Think Spring

I know I live in Florida but I am ready for spring. I love planting flowers and getting the vegetable garden ready to go.

This weeks cards make me think spring. I really love the combination of colors form this paper pack called Blossom. Again another CTMH paper pack. This is actually my 3 round of cards from this pack. If I can find the old pictures I will add them later. Hope you are thinking spring after seeing these.

 

Penelope

As a mom of a 4 year old princess I look at kid paper packs differently. When I saw the Penelope paper pack I thought of Easter and my kidos. My challenge was to make grown up cards. CTMH also removed the cardstock form their paper packs and added 2 sheets of "Picture My Life" so I wanted to use those as well. As I worked with this paper I started to fall in love. The colors are so bright and cheerful. Using the "Picture My Life" pieces turned out great. They really added so much to the design of the cards. I hope these inspire you to think spring.

Charlotte

Anyone that knows me knows that I love Close to My Heart products. Its pretty much all that I buy. This month there were three new paper packs released. They didn't jump off the page to me when I first saw them. Charlotte was the first one I played with and I have to say I am excited to make more cards! I really like how the first batch turned out. I hope you like them as well.

Lets try this again.

Okay so I am ready to try blogging again. I am a busy mom of 2 kids, 2 dogs, and just yesterday 2 bunny rabbits. Today I had some free time to craft (only because the 2 kids were occupied by the 2 bunnies). Tomorrow I will have the pictures to prove it. Feels good to be back doing something that I love. Check back tomorrow :)

Cards for Grandma

I wanted to create some cards for my grandma to send to her friends. I have had this Rudolph stamp for a while and never used it. I dont know why it took me so long to use it. I think it turned out so cute. You will see below that I have been a busy girl creating cards. Hope you enjoy :) I will be starting on my New Year project so be sure to check back!

Snowflake

So I found these red snowflakes at Walmart and thought "Wow! that would be great on a card." This is a really easy card to make. I used a little string to tie the snowflake to the cardstock. Then I tied the Happy Holidays sentiment to the snowflake. Turned out pretty cute.

The second card is a blue snowflake card. I like using blue instead of the normal red and green Christmas colors. I also love using clear cards. I am sure you will be seeing more clear cards form me:)

I like the idea of using snowflakes. Most of my Christmas cards in the past were made with Christmas trees. I find it hard to use snowflakes when I live in Florida. This year I am going to break out of my mold and I am going to send snowflake cards. 

I have already started to work on cards for next weeks post. Check back next week :)

I am back

Well I am back :) I realized tonight that no matter how busy I get I need to find time for myself. I love making cards and I challenged myself with this blog. I need to keep it up! So at least once a week I will make a post.

I posted before that I loved a paper pack called twitterpated. Here are a few more cards that I have put together using that paper pack.

I like to keep my cards simple. There is just something about clean lines that appeals to me. I think sometime cards can get to busy and it can takes away from the sentiment. I also like to make cards that other people can find inspiration from. I like to think my cards are easy to copy.

I hope that all of you out there get inspired and tap into you creative side and make some cards! If you need some help let me know and we can get together and craft away:)

Here is another take on the same paper pack and the same tree stamp. I think I like these cards because I love the fall. Cant wait to send these cards to my friends and family.

The last two cards are cute and easy. I have started to use circle in several of my cards. It's nice to try something a little different every once and a while. I think I may try to make more cards with circles. You will have to stay tuned to see what I come up with :)