With Sympathy

I, unfortunately, needed a quick sympathy card.  I decided to use this beautiful poppies stamped image from the stash.  I'd stamped the image from a set that Brandy owns one day when I was over with her and colored using my Clean Brush markers.  The image sat in the stash until I needed this card.  I matched with some patterned paper, ribbon and simple stamped sentiment to create the card front.

On the inside - a message, heartfelt and grieving with the family.  I'm hoping they felt the love in the handmade card.  In fact, I'm sure they did.

Best Friends

Brandy has been up to her coloring tricks and sent me photos of this lovely take on Art Impressions Bench Set stamp.

The coloring is simply fantastic and the simply background makes for a great offset to keep the image centerstage.

Join me in a Whoo Hoo! shout out to Brandy for her hard work and creativity!

Andie for 

A Notecard Box Set

Here's my finish to the Year of Psalms notecards.  A handmade card box using cardstock and a little ingenuity.  The box was made something like this.  I varied the sizes by 1/4 in. to allow the lid to fit snugly, but easily over the box.      The front was embellished with one of the Year of Psalms stamp that is featured on  each card.

I kept the flowers the same using my Heartfelt Creations Birds and Blooms stamp and die set ot create the flowers and leaves.  The box needed to have some pizzazz so I used a little glitter paper, again, keeping the design simple focused on the sentiment stamp. 

The second box, I toyed with some of the patterned paper in the cards to create these flags.  I like the differences in the embellishments, a decided style difference.

In the end, I love them all and had so much fun.  I'm sure these stamps will be a go to when I need a quick gift/card set in the future.  I'd challenge you all to do the same, use those stamps and be amazed by the beauty they create.

A Finish to the Psalms Notecards

I'm finishing out my notecard set using the Papertrey Ink Year of Psalms stamp sets with my favorite of these stamps.  For this card, I used the Year of Psalms July mini stamp which comes with these fun embellishments, the wheat sheaf looking stamp and the berry branch stamp.  These tiny stamps allow for some really neat embellishing of the sentiment stamp.  I picked out this super fun plaid for the background which dictated the pink coordinating flowers using my Heartfelt Creations Birds and Blooms stamp and die set.  A little glitter finish the backdrop keeping the sentiment stamp the star. 

So the card set is done.  I'm truly pleased, these stamps and dies made the process so easy that even with my busy work schedule, I was able to whip this set up in no time.  I've dedicated myself to a grand finish and am thinking, card box to house these lovelies for gifting.  The bits and pieces are out on the workbench, so I'm going back to finish now.

Giving Thanks - More of the Psalms Notecards

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For this notecard, I considered going for the obvious fall colored cards.  However, I noticed that there were quite a few of the yellow variety already, so I went in the opposite direction - towards a more summery color palette.  In this card I used my Papertrey Ink Year of Psalms August mini stamp and again chose the keep the theme with my Mix and Mat Pretty Brackets die.  The flowers are Heartfelt Creations Birds and Blooms die cuts. 

The Lord has truly been good to me.  Look at the abundance I've had the privilege to enjoy!  ... and there are still more to make.  I'm thinking of finishing the weekend fun with the last of the set and maybe a wrapper to gift these cards in.