Sandy’s Craft Bag

My Mother’s Day card for my MIL turned out pretty, but not what I wanted. There was supposed to be another die cut floral arrangement to add but the die didn’t work right, so I added a few more flowers and some sparkly enamel dots.  Using the flower & leaf stamps from the Stampin Up Artistically Inked bundle I stamped and cut them with the matching dies. I then used a wood grain background stamp on a piece of cardstock and cut it using a die from the Altenew Mix & Match Frames set. The sentiment comes from the Hero Arts Protea Flower set.  I’m entering this in the Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Simon Says: Wild and Wonderful , the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Simon Says: Anything Goes , the Stamping Sensations April Challenge- "I love......" , and the MFT Color Challenge 188 . Thanks for stopping by!

A coworker just lost a beloved family pet, so I made a sympathy card for her. It was pretty simple but turned out pretty.  I silver heat embossed a card panel using the Simon Says Flowers Background, then blended on Hero Arts Shadow Inks in Soft Granite, Soft Yellow, and Soft Pink. I did the same with the sentiment and cut it out.  After gluing the sentiment onto a scrap of vellum and trimmed it to leave a border.  I die cut a number of leaves in vellum and used a tape runner to stick them on under the sentiment. I trimmed the card and attached it to a white card base.  That’s it!  Thanks for stopping by! 

I finally finished my springtime cards and they turned out awesome! Here’s a picture. I love the lilacs in the springtime, and that luscious smell, so when I saw the Colorado Craft Big Lilac stamp & die set I knew I had to get it. I like to do a springtime card to send out to friends and family, and this was perfect.  For this card I began by embossing the stamp in gold on watercolor paper and then, using my mini watercolor set, painted it.  When dry I cut it out using the coordinating die.  The inked background was a lot of fun. I wanted something many layered and indicative of springtime growth. I used 4.5”x6” pieces of watercolor paper (9x12 sheets cut in quarters) and blended Distress Oxide inks in Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn diagonally across, covering the sheets. I spritzed water on them and let them dry. Next, using Pixie Spray, I put the Lavinia Stamps Ivy stencil over top and through the stencil blended DO Speckled Egg over the Twisted Citron, and Tumbled Glass over the