DS8~Love you Dearly!

Hello! I'm hear today with the next Deconstructed Sketch Challenge! Can you believe it's our 8th sketch already? Jen always comes up with the most amazing sketches:)

I pulled out one of my Paper Smooches stamp sets to make this card...

The "Love you Dearly" sentiment is from "Pretty Phrases" by Paper Smooches and the "friend" is from a Technique Tuesday set (which I forgot the name of...). These papers are some of my new faves, they're from the Dots and Stripes collection from EP!

Check out the Deconstructed Blog for a peek at the rest of the DT cards, they are AMAZING!

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I hope you'll endulge me in sharing one more card...I've been having problems with blogger the past couple days and haven't had a chance to post this card I made for the CR84N color challenge...

Aren't those awesome colors? I immediately picture this card in my mind when I saw these colors...

I wanted something simple and not too showy, kwim? I cut the polka dot paper with a Spellbinders Nestability, added the prima flower and leaves, stamped the sentiment (from SU!) and then stamped the small vase from Gracious Vases (from PTI) along the top. Betsy Veldman did this on one of her sneak peek cards last month and I bought this set pretty much for this purpose, lol! I love how it looks like ribbon weaved through the card:) I also submitted this and a few other cards in for the Papercrafts Gallery Idol contest. I wasn't going to say anything about that until the top 20 come out, because I'm sure I won't make the cut, lol! Oh well, it's like the lottery...you can't win if you don't play:)

Thanks for stopping by today!

All Things Grow with Love

I had today off and it's rainy and thunder-stormy (is that a word? LOL!) so I had allllll day to get my crafty on in my stamp room! I knew for one of my cards, I wanted to play with some of the newly released Verve sets! Did you get your order in? I'm serious when I say it's my favorite release to date. Lots of fun flowers and the Elegant Leaves die? *SWOON!*

The next thing I needed to figure out was what colors I wanted to play with. I went searching for a challenge and stumbled upon the new CR84FN color challenge!

Are those gorgeous colors, or what???

Here's my card using stamps from Bloom and Grow, plus the Floral Circles and Elegant Leaves dies...

I started out with a Rustic Cream card base. The Aqua and Blue colors I used are Aqua Mist and Spring Rain by PTI. I cut a bunch of flowers out with my Floral Circles dies and then stamped and embossed matching blooms in white ep. I cut some Elegant Leaves dies from Rustic Cream cardstock and then stamped the matching leaves from Bloom and Grow and embossed them in clear ep. The doily is cut out with the new doily die by MFT. The next step was just to arrange all the blooms and leaves in that lower left corner. I stamped the sentiment, from Bloom and Grow, in Rich Espresso ink.

I thought this card needed a butterfly. A garden just isn't complete without one! I cut the vellum butterfly using the Flutterby die, three times. I then stacked the butterflies and separated the layers for some dimension, cause I figured this card was lacking in that department:p Last thing I did was add a bunch of Kaiser pearls!

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Thanks so much for stopping by today:) Hope you have a relaxing Sunday:)