A Golden Hello

Hello My Crafty Friends!

Welcome to my blog! I'm so glad you decided to visit today. Today I have a card to share with you. I really love how this came out. At first I wasn't sure of the colors - white and gold, but I got over it and went on to make one of my most favorite cards! This was a sketch challenge I did over at Creating The Crafty Life. It's a wonderful community to make crafty friends, swap projects and do challenges.

This card is a hybrid of sorts, meaning, I used some Stampin' Up! products and some other companies' products. I know, shame on me for using "contraband" as my upline, Wendy, calls it.

Stampin' Up! actually allows us to use other products from time to time, as long as the Stampin' Up! product is the "highlight" of the show, so to speak.

I used the "hello" die from the Hello You Thinlits from Stampin' Up!. I also used some heart punches from Marvy Uchida. The polka dot card base is from American Crafts. the ovals are all Spellbinders dies. 

In my opinion, the "hello" makes the card! What do you think? Let me know in the comments. 

Have a happy, crafty day!

Irresistibly Yours Thank You Card

Good Morning! TGIF!

Today I have a card share for you. This was made using Stampin' Up!® products.

This card is a top folding 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card base in Whisper White card stock. I used a piece of the Irresistibly Yours Specialty Paper cut at 4" x 5 1/4". The Irresistibly Yours paper is a FREE item in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.

When you spend $50 in product, you get to choose 1 free item from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! Awesome deal!

Anyway, back to the card...Irresistibly Yours is basically an emboss resist type paper, where you add color and the design on the paper shows through. I used Crisp Cantaloupe ink to achieve this. I then used the Hello You Thinlits to cut the word "thanks" out of Whisper White card stock. I added a white Baker's Twine bow under the word "thanks". Lastly, I layered 3 of the little flowers from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, punched in Whisper White. I added a rhinestone that I colored with Crisp Cantaloupe to the center of the flower. I placed the flower at the end of the word "thanks".

I made the yellow flower next to the card, but decided not to use it for this project.

Thank you so much for stopping by and spending some time with me today. Have a safe, fun weekend!