Creation Vacation

I decided that I needed a "creation vacation", so I took the day off of work to give myself a long weekend. This gave me the opportunity to visited a couple of my favorite local craft supply stores- Michaels, Joann's, and Lancaster Creative Reuse.

After rummaging through the clearance racks, I walked away with a lot of embellishments that I am eager to use! One of my favorite finds was Doodlebug Design clear stamp set "You Said It". I just began using clear stamps (I must have been living under a rock for the last several years) and the versatility of this is a great addition to the collection.

To kick start my creation vacation, I visited the ladies at The Playdate Cafe to seek inspiration. Their color story this week was Cobalt Goldenrod Peony.

Of course, I wanted to play with at least one of my new toys I bought, so I used the Doodlebug stamp set to create a birthday card for PDCC142.

 Thanks for stopping by!


Recipe~
Cardstock:  DCWV mat stacks brights for the pink, blue cardstock from my massive scraps bin, K&Company Sweet Nectar for pad for card
Stamp: Cricut cartridge Doodlebug Design clear stamps "You Said It", Color box inkpad in Ocean
Embossing: Sizzix Texure Boutique machine, Swiss dots folder
Adhesives: This to that foam dots, Glue Dots
Twine: The Twinery's golden yellowy orange

 

I'm Backkk!

My head is hanging in shame that it has been almost four months since my last post! Unfortunately, during that time, my craft room served more as storage than creating. Fortunately, the lack of use is associated to my promotion to director at my agency.

So now that I am settled into my new role, I can't wait to jump back into my favorite card challenge site, The Play Date Cafe ! And what an absolute wonderful week to get started again- I am in love of with these romantic colors- mint, soft yellow, coral and tulip! Good pickin'!

Here's what I came up with for my comeback for PDCC #141.  I decided to try something a little different and designed a "peek-a-boo" card. I'm back baby!

Recipe~
Cardstock: DCWV stacks The Cardstock Stack in Brights (coral and tulip) and the Mango Frost (soft yellow and mint)
Flowers: Cricut cartridge Accent Essentials, Give a Hoot, and Straight from the Nest
Text: Cricut cartridge Something to Celebate with Cricut Craft Room
Embossing: Sizzix folder Bow Strings

Dumm dum dum dummm

Another weekend, another excuse for me to ignore my household duties and to make a card! The occasion this time was for a bridal shower. As I have previously mentioned, I like to personalize cards as much as possible. Knowing that their wedding colors are blue and bubble gum pink, I wanted that color motif to be included. I have more pink paper than I know what to do with (I am a huge breast cancer awareness advocate), so I used a large piece of pink scrap paper for the base of the card. The pearlized blue cardstock was from DCWV's fabulous shimmer matstack. I thought the colors were very complimentary and are similar to what the happy couple's colors will be on their big day in May.

I used the Cricut cartridge Sweethearts to cut out a shadow of a bride, then embossed it using my Sizzix Texture Boutique. I placed a piece of  ivory damask paper between the layers. I used my trusty Herma Dotto tape runner (my right-hand woman in the craft room) to join everything together.

For dimension, I used foam dots to elavate the sentiment I created. I finished it off with a few light pink pearls on the dress. Then it was time for this bride card to find its mate (the envelope) and it was off to the shower!

Sidenote: The bride-to-be told me at the shower that as soon as she opened the card, she knew it was made by me and loved it. It always feels good to have people appreciate your work!

Bonjour!

Another fantastic color combo challenge at The Play Date Cafe! This week's colors, mojito, peony and sand, screamed vintage Paris to me. Ah oui, oui, I knew I needed to do a French-themed card. This meant a lot of frilly, girly elements. The scroll work on the bottom is a felt sticker and the butterfly embellishments have been in my scrapbook collection for awhile. I used small pink pearls in the corner and, of course, used my Cricut for the mat and phrase.

Voici- ma carde for PDCC #121!