My favorite paper (so far)

A big happy Saturday to everyone!  I always love the weekends- it's great to have my big kids home from school.  A huge welcome and thank you to my newest follower Qie.  Lucky number 7!

Last night I finally finished up the last card that needed to be mailed out this week.  I made this thank you card for my mom, who came out to stay for two weeks to help out when I had the baby.  It's late, considering the baby is now two months old, but is also the last thank you card I needed from the 'newborn baby period'.  Moms always understand the tardiness thing, right?

I have such an attraction to this toile paper.  I have used it in a few cards and keep picking up more whenever I'm at the store when it's on sale.  I was able to find coordinating floral paper a few visits ago and yesterday I found coordinating checkered paper (not sure of the name of that design?).  I checked out a few sketch challenges and found one I liked at Mojo Monday, so this is what I came up with.

Sketch

Front view
 

Close up

And I'm including one of the inside because I like the way it turned out also.  While cleaning up my scraps I found the little tree cut perfectly from the toile paper (unintentional) and on a whim added it to the inside.   

It's different :)

It's really a simple card.  I used Tea Dye distress ink to sponge on a background then stamped the thank you in Vintage Photo distress ink before using the Floral Ovals to cut it out.  Otherwise it was a simple matting and layering project.  Product details below.  Hope you enjoyed my card!

Challenges:

Mojo Monday - sketch
Brown Sugar - anything goes
Through the Craftroom Door - anything goes
Tuesday Alchemy - anything goes
Sweet Stampin' - pearls and swirls
Pin and Tack - Anything goes  03/1/13

Size:  5 x 7
Papers:  basic card stock, The Paper Studio
Dies:  Floral Ovals and Labels 1 from Spellbinders 

Stamps:  Birthday Wishes from Inkadinkado

Ink:  Tea Dye and Vintage Photo distress inks

Embellishments:  Button from stash, twine from Really Reasonable Ribbon, burlap ribbon from The Paper Studio, pearl spray from Say it in Crystals

Black and white

Hi all,

Happy Sunday, and hope everyone has had a great weekend!

I have finished another card from my "must complete to mail this week" list.  Only two more left- yay!  This is a thank you card for my mother-in-law (so Mama L, if you are reading this, please don't look any further!).  She is such a wonderful lady and does so much for our family.

Anyway... I had the urge to do a black and white card so I could use some really cool ribbon I had.  While making it I decided I wanted just a splash of color, so I ran with it.  The layout is based on the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches, and I finished it and posted it just in the nick of time; I didn't think I was going to make it when the baby woke up at the last minute.  Talk about crunch time!

I colored the pearl spray with a Copic marker.  The ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  They are such a wonderful company- I really can't say enough about them (and a big Thank You to Holly for getting me addicted to yet another thing LOL!).  They sent two samples with my order, and yet another "sample" that was tied around my package which I used for this card.  How awesome is that!  I embossed the strip along the bottom for some added texture.  And I think lastly, the stamp was heat embossed.  Product details below.

Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch
Pin and Tack - Spark your creativity now, anything goes
One Stop Craft Challenge - anything goes
The Crafting Cafe - anything goes
The ABC Challenge - G is for going dotty
Joyful Stamper, Inspire Me Fridays Challenge - anything goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - anything goes  2nd place :)

Close up

Size:  5 x 7
Papers:  basic card stock, The Paper Studio
Dies:  Floral Ovals and M-bossibilities Enchanted folder from Spellbinders

Stamps:  Stampin' Up! Serene Silhouettes

Ink:  Versamark and heat embossed with Zing! powder, Copic (B02)
Embellishments:  White satin with black dots ribbon, pearl spray from Say it in Crystals