Old Corset

As a winner of challenge #3 at Use It Tuesday, Siobhan contacted me about a guest designer spot for challenge #4, but I was unable to have one finished before the deadline, since I was in my non-stamping land,  so she graciously let me work on challenge #5, that will go live today at Use It Tuesday. Today's  challenge is to use ribbon, twine something that ties. This card was actually finished on April 1st.

When I returned to my stamping land I found I had lost my mojo, so I quickly checked out some challenge blogs and started with a simple sketch, after I had finished a few cards, I was almost positive that my mojo had returned. On April 1st, I had a break in trying to create cards fast, for challenges that was coming to an end, and was working on a piece for my Easter cards. Since I received the message from Siobhan at Use It Tuesday, I had been trying to think about what I would create, and with a lost mojo was getting nowhere fast. But in the Use It Tuesday tradition, I was creating cards with stamps I had never used…..ok there was a couple of images I had stamped before, but hadn’t ever used them for anything, but I hadn’t come up with anything for ribbon or twine, something that tied. All of a sudden, it was like a lightning bolt in my head……I thought of the corset for the challenge, and the Easter card got put to the side.

I have had this Cuttlebug corset die for a few years now, and the only time it was used, was to cut a sample for my punch/die notebook. Sometimes I wonder why I buy these things, then never use them, it must have been some great idea……..that got lost in the shuffle. For this one I’m glad using the corset did get lost, it resurfaced at the perfect time!
I started with some red cardstock, cut the corset out, then sat there looking at it, I wanted to stamp something on it, I have two lace background stamps, but the images were just too big, so I settled for a SU set Beyond the Basics (little roses that I have never used), they were stamped with Fired Brick Distress ink. I had in mind to run 1/8” ribbon through the holes, so I decided to add eyelets, from  a collection I bought years ago, and the only time it has ever been opened, was to see if there was some unusual color that matched something I was working on, so I’m positive I haven’t used these red eyelets. I wanted to run black ribbon, but wouldn’t you know it, with tons of ribbon, I didn’t have any 1/8” black, so I settled for the red. My first idea was to stamp inside the corset, but it would be way too much trouble to unlace the ribbon to see it. I sponged Vintage Photo Distress ink around all of the edges. My next idea was to use a Spellbinders Impressibilities – Flourish. I’ve never used this one before before, the instructions said it works best with 65# paper, so I dug some out, (not a big selection) and came up with this yellowish color, after I ran it through the Cuttlebug I sponged Antique Linen distress over the embossed side. Next I cut a layer of black, it started out with a white base card, but just didn’t look right, I could have sponged the Fired Brick on it, but changed to a red base card. This is the first time I have made my own card this size, the others I have made were store bought white. Now it’s time for the sentiment. I thought the sentiments from the GKD set You know you’re old when were perfect…….then it hit me, I have used those sentiments before. Oh well, I am hoping all the other firsts will compensate. I stamped the two sentiments together on red cut out with a Quick Kutz Nameplate die, using Vintage Photo Distress Ink, then cut the black layer, added two red brads and 1/4” black ribbon.

Check out the Bunny Hop Blog Game link on the right for a chance to win prizes, and there will be a blog hop at the  Creative Clear Stamp Blog on 4/16, also they are having their second challenge to use ribbon on a card.

Thanks for stopping by, I would love to hear your comments.

Farm Kisses

Today’s card is for the Stamp TV sketch challenge STVSKSP20.

I  chose the GKD set Funny Farm, stamped the farm scene on white paper with Onyx Black Versafine, then colored with SU markers. The image is layered on dark blue, the under layer of green was punched with a MS border punch, then I have a layer of dp from a DCWV Spring Matstack, again layered on green, with a dark blue base card. After attaching the layers, I used the SU mat pack template and pierced holes down both sides of the image and stitched with embroidery thread for cross-stitches. Added three red brads on the bottom left and the sentiment from the same set was stamped on white with Onyx Black Versafine, then punched with a SU word window punch.

Thanks for looking, I’d love to hear your comments.

Farm Slides

Here is a card for this week’s sketch challenge at Stamp TV.

For my three squares I cut and embossed black cardstock with one of the Spellbinders Slide Mounts dies, and then I needed images to fit in the little areas. I finally settled on images from the GKD set Funny Farm, stamped the images on white cardstock, colored with prismacolored pencils and goo gone, went over the smiles and the sentiment with a glitter gel pen, then punched them out and attached to the slide mounts. The dp is from a DCWV Fall Stack, I cut the strip of polka dots off of the same paper, and sewed it on, attached the slide mounts and attached the layers to a cream colored base card. I also ran a sanding block over the raised areas of the slide mounts. This card turned out ok, I’m thinking I have made better, but then a lot of times I think that, and everybody else loves it.  

