Flower Fest Happiness

Good (early) morning, Friends! Didn't sleep well so I am up early. Ugh! But I guess that is good practice for the upcoming school year - lol! Nick got registered yesterday and I think he is becoming more excited about the school year starting! He found out that he has many of the same classes as one of his soccer teammates and we toured the school for just a bit to see where his classes were. I think that he is going to like having different teachers for different subjects. And his schedule really looks GREAT! All of his favorite classes are in the afternoon! What a way to end your day!

Today's card is one that I made quite a while ago. It is a really simple card but I just love these colors together! And I have to get in a few more that have stamps from the Summer mini as it will expire at the end of this month. I love the sayings in Happy Greetings. I will miss them! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!


Card Recipe: Stamps- Flower Fest, Happy Greetings; Paper- Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White; Ink- Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke; Accessories- Whisper White grosgrain, flower brad, dimensionals

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Good morning everyone! Are you ready for another fabulous Thursday challenge from Create with Connie and Mary? This week they are challenging you with color! Check out these fantastic colors:

The challenge colors are Tangerine Tango, Tempting Turquoise, and Old Olive. Don't they look yummy together? Here is what I came up with:

I really like how my card came out! I actually copied it from the brand new Idea Book & Catalog! I did have to change the stamps and I did use different colors but the rest is pretty much the same! I started with a card base of textured Tempting Turquoise. Then I took my sponge dauber and my Very Vanilla craft pad and sponged the middle area. Isn't that cool? To that I added a strip of Newsprint designer paper which I punched one side with the scallop trim punch. I cut a strip of Tangerine Tango and notched one end and glued that to the dsp. For my focal point I cut a piece of Old Olive and stamped the stem from Fabulous Florets in Old Olive (I stamped off once to make it a little lighter). I stamped the flower in Tangerine Tango on Very Vanilla and cut it out. This is popped up on the stem. Then I stamped the greeting from Happy Greetings in Basic Black. For the final touches, I rounded the top right corner and popped up the panel onto the card. There you have it!

Be sure to visit the Create with Connie and Mary website to see what the other fabulous designers came up with! I do hope you will find time to play along this week. I love to see what you all come up with! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Happy Greetings, Fabulous Florets; Paper- Tempting Turquoise, Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango, Newsprint designer paper; Ink- Old Olive, Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Very Vanilla; Accessories- scallop trim border punch, corner rounder, sponge dauber, dimensionals

Flirty Friend

Good morning, Friends! My oh my! I have been trying for over an hour to get this picture to load! Why do computers make our lives so miserable! I mean, if it worked a certain way yesterday, why wouldn't it work the same way today? But NO! I finally got the picture to load through HTML. UGH!! Anyway, here it is. It actually took me less time to make this card than to load the picture!

I got this layout idea from a magazine but I think that I had made a card similar to it before. I just love how this layout shows off the designer paper. This designer paper will be available in the new catalog! I also used the new Perfect Pennants die! I love the scallop circles on this die! And it is hard to see, but I did use a stamp from the new Delicate Doilies stamp set (it is stamped in Pink Pirouette behind the greeting - very lightly). Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Happy Greetings; Paper- Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Flirtatious designer paper; Ink- Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette; Accessories- Whisper White organza ribbon, Perfect Pennants die, 1 3/4" circle punch, scallop edge border punch, corner punch, basic rhinestones, dimensionals

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TGIF everyone! It's time for another sketch challenge at Sketch Frenzy Friday! This week's sketch comes from Jennifer Weide! And what a wonderful sketch it is! I had a lot of fun with this one! Take a look:

And here is what I came up with:

I just love clean and simple sketches like this one! So versatile and so many possibilities! I finally decided to pull out the Bold Blossoms set. I have loved this set so dearly. And it works beautifully with the new Blossoms Bouquet triple layer punch! So I started with a card base of a new In Color, Island Indigo. Then I put a piece of Daffodil Delight that I ran through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder. For the focal point I stamped the stems from Bold Blossoms in another new In Color, Lucky Limeade and then layered the Whisper White onto a piece of Lucky Limeade and then popped this up onto the card. Then I used the Blossoms Bouquet triple layer punch to punch layer one in Island Indigo and layer three in Daffodil Delight. The two layers are glued together and a 5/16" white brad is in the middle. Then I popped the flowers up on the stems. The last thing I did was to stamp the greeting in the lower right hand corner in Island Indigo. I am really liking these colors together!

