Get well cards...

The last of the cards I made from the Don't Forget To Write kit from Papertrey Ink.  

 Always nice to have a few get well cards in my stash.  I used the patterned papers in the kit and adhered them to some card fronts.

 Simple stamped tags, wash tape and a few staples make an easy focal point.

 My basket is filling up again.

Thanks for stopping by!

A happy hello....

I'm sharing more cards today made from the Papertrey Ink Don't Forget To Write Kit. I spent some time die cutting and stamping flowers, stamping a sentiment then adding typed words with my vintage typewriter and selecting papers and envelopes.  

 I ended up with a fun little set of generic greeting cards, perfect for any occasion.  My favorite colors too.

 Fun details added like machine stitching, the gold paperclip and Washi tape.  Old dictionary paper was used for the background. Card sets are from Paper Source.

 A hand stamped envelope makes receiving a card in the mail just that much more special.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for stopping by!  Your comments are always appreciated so thank you if you take the time to leave me a note. :)

Just a note of thanks card set....

In my previous post, I shared a card making station that I set up.  Here's my first batch of note cards.  

 I usually mass produce when I get out my supplies because it's just as easy to take a little more time to stamp a mess of cards rather than just one at a time.

 Vintage music paper in the background.  Die cuts, stamping, stitching and a paperclip to finish off the fronts.

On the envelopes, I stamped a sentiment then added a splash of watercolor to coordinate with the card fronts.  More to come, stay tuned.  What have you been creating lately?

Don't forget to write card making station...

Long time no blog, friends.  It's been a very busy month around here with Mother's Day, graduations, birthdays, end of school activities, softball, etc.  I made it over the hump and finally took some time to do something just for me.  After spending way too much money of store bought cards recently I decided to take some time to set up a card making station.  It's one of my favorite things to do.....just gather up stamps, papers, washi tape, embellishments and more and organize them all in a vintage basket.  The perfect little set up to help create some hand made cards. 

 The main stamp set I'm using is from a kit designed by Betsy Veldman from Papertrey.  She has been knocking it out of the ballpark with her fun designs.  Below is the stamp set that came with the kit but that's just a little bit of the kit...there are dies, stickers, envelopes and much to play with.

 I love colored envelopes and these are the ones that came with the kit.  I also have a huge stash of some fun colors from Paper Source and a few other places that I'll dig into also.

 Still loving gold accents so I fished a few things out of my stash.

 Baker's twine to coordinate with the colors in the kit.

 All tucked into some vintage wood storage boxes.  Those typewriter mini Instagrams are from my shop here.

Stay tuned, I've been made a list of cards I'd like to have on hand and I'll be sharing some designs soon.  You can also see previews on my Instagram account.  I'm MishWooderson over there.

Beautiful Butterfly Cards using Gossamer Blue On My Desk Collection

Welcome to the January Gossamer Blue blog hop.  Today I'm sharing some fanciful cards I made using the On My Desk collection.  This collection is colorful, whimsical and full of pretty pinks if you're looking for some Valentine colors....or just something fresh and fun for the new year. I'm pairing my GB items with some butterfly stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink. 

I really love to use 3 x 4 cards as a starting point for cards.  This time I reached for the clear pieces and cut some additional 3 x 4 pieces from the beautiful gold, floral vellum 12 x 12 sheet. I die cut images from patterned papers and cut strips of the aqua polka dot. This gives me the general layout of the cards.  I also stamped my sentiment in waterproof ink. 

Some simple swipes of watercolor over the sentiment created some coordination colors that match up well with the patterned papers. 

Before adhering my pieces to my card front I added gold stitching, washi tape and some enamel dots from the collection. 

I added a few of the tiny star enamel dots to the letter "i" in beautiful. 

How fun are the beautiful 3 x 4 pieces of acetate and vellum with the white and gold accents?

A pretty little set of four cards.  

I also created some envelope liners using a Papertrey Ink envelope die.  These are so pretty I sometimes hate to seal the envelope.  Instead I like to tie the envelope up with some pretty ribbon, add a tag and slip the whole thing into a bigger padded envelope...or hand deliver if I can along with a special treat. 

Hope your new year is off to a creative start. For even more inspiration, join me hopping around to the other Gossamer Blue team members' blogs.  Here's the list:


Anabelle O'Malley
Brenda Weaver 
Danielle Flanders 
Diane Payne 
Emily Spahn 
Erin Taylor 
Eunyoung Lee
Heather Leopard 
Jessica Lohof  
Jill Keller 
Joy Taylor 
Maria Lacuesta  
Melanie Blackburn 
Michiko Kato 
Naomi Atkins 
Rebecca Luminarias 
Sabrina Alery 
Tara Anderson 
Vanessa Perry

Beautiful Butterflies Kits now in shop...

EDIT:  Flash sale going on in my shop right now.  All cards are on sale for $4.50 throughout the weekend.  More may be added throughout the weekend as my stash is growing and growing.  If you place multiple orders, I will be happy to refund excess shipping.  :)

Hi friends.  It's been a while since I've listed some kits in my shop so today I'm excited to show you my new Beautiful Butterflies Kit.  It's a dainty little card kit that was inspired by soft, Fall colors of burnt orange, buttery yellow and aqua.  I love how Fall takes on a subtle appearance at first with muted colors, clear blue skies and fluttery orange butterflies just floating about.  

 I love to offer these small kits because I know how it is when sometimes you feel crafty but the inspiration just isn't there.  In the kit, you'll get all the crafty supplies shown below...just enough to create a few pretty cards & enough leftovers to make some pretty packaging, tags, etc.

 These are samples of two cards that you can create with the kit items.  If you purchase a kit, you can print off this photo, take it to your craft area and and recreate the cards with the kit items.