With the weather warming up, I will soon have to return to my other house L which means no stamping until I can get back down here. We have an outdoor furnace for heat, and I have been staying here keeping the fire going, and of course stamping. We’ve had a couple of beautiful warm days, I was outside cutting and stacking firewood for next year. I even managed to get some split with a wedge and sledge hammer, my wood splitter is up at the other house.

Hope you enjoyed your visit, thanks for stopping by, I would love to hear your comments.

Pieced Farm

There’s a blog hop Animal Kingdom challenge going on at Stamp TV to use any of the listed GKD animal sets. I chose Funny Farm and here is my card.

There were quite a few sets you could use on the list. I only had two of those sets. I don’t know about everybody else, but sometimes I have ideas fly through my head so fast, I can’t keep up with them, it’s almost like a roulette wheel, going round and round, and when it stops that number (idea)  is what I use, all the other numbers (ideas) are forgotten. I should have a tape recorder, if they still make them, and just speak my ideas out loud, then I could remember more of them. While blog hopping tonight there was a lot of beautiful cards, I don’t think anybody paper pieced the set I used, but when that idea popped it stuck. I think this is a first for me, when I paper piece, it is normal looking, that is also why I chose the sentiment Funny Farm from the same set. I started digging through my scrap pile to find some pieces with small print, I just made different card not long ago, using this sketch, and the same white, blue, dp (except for the pig), tag, and the ribbon for the Clearly Inspired Challenge sponsored by Clear Dollar Stamps. I really liked the way the colors went together. So rather than sitting half the night trying to decide what to do, I went with that.

The animals were stamped first with versamark, embossed with detail black ep, I used a white gel pen to fade out the dp colors around the eyes, the flowers and the spots on the cow, then I colored over some of those spots with different glaze pens. After all why would a cow have white spots, when it is purple with green designs anyway. The animals were laid to the side, while working on the rest of the card. Next I used a 4” square of purple, my MS fence border punch and my newly discovered technique of how to punch around a square using only a border punch. You can find my redneck tutorial here. I cut a square of blue instead of green for the grass, stamped some grass from a CDS set called Mini Silhouette Scapes with Dusty Concord distress ink. Then I proceeded to cut the background pieces. The darker of the two dp’s is a whole layer, the lighter of the two are cut and layered on white and placed on the two corners of the darker dp, this was attached to a layer of the same blue used for tag and square. I cut out the blue tag with a cuttlebug slider die, stamped with versamark, embossed with detail white ep, ran the ribbon through the tag and across the layers of dp to the back of the blue layer. The animals were attached to the blue square, which was attached to the fence square, and put in place over the ribbon/dp layers. The base card is white. I had to use more of the dp than was in my scrap pile, (except for the pig) the dp is from a DCWV Summer Dream matstack.

I don’t know what they are smoking on this farm, but I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for stopping by, and I’d love to hear your comments.  

Cattail Birthday

Today’s card is for this week’s sketch challenge at Stamp TV, there is no shimmer, no glimmer, no razzle-dazzle, just a simple card following the sketch, with a little sewing.

This is my fourth attempt at using my Singer Pixie Plus sewing machine on a card. I must be getting better at this, the thread didn’t get tangled up, it only skipped one stitch,  and thank goodness that darn needle didn’t come unthreaded again.  Well, they say practice makes perfect………..I need a lot of practice!!

For this card I chose papers to match the thread that was on the sewing machine, so I wouldn’t have to go to all the trouble of changing it.  The base card is a rust (matching the thread) , next is a layer of dark brown, then a piece of plaid dp that came from a DCWV Fall Stack, with the matching rust color in it. I stamped the cattails from a GKD set called Life is Good by Theresa Momber using SU markers to color the stamp (chocolate chip, always artichoke and bordering blue) on white cardstock, cut down to size and layered on dark brown, attached them to the other layers, minus the base card and ran the sewing machine around each. Happy Birthday is also from a GKD set called Purrr-fectly Delightful by Theresa Momber colored with another SU marker (really rust) and stamped on white cardstock, then cut and embossed with a ribbon tag trio die, the ribbon was run through it and attached to the back of the layers, then they were added to the base card.

