White Wedding!

WARNING: You might need a pair of sunglasses for this one. LOL!

It`s Friday again, and I have a wedding card to share. White and silver, my favorites for weddings!


The background stamp I usesd for this card - Damask background - was stamped with Versamark embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder on vellum. Love the soft effect of vellum! The circle behind the ribbon was also heat embossed, and the image is from the Thinking of you stamp set.



To finish it off I used Spellbinders dies, a ribbon slide, pearls and some beautiful silver corners.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a wonderful weekend!

A Sweet New Baby...

Happy Friday! - best day of the week:))
I just wanted to share this baby-card that I made for a friend. She just had a brand new baby boy, and he is sooo cute!! This card was made using various Spellbinders dies, pearl brads, and the stentiment is from a stamp set called Baby Love by Flourishes.



Hope you have a great weekend,
and thanks so much for stopping by!!

Sunflower Rake

Happy Friday!

Best day of the week:) I have a card to share today, using one of the new stamps from Serendipity. It`s called Sunflower Rake. Colored as usual with Distress Inks, and decorated with various Spellbinders dies, pearls and gold thread. Pretty clean and sipmle;)

Have a wonderful weekend all! And thanks for visiting!!

A gift for baby...

Good Morning,

Long time no see! I guess I`ve had my longest blogging break ever...
I`ve been on a couple of trips, and found it so hard to get back into my stamping room!
Anyway, I`ve been visiting beautiful Malta, a small Island in the Mediterranean, and we`ve also been on a trip to exotic Jordan! We had a great time trekking in the Wadi Rum Desert, "floating" in the Dead Sea and diving in the Red Sea - Amazing!




This baby card was made using stamps from Flourishes. The stamp set is called Baby Love. The cute little teddy was colored with colored pencils.



I also want to share these photos from the Wadi Rum Desert. It was absolutely breathtaking to view the sunset here!







Thanks so much for visiting!

Thank you!

Happy Wednesday!
I hope your week is going well. I`ve had a few days off this week and actually had some time to make a card! I did step out of my comfort zone with this one, but it was fun for sure! I used Spellbinders dies to create the flower (Flower Creations and On the Vine Border Grand). The sentiment is from the Butterflies and Blossoms stamp set from Flourishes.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Christmas Ornament

Happy Monday!
We are getting closer to christmas every day, and today I have a couple of Christmas Ornaments to share! No stamps used, just Spellbinders dies and some bling:)



I used the 2010 Snowflake Pendants template along with a Lacey Circle die. I used the snowflake die as a stencil and sponged them with pink/teal ink to make them match the background a bit:)






And just a little note about my last card, Autumn Chair: I`ve had questions about the name of the Cuttlebug embossing folder I used, and have finally figured out what It`s called: Heritage! It comes in a set of four folders:)

As always, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by!

Rustic Beauty!

Welcome to the Bring Back Beautiful challenge for September!
As the leaves start to change colors to usher in fall, we want to see your rustic beauty. Interpret this challenge however you like – want to use a little distressing? Want to use shades of rust? Want to use things that look aged or antiqued? You choose! Just make sure the end result has a rustic feel to it!



I chose to create a set of tiny cards for this challenge. I just love to make tiny cards! I used the Cherry Blossoms stamp set, and did the coloring with Rangers Distress Ink.
To give them a rustic feel, I used Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles. I also did a lot of sponging and some hand-stitching to finish them off.



Please link up your Bring Back Beautiful Challenge card here . If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB02. You have until September 30th to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!

Last, but not least; You`ll have to check out what the rest of the team made! You will LOVE these beauties:

Beate Johns
Becca Feeken
Cindy Coutts
Julie Koerber
Kathy Jones
Michelle Woerner

Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a wonderful week!

Bunch Of Daisies

Happy Sunday!

I hope you`re not completely intimidated by the colors of this card... Orange is in fact my daughters favorite color, and she suggested that I should do a card in that color. And...so I did!

I colored the image with Marvy Le Plume Markers and Distress Inks, and aged it a bit with Vintage Photo (Distress Ink).
And as you see, I`ve got my brand NEW spellbinders dies!! Oh boy, do I ever love those lacey dies! They are actually square shaped, but I made them a bit longer to fit the image.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: Stamps: Bunch Of Daisies by I Brake For Stamps, Archival Ink Coffee, Distress Inks, Marvy Le Plume Markers, Spellbinders: Labels Fourteen, Lacey Squares, Pearls, ribbon, eyelets, butterfly from Karen-Marie Klip, Papers: Graphic 45.

Bring Back Beautiful Challenge!

Hi all and welcome to the very first Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful Challenge! This team was started by Flourishes to truly showcase beauty in card making – whether it just be in a beautifully colored image, a fabulous way to incorporate an embellishment or a new twist on a card layout.

