Sending a Happy Birthday to My Bestie Featuring The Greetery Forget-me-nots Dies

It took me a bit to be able to celebrate Brandy's birthday with her and so I couldn't share this card with you that I created using The Greetery Botanticuts Forget-me-not dies.  I die cut the flowers and watercolored them, accenting the flowers using my Polychromos pencils.  The remaining images/die cuts are from The Greetery Pretty Postmarks stamp and die set which creates a perfect accent to these florals.

So grateful for such a great bestie.  We bonded nearly 20 years ago over crafting and it has created a life-long bond that only strengthens with age.  

Happy Birthday, Brandy!  Hoping each year is better and better.

Friends and Four Leaf Clovers Using Colorado Craft 4 Leaf Clover Stamp

I just had to purchase the Colorado Craft 4 Leaf Clover stamp set because this delightful image made me smile.  I colored ever so lightly in grey to match the coloring on my daughter, Katie's, hamster Jasper.

Yay!  I have some St. Patrick's Day cards to send out to friends. This'll be fun!

Notecard Set Featuring The Greetery Comforting Commands Stamps and Dies and Concord and 9th Blooms Fill-in Stamps and Dies

So, I had some of The Greetery Comforting Commands stamped and die cut on the table and the backgrounds I made years ago with my Concord and 9th Blooms Fill-in stamps and I couldn't help but put them together into this card set.  I die cut one of the backgrounds to get floral pieces out of the handmade patterned paper and then used them to accent each of the cards in this set. 

I'm just so pleased with out this set turned out.  Varied and different, each card and the accompanying sentiment is so delightful and encouraging.  I gifted this set to a friend and she will definitely put them to good use.

Heartfelt Get Well Cards Featuring The Greetery Wood Hearts Slice Dies

Oh but I needed a get well card recently.  I had made a bunch of The Greetery Botanticuts Forget-me-nots using the dies and watercoloring the die cuts and adding accents with Polychromos pencils.  So I decided to pair the pretty flowers with The Greetery Wood Hearts Slice die cuts and it is a good match.

The patterned paper in the background was very inspiring, so I'm sure you'll see more cards with a similar vibe coming soon!

Comforting Cards Featuring Heartfelt Creations Flowering Dogwood Stamps and Dies

I was inspired by Yana Smakula's video using Colorado Craft Company's stamps and decided to pull out my Heartfelt Creations Flowering Dogwood stamps and dies to see if I could recreate her look.  These two cards are the result of that effort and I really couldn't be more pleased.  I stamped the images onto Bristol cardstock and used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to color the die cut images.  So pretty!

 It is always difficult when you need a sympathy card.  One of these went out right away and the second card is in the stash for the day when sending some care and encouragement is needed.