Thanks for stopping by and I ‘d love to hear your comments.

Funny Friend

This card is for the release party challenge #3 Sketch for you. I chose the GKD set Funny Farm for my main image and sentiment.

I stamped the main image on a piece of brown mustard colored paper, and on white with onyx black versafine, I had the intention of coloring the white. The mustard colored paper was then cut and embossed with a nestie circle. On the piece of white that was stamped, I wound up just coloring the head, hair and hat, with prismacolored pencils & goo gone, then decided to stamp the overhauls on the striped dp and cut out, I stamped it again on the dp, with the stripes going in a different direction and cut the pocket out. I was going to leave the shirt the mustard color, but changed my mind on that too, so the shirt was stamped on the pale yellow, cut out and attached. That left the boots and the sign. So I stamped the boots on the pale yellow, cut them out, then attached. For the sign I stamped the sentiment in onyx black versafine on the white piece I had previously stamped the main image on, then cut out and attached. All of the dp is from the DCWV Flower Shower Spring Matstack. The base card and the layered circle is a pale yellow, everything else was layered with the brown mustard color. I grabbed some pale yellow adhesive backed ribbon I have had for a while, picked it up at Joann’s on the clearance rack. Pierced three holes on the bottom right for pale orange brads and picked out three flowers from a Paper Flower embellishment jar by Portafolia that I had picked up at a yard sale, pierced holes and attached the flowers with yellow brads. I also added some color with a prismacolored pencil under the girls feet, a flower brad for the hat, googly eyes, and a final touch was to add crystal lacquer on the boots.

Thanks for looking and I would love to hear your comments.   

Kitten Thread

This card is for Theresa’s string it up release party challenge at Stamp TV. I chose the GKD set Purrr-fectly Delightful by Theresa Momber.

The main image was stamped on black cardstock with versamark and embossed using detail white ep. Instead of having a black cat with a white outline, I colored over the white with a dark gray prismacolored pencil, added some pink for nose, ears and paw, filled in the eyes with a white gel pen, used a green glaze pen over top of the white, then added a dot over the green with the white gel pen, and cut the kitten out. The blue layer was cut and embossed with a nesties rectangle die, then the white layer was cut with a scalloped rectangle nestie die. I had the idea of the kitten playing with a ball of thread, and just had to figure out how to do it. I punched a small circle then wrapped some of the gold metallic thread around it, and from there wrapped it around the two layers the kitten  is attached to. Those layers were added to the plaid dp from my scrap pile. Since the plaid paper was very thin, I mounted it to a piece of white the exact same size, so that it doesn’t show, but gives it some thickness, punched the corners with (I’m sorry, but I don’t remember the name of that punch), and wrapped gold metallic thread around the edges, and mounted onto a layer of white, then the base card is the same blue as the kitten is mounted on. For the sentiment, I used one from the same stamp set, stamped with onyx black versafine, and cut out with a spellbinders ribbon tag trio die, in place of ribbon, I again used the gold metallic thread to attach the sentiment to the card.

Thanks for looking and I would love to hear any of your comments.

Funny Farm

Here is a card for Giovana’s release party color challenge at Stamp TV. I chose the GKD stamp set Funny Farm for the main image and sentiment.

The main image was stamped on white cardstock with onyx black versafine, then I paper pieced the barn, silo roof, tree tops and the striped field. I made a mask and stippled spun sugar,tumbled glass, and broken china for the sky, peeled paint and shabby shutters for the other two fields. It seemed a little bare, so I pulled out my CDS set Mini Silhouette Scapes and added the birds, and plants in the fields. This scene is layered on white. Next I chose some dp from a matstack I have lost the cover for, but I’m sure it’s DCWV. For a while I thought I had picked out yellow with white polka dots, must have strained my eyes cutting out those little things, turns out it’s yellow with white stars, oh well, it is also layered on white, with a green card base. The sentiment was stamped with onyx black versafine, after cutting out the yellow and green pieces with cuttlebug slider dies. I ran the ribbon through both and attached with a foam dot, pierced a hole on each corner of the main image and stuck four yellow brads in the holes. Thanks for looking and I’d love to hear your comments.

Sheep Herd

Here is another card for this week’s sketch challenge over at Stamp TV. I chose the GKD stamp set Funny Farm, for the main image and sentiment.

