Handpainted Poppies

Brandy is back at it with her freehand watercolor painting.  She has a watercolor notebook where she creates this art for her pleasure only - no intention to make a card or use the painting for anything other than the joy of it.

Beautiful, don't you think?

Andie for 

Stitched Mother's Day Cards

I decided to get out my Concord & 9th Stitched Turnabout stamp set.  The turnabout stamp sets take a little to set up so I decided to campaign some color combinations on afternoon.  These stamps are so fun to play with color and technique.  I ended up making many different backgrounds that I then left sitting in a pile on my desktop.  Mainly because the amount of time to do these backgrounds takes a bit of time and it gobbled all of my crafty time for the weekend. 

Since Mother's Day is coming soon, I decided to make a few of the same design.  For my use and then to sell at the Rowan Tree store in Tempe.  The sentiment is from the Clearly Besotted Scrumptious Occasions stamp set.  I fussy cut the sentiment out to adhere to the heart which I also fussy cut since I didn't buy the matching dies for the turnabout.

I have a hard time deciding which is my favorite color combination.  They all have their own charm.  I wasn't so pleased with how the ink on this mint green paper turned out in matching the card, but I love the sequins matching to the background, so all have pluses and minuses.

A great stamp set that made card making easy. I'm entering these cards into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge No Designer Paper. 

Feliz Quinceanera

One of the ladies in our Bible study has been bringing her young niece to Bible study for the last several years.  This wonderful young lady celebrated her 15th birthday.

The invitations had a brightly colored sunflower on the front so I decided to use my Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower stamp to make a similarly styled birthday card.  I used a second generation stamped image to have "15" in the background of the focal image.

I'm pleased with how this turned out and am glad to celebrate such a momentous occasion with their family!

I'm entering this into the SSS Monday Challenge Down on the Farm since this card looks like it was made for the farm.

Easter Enclosure Cards

I decided to put together some pretty Easter enclosure cards to sell at the store.  These cards use the Clearly Besotted Spring Plushie and Ewe Are Awesome stamps and dies along with some stenciled clouds using my Distress Inks.  These cute little cards were delightful to make.  I truly enjoyed myself.

I have a few more Easter cards that I am putting the final touches on and should share those soon.

The Sweetest of Birthday Cards

Brandy has outdone herself again!  This time she is using Pink and Main's Hummingbirds stamp and die set to create this delightful scene card.  I decided to start on the inside since it is so wonderful.  Brandy loosely followed Nicole Spohr's tunnel card design using deckled rectangle dies.  However, the star of this show is those hummingbirds, the feeder (in all it's bright red glory!) and those colorful flowers.  Pink and Main's stamps are quite the accents, don't you think?

The front is ever so wonderful too.  I just love the sun and it's rays of light shining out with a bold, black sentiment.  This makes the hummingbirds to jump off the page for sure.  I'm just not sure that someone could make a prettier card.  Hooray, Brandy.  That is beautiful.

Andie for