Secret Garden

Good morning, Friends! I hope your week is off to a great start! The weather sure has been crazy!! At the soccer game Sunday I was really glad to have brought my heavy coat as it was really cold and really windy! The drive home was a little scary when we ran into snow packed roads. Then yesterday it rained all day around here and the temperatures dropped. Thankfully we weren't traveling as the highway was closed due to snow. And today it's more of the same! And wouldn't you know it? Nick has a track meet today! Guess I had better get the heavy winter coat out and I need to go buy a new umbrella. Geesh! But we need the moisture! I did some stamping yesterday but I am wondering when I will be able to take pictures as it is just gray outside! Doesn't make for good lighting. 

Today's card was one I came up with while I was getting ready for my club earlier this month. I was experimenting and came up with this. If you check my blog often you know that I came up with a different card for club using these same colors. Love these colors and I am so excited that Wisteria will be a part of the regular color family!! A piece of Very Vanilla was cut with the Apothecary Accents framelits dies and then stamped with the flower image from Secret Garden in Wisteria Wonder, the leaf image in Lucky Limeade, and the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes in Elegant Eggplant. I adhered this to a piece of Wisteria Wonder that was run through the Big Shot using the Fancy Fan embossing folder. Then I tied a piece of Wisteria Wonder ruffled ribbon around this and adhered it to a piece of Pink Pirouette. I popped this panel up onto a card base of Wisteria Wonder. Then I stamped the solid flower in Pink Pirouette onto Very Vanilla and cut it out with my paper snips. I cut a stem from Lucky Limeade designer paper using the Secret Garden framelits dies. I adhered this to the flower and popped them up onto the card. Then I added a rhinestone to the flower center. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Secret Garden, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper- Wisteria Wonder, Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla, In Color designer paper; Ink- Elegant Eggplant, Lucky Limeade, Pink Pirouette, Wisteria Wonder; Accessories- Wisteria Wonder ruffled ribbon, Apothecary Accents framelits dies, Fancy Fan embossing folder, Secret Garden framelits dies, rhinestone, dimensionals

Framed Secret Garden

Good morning, Friends! I really did not want to get out of bed this morning! It felt so good being under the warm blankets! Yesterday morning didn't get as cold as they originally thought but it did get colder as the day went on and now we are really cold!! I am really ready for it to warm up! I think the sun will be out today and that should help. 

Today's card was the second of our stamp club meeting this month. I do love these colors together! I am so glad that Wisteria Wonder will be a part of the main colors! I took a piece of Wisteria Wonder and ran it through the Big Shot with the Tulip Frame embossing folder and then cut it out. I adhered this to a card base of Wisteria Wonder. I stamped the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes onto a piece of Whisper White and adhered it to a piece of Pink Pirouette. Then I tied a piece of Pink Pirouette taffeta ribbon around the panel before popping it up onto the card. I cut two leaves from Lucky Limeade designer paper using the Secret Garden framelits dies. These are adhered to the back of a flower from the Secret Garden stamp set that was stamped in Wisteria Wonder onto Whisper White and then cut using the framelits dies. I used a Wisteria Wonder marker to color parts of the flower and then popped it up onto the card. I stamped the flower again on Whisper White using Wisteria Wonder and cut out just the middle part using my paper snips. I added an In Color brad to the center and popped that up onto the card, too. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Teeny Tiny Wishes, Secret Garden; Paper- Wisteria Wonder, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, In Color designer paper; Ink- Wisteria Wonder; Accessories- Pink Pirouette taffeta ribbon, Secret Garden framelits dies, In Color brads, Tulip Frame embossing folder, dimensionals

Bonus Sketch and Blog Candy

Good morning, everyone!! Another week has come and we are on week 2 of Create with Connie and Mary Card "Create"tions for All Occasions! If you are not a subscriber it is not too late to join us for this special edition! You can still subscribe today and receive all of the first week's ideas complete with downloadable instruction sheets! These are cards you will only see if you are a subscriber to this edition! And you can subscribe at Create with Connie and Mary! So what are you waiting for? My week two cards will be live tomorrow! I hope you like them :) Here are few more details:

• 3 weeks of FABULOUS card ideas - 18 different sets (not including our two Preview sets). 
• Each SET is presented with 4 cards...one based on the weekly sketch, one the designers choice then one simple and one 'stepped up' version of the same card...so 4 cards for EACH set - 72 EXCLUSIVE card ideas NOT SEEN ANYWHERE ELSE!
• Each Saturday we will each do a small favor using the same set we use during the week as a bonus item.  These WILL be displayed publicly but only subscribers will see the cards!

