We had a great weekend!  Jen and Mark visited and took time out to purchase their new house!  They will live about 40 minutes away in a gorgeous house.  Plus, they will be closer to Sydney when she heads off to college in the Fall.  Today's card was made just for them!  The images, with the exception of the branch, were all cut from previously water-colored paper scraps.  The Home Tweet Home die set from My Favorite Things was used to die cut all

of the images.  For the background, I used MFT's cloud stencil and distress ink.  Have a great day!                  

 Last week I posted two cards I created using MFT’s Dog House dies.  Today’s card was related using My Favorite Things’ Home Tweet Home die-namics dies. As cute as the dog house dies, my favorite is this set.  I have made a few cards, most of them I copied off the internet.  I will post others in the future, but everything about today’s card sings out happiness.  I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and added white embossing powder.  The only other ink I used was to sponge the edges of the cute little birds.

Have a great week!

Lately, My Favorite Things has been adding some of the cutest dies to their already great collection of dies.  A recent addition to my always growing MFT Stamps die collection is their Dog House set.  Today's cards were created using that set together with their Canine Companion and Up In The Air stamp sets.    The Dog House set includes the fence and grass dies.  For both cards, I used Distress Inks for the backgrounds.  Have a great week!

 Over the weekend I watched a number of videos that were posted as part of the Card Maker Success Summit.  This is the first time I paid to spend a weekend on my computer!  I only watched videos that interested me so I did not watch all weekend.  The presentation by Maartje Kraaijenhagen was very informative.  It showed how to get and use digital stamps.  I have been using individual digital stamps for awhile, but she showed how to create a scene.   After watching her presentation, I purchased a Scene Creators stamp by Rachel Anne Miller named Garden Friends.  The set includes at least 15 images and four sentiments.  You can use a variety of the images to create a scene or you can use the individual images.  Here are two cards I created.

The sentiment on the orange checked card is from Stampin' Up.  The sentiment on the blue card is part of the Garden Friends set.  Have a great day!