Last Mel & Deb Challenge :)

Hello and Happy Wednesday, hard to believe its midweek already!!

Today's card share is the last of the cards my friend Melody and I made a couple weeks ago. I've left the upper area of the card open for a sentiment, if you're wondering why it looks so bare along the top :)

Isn't this a pretty card sketch? I just love how simple it was to create, and the Petals embossing folder from SU! is my new favourite, its so versatile. The half back pearls add that little bit of extra to the card, although if you were sending it through the mail, smaller bling might be a better idea!!

Thank you so much for dropping by, I'm off to check out all my blogging friends this morning, I love seeing how creative you all are!!

Deb :)

Tea Party DSP

Good Morning! Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend???  Ours was extremely windy, but the temps were nice and the sun shone, so no complaining here! We went down to Calgary for the day on Saturday and I was amazed at how many trees' buds had not yet fully opened and how brown it was there compared to our area....usually its the other way around, as they seem to get more precipitation, especially late Winter & Spring.

Today I have another card share from my stamping date with Melody. This is another card Mel found on SCS, isn't it just gorgeous???? So easy to create yet so pretty, I loved the how dimensional it is.

This card used Old Olive as a base, Whisper White and So Saffron, and Tea Party DSP for the rest. We cut out the flower from one of the dsp sheets, then cut the smaller flowers and layered them on top. The leaves are an SU! Sizzlet, the tiny flowers were punched out and adorned with tiny half back pearls.

Thanks once again for dropping by and enjoy your Monday!!
Deb :)

Poinsettias in May!



Hi there and Happy Thursday!! I've been a day ahead of myself this week, woke up this morning thinking it was Friday, hoping tomorrow was sleep in day....I guess I'll have to wait one more day!!

We have beautiful weather still, the sun is shining and its warm, although still pretty windy out there. I might just head to the garden center today and see what I can find to put in the large urn pot at my front door.

Well, today's card share is another that Melody and I made during our stamping day. Melody brought this card to CASE, she found the original on SplitcoastStampers.  Isn't it pretty? It was a thank you card but we decided to change up the background by embossing it with the petals folder (which really mimicked the poinsettia flowers nicely!) and we added a Christmas sentiment. I don't even remember what stamp set the flowers are, you'll have to remind me Mel!

We embossed the flowers onto red cardstock, cut out and layered 2 for each flower.  We secured them with a large silver brad.  It was a pretty simple card to do, yet very striking, I really loved the Black, White and Red combination.

Thank you for dropping by, I hope you have a great day today!!

Deb :)

One More Fabulous Flowers!

Good Morning!!

Today I have another card created with my dusty, unused stamp set Fabulous Flowers. 

We used Daffodil Delight as our base, along with Basic Black and Pink Flamingo dsp. The scallop was created with the scalloped border punch, the ribbon is from my stash and the center button is a clear SU! button, again from my stash of goodies that I seem to always forget I own..... :)

Thanks for dropping by, and have a Wonderful Wednesday! :)
Deb

Hurray for Spring!!

Good Morning!! I had the wonderful pleasure of stamping with my friend Melody last week, we had so much fun!!  Melody and I don't get together as often as we'd like to. When we do finally schedule a day, well we end up talking so much we don't get much creating done.

In order to combat the lack of "creating" during our visits, we've come up with a few challenges for ourselves. This past week our challenge was to pick a stamp set we've purchased but never really used or found ourselves  disliking. We were to also pair this unwanted stamp set with retired dsp that needs to be used up.   What a great idea!! I'll be showing the cards we made over the next few days, I was so happy with the results.

Today's card was my contribution to the day, using Fabulous Flowers stamp set. I loved this set when it was in the catalogue, bought it and used it only once. Its not that I don't love it, but I've never felt overly inspired by it.

I do love this card though, the pairing of Basic Grey & Blushing Bride are fabulous together. What a great colour the In Colour Blushing Bride is, so very different from the other SU! pinks.

Thanks so much for dropping  by and I hope your Spring Day is as nice as ours is supposed to be!! I can hardly believe we are seeing such beautiful days now, the grass is greening up, the plants are growing above ground now and it just feels HAPPY out there!! We've had such a long winter, its really a blessing to enjoy the warm weather of spring, even if its almost mid May!!

Deb :)