So now is the time to send you on to see the rest of the team and see what they all came up with. Click 'here' to see what Jennifer came up with! And then be sure to upload your creation to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog so we can all see and be inspired by you! I can't wait to see what you do! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Bold Blossoms; Paper- Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White; Ink- Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade; Accessories- Blossoms Bouquet triple layer punch, 5/16" white brads, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, dimensionals

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Hello everyone! Are you ready for another great Thursday challenge from Create with Connie and Mary? This week we are being challenge with a sketch. Take a look:

And here is what I finally came up with:

As you can see, I altered the sketch just a bit. But it is all still there! I used the Medallion stamp in place of the half top note shape in the sketch. And I used a tag in place of the circle focal point. I did keep the wide striped ribbon. I love that stuff!! Anyway, I stamped the Medallion in Basic Black on Very Vanilla cardstock and mounted that onto a piece of Basic Black cardstock. I wrapped a piece of Basic Black striped ribbon around this and used some Very Vanilla narrow taffeta ribbon to tie a black button on one end. This panel gets popped up onto the Very Vanilla card. Then I took some Basic Black cardstock and die cut a tag from Lots of Tags sizzlet. I stamped the greeting from the Happy Greetings set on Very Vanilla cardstock in Basic Black ink and punched it out with the wide oval punch and glued it to the center of the tag. The tag is then popped up on the card. And that's it! Super simple! The hardest part was cleaning off my Medallion stamp - lol!

Now it's your turn! Go to the Create with Connie and Mary website and see what the other designers came up with. They always have such wonderful ideas and ways to interpret the sketch! Then create your own project using the sketch and upload it to their site so we can all see! I just love seeing what you all come up with! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Medallion, Happy Greetings; Paper- Very Vanilla, Basic Black; Ink- Basic Black; Accessories- Basic Black striped ribbon, lots of tags sizzlets, neutrals buttons, Very Vanilla narrow taffeta ribbon, wide oval punch, dimensionals

A Fab Copy

Good morning, Friends! I hope your week is off to a great start! I got to sleep in a little and that is always a treat! In a little while I will have to take Nick to soccer practice. It is nice that they have it in the morning when it is cooler! They have a tournament next weekend and then they can take a little break from it. He will still play a little bit here and there but it won't be quite as intense. And tonight he has a baseball game. Me? I hope to stamp some. I did get a few cards done yesterday and that was nice! I even got to play a little with some of the new stuff!

This card is one that I pretty much copied. Of course she used products that were not Stampin' Up! So I changed it up a bit there. I just liked how clean and fresh it looked! And there are a few of the new In Colors on this card! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Fabulous Florets, Happy Greetings; Paper- Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Pool Party; Ink- Lucky Limeade, Indigo Island, Pool Party; Accessories- white baker's twine, gold brads, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, sponge, dimensionals

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Good morning everyone! I think this is my tenth time of trying to post this - UGH! I HATE that I had to update my Internet Explorer!! It has really screwed everything up and now nothing works like it did before and I am completely frustrated! First I had to figure out how to re-size my photos and now I can't seem to post the way that I have always done it - UGH!

O.k. I think I am better now? We will see. Anyway, my card was a quick one, inspired by the layout at Clean&Simple. And I used some of the new In Colors! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Fabulous Florets, Happy Greetings; Paper- Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White; Ink- Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant; Accessories- basic rhinestones, dotted scalloped ribbon border punch, dimensionals

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Good Thursday morning! Man the week is going way to fast for me! I have enjoyed having my family out for the week and they will be leaving all too soon! Create with Connie and Mary have another awesome challenge for us this week! It's a sketch challenge! I do love their sketches!! Here is the sketch:

And here is what I came up with:

This is a 4 1/4" square card. And I do have to say that I love it! This card just makes me happy when I look at it. And the best part is, it was SO easy! I can see lots of uses for this sketch! I started with a card base of Crumb Cake. Then I cut another piece of Crumb Cake and added the Real Red strips to it. I ran this piece through the Big Shot with the square lattice embossing folder. Then I took a piece of Very Vanilla and stamped the steam from Bold Blossoms in Old Olive. Then I decided to use my Bouquet Blossoms triple layer punch and punched layer two from Marina Mist and layer three from Bashful Blue. I glued these two layers together and then onto the card. Then I stamped the small flower in Real Red on a scrap piece of Very Vanilla and punched it out with the 1/2" circle punch. This is glued to the center of the punched flower. Then I inked the "thank you" in Marina Mist and stamped it to the panel. This gets glued to a piece of Marina Mist and then popped up onto the square lattice piece. I wrapped a piece of Marina Mist narrow taffeta ribbon around this and then glued it to my card base. My final touch was to add a rhinestone to the middle of the flower. And there you have it!

