Friendly Flower

Good morning,

It's ANOTHER rainy day! Sigh. I need to run errands this morning and I'm tempted to make one of them an errand to get a decent slicker. I'm tired of getting wet!

I hope to get time to stamp this weekend. I'm feeling the "need."

This card was super simple. It's Whisper White cardstock with the Hostess Level 1 In Color designer paper pack. I used a page of the Poppy Parade. The little flowers is from the Hostess Level 2 set Cute by the Inch. It's colored in Old Olive and Poppy Parade with markers on the stamp. I mounted an Itty Bitty Button on the flower but I am, however a little disappointed the button on the flower didn't pop more.

Here you can see that I put linen thread through the button and attached it with a glue dot.

I matted the square with Old Olive using a square punch. I finished off the card with Olive Satin ribbon and with more linen thread to tie the bow to my focal point.

Hope your day is amazing.

Much love and joy,

Peach and Pear Bird

Good morning,

I'm getting a late start today. Just out of sync I guess.

Here's today's card. I used the new Pear Pizzazz and Peach Parfait colors and the level 2 hostess set, Cute by the Inch. The DSP is the level one hostess paper pack.

I colored the stamp directly with the Stampin' Write markers and then punched it out with my 1 1/4 inch square punch and matted it in Pear Pizzazz textured cardstock by punching that out with my 1 3/8 inch square punch.

You can see that I used textured cardstock in pear for the ribbon.



I used the same technique here and put this stamp design on the side squares, making the bird my focal point.

I finished it off using the edge punch and brads.

All in all it turned out well I think. I love the new In Colors. The pear and peach are dustier versions of celery and apricot. While I detested the apricot, I really love the peach. It has a subtle pumkiny, peachy, guava-y type of look.

All of this was mounted on WW cardstock.

Have a great day and we'll see you tomorrow.

Much love and joy,