Cards for a wedding

Hello blogland!  My bestie's daughter is getting married soon and that means I need a  few wedding cards.  I've been looking for just the right design for a while now, but sometimes you just need to let the design come to you.  So when I went into my craft room yesterday, I pulled out a bunch of paper, put some back, took more out and waited until the ideas started flowing.  Here's what I came up with:

I did some embossing on this creme cardstock and used a scrap of the cardstock I used for to make the bridal shower invites, and added a touch of vintage lace for this first card.

This design was sort of CASED from a card I saw in a challenge a while ago and added some Prima flat back pearls to dress it up a bit.

This card is my favorite, and made from scraps - I saved a pretty scrap piece of white and creme vellum to add on top of the creme cardstock base, a piece of ribbon, a pretty paper flower from Jolee's, some rub-ons and a few more flat back pearls.  Now I'm off to share these with my crafty friends at Crafting by Designs.

Some new stamps and a new adventure

Hello blogland!  How'd it get to be Thursday already?  Do your days get mixed up when there's a holiday on a weekday? Mine do - I kept thinking it was Wednesday all day. 

I've been playing with my new stamps from Stampers Best and wanted to share two little summer cards.

These two stamps were so fun to use - and the cards will be part of the first two challenges at a new little craft community called Crafting by Designs.  Fun, fun, fun.....

Happy 4th of July!

Hello blogland and happy July 4th!  I have one quick card to share with you today before I head off to a family BBQ.

I love to make scrap cards and this was a fun one.  A white cardstock base made the white stripes, a few pieces of a red patterened paper for the red stripes, a tiny piece of blue, some white stars from Recollections, and three EK Success embellies to announce the picnic today.  I even used my white pen to make some faux stitching and ta-da, all done.

Have a safe and happy day today!

How sweet it is!

Hello blogland and happy Friday!  I've had a busy week and am finally catching up on my blog reading.  I was so surprised and honored to find that two very talented ladies have given me blog awards!  The first is from the very talented Mary at For The Love of Art. 

The second is from the equally talented and super sweet Yvonne at One Creative Mama

There's absolutely no way I can pick who to send this to - I have a nice long blog list and I admire each and every one of them for sharing their incredible talent with me, so if you're reading this, I'm sharing these wonderful awards with you.  Thank you so much Mary and Yvonne for these great awards; I'm so honored you thought of me!