Be sure to head to the Create with Connie and Mary website for more great inspiration using this sketch! Then create your own project and post it to their website so we can all see! I do love seeing your creations! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Bold Blossoms; Paper- Crumb Cake, Real Red, Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla; Ink- Marina Mist, Old Olive, Real Red; Accessories- Marina Mist narrow taffeta ribbon, square lattice embossing folder, blossom bouquet triple layer punch, basic rhinestones, dimensionals

Cobblers and Daffodils

Good morning everyone! I thought I would pop in and share a card I made last week. My family is still here so I won't be posting much this week. But be sure to come back on Thursday for the Create with Connie and Mary challenge and then again on Friday for the Sketch Frenzy Friday challenge! We are having so much fun around here! We took in two exciting JUCO games yesterday and I hope that we get more in today. Nick has his soccer tryouts this week, too. And his baseball team is practicing as they have a tournament this weekend!

For my card today, I took a layout from my friend, Becky. It is one that we did in her card class last month. She used some new baker's twine and I wanted to do the same. But we only have a few colors of it so I knew that I wanted to go with Cherry Cobbler. So what goes with Cherry Cobbler to make it not look to Christmas-y. Well, the Color Coach said Daffodil Delight! I also used a bit of black to make it stand out. I have to say that I really like these colors together! I hope you all enjoy your week and thank you so much for stopping by!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Fabulous Florets, Happy Greetings; Paper- Whisper White, Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight; Ink- Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight; Accessories- black brads, Cherry Cobbler/white baker's twine, word window punch, modern label punch, dimensionals

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Good morning! Thursday already!! I sure hope that you will find some time to play along this week with the challenge at Create with Connie and Mary! This week they are challenging us with colors. Take a look:

Aren't these colors fun? I think so!! This challenge is with the colors Peach Parfait, Baja Breeze, and Riding Hood Red. Riding Hood Red is a color that I don't use as much but it sure is a great color! Might have to find more to do with this color! So here is what I came up with:

So Fabulous Florets is such a super great stamp set! I love it! So I pulled it out and went from there. My card base is Baja Breeze and I cut another piece of Baja Breeze, tied a piece of Whisper White taffeta ribbon around that. Then I stamped a flower in Baja Breeze and inked up part of the 'hello' greeting from Happy Greetings in Riding Hood Red and stamped that over the flower. I took a piece of Whisper White cardstock and stamped my flowers in Peach Parfait, Riding Hood Red and Baja Breeze in a random pattern and even let them overlap. Then I cut this piece into panels and mounted them onto a piece of Riding Hood Red. This panel is popped up. The last thing I did was to punch a flower from Peach Parfait using the itty bitty shapes punch and add a rhinestone! I really like how this card turned out! And it was so easy to do!

Be sure to visit the Create with Connie and Mary website to see even more wonderful inspiration! Then create your own project using these fun colors and post it to their website so we can all see! I really love to see your creations! You all really do inspire me! Thanks for stopping by and have a super great day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Fabulous Florets, Happy Greetings; Paper- Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Peach Parfait, Whisper White; Ink- Peach Parfait, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze; Accessories- Whisper White taffeta ribbon, itty bitty shapes punch pack, basic rhinestone, dimensionals

Fabulous Florets

Good morning, Friends! I can't believe that we are already at the middle of the week! I am looking forward to the weekend. I could have slept another three hours this morning! And this weekend my parents and brother will be here and I will get to sleep in! Only three more days of school left, too! Nick played in a baseball game last night and they won! This is a team that asked Nick to fill in for a few players that got injured. After that game the coaches wanted to play another game as a make-up game and that one ended up getting rained out! I am not sure what they will do with that. Anyway, it was a fun evening!

Today's card is one that I did for a recent swap I was in. I used different parts of different layouts to come up with this one. And I used my Color Coach for the colors. These are not colors I would normally put together but I rather like them on this card! Anyway, it was fun and doesn't look too bad either! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Fabulous Florets, Happy Greetings; Paper- Baja Breeze, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive; Ink- Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Baja Breeze; Accessories- Baja Breeze seam binding ribbon, scallop edge border punch, lots of tags sizzlets, extra large oval punch, dimensionals

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Good morning, Friends! I just can not believe that my son only has four more days of school! He is so excited! My parents and my brother will be visiting over the holiday and they should get here on his last day of school so he really can't wait!! We have just had such a busy weekend with the soccer tournament (which they did o.k. with) and then baseball in the evenings. We really felt like we didn't get a weekend. But it was so much fun! And, thankfully, Saturday and Sunday were the nicest days that we had all week! I got a pretty good sunburn! So now it's time to make sure the house is "livable" - lol! But not before I go and get a pedicure!!

