Daisies

On this card, I used the Upsy Daisy stamp set on watercolor paper. I used the daisies die to cut the daisy at the bottom of the card, brushed a little color on the edges of the petals, added some ribbon, and called it good.

Levi's quilt

This is what has been taking up a lot of my time so stamping had to slow down for a while. I finished the top of Levi's t-shirt quilt measuring 105" x 87". The bottom two center blocks (right side of picture) consist of Levi's salutatorian speech he gave at graduation. He used t-shirts that he has accumulated over his high school years as a visual during his speech. A friend of ours has a printer so she created the blocks of text for us. She will also finish the batting, quilt back, and then use her quilting machine to finish the quilt for us. Thanks, Myrna! I can't wait to see it all completed.

Echoes of Kindness 2

Here's another version using a different flower from the Echoes of Kindness stamp set. I'm having to keep cards very simple because of the amount of time I've had to stamp. Between the hayfield and getting Levi's t-shirt quilt finished, I've been keeping busy. I'll have to post the quilt top of Levi's t-shirt. Maybe tomorrow?!?

Echoes of Kindness

This card will fit in a standard small envelope measuring 6 1/4 x 3 1/2. I needed to keep it very simple to save time. I used my aqua painter brush and watercolor crayons to color in the flowers. I rub the aqua painter brush directly onto the crayon to pick up the color and then color in the image. I scalloped the edge to reveal old olive paper behind. I might add a little glitter on the flowers :) Quick and easy, but looks nice.

Lemonade card

Here is another card I've always been meaning to make so I finally did. The lemonade glass is made out of vellum and I used tombow glue to hold to the card in a rounded dimension. I'm not sure how you would be able to put this card in an envelope because of the dimension. I guess this card would have to be a hand-delivered card. I sponged yellow ink on the back of the vellum before adhering. The lemons were made using the Tart and Tangy stamp set and Crystal effects added for shine. I attached two lemon pieces using dimensionals on the inside the glass. I had to trim the stray a little and attached it with mini glue dots. It turned out like I had hoped and really wasn't a difficult card to make.

Flip Flop card #2

I really had fun with the flip flop template so I had to make another. My kids even thought the card was pretty cute. I asked my son what color of flip flops to make and he said, "blue." So here is my version of blue flip flops. I added the stitch marks around the edge since the ribbon has the stitch marks. I thought it made the flip flops pop out a little more on the card background. The embellishment at the toe is a flower punched from white cardstock and edged with olive green. I added Crystal effects and glitter to make them sparkle. I attached the flower with a blue brad. The words were from another Creative Memories digital scrapbooking package that I printed off using my computer. The hayfield has been keeping me rather busy the last few days. We can finally get in the fields and we've been using every available minute we can to get the hay put up. Looks like another hay day so I had better get going.

Flip Flop Card

Yesterday I mentioned the flip flop template that I just had to try. I did alter the pattern a little by moving the toe hole more to the center to make it look more realistic. The original .pdf file pattern has the toe hole more toward the top. Anyway, I used the Pretties Kit flowers and brads for the toe hole and brayered the background, speckled a little using the Itty Bitty background stamp set, and sponged a few spots to look like sand. I've been getting into doing digital scrapbooking so I've purchased several online packages from Creative Memories so the words were printed from one of the packages from my computer. I think I will try another flip flop card because they are so cute.