Flying Home Thank You

Today's card was created using Stampin' Up's Flying Home stamp set.  After coloring the image with alcohol markers, I used the Layering Squares Framelits to layer on the white background.  The purple cardstock, Lavender Fields, is from My Favorite Things.  It looks like a deep, pretty periwinkle. The sentiment is from a retired SU set.  The little birds are also from the Flying Home stamp set.   This cold weather has me wanting Spring to come very soon!!  Have a great day and find yourself a little stampin' time.

Mermaid Birthday

I went downstairs to clean up my scrap room and ended up making one more shaker card.  For the background of the shaker and the top oval border, I used Brusho Color Crystals and water.  I have had Brusho crystals for quite a while, but rarely use them.  Then I saw that Stampin' Up now offers some colors of Brusho.   That prompted me to play with mine.  I first wet the water color paper and then shook both turquoise and purple Brusho Crystals on to the water color paper.  I continued to spritz water on the paper until I was happy with the look and dried it with my heat gun.  Again I used the Oval Stitched Shape framelits for the shaker.  The sentiment is a combination of phrases from two stamp sets, one from Sunny Studio Stamps and the other from Sugar Pea Designs.  I used alcohol markers to color the cute little mermaid and then added some sparkle using my Clear Wink of Stella glitter brush.  My Favorite Things' Mermazing stamp set is still one of the cutest I own.  Have a great day!

Happy Bird-day

Happy New Year!  Hope you all enjoyed celebrating! We spent the weekend celebrating with family and friends.  It was perfect.

After all the Christmas and thank you cards and the freezing cold weather the past days,  I decided to make a brightly colored, warm-feeling card.  Actually, I saw the Bird Banter stamp set in Stampin' Up's Occasions catalog last month and thought about purchasing it.  But, since I have a few cute bird sets, I decided the purchase was not necessary. So, yesterday I pulled out Clearly Besotted's Some Birdie Loves You set and made this cute shaker card.  Stampin' Up's Stitched Shapes Framelits made it quite easy to create the "shaker".   The adorable little parrots were colored using alcohol markers. Keep warm and have a great day!

2018

Thanks to my friend, Nancy, I have a pretty New Year's
card to post today!  With the cold and snow outside, the embossed snowflakes, rhinestones and glitter paper make it the perfect card!  I wish all a very happy, healthy and successful New Year.  May you be blessed with everything good.   HAPPY NEW YEAR!