Cheerful Yellow

Hello!  Bit of spring goodness here.  Back in the spring, my youngest son's class was responsible for providing a treat for the lower school teachers. 

 

We opted for a spring tea and these were the table center pieces I made for it.

 

 

 

Little pots of daffodils and yellow pansies stuffed into paper bags with raffia tied around them.  Little pennant bunting in yellow. 

Too cute.

 

Have a day filled with sunshine yellow!

 

 

First Day of April

....and it's going to be a beautiful one. 

 

Here's a thank you card for a friend.  Inspired by Melissa's card HERE.  Great way to use up scraps of designer series paper.  I've had this paper for awhile now that I can't even remember the name of it.  It coordinated with one of SU's sets, Looks Like Spring, I think.

 

 

 

 

 

Made it a post card, sizing it to fit a business size envelope.  Colors are Crumb Cake, Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip and white.  Butterfly punch from Martha Stewart, Espresso Twine, embossing folder on the strips of CC cardstock, and some little pearls for embellishments.  Cute and simple.

 

Hope you have a great week!

 

 

 

 

Happy Easter

 

Here's a card I had at my last stamp camp for some wonderful ladies that like to take their time and stamp with me.

 

 

 

 

 

Using SU!'s Sale-A-Bration stamp set, Bloomin' Marvelous and the single stamps set, Easter Blessing.  Colors are Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum, Pear Pizazz, and Pink Pirouette.

 

I did not realize before snapping the picture that I lost one of the little gems on one of the pink flowers.  Oh well. 

 

Hope you have had a wonderful Easter!

 

Blessings,

 

 

Stamping

There are some days I love to stamp, other days I read, then other times I cross stitch.  Then there are lots of days where I don't do anything!  That's been mostly the case lately.

 

But since spring break, I've been playing with my stamps.  I pulled out a set I hardly have used, SU! Great Friend, now retired.  It's one I just had to have, used it on a card or two, then it sat in the closet unused for a very long time.  Partly because it is wood mounted and I prefer my clear mount sets over the wood nowadays. 

 

 

 

 

 

So I pulled out the neglected set, peeled it off it's wood block and made it into a clear mount set using Papilio Inkjet clear static cling vinyl film using THIS tutorial and THIS one. 

 

Found the coordinating designer series paper (that I just had to have with the set!) and inked up the stamps.  Made several cards, like the ones above and below.

 

 

 

 

I'm determined to use up all of this paper, making simple coordinating tags with the scraps.  No use hoarding it. 

 

 

 

 

Had to pull out an old color to match with the designer series paper, A Walk in the Park.  It uses the retired color Cameo Coral.  Good thing I hadn't gotten rid of it yet.  I am getting ready to clean out my stamp room and do away with the old colors and coordinating cardstock. 

 

 

 

Going to find another old set to redo and give it a little inky love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Spring Tea

Happy Spring! 

 Popping in  to share with you a  little gift for my sister who loves to drink tea as much I do.

 

It's one of our favorite daily rituals. 

 

Packaged up a tin of Harney & Sons tea called "Paris" with a tea themed card.

 

 

Used the SU! set called Tea Shoppe.  I cased a card I made awhile back but used Wisteria Wonder color scheme to match the tin. 

 

 

 

 

Enjoying a break from school; we are on our spring/Easter holiday break. 

Love having this time at home but it's going by way too quickly for my liking!

 

 

Have a lovely day!

 

 

Season's Greetings

 

 

 

Good Morning!

 

Here's another holiday card for you.  It uses SU! Beautiful Season set. 

 

 

 

 

Image stamped in Stazon black and colored in with a blender pen.  Used the Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder on the cherry cobbler strip, Scallop Trim Border for the white and Labels collection framelit for the image panel.  Colors, are green gumball, basic gray, cherry cobbler, so saffron and pumpkin pie.  Can't see it in the photo hardly, but there is ulta fine glitter, applied with a two-way glue pen, on the leaves and berries. 

 

 

 

 

Have a great Friday!

 

 

All Quiet On The Stitching Front.....

Haven't picked up the needle to stitch since late September. 

We took our annual weekend getaway to Asheville in September (celebrating our silver anniversary--25years!) and that called for a new little stitchery.  I had recently purchased Blackbird Designs  "Tis Hallowe'en".  Thirteen stockings and projects of stitchy goodness.  Here's what I did back in Sept and how it still looks today:



"Whooo's Knockin' at My Door?
Blackbird Designs "Tis Halloween" booklet
30ct Cafe Kona
called for dyed threads

 



Didn't get very far.  Best intentions and all that. 

Few pictures of the weekend trip:

 

 

Spent time relaxing at the Biltmore Inn each day.  





 

Lots of stitching in their comfortable sofas and chairs by the windows in the library; taking in some wonderful views of the mountains.  Here I am waiting for hubs before taking tea.  :) 

 

 

The big house.  Look at that sky!  Couldn't have asked for a more perfect day.

 

Mums all set out.

 

Took in a bit downtown Asheville.  The morning was cloudy and quite misty which...

 

 

...made it a great morning for coffee and pastry at the City Bakery Cafe.

 

Had great weather to enjoy dinner outside one night.

 

 



It was a little too early to enjoy fall in it's colorful splendor but the weather was great and we had wonderful and relaxing time.   Look forward to doing it again next year.

 

Blessings!