AND...are designers are:  Elizabeth Price, Melissa Davies, Debbie Henderson, Deb Currier, Connie Babbert, and Mary Brown

The Create with Connie and Mary Card "Create"tions mini session started March 31 and runs thru April 20!


So today the designers have a special sketch to share with you all today. Mary has worked up another great little preview of what the Card "Create"tions for all Occasions is all about! You will also find this at the Create with Connie and Mary website but if you go to Mary's blog, you will also have a chance to win some blog candy!! We know how much you love blog candy!! So be sure to visit her website to find out how to win!

So how did I use Mary's sketch? Well, check this out!


A friend let me borrow her Secret Garden set and coordinating framelits dies. So I have been having some fun using this set as much as possible before I return it to her! Now this is not one of my sets for the special edition (so I really hope you subscribe so you can see those). I kept my card really simple just like the sketch! I adhered a strip of Wisteria Wonder designer paper with the end flagged to a card base of Whisper White. Then I adhered a strip of Elegant Eggplant with the end flagged to the card. Right above these I stamped the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes in Elegant Eggplant. Then I used an oval framelit die to cut an oval from Whisper White. I stamped two flowers from the Secret Garden set in Wisteria Wonder and then popped the oval up onto the card. Then I cut two leaves from Lucky Limeade designer paper using the Secret Garden framelits dies. I adhered these to the oval. I stamped the solid flower in Pink Pirouette onto a scrap of Whisper White and cut it out. This is popped up onto the card. Then I threaded some white baker's twine through a Regals designer button and adhered it to the flower center. Finally I added some rhinestones to the oval. 

Be sure to visit the Create with Connie and Mary website to find out how to subscribe to the Cards "Create"tions for all Occasions edition! You will also find Mary's special downloadable project sheet and don't forget about her blog candy! Have a super day!!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Teeny Tiny Wishes, Secret Garden; Paper- Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant, In Color designer paper; Ink- Elegant Eggplant, Wisteria Wonder, Pink Pirouette; Accessories- Secret Garden framelits dies, Ovals framelits dies, Regals designer buttons, white baker's twine, rhinestones, dimensionals

A Secret Garden for You

Good Sunday morning, Friends! It's been a sort of whirlwind of a weekend around here. We picked up Nick early from school on Friday and he got his hair cut then it was off to Denver for a soccer game yesterday. Then we came home right after that and now he has another soccer game this afternoon! Whew! Our schedule looks crazy like this for the next few weeks. But it is nice to get out of town even if it is for just one night. The boys won yesterday so here's hoping they win again! And then I need to spend the rest of the afternoon getting ready for my stamp club tomorrow! Woohoo! 

Today's card was inspired by one I saw on Pintrest. I changed it up quite a bit but that's where the inspiration came from. I took a piece Crumb Cake and rounded the top corners and then used the white StazOn pad to ink the edges of the card stock. This is then adhered to a strip of Print Poetry designer paper that was punched with the scallop edge border punch. I stamped the sentiment from Made for You in black StazOn. Then I tied a piece of Raspberry Ripple stitched satin ribbon around this and adhered it to a card base of Baja Breeze. On the bottom right hand corner of the card base I stamped a flower from Secret Garden in Baja Breeze. Then On a scrap piece of Crumb Cake I stamped another flower in VersaMark and embossed it with white emboss powder. I used Raspberry Ripple ink and a blender pen to color it and then I carefully cut it out with paper snips. I cut two stems from Old Olive using the Secret Garden framelits dies. I added these to the back of the flower and ten popped it up onto the card. The final touch was to added a rhinestone! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Secret Garden, Made for You; Paper- Baja Breeze, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Print Poetry designer paper; Ink- black StazOn, white StazOn, VersaMark, Raspberry Ripple, Baja Breeze; Accessories- Raspberry Ripple stitched satin ribbon, Secret Garden framelits dies, scallop edge border punch, rhinestone, blender pen, dimensionals