...butterfly love...

i truly enjoyed the daylights out of this stamp.

card stock-ikea blanks
envelopes-stitched.also ikea and superb pretty.
stamp-scrapbookers
punch-michaels..the slits were added with siccors since i did not own the stampin up one yet at that point..
ribbon-michaels $spot
bg paper-scrapbookers

....stamp, emboss with clear, assemble and love!!
o and do add a ribbon, cause you know you have heaps and you love it so!! .. this specific one was treated to brad's and a faint row of stickles along the brown edges to oomph it up..

..do zoom in to see the amazing stitching on the envelopes...i think i have one card left and am hoarding it cause it is so very pretty..

..funky paper...

.....you have to love the smashing paper they produce nowaday's...

....same concept as my previous entry just funner paper..

you can get as simple or as crazy as you wish...

....whatever makes you happiest is the truest reflection of your

own personality....

..i must admit..still own this one.. selfish i know...but,it gives me joy to simply look at it adorning my card line..

..it is truly a simple card, yet a very pretty one..

enjoy the day!!

..how to...

...who needs instructions??

it looks oh so simple.........simply stamp,on pretty paper..layer..and assemble.. if you don't succeed the first time..try, try again.....tie some pretty ribbon on and some cute buttons and...presto..a stinking cute original card....

...all right so i made a few before i achieved any sense of happiness. the biggest challenge is finding paper loooooog enough, to fold that many time..each square (IMHO)should be on it's own layer.. it looks odd if it's not so..

...how old?.....

....a funtastic birthday card that i loooved making..

ingredients..
fraction of- a recycled shopping bag
washer-andorack ink application
ribbon-$ bin at michaels.
stamp-scrapbookers paradise
paper-paisley and standard tan
scissors-out of the ole wiggle drawer.

stitches-sewing machine

.....no baby einstein here...
simply alter it's normal purpose in life
and assemble with joy....

...behold..a nitty gritty card with total oumph!!

...the same yet slightly dif....

.....different background..

hand painted glimmer wash on sketch paper..

cardstock-ikea

ribbon-michaels

stamp-Salt spring island stamp co.

binder punch-stampinup

truly a delicious technique.. washing your back ground

with a waterbased shimmering paint..

..you can use any of the acrylic ones and come up with a multitude of cool backgrounds..sparkling h2O's etc...

..in this batch i had gone to the trouble of cutting out a template

for the size of openings i needed... held the cut out template over my paper and painting quickly while holding it down....

...fun and alway's different...yippee!!

a blog...

....a girfriend was kind enough to buy this stamp for me when she realized how much i loved hers...

so i thought... what a wonderful stamp to start this blog with..

..and so i did.

recipe:
card stock-ikea
ribbon-michaels
stamp-Old Island Stamp Company

binder punch-stampinup
ink-