Today kicks off our first challenge with a look at one of the things that can evoke a lot of beauty in card making – COLOR! Here’s your challenge: pick your favorite medium – watercolor, colored pencils, markers, alcohol inks… the sky is the limit! I used Rangers Distress Inks as my coloring medium:



Show off your color and join us! Link up your Bring Back Beautiful Challenge creation here to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB01. You have until August 31st to enter!



As we unveil our challenge for September, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog! Also, check out what my amazingly talented fellow team members made for this challenge:

Beate Johns
Becca Feeken
Cindy Coutts
Julie Koerber
Kathy Jones
Michelle Woerner

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: Stamps: Waterlilies by Flourishes, Archival Ink Jet Black, Rangers Distress Ink Reinkers, Spellbinders: Classic Ovals Lg, In Spades Pendants, In Spades Borderabilities Petite, pearls

Spellbinders Guest Blogger IIII

Happy Thursday!

Thursday is here again, and that means I have another Sneak Peek for you! This is my fourth and final post as guest blogger at the Spellbinders blog. And I have to tell you, it`s been such a pleasure! I love working with Spellbinders dies and can`t wait to see the new release die templates in July... Please go to this post at Spellbinders blog to see the full project with directions.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Spellbinders Guest Blogger III

Happy Thursday!

I`m back with another sneak peek of my third card for Spellbinders! If you would like to see the whole card with tutorial, click here.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you enjoy summer as much as I do;)

Spellbinders Guest Blogger II

Wow, Thursday already! Time really flies by too fast... I`m back with another sneak peek from my second post as Guest Blogger at Spellbinders. To see more, simply click
here.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Spellbinders Guest Blogger I

Happy Thursday!
Just stopping by with this little sneak peek... It`s my first post as Guest Blogger at Spellbinders and I am super excited! Hope you`ll stop by their blog to see more here.
Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful evening!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

This is my first (and probably only) Easter card this year...
I found this old image by Joanna Sheen and thought it would be perfect for the Emboss Resist technique. I embossed it with white EP and sponged the background with different shades of orange, and of course I had to add some pearls:)
I used my Spellbinders dies (Fleur de Lis) as background and added satin ribbon.

I hope you enjoy your Easter Holiday, and thanks for stopping by!

Remember the good times...

Happy Saturday!

I have another card in shabby chic style to share today. Again I`ve used one of the images from the Fancy Fleurs set by The Greeting Farm. It is colored with Distress Inks as usual. I made the satin ribbon frame with Spellbinders dies (Lotus Borderabilites and one of the dies from the Lotus Pendants set).

Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a wonderful weekend!

Merci Bouquet

Long time no see!

I know...I`m a terrible blogger! It feels like an eternity since my last post.
All I can say is that I`ve been too busy to play:(

A while back I was the lucky recipient of a RAK from my ever-so-talented blogging friend Melody! She sent me the most beautiful stamp set called Merci Bouquet from Layers of Color. I knew imediately that I had to go super soft and feminine with this set, and I kept the layout very simple.

I colored the image with Distress Inks, and created a frame using a Spellbinders circle diecut and an EK Success corner punch. The background was also made using dies from the Fleur de Lis Pendants template.

Thanks so much for visiting, and have a wonderful week!!

SC 263 and a simple notecard.

Happy Sunday!

It`s been a while since my last post... but today I have two cards to share. The first one is just a simple notecard for a friend, using assorted Spellbinders dies and a sentiment from Flourishes Gerber Daisies set. The second one is my take on SC 263 on SCS.
I had it finished last week, but as I was going to take a picture of it I noticed that the entire lens on my camera was broken! Someone (no names mentioned..) had dropped my camera to the floor without telling me! Sooo I`ve been waiting for my NEW lens, and finally got it yesterday;)



On this card I`ve used an image called Bowl of Apples from Serendipity. It is colored with Distress Inks. Papers from October Afternoon.

Thaks so much for stopping by today, and enjoy your Sunday!!

A Christmas gift!

Happy holidays!
Just a few days now, and Christmas is here!
I`ve made a Christmas gift for today`s post at Flourishes, using one of my all time favorite Flourishes sets, the Poinsetta and Boxwood.



I made the box from cardstock, and decorated it with Spellbinders Fleur de Lis die cuts and satin ribbon.


As you see, I`ve made an acetate window for the recipient to have a sneak peek at the contents...


A close-up of the window... The poinsetta was stamped, colored with Le Plume Markers and cut out.


Inside the box...


...The set of cards.







This was my last Limelight sunday, and I have so enjoyed my time at Flourishes! I would like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a happy, creative new year! Thanks so much for visiting my blog!
I hope to see you all next year:)