50th wedding Anniversary card

I am so proud to say this card will be published in the Scrapbook News and Review!

Ok, so I found a new idea and I'm running with it. I love this design with the vellum insert and the beading. I think the gold color card stock and vellum really changes it up.
I would love to hear from anyone on the Zyron sticker maker machines. I am thinking of purchasing one, but some of the reviews claim they are impossible to re load. I think I want to get the 500, which does the 5" wide stickers. I plan to use it on vellum sentiments that I print out on the computer. Does anyone out there have one? I think people are more likely to write a bad review than a good one, so I'm hoping I can ignore the bad stuff. Please help me out if you can, I would love to hear from you, good or bad. Thanks again for looking.

Lauren's Wedding Shower Card

I used the Wonderful Wings stamp from Stampin Up to make this card, I never get tired of the beautiful butterflies in this set. I used chalk on the wings and a gold filigree pen on the body. I stamped the image on vellum, in white ink. I made this for a friends daughter, for a wedding shower, her wedding colors were sage green and pink. I used the Stampin Up sage shadow, with the new Pirroutte Pink (I love this color). Sorry I went crazy with the photo's, but I wanted to show how I cut about an inch and a half off the front bottom of the card. You can see the lace from the inside of the card when you close the card. I mounted the lace on a strip of pink and used double face tape to mount it to the white card. I saw this floral trim in the fabric section of JoAnns, and I had to get it. I hadn't planned out the card yet but I knew it was meant for a card, not a dress. Very well worth the 2.99 a yard price, I think it makes the card. I cut For Lauren with the Cricut Expression. I will try to post more often in the future, and thanks for looking.

Alchemy Special order request

Finally some sunshine! Would you believe the grass is already green in Michigan?
These are some special order cards I made for a fellow Etsian at Studio 79, she's a computer genius. If you are looking to set up a web site you have to check out her shop, I've added the link to her shop here. I had a lot of fun designing these cards, I was trying to capture her taste based on the MUM card she already purchased. But I really need to work on my photographing skills. I also wanted to make one card for entry into the Heart Hugs Designs Etsy inspired challenge. Card number 3 is the one I found my inspiration from the Etsy shop Make Mine Mud. I have a photo of the set of three garden stakesI used for the inspiration. The garden stakes look like the felt flowers I used with the Cricut cut out around it. The 1st 2 cards have some beautiful Spring Moss grosgrain ribbon that looks like paper in the photos. I do like working with ribbons, but I like to tuck them in behind the top layer of a card. I think it looks more professional if the ribbon does not show on the inside of the card. Sometimes if you have to wrap it around the card itself it can be hidden with an inside paper liner. I cut the letters for all of these with my Cricut Expression. This year I have been using more background papers in my cards. I found that when you buy a set the color combinations are already worked out for you, I like that. I would have to say that is where my creativity lacks the most. I have a hard time incorporating different color schemes into my cards, and the sets seem to address that for me. Well I hope she can find 2 of these she likes.

Flower Soft results

So I ordered the new Flower Soft product everyone is raving about. I was so excited I told you I would share my results when it came in. I have to be honest, I have mixed feelings about it. I purchased the Floral Bouquet Color Selection which contains; 7x Flower Soft® (20ml jars):Delphinium Blue - Fuchsia - Heather - Spring -Sweet pea - Lavender - Summer The cards above were made with Sweet Pea (I think, jars are not labeled) and Lavender. From the pictures on the box the Sweet Pea and Summer look similar. The 7 jar box is a good way to try a few out, but the jars are smaller, only 20ml instead of the single jar size of 30ml. I love the Sweet Pea it is a mixture of pale pink and dark pink, and light green and dark green. I did not like my results with the lavender as well. When I put it on light it almost does not look like enough, but when I add to it, I think it looks creepy, more like a rough beard than flowers. I probably should have chosen a different stamp to apply it to. The demo site made a big deal about how much there is in each jar once you pour it out and fluff it up. I am disappointed in the fact that although it does fluff up, it doesn't go very far. The jars cost about the same as a good jar of glitter or embossing powder, but they don't go as far. I am 1/2 way through 1 jar with only 5 cards. Sorry, I don't mean to sound negative, but I do want to be honest with you. I also purchased the bicycle stamp from the site and I love it. I did alter it a bit to make it look like this. All in all, the stamp was reasonably priced at 9.99, the set was 24.99 and sometimes you have to try something you don't like to find the things you do like. I will definitely order again, next time I will buy the single 30ml jars for 5.99 each and I will probably order the yellow too, for the center of larger flowers. I learned something new while making these cards. I had some patterned paper with umbrella's on it that I had not found a use for. I used it on these cards, only a slight amount of the image shows up and you would not know it was umbrella's unless I told you. The color combination was perfect.
Thank you for reading my blog.

Mothers Day card ideas

This was a very cool honor, one of my peers at etsy chose this card for a Mothers day treasury she put together. The treasury was chosen for the front page, which gives my shop more exposure. Thank you OhFaro, it truly was an honor to be chosen along with the other awesome crafters, my Mother would be proud of the company I keep. Here's a link to the treasury http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=55112 Better yet, check out her shop, she has some awesome hair accessories made from vintage jewelry, here is her link:
I have been busily working on some Mothers Day cards for my shop. I thought I would share a few of them here. I was browsing through my Card Makers Sketch Book by Tanya Fox, and I found this idea for 3 cut sheets going in different directions. I bought these coordinating papers quite a while back, I thought they would really make it pop. I like how they came out but I had no idea how much work would be involved. I was surprised it took a lot more time than I expected. Cutting all the pieces and gluing them on, gluing the letters on (in a straight line)
was more challenging than I imagined. I cut the letters with the Cricut expression, and I used the negatives too. I like the way the lavender stripes show through the word MUM. I ordered a new product called Flower Soft, it just arrived. I will have to tell you what I think of it. I can't wait to start trying it out. Take care.