 I love to layer and stitch over die cut butterflies.  Add a tied button and you've got beautiful butterfly tails.  With the addition of the charcoal gray to the cards, you can easily send these out all the way through Halloween for a pretty Fall pick me up.

 You can get fanciful with your layers or keep it simple.  You'll also receive two stamped pieces in your kit for instant sentiments. This stamp set is from Papertrey and is designed by my good friend, Pine....Heather Nichols to be exact.  :)

The kits are all lined up and ready to go.  Each little kit is picked and prepared and packaged by me with crafty love.  I only created a small number of kits so they're only available in limited quantities.

 I was even inspired to paint some pretty tags this morning for packaging.

 You can carefully remove the tag to recycle and reuse.

Life is beautiful today, folks. Hope you enjoy your day and I thank you for stopping by.

Note:  Look for individually sold items like the tags and gold & white doilies in my shop.  There's lots of good card making and packaging essentials to build up a good stash.  I'll be adding more and more items soon.  :)

Butterfly embellishments.....using Gossamer Blue June Kits

Hey there.  I recently shared a post over at the Gossamer Blue blog.  You can hop over there to see how I pair Gossamer Blue kit items with items from my own stash to create some beautiful cards. 

We all want to get the biggest bang for our buck so it only makes sense to reach into our stash of dies, Washi tape and other supplies. 

Keeping our supplies in a constant rotation is the key to really using all of our goodies that we've collected over time.

I hope you enjoy my set of embellished butterfly cards and that you get inspired to dig deep into your stash of items.

It's amazing how just a little bit of thread from an old spool.....a tiny strip of washi tape....some new brads and paper.....stamps from some older sets....it all adds up to projects that look trendy and fresh when you combine the new with the old.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I'd love for you to leave a comment letting me know what older items you're reaching for these days.  It's amazing to me how completely new and fresh things like die cuts look when you just use some new patterned paper, etc.  

Hey girl.....coffee themed cards

Recently I shared a blog post on the Gossamer Blue blog that was all about using the Gossamer Blue Life Pages stamps on greeting cards.  You can read the full post here so I'll just re-post some photos here on my blog for fun and keep it short and sweet today. 

It all started with with products selected from the March kits...

I came up with a card design that utilized all the fun patterned papers...then did some die cutting, stamping and paper piecing.

A fun set of four, pretty cards.

That real wood tape was a favorite from the March kits.

Oh and these daisy brads, gosh they are so cute.  My vintage typewriter to the rescue again for some custom sentiments.

The frame stamp and die are the creations from my good friend Heather Nichols at Papertrey Ink.  

Do you notice that I never make just a single card?  Nope, I rarely do just one card.  If I'm getting all the supplies out I might as well do a little production line.  How about you, do you build your stash up like this?  Let's chat....

Thank you cards....using artificial flower petals

Hello friends.  I got the nicest comment on a recent post about how it seems I've found my happy place in regards to what I'm creating lately.  You know, that's true...I've been digging into my favorite bits and pieces of product and have just really enjoyed creating lately.  To me, there is so much creativity out there that it's easy to compare...easy to feel like you have to join in...easy to forget your own style.  It's those times that I delve deeper into what I really love and remember that I'm just creating for me...and then if I want to share, I do.  

It's not to say that we can't be inspired by the creative ones though.  Take my cards for today for example.  I've been following Kim Stewart's blog because her photos are so beautiful, she's loving the watercolors like I do and she has an artful sense about everything she touches.  Many of her projects have these lovely dimensional flower bits on them.  I'm not sure if they're artificial flowers or what....but those projects inspired me to grab a few bundles of flowers the other day while out and about.  

I disassembled the flowers and have been using the individual petals on cards lately. For this lovely foursome I used a folded flower petal on each card.

I'm still reaching for products from my color kit that I created this month. I've been so inspired by that little wooden box of goodies.  I might just make it a monthly occurrence here on the blog some day. 

All of my cards have a common theme of a piece of background paper, a Becky Higgins 3 x 4 grid journaling card, Washi tape, some messy string bundles, tied buttons, some stamping and a few bits & baubles.

It's the bits and baubles that I love so much.....and the stitching details, and tied buttons and little sequins. Little by little I pick though my stash of goodies to find the right finishing touch.

And then just like that I find some new inspiration.  Thanks so much to Kim for being my source of inspiration for today's cards.  

Hope you're feeling inspired......hope you are creating.  

Card from inspiration photo + altering patterned paper with watercolor paint

Yesterday I shared an inspiration photo from my March Pinterest Board: Going Green.  

I also shared this color kit that I created for a class assignment for the Color Studio class at Studio Calico.

Today I'm sharing a card I created with my kit contents.  I started with this beautiful patterned paper that you see with the white background below.  I had fun altering the look of the paper with some simple watercolor paints.  If you look at my inspiration photo by the aqua flower you'll see a pillow with yellow flowers and a blue background.  That's the look I was trying for with my patterned paper.  I love the results. 

I trimmed off some of that beautiful paper and created a thank you card for a dear friend who stayed with us the entire day in the emergency room the day of the girls' accident.  

I used lots of items from my color kit you see at the beginning of this post.  I also added a Medium Manila Parcel Tag and some stamps.  The thank you is from a Studio Calico kit and the other is from a Papertrey Ink set..Signature Greetings, I believe. Dainty Doilies can be found here.

During difficult times you sure find out who your true friends are.  It's only fitting to let those dear people know just how much they mean to you.  A simple card with a handwritten note is such a nice gesture.  I've got lots of cards to send out which means my family is so blessed with good friends.

Have a great day everyone!