Original Card!

I have a hard time coming up with a card on my own. This one is all mine baby! I cut this new die from Stamping' Up! with black card stock and I had this Gina K/Hero Arts flower stamped already on a piece of paper (to color later) and set it on the black die cut and boom! I didn't even want to color it, this made a beautiful statement as is. I always color a stamped image so this was brave for me. YAY! I put this on Pinterest and people are pinning it! I am thrilled. I don't put most of my cards on there because they are cases of other peoples cards and I don't feel that is right. If I change it enough or do a different image or something then I might.

Some Pretty Flower Cards and a Fox

Here's that Penny Black stamp again, this card came out so pretty. A case of course!

The next three are all the same stamp by Gina K in colaberation with Hero Arts

Cute Fox! I have to make a bunch of cards from this set as there are a bunch of cute animals

And then this card! Loving this style, I made 5 total - 4 for my friends thank you and one for a sample for myself to make more.

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Shopping Girl Birthday Card

I made this card for my BFF's daughter who likes to shop (ok what girl doesn't like to?!). I saw a card on the Hero Arts Blog that inspired this - the designer paper on the right and the Hero Arts Newsprint stamp in the left. They had a shopping girl stamp of theirs which I didn't have - had this one and I love her! She is so girly. I think the stamp is from The Greeting Farm. She is colored with the usual and cut out and on pop dots. The bling in the corners is something I added but the sentiment is like their card. See the glitter on her hair band and the little pink rhinestone? More bling :) I think it came out nicely - hope you like it too!

Tired of Owls Yet?

Yet another Hero Arts Big Eyes stamped card! I used the Cuttlebug happy birthday embossing folder, the bird branch punch from SU and some layered eyes of the owl stamp and here you go! Pretty simple but I love the colors and how it turned out :)

Purple and Green Card

Happy Leap Year Day!

This is a case of a card posted not too long ago which I made with what I had on hand. I used a different embossing folder, different stamps and sentiment plus different spellbinder die for the window. So how can it be cased?! Basically the layout and colors. I really like how this turned out. It used a lot of products and was somewhat time consuming but in the end it is really elegant! It was fun to make too. The back ground stamp is from Hero Arts, the butterfly is from a set by______, the dry embossing folder is from Sizzix/Cuttlebug, die window, ribbon sentiment die and leaves are all from Spellbinders. The card stock is from Stampin Up.

Owl

Here is another take on the Hero Arts owl stamp. This time I used some older SU designer paper. I took this picture at an angle so you can see the glitter! That is why it is kind of wonky :) The owl is stamped on the patterned yellow paper but I dont know if you can see it all that well. Then I punched the eyes out of the orange paper and put them on pop dots and punched the whites out and placed on top. The branch he is sitting on is from the bird punch. Added some twine from that box of goodies I got a few weeks ago :) Then I felt like it was a little boring so I added glitter around his eyes, head, beak, feet and "feather layers".

New Goodies and last (?!) CAS

Here is my order from Simon Says Stamps - oh my I went all out here! Lots of goodies - that Hero Arts blog hop got me too. So I should be making some things coming up with these stamps and supplies. Today's card is another cutie pie, they just make me happy coloring them. With all the boys in my house some girlie things are just necessary! I like how she is giggling about the bird on her head. Embrace life - that just fits. See how nicely this card stands up? I have ordered more of this paper (I only had a free sample) for these type of cards. It is 120 pound weight. I think I am using 80 pound right now. Its fine for layered cards but not so much for this. Have a nice day!

Brushstrokes by Penny Black

So here we go, back to mixing up my stamps and papers etc. When most people think of Penny Black stamps they think of Mimi and the Hedgies (hedgehogs) and all of the cute character stamps. I first found PB from the brushstroke flowers! I saw a beautiful calendar made with them and had to make it (btw never did though, tried but mine wasn't quite good enough). I ordered the stamps and then realized I had a cute little clear stamp set from the same company when I saw the logo! Anyway this is one of those stamps and I saw a card made with it that is clean and simple and gave it a go (ie. this is a case). The background is Hero Arts Envelope pattern bg stamp. I like it, might make another one actually! Hope you like it too :)

Last (Maybe) Christmas Card & Box

This card I made last year or the year before at my friend's stamp a stack, it is embossed with iridescent ice glitter. I had to make it again this year. The stamp is by Hero Arts. It is so pretty in person! Just sparkles everywhere. Hope you can see a little bit of it in these two pictures. The rest are the Stampin Up Christmas box, my dear friend gave the kit to me to make for Christmas and brought it over for both of us to make together! What a great idea, we enjoy stamping together as often as possible. Merry Christmas!