The black sheep was stamped with versamark on black cardstock, embossed with detail white ep, then cut out, and googly eyes added. The white sheep were stamped on white cardstock with versamark, embossed with detail black ep, then cut out. The green with white polka dot dp from DCWV Nana’s Nursery Stack, was cut and embossed with a nestie oval, and before the die was removed, I ran a black ink pen around the inside of the die. The white layer behind was cut with a nestie scallop oval, and the dots were made with a black ink pen. The next dp, from a My Mind’s Eye Home Photo Mat Blue stack, was cut to size and the corners punched with a ticket punch. The next layer is white, cut to size, and the corners punched with a corner rounder punch. The base card is green. The sentiment was stamped in versamark on black cardstock, then cut and embossed with a nestie circle die, before the die was removed I ran a white gel pen around the inside of the die. I placed four green dew drops on the four rounded corners of white. They may not be dew drops, I bought them at a yard sale and they weren’t in the original containers. Thanks for looking and I’d love to hear your comments.

Chalkboard Trees

Today’s card is for this weeks sketch challenge over at Stamp TV. I chose a stamp from the GKD set Life is Good by Theresa Momber for the main image, and decided to try the chalkboard technique.

The image was stamped on black cardstock with craft white ink, then pounced with different color chalks to color the image, the trees and ground are two different colors of green, the water blue, the rocks silver, background of trees white, you can hardly tell the difference of colors in the picture but in real life you can. I used Pebbles Pearlescent chalks the Shimmer collection. I sprayed hairspray on it to hold the chalk in place, then cut it out and embossed it with a nestie oval die. The next layer is just white cardstock cut with a nestie scalloped oval die. The next layer is some, what I call twinkling stars dp from my scrap pile. As an added extra I punched white cardstock with the ek success moon & stars punch, added a little versamark and some of the white shimmer chalk (it doesn’t show up in the picture). The layer behind the dp was white, but I sponged it with chipped sapphire distress ink, the base card is white. The sentiment is from the GKD set Funny Farm, stamped on black cardstock with craft white ink and chalked with the white shimmer chalk, punched with a round punch, and layered on white also punched. Thanks for taking a peak, and I’d love to hear your comments.  

Alcohol Faux Bleach

I was reading a tutorial by Sherry Cheever over at SCS today on alcohol faux bleach, I also watched the video. I picked out colors I thought would match the color challenge at Stamp TV for this week, to try it out. Seems like I can’t go make a card anymore without using a color challenge or sketch challenge, whether it’s past or present, but for me that is better, as I used to case a lot of work, now it’s my own ideas making the sketches and color challenges work.

For today’s card I chose the flowers (again) in the GKD set Purrr-fectly Delightful by Theresa Momber. For this technique you are supposed to use glossy cardstock, stamp an image and emboss with clear ep. Dab your alcohol inks all over the paper and blend, the embossed image will be covered with color. Then you put a paper towel down to keep the paper from moving around, lay another piece of cardstock over top of the embossed glossy, use a craft iron on top (Sherry used a craft iron set on high, my craft iron doesn’t have any settings so I didn’t know if it would even work), the embossing comes off onto the blank cardstock, so that you have two images  (one with the alcohol inks and a plain one with the colored embossed image. I like to hoard my glossy cardstock, so I tried it out on some cheap photo paper I picked up at the Dollar Tree. First I cut the cheap photo paper and the extra piece of white paper the same size, I figured it would make it easier to work with. I stamped with versamark and embossed with detail clear ep. This works as long as you do not overheat it. You can tell when it starts overheating, as bubbles in the paper start appearing, so I quickly removed the heat gun, and the bubbles disappeared. I used caramel, butterscotch, denim and stonewashed alcohol inks, and the alcohol blending solution, applied with the alcohol ink applicator and felt to make the background colors. Then I laid the inked up image on a paper towel face up, and placed my other piece of white paper over top of the inked up paper. For this paper I did not use my good white cardstock either, I used some other paper that I don’t mind wasting, plus it isn’t as thick as the regular cardstock, I thought the iron might work better. I placed the iron on top of the two layers and ironed until the embossed image attached itself to the plain white paper. The image on the card is the cheap photo paper with alcohol inks, I threw my plain white piece in the trash, the embossed image was on it like it was supposed to be, but I also had some color spots on it too. The paper I was using, had a very slight gloss to it, and that may be what the problem was. I layered the alcohol inked up paper on white, then blue. I then poked holes right at the edge of the vase on both side and ran a piece of yellow hemp twine through. I cut a little tag out with a cuttlebug tiny tag die and stamped feel better on it in versamark, embossed with detail white ep, placed a yellow eyelet in the hole, and ran the twine through it and tied a bow, but decided I didn’t like it, so I left the card with no sentiment, and just tied the bow. Next it was added to the yellowish colored base card. Thanks for stopping by and I’d love to hear your comments.

