Thank You Note Cards

Here is a simple layout for a card.
I did a mini production of forty-six cards as a gift for someone.
The white cards stock is Georgia-Pacific that I purchased at Wal-mart. The card is an A2 size. Used my Martha Stewart score board to get a nice fold line.
I used the flower embossing folder by Sizzix.
For the circles I used my new Spellbinders die and a mini embossing folder that fit perfectly inside of circle.
I used four different shades of pinks using Cordinations papers in their canvas texture in Hawaiian orchid, Lipstick, April lovely and gemstones in pink diamond.
Then I cut a 1- inch strip and ran it through a paper crimper. So these are the pieces to the card.
First time I used this adhesive and I like it because you can tear it instead of using my scissors. Purchase this at one of my favorite stamp stores, Stamp Your Heart Out.
These will go on the inside of the card. I will not adhere them to the card but give her the option to add them or not. She may need more room to write. I liked the way the turned out and I had to get a couple of cards for two little girls and I used the same layout.

The papers came from this matstack. It has nice colors and they are one sided papers, not card stock which is thicker and makes this matstack great for layering.
One more card made with leftover paper and ribbon.

I will buy some nice envelops and tie each color set with a bellyband of coordinating ribbon or paper.

Thanks for stopping bye. Have a wonderful day.

A Cute Bear Stamp by Imaginations

Here is a card that I made for a four year old boy. I hope its not too babyish, but I do not have any stamps for this age group.I was going to try to do some watercoloring with my inks but I did not have the right colors and the right kind of brushes. I just used what I had and that was my Prisma colored pencils. I used Turpenoid (Weber product) to move and blend the color on the paper. A technique that I posted awhile ago here (I found on YouTube).

Using textured paper this processes may take more time to move and blend. Using smoother paper it it easier to do this technique. Practice and try different types of paper to see what works best for you and your stamp images.
I stamped using black Archival ink.
The supplies to make the birthday sentiment.
How I keep my buttons. I also have plastic containers with several compartments.
This is how I keep Turpenoid while I am using it. A glass jar will do too. Hubby buys the large bottle of Turpenoid and I steal some every now and then.
As you can see the texture of the paper.
Using a paper stump to blend and move the color or colors to give a smoother look. When I was finished coloring in the image, I used a black Zig pen with a 01 point to outline the image.
I cut out the image adhere with foam mounting tape or pop dots. The card size is 5 x 5 and I used used Core'dination colorcore card stock Vintage collection in "burnt sugar". The begie card stock is cut 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches using their canvas texture in "ice cream". I added dash marks around the card using Stabilo fine point, 0.4 pen in brown.
I stamped out a few more for future use.

I have a few more cards to show you. I have been busy making forty-six "thank you" cards and a few more birthday cards for some sweet little girls.

Thank you for your visit. Have a wonderful weekend.

A Sunny Day For Gardening

Did a lot of gardening this morning and it was nice to be out in the sun. We got into the 80's here in Southern California, but by the weekend we will be back into the 60's. Hard to believe. A photo of the rose and vegetable area. All the roses have nice green leaves and most of them have buds. Will be feeding them soon.
I am finally getting the last of the snap peas into the ground. They are starting to strangle each other. Need to pull them apart carefully. I also picked a nice handful and blanched them and added them to my salad.
Not much change to the brussels sprouts.
Beautiful snap pea flowers.

I made a quick trip to the garden center to pick up more Stock.
The first to bloom. I sowed a lot of seeds too and I'm crossing my fingers for another good Summer garden.
Thank you so much for your nice comments on my embroidered pillowcase. I hope to do more soon. Have a wonderful day! : )

Embroidered Pillowcase

A quick share of my finished hand embroidered pillowcase that I made for my Grandmothers birthday.

This is an Aunt Martha's hot Iron Transfer design called "blue onion motifs" #3759. One of the designs in the packet is just that but this one is the dogwood. The pillow case (2 in a pack) I purchased and transfers at Jo-ann's.
Pillowcase is 50/50 poly cotton and they are standard size.
I used DMC floss. The color numbers for the flowers were 224 a rose color, 739 beige and 967, peach. Flowers centers a light yellow in #744. Hash marks on the inside of the flower #801 brown. Leaves in a light green #3364 and a dark green #937 also the stems were done in the dark green. This was my first time doing a split stitch and I do need more practice but I like the way it covers over the transfer lines. I also did a split stitch below the dogwood design just to give the pillow more color.
Now I will wrap it up and send it on its way.

I have a tea towel that I will be working on soon. Thanks for stopping bye and have a wonderful day.

Floral Dreams Cards

Just wanted to show you the cards that I made using more the papers from K&Company "Floral Dreams" specialty paper pad. The papers are just elegant in this paper pad and with minimal embellishing. I have used these paper pad on prior cards. On this post I used the papers to make sympathy cards, here and on this post I made faith cards, here.

I thought I would get an early start on making some Mother's Day cards. Using some pretty cream heart trim and a die cut to stamp a sentiment. The Mother's day sentiments is from Stampendous (wood block). I used not only my stamps but Ms. "L's" stamps too.
I used cream color card stock, milled lavender Distressed Ink to stamp a leaf stamp from Pink paislee "butterfly garden" stamp set. I have used this set of stamps on most of these cards.
The inside of the card. The sentiment is from a wonderful set by PaperTray Ink called "signature greeting". I will be putting this on my list of future stamp sets to buy.
The butterfly die is from Memory Box.
Inside of the card. The butterfly and flower stamp image on the label are from two stamp set: Hero Arts "antique engraving and "with sympathy", both are clear stamps set.
The butterfly in the center is from K&Company pillow stickers by Susan Winget "Botanical collection". This went perfect with the "floral dreams" papers. I have used a few of the die-cut and acetate also.
Inside of the card.
Here is the inside of the card below.




The birthday sentiment is a dollar stamp purchased at Michael's .
The inside of the card. Again using the "butterfly garden" stamps set.




The sentiments are from TPC Studio's.
I used milled lavender to stamp some floral images.
The tall cards will fit a #10 envelope. I will be making a few more Mother's Day cards and some get well cards using up the rest of the papers in this collection.
Thanks for your visit and I want to wish you a FABULOUS day!