dreams of japan

I've always loved the cherry blossoms in spring, I'd love to visit Japan to see the cherry blossom festival, and this card is my tribute

Altenew Stamps

Papertrey sentiment stamp

Nuvo drops

christmas in february

In a (almost certainly vain) attempt to avoid a panic near christmas I've been trying to make a card or two on the 25th of every month... this month I missed (by a day) but managed to put together this clean and simple  lawn fawn number.

green skinned monster

I coloured this cutie from Jessa Feig - Useless Trinkets - a while ago, but today he made it into a card.

I used a scrap of Sassafass paper, a Lawn Fawn stamp and Simon Says Stamp sentiment (now that is a lot of alliteration) 

boom boom hearts

These Mama Elephant ninja's were just too cute, and this explosion of hearts just sets him off.

sequins for men

Attempting to do a 'male' birthday card - its hard... every man likes sequins don't they...

Dies: Lawn Fawn, Simon Says Stamp

if I could do it all again

The whole point of this card was to try colouring with my prismacolors on Kraft, but there are a million things I would have done differently if I could do it al again

Stamps: Mama Elephant, My Favourite Things

Dies: Lawn Fawn

Embossing Folder: We R Memory Keepers

more than one layer

Making a pattern

Stamps: Hero Arts, Neat & Tangled

be very very quiet

I couldn't resist these ninja cuties from Mama Elephant, and the splatter background was such a fun way to set it off.

The little sequin confetti is from Pretty Pink Posh

serious occasions

I hate making cards like this

i say 'delft' you say 'ware' - delft ware, delft ware

inspired by Delft ware - can you tell

Oh and I used a Stampin' Up stamp - getting use from the classics 

just like the first time

This was my very first rubber stamp bought for cardmaking a long time ago, I'd had others as a kid, but this one was specifically bought for card making. I had fun colouring it and it bought back the memories of all of the times I coloured it before.

purrfect

This year's valentine's uses this cutie from Mama Elephant coloured in comics - it's kind of like me and my husband because he is more than a foot taller than I.

bright

I've rediscovered this alphabet die set from Quickutz - this is the 'merry' set from a christmas special 'Merry & Bright' collection. Its good that I can still love supplies I bought a decade again...

Finished with pretty pink posh sequins with DCWV card and patterned paper.

totally tropical

When you find a pink tropical print card you just have to pair it with a flamingo.

setting myself up for failure

I always try and get ahead with christmas cards, and make a reasonable start in january and february but never seem to be able to actually stick to it - here is this year's vain effort.

lots of lawn fawn

waving hello

I love lawn fawn puns... 

in with the old

I adore the colours of the old american crafts simply chic collection - I bought a second set when it was on sale and keep on coming back to use it

I cut scraps of the paper collection using quickutz and sizzle dies and made this fun cheery card

they called it mellow

attempting a one layer card and failing spectacularly

I am loving these multi layer stamps though

explosion in an ugly factory

sometimes when there is no inspiration to be found you just have to power through... and take those failures

shout

getting the most out of some very old quickutz dies

for daddy

I love when a paper inspires you to make something completely random... like a father's day card in february

hero arts stamps, mama elephant die and pretty pink posh confetti

paper is DCWV and the inks are momento