Framed Train

The other cards I have been making since discovering how to punch around a square with just a border punch and no corner punch (see my redneck tutorial) have started with 3” squares. I decided to give a bigger square a try, this time I started with a 4” square, and gave another border punch a chance to shine. I wasn’t even sure if the train border punch would work at all, but it worked like a charm. I paid very careful attention to where I started punching on the two corners with the engines. You can’t use real heavy paper either, the punch would probably break trying to go through two layers at once, my punch has jammed up a couple times with what I am using. Anyways, I had a train frame to use, so I created a card for the Stamp TV color challenge. This week’s color challenge is to use moonlit fog, sweet mango and white, since I don’t have any GinaK paper I have to substitute, so I try very hard to get the colors as close as possible with what I have.

An idea started forming in my pea brain,  a train in the dark, with the sun coming up (I guess the train wouldn’t be white if it was in the dark now would it?) So I used the GKD set Life is Good by Theresa Momber. First I stamped the train on white cardstock with versamark and embossed with detail black ep, then cut it out. For the next layer, I cut a square of white, made a mask and stippled wild honey for the sun, the sky and mountains are a combination of stippling and sponging stormy sky and weathered wood. (I really need to work on my background sponging.) The next layer is blue the same as the base card, then I have my white train frame square over a layer of yellow. The sentiment is from the same stamp set stamped in stormy sky distress ink on a piece of white punched with a SU punch. My idea to begin with, was to have the sun corner at the top in the middle, but duh!… my train frame was too wide for the card, so I had to tilt it. Oh well, it looks ok. I’m just so tickled with myself for figuring out how to do the frame thing, the rest is no big deal. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to leave me a comment, I’d love to hear what you think.

Deer Dreams

Here is a card for the color challenge that ends today at Stamp TV. I don’t think these colors do a thing for me, my brain just went dead everytime I tried to come up with something new.

 

While looking through the book I keep samples of my punches and dies in, I ran across the Quik Kutz deer die (I think instead of deer they should have called it a fawn) and an idea finally began to form, a fawn thinking about it’s Mother and Father. I used the GKD set Life is Good by Theresa Momber. The two small deer were stamped in onyx black versafine on pink and punched out with a scallop punch. The sentiment was stamped in versamark and embossed with detail black ep. The pink corner pieces were cut with a Sizzix Sizzlets Elegant Enhancements die. The dp is from a DCWV mat stack. It is layered on black and the base card and the Quik Kutz deer are my version of sweet mango. Thanks for stopping by and I’d love to hear your comments.

Flutterbys

While there is snow on the ground, and not much to do outside, I can play in my room. I made another card for the stamp tv sketch challenge and the Use It Tuesday Challenge.

This time I used an old SU set called Flutterbys, with the matching stencil. I got these on ebay a few years ago, and don’t think I have ever used them. I’m still trying to get my scrap pile down a little before dragging more new stuff out, and since the dp I was using had butterflies on it, figured the flutterby would be appropriate.  This is a two step stamping set, so first I stamped the chunky part with wild honey distress, then I stamped the outline with worn lipstick distress on white cardstock. I used the flutterby stencil and dry embossed, then cut out and embossed the image with an oval nestie. The layer behind the image and the layer behind the dp is a yellowish orange to match up with the dp. The base card is pink. The sentiment is from the GKD set Funny Farm and stamped in worn lipstick also. Thanks for stopping by and please leave me a comment, I’d love to hear from you.

Faux Pressed Flowers

This card is for two different challenges, see this week’s sketch challenge at Stamp TV here, and this week's challenge at Use It Tuesdays here.

I decided to try the Faux Pressed Flowers technique for my card. The wheelbarrow and sentiment is from a GKD set Funny Farm, stamped on white cardstock with onyx black versafine, then colored with prismacolored pencils and goo gone, for the handle and leg SU markers were used. Tumbled glass distress ink was stippled all over the white, and sponged around the edge of the oval after it was cut out with an oval nestie. The flowers were punched out with a SU flower punch from some scrap paper in some matching colors to the dp, glued in place and then run through the cuttlebug with a houndstooth ef. The dp is from my scrap pile, layered onto purple with a green card base. After the card was put together, I dabbed glue on some of the flower centers and added Flowersoft from the pastel and rainbow sets. Thanks for looking and I would love to hear your comments.

