Greeting Fellow Crafters My post today uses the wonderful Texture Tessatina stencil and some pan pastel caulk. After coloring the stencil with some orange and yellow caulk I added two climbing Vines, some orange Small Blooming Poinsettias, the Delaney Butterfly and some fun yellow rhinestones to the flower centers and a red trailing rhinestone behind…
This big, bright birthday card is for that special someone in your life who loves a little color on a summer day. The sunflower combo is a favorite of so many of us designers, we see it spring up again and again, just like real sunflowers all over the world. The sunflower can look colorful…
Poppy Thank You Welcome to the Poppystamps blog and my day to inspire you! I love Poppies! ANytime I can make a card with them I just love it! I decided to try out a watercolor technique for the background to focalize the poppies. My sentiment is a rub on that I had in…
Hello creative blog buddies! Today I'm bringing you a butterfly wreath card. I cut out the Trulani Wreath twice, added the hydrangea flowers, some pearls and the butterfly (which was made from grey-green paper, combined with vellum): I also added some faux stitches and of course some…
For me, summer begins in June, no matter what the weather. The ingredients for a perfect summer's day? Blue sky, a few puffy clouds, and a bike ride! My card celebrates summer with a combination of Poppystamps dies and a stamp. I stamped the Poppystamps Basket Bicycle in pink and cut it out with its companion die….
Welcome to the last day of May! My post for today can be a birthday card, hello greeting or, as in the case of my card, a card wishing luck. For this card, I chose to dry emboss the Bailiwick Background by Poppystamps. I cut a 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper in…
Sometimes it is as simple as Black and White… Black and white cards are one of my favorites. They are usually very clean and simple to make. This card almost made itself. I knew the dies I wanted to use and I knew I wanted to emboss the background in stripes. I worried about having…
Hello. For my post today, I created a treat bag. The treat bag began with a piece of cardstock cut 6 high by 11 inches long. The finished product is 11 inches tall with 2" sides. The front and back are 3.5" wide. The treat bag is perfect to fill a few truffles or…
Hello, It's Irena with you today. Today's cards features the some stencils. All made in the same way.Colorful background, black butterfly or flowers. It is a simple but interesting way. I used two new stencils: Flower Power RaymelleThank you for visiting today! Irena [1019] DIES- Arched Poppies Delaney Butterfly 88521 Honeycomb Stencil Memory…
This card was so much fun to make! Well, truthfully, it started out as great fun, but as I meticulously placed tiny specks of paper into place with a pair of tweezers, the fun dwindled away a little bit. As I neared the finish line, I was excited at the way this colorful design looked…