Peaceful Feeling

Since John is into his duck hunting. when I see something "duck" that catches my attention, I oftentimes purchase it.  While looking at dies from Gina Marie a few weeks ago, this die was moved to my shopping cart.  I know I mention when a card is easy to create and this one really was easy!  I adhered the die cut on a piece of Wisteria Wonder. I then adhered that to Whisper White cardstock.  On the black layer I stamped the sentiment in Versamark and heat embossed using White embossing powder.  All was adhered to a white cardstock base and now I have a simple card that feels so peaceful.  Have a great day!

Card Sketches

Since I run out of ideas and I am more and more often going to Pinterest, I decided it was time to try card sketches.  On the left is one of the card sketches that caught my eye.  On the right is the card I created kind of using the sketch.  My card is different as I know for sure I did not place the strips of paper as they were placed on the sketch.  The biggest thing is that I adhered my strips of paper too close to the top of the card.  When I stamped the sentiment, there was way too much room on the bottom of the card.  So, I added another strip of paper to fill in that white space.  I should have stamped the sentiment in a different color ink.  I think that blue or green ink would have been a better choice. There is just too much orange.  But, it is not bad and I will play with the sketch again another time~~maybe using black and white!  Have a great day!

Group of Drangonflies

Finishing out the week with one more dragonfly card.  Today's card was very quick to create.  This was another image I had die cut over the weekend using the Detailed Dragonflies thinlets.  I used a sentiment from a retired stamp set, Whimsical Words.  This was probably one of my all time favorite Sale-a-bration sets.  The card base, sentiment and dragonflies were all made using Island Indigo cardstock and ink.  I used Avery Elle's Wonky Stitches die on the white layer and sponged the edges with Island Indigo ink.  Did you know that there are dragonflies and damselflies?  The damselflies are smaller and have slimmer bodies than the dragonflies.  I did not know that until I looked up dragonflies the other day.  Have a great weekend and find yourself a little stampin' time!

St. Patrick's Day

Lawn Fawn's Hats Off To You stamp set is very cute.  Since I don't have much in the way of St. Patrick's Day stamps, this stamp set came in handy.  The hat, shamrock and sentiment are all in the set.  Unfortunately, I lost the "happy" so I had to use the "happy" from a Sunny Studio Stamps set.  I colored the images using Spectrum Noir markers. They were then adhered to a white cardstock layer which was gently inked with Cucumber Crush ink and a Clarity brush.  After coloring and adhering little shamrocks, I decided that a few gold sequins were called for.  Have a great day!