Today's card was inspired by the layout at Clean & Simple - FTL 141. A great layout and one that will be used time and again. I used the Flower Fest stamp set and cut out the different layers of the flower. The scallop punch will punch out the flower but I liked the look of it being cut out instead. The layers of the flower are popped up to add a little dimension. Not a new idea but the first for me! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Flower Fest, Happy Greetings; Paper- Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush, Whisper White; Ink- Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush; Accessories- Pear Pizzazz poly twill ribbon, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, scallop edge border punch, silver brad, sponge dauber dimensionals

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Good morning, Friends! Are you ready for a great weekend? It has literally rained every day this week! Yikes!! But the sun is supposed to shine today and that's a good thing because there is a huge soccer tournament here in town this weekend! In fact, I have pre-posted this because Nick's first game is early!

Before I get to my card I wanted to share the links and instructions to the faux leather wallet that I made for the Control Freaks blog tour. I have been getting quite a few questions and wanted to get them all answered! So here you go! First of all you can find basic instructions for a kind of wallet here. These instructions also tell you one way to make it look like faux leather. I did mine a little different. I covered my wallet with VersaMark ink and then poured clear embossing powder over that. Then I took my bone folder and "drew" lines in the embossing powder before I heated it. The instructions for the wallet I made comes from Lorri Heiling and can be found here. I hope this helps everyone!

O.k. So on to my card! Because of the Control Freaks blog tour yesterday, I couldn't participate in the Sketch Frenzy Friday mini blog tour. It is such a great sketch that I couldn't pass it up so I decided to make it up for today! The sketch was made by Tammy Fite. And I do hope that you all will find time to play along this week! Here is the sketch:

And here is what I came up with:

I did have fun making this card! It is bright and cherry! I need some fun bright colors as the weather has been quite dark and dreary. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Bold Blossoms, Happy Greetings; Paper- Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Whisper White; Ink- Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight; Accessories- corner rounder, extra large oval punch, 3/4" circle punch, dotted ribbon scallop border punch, basic rhinestones, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, dimensionals

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Good morning everyone! I hope your week is going by just super! Nick is super excited that today is early release at school and that he has tomorrow and Friday off. It is Parent/Teacher conference time around here so that is why. I get to meet with his teacher tomorrow. The last one before he heads off to middle school! I hope to get some stamping done. We will see.

I finally had a chance to sit and do a sketch from Mary Jo. I haven't done one in a while and I was glad to get back into it! Here is the sketch she has for us this week:

Great, huh!!! And here is what I came up with:

Too fun! I had fun making this card! I am loving these new triple layer punches!! My card base is Pear Pizzazz and my strips are Pear Pizzazz that I sponged with Pear Pizzazz ink. I layered the strips onto another piece of Pear Pizzazz cardstock and ran it through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder. Then I wrapped a piece of Poppy Parade ribbon around that and glued it to my card. I used the Bold Blossom set and stamped the flower stems in Pear Pizzazz onto Whisper White cardstock at different heights and then inked just the 'thank you' part in Poppy Parade. This piece is glued down flat. Then I punched three flowers with my new Blossom Bouquet triple layer punch - layer two with So Saffron and layer three with Poppy Parade. I put a So Saffron flower brad in each one and popped them up on my card. The last touches were to add a little white baker's twine and a rhinestone in the centers of the flower brads.

Now, I encourage you to play along with this fun sketch! I have provided the links below for you to just enter your creation from my blog! It is like a little blog hop! I hope to see your creation! Thanks for stopping by!!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Bold Blossom; Paper- Pear Pizzazz, Poppy Parade, So Saffron, Whisper White; Ink- Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzazz; Accessories- Poppy Parade ribbon, white baker's twine, Blossoms Bouquet triple layer punch, flower brads, basic rhinestones, Square Lattice embossing folder, sponge, dimensionals

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Good Thursday morning! Time for another great challenge from Create with Connie and Mary! This week Connie and Mary are challenging us with colors! Take a look at these pretty spring-like colors!

And here is my creation!