Hogs & Kisses

This week’s color challenge at Stamp TV is to use onyx black, bubblegum pink and sweet mango. I used the GKD set Funny Farm for this card.

The black fence was made with a MS border punch. For the mud puddle under the hog I used a versamark pen with detail clear ep, under the farmer is just plain versamark. The hogs were stamped on pink paper and cut out. The farmer was stamped on the mango paper, and on white. I colored the white with prismacolored pencils and goo gone, and then cut it out. I stamped the boots two more times, for one layer the whole boot colored and cut out and glued to the white image, then I just cut the toe part out of the other set and attached to the other layers. Thanks for looking and would love to hear your comments.

Double Embossing

Ok, I think I found my mind that I completely lost earlier today! I finished another card, this time starting out to be for the sketch challenge at Stamp TV, with double embossing, and this is how the card turned out using a GKD stamp set Purrr-fectly Delightful by Theresa Momber.

I also got out the sewing machine I bought after I saw the GKD video about sewing machines back in 2009, and haven’t used until today. I am, and always will be a tomboy, and sewing isn’t one of my prerequisites. I don’t really remember, but I think I failed the sewing part in home economics. I should have had a video camera rolling, I’m sure I could have made America’s Funniest Video. I know this probably isn’t the best sewing anybody has ever seen, but for the first time using it, I am satisfied, except where the machine skipped a couple stitches on the bottom row of the ribbon on the left side. Maybe you wouldn’t have noticed if I hadn’t pointed it out.

The kitten was stamped on gray cardstock with versamark and embossed with detail black ep. Then I used my prismacolored pencils and added some pink for the nose, ears & pads of his feet, and some white in a couple places, used a green glaze pen, and a dot of white gel pen for green eyes. Afterwards, I used a versamark pen colored in the whole kitten and embossed with detail clear ep. Cut the image out and embossed with oval nesties. The brown layer behind was cut out with a scalloped oval nestie, and each scallop pierced. The dp name is Deja Views – Cat’s Life Collection – Small Polka Dots (I just used it on a card for the last sketch challenge at Stamp TV with the same kitten) it is layered on the same brown as the scalloped oval. The base card is a bright green, the same as the sentiment tag and ribbon.  So the first time using the sewing machine on the card was attaching the dp to the brown layer, I think that went pretty well, I really tried hard to keep it going straight, kind of looks like I was drinking though. I'm just glad the thing already had thread and a bobbin in it. So I got the brilliant idea to sew the ribbon on too, that was going smoothly also, until I almost finished. I sewed the top part first, then back across the bottom, that’s where it started skipping stitches, right at the end. I used my cuttlebug fanciful label die to cut out the tag, stamped the sentiment from same stamp set with versamark, embossed with detail black ep, then used the versamark pen around the edges and embossed with clear detail ep, attached it with two brown mini brads. I picked out some matching colors to the polka dots on the dp and punched some butterflies with a MS border punch to frame the kitten in the oval. After attaching ribbon, ovals and sentiment, looks like the rust color in the dp kind of got covered up. Thanks for stopping by and I would love to hear your comments.

Please Vote on Birthday Card

I haven’t been using my SU sets lately, so I thought I’d get one out and make a card, by casing this recent card I made.

I started looking at dp, and decided why get something new out, when I should be using up some of my scraps, so while digging through my scrap dp, I came up with the flowered piece, it must be a single sheet, bought at either Joann’s or Michaels, on the back it had the name Paper Pizazz Garden Scattered Flowers. Then I decided that I was going to make a birthday card, using the same stamp, dp and the maroon color, as this card, that was made back in 2009, and wanted to see if it would be improved. 

Using the retired SU set Nice & Easy Notes, I started by stamping the image on white cardstock, watercoloring with gel pens, then I cut the image out with a scalloped circle nestie. Each scallop was pierced using the SU template for piercing. The maroon layer behind was cut with a nestie circle, and one of the ribbon tag trio dies, also as a base layer for the dp. I attached the dp to the maroon layer. The tag was cut in half and placed equally on each backside of the circle layers. I passed a matching ribbon through the tag holes, attached the circles to the dp layers and ran the ribbon around to the back of the dp layers. Then it was all attached to a white card base, and diamond gemstones attached to the ribbon tags on each side of the circles. Here is my new card:

Which Nice & Easy birthday card do you like the best? Please leave a comment and help me decide. Thanks for stopping by.