the bold and the beautiful.

I don't know about you, but this week I've been recovering from the fun we had at Stamp-A-Faire! What a great event that was! I wanted to thank you so much for joining us, for your participation and kind words. We had a great time preparing everything for it, and could not have had the event without YOU. Thank you!

Now, is it just me - or do you also get totally sidetracked when you are trying to clean up your desk? I literally have papers, ink pads, dies and stamps every.where.!! But amidst the mess, somehow I was inspired to make this. Just for fun. (And my desk is still a disaster, but...crafting is much more fun than cleaning.)

I used Smokey Shadow cardstock for the base. Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse and Canyon Clay cardstock and inks were used for the hearts. Hearts are made with the Heart-2-Heart #3 stamps and dies. Fresh Snow ink works great for the sentiment on the gray cardstock.

I cut the front of this card shorter than the back, so the hearts would show on the inside, then added a little see-through Filigree die cut border. The sentiment is stamped onto a Photo Finish Strips die and then trimmed to fit my card.

The striped card was inspired by a card I saw at Treat.com. I loved the colors together against the darker background and the white sentiment. I was feeling in a "bright and bold" mood the other night while creating and wanted to try a fun color combo.

These little hearts would make cute balloons too for a birthday card if you moved the strings down to the bottom of the card. They are simply taped to the back of the hearts, and a little staple keeps the strings firmly in place. Now for some odd reason I'm craving some little conversational heart candies!

Bold Thank You card set:

STAMPS: Heart-2-Heart #3
INK: Fresh Snow, Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, Canyon Clay, Simply Chartreuse inks
PAPER: Smokey Shadow, Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, Canyon Clay, Simply Chartreuse cardstocks
DIES: Heart-2-Heart #3, Photo Finish Strips, Filigree Border
OTHER: twine, pearls, staples, machine stitching.

more birthday cards...

I'm on my way out the door to run errands, but I wanted to share a couple of quick cards that I made yesterday while TRYing to clean up my scrap room. See? That's what happens...I get easily sidetracked when I'm around pretty things. :)

I noticed while giving some cards away to family over the weekend, that I didn't have as many birthday and thank-you's as I thought. So I'm going to try and focus more on those two types of cards. I had this flower leftover from a previous project/tutorial, so I thought I'd use it and not throw it away. I used Papertrey Ink's Tag Sale die #6 on the LilyBee paper with a saying from Wildflower Garden.

Now upon playing with the Tag Sale #6 die in the first card, I discovered you can do some fun things with that tab!! You can make a fun banner like I did here!

The tiny circles are just the punches that fell out when cutting this tag in each color. I used Papertrey Ink's Heart-2-Heart #3 stamp and the sentiment is from Wildflower Garden. I used Harvest Gold ink, Raspberry Fizz Patterned Paper, Pure Poppy cardstock, and Melon Berry Patterned paper.

 I have to run! Have a good day!