 I love these colors! I pulled out some new stamps to use with this challenge. I got out my Flower Fest and Happy Greetings sets. I started with a card base of card base of textured Wild Wasabi. Then I cut a piece of So Saffron and rounded opposite corners. Then I ran it through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder. Then I took a sponge dauber and So Saffron ink and rubbed the ink right over the embossed image. Then I cut a circle using my 3" circle die from Whisper White and stamped the greeting from Happy Greetings in Perfect Plum and then pierced right underneath the greeting. I took some scrap Whisper White and stamped the leaves and flower from Flower Fest in So Saffron and Wild Wasabi. The middle of the flower was stamped with the same flower only in Perfect Plum. To color these, I took a sponge dauber and used the same color ink pads to lightly sponge ink on the images. I really love this look! Then I cut them out. The So Saffron piece is glued down flat. The circle is popped up with the leaves glued flat to the circle. The So Saffron flower is popped up. The Perfect Plum flower center has a brad put in and popped up as well.

So now you get to see what the other designers have come up with. So go check them out at the Create with Connie and Mary site! Then make your creation and upload it to their site so we can all see! Remember to use all Stampin' Up! products to be entered into a drawing for a free subscription to Create Summer. They will be drawing the final winner soon!! I can't wait to see what you do with these colors!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Flower Fest, Happy Greetings; Paper- Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Whisper White; Ink- Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Perfect Plum; Accessories- gold brad, 3" circle die, Square Lattice embossing folder, piercer, sponge daubers, dimensionals

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Thank goodness it's Friday! I hope that your week has gone by wonderfully! And I hope that you are ready to see a new sketch from Sketch Frenzy Friday! This week's sketch is brought to us by Robbie Rubala. Take a look:

A fun sketch with lots of possibilities! And here's what I came up with:

I just got this stamp set and new punch (punch to be in the upcoming Summer mini catalog)! I had to use it!! I started with a card base of Old Olive. Then I cut down a piece of Whisper White. The Whisper White has the stem of Bold Blossom stamped in Old Olive and the greeting from the same set stamped in Poppy Parade. Then I wrapped a piece of Poppy Parade ribbon around it and tied some white baker's twine onto it. I stamped the butterfly from the same set in the corner in Old Olive and cut down the corner of the Whisper White piece so that the butterfly shows. Then the Whisper White panel gets glued down. Then I took my new Blossom Bouquet triple layer punch and punched layers two and three in Poppy Parade and layer one in Tangerine Tango. I glued layer one and two together and then onto the card. Layer three of the punch got popped up. I finished it off with an itty bitty button to which I added a sliver of Basic Black cardstock. And there you have it! This was a really fun card to put together!

Thanks for stopping by! Time to send you on to Jennifer's blog to see her amazing creation! Click your way through the tour to get inspired and then be sure to upload your creation to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog. I always look forward to seeing what you all create with our sketches! Have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Bold Blossom; Paper- Old Olive, Whisper White, Tangerine Tango, Poppy Parade, Basic Black; Ink- Poppy Parade, Old Olive; Accessories- Blossom Bouquet triple layer punch, itty bitty buttons, white baker's twine

Control Freaks Summer Tour

Note: If you are visiting before the 20th some of the links may not be working. So be sure to come back and visit on the 20th to see all the wonderful projects!

Hello, Friends! I am so excited to be participating in this month's Control Freaks blog tour! You should have come from Lee Ann Greff's blog. But if you started here, that's o.k. because you will click your way through to see all the Freaks and eventually end up here again. This month the Freaks will be showing items from the upcoming Summer mini catalog. And there are some super, great, fun products to show! I decided to show you some new designer paper and the coordinating stamp set, along with a coordinating embossing folder. These have quickly become some of my favorite products! But I think that I will be falling in love with all the products!

So I made a card holder/organizer and a card to go in it. Take a look:

And here is a look at the inside with the tabs:

Here is a look at the box when it is closed:

And here is a better look at the card I made to go in it:

 I got the instructions for the card holder/organizer from SplitCoast. It is super easy to make! I only made one card for this project, but you could make all your cards to coordinate with your box! I also thought that this would make a wonderful Mother's Day gift.

For this project I used the new Beyond the Garden designer paper. This paper coordinates with the colors Pacific Point, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, Tangerine Tango, and Daffodil Delight. These are such fun, bright, cheery colors that are great for summer! For the card, I used the coordinating stamp set called Fabulous Florets. This stamp set is so versatile and pretty! The greeting comes from the new set Happy Greetings. You might also notice the embossed image on the card itself. This is a new embossing folder called Flower Garden. Too fun!!

I am so glad that you stopped by and now it is time for you to click on the link below and visit Dawn Olchfeske and her wonderful projects! Enjoy the tour and be ready to order from this fabulous mini catalog on May 1!