Whimsical summer flowers

Today I have a fun little card to share. I just love pairing DeNami's magenta and red cardstocks together, they really compliment each other nicely. I decided that since I wanted to use such a fun and bright color palette that I'd pull out a fun stamp to go with it...

I also broke out the new grass border stamp...LOVE it!! I was head over heels as soon as I saw it...it's perfect for little scenes like this one. I really wanted a whimsical look, so for my leaves I traced outside the lines with my green marker before coloring and added just a touch of Lime Sherbet and strawberry freeze glitter to finish off the flowers.

You made a what?!?!?

The title of this little post is the reaction I got when I was telling someone about today's card...I thought it was kinda funny :)

 I have a "different" kind of card to show you today. When I first started cardmaking I mostly made interactive cards. They're fun and cute and who doesn't like something that you can pull or twirl, right? Well I broke out my little binder I keep all my templates & patterns in and decided on something that I fell in love with long ago. When picking out the stamps I wanted to use I realized how perfectly this fitted the current CAS-ual Friday challenge so I've decided to enter it.

Here's the fun card I made (Parden the pictures, interactive cards aren't the easiest to photograph!)...

Here it is all opened up...

Well, that's all I have for ya'll today...thanks so much for stopping by!

Summer ladybugs

Today I have a fun summery card for you. I'm entering this in The Paper Players challenge.

What a challenging theme! I had a VERY hard time deciding what to do...so many stamps and options!

I pulled out a few stamps I haven't used in ages and came up with this...

This little card is making me want to go on a picnic!



I know I pull out this color combo quite a bit...but I can't help myself. I just love how I can make something elegant and then turn around and make something so fun with it. Classic colors that will never let you down.

Don't forget about the challenge right here on DeNami Addict...you still have a little time to enter! Click the link on the sidebar for all the info :)

Sparkle and butterflies....

I'm back with another card for the awesome sketch challenge over on the DeNami Design Blog.

When coming up with a card, I give it a lot of thought and usually have a plan...I start with a sketch and doodle a design on it or in this case, write in what I'm thinking...

I decided to get seriously creative with this one, It's basically a one layer card...I started out using the mini grass stamp stamped randomly across the base of the card, then for the punched edge I used a sweet little stamp that has peeks and valleys, just like a pretty punched edge would have. For the bar going across the card, I created a flower using a sentiment, small daisy, butterfly, tweety bird and leaves. The tweety bird is the only thing that is layered / paper pieced on this card. To finish it all off I added some white and green sheer ribbon that I twisted together. Did ya notice the little trail the butterfly made...I wanted it to look like she wrote the sentiment. So, do ya see the sketch in this card???

If they gave out an award for the most glitter I think I would win hands down! Just about every inch of this card is glittered...Magenta for the flowers, Citrone and Gamma Green for the grass, leaves & flower stem, Amethyst for the tweety bird & butterflies. The only part not glittered is the butterfly trail and sentiment...that's a lot of glitter, but it's how I roll ;)  There's no such thing as too much glitter....just sayin'

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!