping and tax) out of the mini catalogue and get any item on page 208 free! E-mail me for more details!

A Good Egg

I just love this little guy! Isn't he the cutest. Apparently you all think so too because I have never had a bigger selling stamp set! And to think I almost didn't buy him myself.

These two cards are ones we did last month in my stampers club and various classes. People liked the pink but I think the green was a much bigger hit. Too bad I didn't have more green brads and more of the green galore patterned paper (from the Rainbow Sherbert Designer Paper) The blue paper is from the Washington Apple Designer Paper. The polka dot backround stamp was on both cards (not in this catalogue but still available to order!)