Beautifully Baroque Mother's Day Card

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Hey crafty friend!  I wanted to share with you the card I made for my Mom this Mother's Day! I know it's late, but this would work for any occasion. 

She loves pink and green (like me) so I went heavy on the pink.  Beautifully Baroque is the dark background stamp (retiring), the flowers are Papaya Collage (also retiring!), and Dictionary for the light background. 

A couple of blossoms are stamped and fussy cut.  The lighter flower is just stamped off (the same ink stamped a second time without reinking), and fussy cut leaves scattered about for depth.  "Mom" banner is stippled with a little Chocolate Chip ink to grubby it up a bit.  The lace is a scrap from my room, and linen thread anchors it down.

Inside, more stamping, and the sweet sentiment from Feel Goods.  I love this one, and it's nice for a Mom card.  That wheel stamp is Chamomile and I believe it's been retired for a while, but you could surely substitute!

Having lighting issues!  Ugh.

This card was CASEd from Teneale Williams, via Pinterest.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Peaceful First Christmas

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...Or, how to turn any color combo into a Christmas card!

Today I'm sharing a card with you that is an example of a bad card gone right.  This week, the challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments is a color combo - More Mustard, Early Espresso, Old Olive, and Elegant Eggplant.  Nice autumny combo, but I'm so over fall already!  All I want to do is Christmas, Christmas, and Christmas!  But with these colors, I thought I'd have to do something autumn or floral, so I started building a card with Papaya Collage.  Epic fail!  I won't even show you, as most of the focal point went in the trash.  It was a modge podge of layered roses, leaves, a watercolored mess.  So I went with my true desire, and hoped for the best.  What do you think?
The base is layered with Elegant Eggplant, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.  The Vanilla base is stamped with En Francais and sponged with Early Espresso.   Tuck a strip of Early Espresso ribbon centered over the Vanilla.

Next, the frame from Papaya Collage is stamped with Early Espresso, fussy cut, and sponged on the outside edges with Elegant Eggplant, and from the center to halfway across the frame with Old Olive.  Then comes the fun part!

The focal image is as follows:
Early Espresso 2-1/8" x 2-7/8"
Very Vanilla 2-3/4" x 2"
Stamp "Peace on Earth" on Vanilla Base.  The bottom edge of this image should be at the halfway point, to leave room for Baby Jesus.
Emboss the Very Vanilla with (super yummy) Sugar & Spice Heat Embossing Powder, using the star from First Christmas and clear VersaMark ink.
Sponge from the outside in with More Mustard, concentrating on the star image and leaving the bottom half lighter, but sponge all the edges. Sponge edges only with Early Espresso.
Your sky will look lit up now!
Finally, stamp Baby Jesus onto a Very Vanilla scrap with Elegant Eggplant, and fussy cut.  Sponge the edges with Elegant Eggplant.  Adhere as shown with Tombo Multi glue.

The frame and the focal image are adhered to the card with Dimensionals.

I think this color combo makes this Christmas card look perfectly regal, as it should <3 !

So what ideas do you have for this earthy combo this week at HSS?  Come on over and play along!

Big Top Party Hat!

Pin It Now! I'm so excited about my latest project for Ustamp With Dawn and Friends.  I've seen some cute party hats around, so I set out to make my own, with a twist...this one is a standing gift card holder in disguise!

There's a full color, 7 page tutorial available for download.  My tutorial includes a party hat template, instructions for the hat, gift card holder, matching card and envelope!

 A closer view of the party hat when opened.  It even has elastic on the inside so the birthday person can wear it!

When complete, you have a closed "gift box", and you just pull the tab on the bottom to reveal the contents!  You can even put a small gift inside, confetti, etc. instead of a gift card.

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Below are three other versions of this hat I whipped up for friends while making this tutorial!  From start to finish you can make the hat project in less than an hour. I've had HUGE fun making these.

Here's the same project in So Saffron...

And Angry Birds!!!!

And, finally, a little non-SU stash, paired with Papillon Potpourri and Papaya Collage.  Some of that thick, luscious ribbon that SU shouldn't have retired makes it look so pretty!  This is actually my personal favorite, i guess because it's girly :)