Mother's Day Cards

I know Mother's Day is over, but I wanted to post 2 cards I had created for the occasion. One was for my daughter that celebrated her first Mother's Day and the other one was for my mom.

The first card was made using melon mambo, tangerine tango, wild wasabi, and whisper white cardstock. I used the fabulous florets, family reunion, and tiny tags stamp sets. To color the flowers I used melon mambo and tangerine tango watercolor crayons and a blender pen. For tools I used my Big Shot, the textured impressions designer frame embossing folder, and the lace ribbon border punch. My daughter always like orange. This is why I chose these colors for this card.

This card I made for my mom. I used marina mist and whisper white cardstock. Field flowers, En Francais,  and family reunion stamp sets. For classic ink I used Marina mist, wild wasabi, and crumb cake. For tools I used the 1 3/4"  and the 2 3/8" scallop circle punches. For accessories I used the basic rhinestone jewels.

I hope you enjoyed visiting my blog. I ask that you come back again. Have a wonderful day and if you have a minute leave a comment.
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Watercolor with Fabulous Florets

I looked at my blog about three days ago and was surprised to see how time had quickly passed since the last time I had posted. I am sorry. I try to post at least once a week. I would love to post more often, but it is hard because I work outside of the home also. I don't always have time to make a paper craft creation or I am tired and don't want to do it.
This is the first card in my Fabulous Florets Water Color Class. At this class I am going to be using different tools to create watercolor cards. There are quite a few different ways you can watercolor. You will have to take the class to find out a few of them.

For this card I used the Fabulous Florets stamp set (123025) found in the summer mini catalog. I also used the Beyond the Garden designer series paper (122342), which is also found in the summer mini catalog. I love this stamp set. I guess I just love to color. You can have so much fun because you can play using different colors over and over and end up with a different look every time.
I will be making three more cards in the near future for this class, as well as, a birthday card for my mom, and a Father's Day card for my husband. So be watching for these to be posted.
Thanks for looking and tell me what you think by leaving a comment.

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Fancy Favor Basket

Happy Tuesday to everyone. Believe it or not, 25 years ago today, I married my husband and best friend, Dave. I would say the two strongest things about our relationship has always been sharing the same faith in God and having very good communication skills. From the time we first liked each other conversation has always been so easy. Well, I wanted to make something for him as a gift.

Do you love it when people come up with a new idea using a certain tool. Well, I do. I wanted to think outside of the box and come up with and idea using the fancy favor box die. Instead of the box being shaped like a rectangle, I made it into a square. It is very easy to change. I cut the DSP to cover just the first main section (front) of the box. You have to have some of the side cut with it too. You use the little bit of the side to adhere it to the other pieces of the fronts. You need to cut 4 of the front pieces. Once I glued them all together I cut a square to adhere to the bottom. The normal bottom tabs are not long enough to attach them altogether.

I wanted to show you two different views in order for you to get the whole idea of what it looks like. I filled it with a whole bag of nuggets. No, I do not want to make my husband gain weight. I just know that he likes them. More than likely I will eat some of them too!! :-)

Now it is your turn to try this out. If you have any problems you can email or comment me and ask. I will try and help you out.

Recipe for this box. All items are current Stampin' Up! products.

DSP: Autumn Meadows (mini catalog)

Stamp set: Autumn Harvest

Cardstock: really rust, naturals ivory, and chocolate chip

Ink: really rust and chocolate chip

Tools: Big Shot, fancy favor box die, watercolor crayons, and blender pens

Accessories: vintage brads

If you like this out of the box idea, please leave a comment and tell me what you think. Now I want to see you take this idea and use it for yourself. It is very easy to do.

Now go-n-stamp!!