House Of Cards

Wow...a long time has passed since my last post.  That is a result of being a mom of twins.  Once upon a time, I was a lady of leisure.  I had a ton of time - I can't tell you what I did with all that extra time.  How things change...

In the last couple of weeks, I have found some time to get creative.  Some friends of ours have welcomed their first baby.  I remember in the weeks after the girls were born, the mountain of gifts that arrived at our door seemed endless.  And, I also remember the seemingly insurmountable task of writing all those deserved thank you notes.  Half that battle was buying the thank you's - yep, that's right.  When you are three weeks out from having a baby (or babies) and you are running on 3-4 hours sleep, BUYING cards is not out of the question.  My mom made some thank you's for me and I did make a trip to Target to buy some.  Anyway, the point of the story was that I made a group of thank you's for our friend - postage stamps included.  I feel like I've made enough greetings to create a house of cards!  Hopefully this will help her with the task.

The cardstock is from Paper Source and the papers are a mixed bag of the 6x6 pads I had in my collection:

Hope you are having a great Tuesday!  Until next time - 

natalie

Card #9 - Butterfly Thank You

Card #9 - Butterfly Thank You

The paper used here is by My Mind's Eye.  The sentiment is from Paper Source and is embossed.

Card #6 - Violet Thank You

Card #6 - Violet Thank You

Violet is a color that is hard for me to use in greetings.  I don't know why, but I tend to stay away from it, but I love it here.  The paper is from My Mind's Eye and the sentiment is an embossed piece from Paper Source.

Make A Wish

Today is my day off. I am meeting a friend for lunch and doing lots of errands.

Here is a birthday greeting I made the other day...

The paper is My Mind's Eye and the embellishment is K&Co. I cut paper for my sentiment with one of the Nestabilities Labels - but only used half.

And, I forgot to post my new personalized 3 Designing Women stamp that I ordered from Paper Source. Now, all my creations are undeniably mine!

Happy Thursday!

Fine & Dandy

I found a great way to use my Paper Trey Ink stamps with a fun new My Mind's Eye paper. This paper is from the Fine & Dandy collection and I was so excited when I saw that they offered it in a 6 x 6 stack.

So I stamped the different hot air balloons in Staz-On ink and cut around the image.

Then I adhered them to the cloud background paper. I used pop-up dots on some of them to give a 3-d effect and the others I glued down. And, I used varying sizes to make it look like some were flying further away.

This was one of the cards I gave away in a group for a Christmas gift.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend.