One seed can start a garden, one candle can light a room, one step can begin a journey, one conversation can start a friendship, one smile from a handmade card can lift one's SPIRIT!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Stamping with my BFF

 Earlier in March I took the train from Portland, Oregon to close to Seattle, Washington to spend 6 days with my good friend, Linda.  We met back in grade school...I was in second grade, she was in third...so she is my "older friend"!!  (really she is only older by 8 months...but that counts, right?)  Anyway, I brought a suitcase full of stamps and paper and ink and we had a blast just spending hours in her craft studio making cards...so here are a few of the ones I made.  I had just gotten the Beautiful Butterflies and she had Rosie Posie so those were two that got a lot of attention:



Sunday, March 25, 2012

PTI March Blog Hop Challenge

 
This is the picture for the March Papertrey Blog Hop Challenge.  You are able to use any elements from this picture for your inspiration.  What grabbed my eye were the colors...yellow and aqua mist and then I saw lots of circle.  So I heat embossed polka dot basics onto lemon tart paper for my background.  Then I cut some rectangle paper and stamped a butterfly from Beautiful Butterflies, the basket of flowers from Scrambled Eggs and the tree branch and bird from Little Bitty Birds stamp set.  The sentiments are from Tag-Its # 1.  Lastly I punched half a hole on either side of the card and wrapped around the twine and tied it off in a bow.