Pretty Paisley

Hello everyone and welcome to Wednesday...the work week is half over...woo-hoo!! I'm extra excited since it's my birthday weekend. No house cleaning, no dinner cooking and I get CAKE!!! I love cake...sigh. My big sissy, Denise is coming into the city so that's something to look forward to too, but if she tries to eat my cake I may stab her with my fork...just sayin' ;)  hehehehe

 

Growing up and even now, paisley has been a favorite pattern of mine. I was super excited when I saw the new DeNami images and there was some fun paisley! Paisley is so girly, sweet and fun, how can you not like it, right?!? For my first creation using they yummy paisley stamps, I decided to make a pretty patterned paper and let it take center stage....

 

I started out stamping the 3 paisleys randomly all over my white cardstock. Then I pulled out a few Petit Four sets: Elegant Floral stamp set, Whimsical Valentine stamp set, and the Garden Accents stamp set to fill all of the open areas. I really wanted to keep the card fairly pastel, but since my yellow ink pad is a little bright I added a bright blue to balance it out. I think this card would have looked extra cute if I really had sewn it vs. using the little zigzag stamp, but alas, I haven't sewn in years and my sewing machine is packed away in the bowels of the basement destined to never see the light of day again....sigh

 

That's it for me today! I'm so happy that some of you have entered the random birthday drawing here on the blog!! How fun...you guys are awesome :)  If you haven't entered yet, there's still time!

 

 All the info can be found here, you have until July 31st. I'll be picking a random entry to win a $25 DeNami Design gift certificate!

love letter

I had the idea to create a love letter card. I sat at my desk with a pencil and scratch paper thinking on how to achieve something like that. My mind ran over all of my DeNami stamps deciding how best to achieve it.  My first thought was to use this cute little heart stamp image, but I wanted my card to look more shabby chic than fun and cute. I ended up using a stamp I had in my "contraband stash" by 7 Gypsies for my postage.

For the "send to" area I somewhat randomly stamped a border 3 times then stamped pink hearts over that and added a little sentiment. I decided it needed to be distressed to I added a few swipes of ink and roughened up the edges. A little twine and matching button finished it all off.

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layers of lace and love

My fave stamp company + a really unique / fun challenge = puffy heart love!! Which is fitting since that's the challenge theme ;)

Today I'm bringing you a little card that brings two things I really love together...DeNami is the sponsor of the latest 10 minute Craft Dash over on the Pretty Pink Posh blog.

Do you know what I love most about Valentines Day cards? it gives me an excuse to use the prettiest color palettes! Red + pink together = happy happy happy...sigh (wait, I'm starting to think that there is WAY too much "math" going on for one post, haha). And for Valentines I can use as much as I want!! (hehehe)

Talk about a quick card to put together...it doesn't get much easier and faster than this little cutie! It took a grand total of 7.56 minutes, and that included doing all the stamping, coloring, glitter and edge punching!! (sorry, no pictures of my desk this time, I started cleaning up then realized I forgot to take the pictures...uggg!) I had my cardstock, punch, stamps, ink, markers and glitter laid out. I started off with a red card base then using magenta, pink & white cardstocks, cut the panels and punched the edges. I stamped my white panel with some yummy new DeNami stamps (cupid chickie & whimsical valentine set) and a beautiful older sentiment as center stage. I colored the chickie then adhered it to the card and finished it up by adding a little glitter. Isn't that cupid chickie the most adorable thing ever?? I'm TOTALLY smitten with him!

 

That's it for me today, I'll see you right back here on Sunday for the DeNami blog hop. You aren't going to want to miss this one...Adorable Animals!! To follow the hop simply go to the DeNami blog Sunday morning for the list of participants. Don't forget to leave your comments along the way to be entered for the DeNami gift certificate give away. Thanks for stopping by!

I choose you...

As I was looking through my little basket of DeNami cling stamps trying to find my leafy squares, I came upon this one and was hit with a warm childhood memory and came up with a really cute, yet, cheesy idea....

It had me thinking of the little valentines I gave and received in my younger days. Thin baseball card sized valentines tucked into a small white envelope that were for the most part, pretty cheesy. I couldn't help trying to recreate such a fond memory. I thought about how to make my sentiment and as you can see in the end I went with just a hand written one vs. using an alphabet stamp set to make it. I wish I had nice handwriting, but again, I was thinking back to my youth and me sitting at the kitchen table agonizing over which valentine to give to Ron Davis, the love of my life at age 6 (and first ever kiss from a boy!) and how the writing on the back of my valentines looked worse than a doctors, lol, so I think it all worked out. I tried to make it kind of wavy to represent the smoke from the train however it didn't turn out as I'd envisioned, but all in all I'm pretty happy with it.

What are some of your favorite Valentines Day memories???

You're sweet treat

Ever since I came up with the adorable stocking card I made for Christmas, I've wanted to play with the layout a little more. I liked the idea of a flat panel...kinda postcard style card and wanted to see what else I could create using that concept.

It didn't take me long to come up with this sweet little treat.....

You don't want to know how many boxes of conversation hearts I went through to get all those pink hearts ;)

 

I started off with a kraft panel and layered on a cream panel that I had stamped a pretty little pattern on. For the 3rd panel (pink) I stamped the teeny heart background, randomly stamped the sentiment, I edge punched it and added a length of ribbon before adhering it to the base panels. I attached the little glassine bag using my ATG and the ribbon doubles as a pretty embellishment, but also helps hold the bag in place. I added adhesive to only half of my punched circle layer so that I could filled down the top of the bag and tuck it behind the top half of the punched circle to keep it closed. I can add a little hand written note on the back or leave it just like it is, either way, I'm thinking the recipient is going to love it!

 

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