Stampin' Chez Moi

I guess I'll start my post with a question....is it too late to send a birthday card almost two months after someone's birthday! Do you ever do that, all of a sudden you realized you missed the day or even the month? Yikes....now what do I do...just let it continue to go by even though it's naggin' at you...or send a very belated birthday blessing...hmmmm....that is my question ~ now on to my card! The Paper Players have a great challenge this week and I can't believe that I'm playing along ~ summer is extremely busy for me with family, gardening, visiting, camping....and sadly, I don't really get a chance to play in my studio...I'm so blessed that my garden is my other happy place! Paper Players 62 is wanting a Birthday Card...how did they know what was tugging at my heart! I then followed a sketch from Page Maps ...and here is a picture of my card! ~ and the inside of the card ~ I created my butterfly using the 'baby wipe technique' ~...

It's a beautiful sunny day here...but...oh so cold!  I'm sitting in my sunroom and soaking up the promise of spring! And this little card just feels like spring to me ~  and it flowed wonderfully with the layout challenge  from SSC189 and I nspirations Color Challenge #56 ! I took the layout challenge and flipped it on it's side ~ and I think this really came together nicely, although the picture really doesn't do it justice! I found these darling little purses in one of my many travels through blogland ~  Carrie Gaskin  gets the credit for this creation! I knew I needed to CAS this one. Isn't that just adorable!  And can you see who's peeking out of the inside of my card? You guessed it! Tote-ally Tess, grabbing her own little purse! I love that stamp set and have forgotten about it ~ so nice to pull this off my shelf and blow the dust off of it! I'm really not sure what is up with my camera...hmmm...maybe it's the person behind the cam...

 Anything goes at Paper Players. ...are you kidding...I actually had an idea in my head as to what I wanted to do ~ this was just too perfect and also a first for me. I usually need a visual to go by and from there I'm able to create ~ wow! I'm so excited that the visual this time was already steeping....literally! and I've got a certain special someone in mind and some of her favourite things are the colors blue & yellow and a extra hot cup of tea! When I saw the Color Throwdown for this week, I knew it was exactly what I needed color wise! So here is my card that has been created for her with much love & prayer as I played with this!  Hope you like it my dear friend? I colored in each teacup using my Bashful Blue & So Saffron write markers  and then used Crystal Effects on each.  Don't you just love china teacups.. ..a nice hot cup of Earl Grey Tea is the best in a cute little teacup! I'm enjoying one right now! Here'a a peek of the insi...