Clean and Simple Bird

Here's another card that I made for my mom's box of cards.  I wanted a clean and simple, yet fun card.  I chose Melon Mambo and Lucky Limeade to go along with all of the white space on the card.  The bird and branch come from the Best of Everything stamp set.  I textured my background with the petals-a-plenty embossing folder.  The green polka dots come are from my favorite Patterns DSP and then mounted on some Lucky Limeade card stock that I punched with the scalloped edge punch.  This was a quick card to put together and it added some great variety to the other cards that I made.

Best of Simple Spritzed

Here's another card that we made at my card class last week.  I wanted to showcase the new Stampin' Spritzers, so we used them to create a simple background.  This is a super quick card to put together.  I filled my spritzers with alcohol and a few drops of reinker (the alcohol dries a lot quicker than water).  Colors are Summer Starfruit and Pacific Point and stamps are from the Best of Everything set.  We spritzed each color once on a white piece of cardstock.  Once that is dry (usually just a matter of seconds), stamp the flowers and greeting on in Pacific Point, layer on s piece of the Pacific Point card stock, add a bit of stitched grosgrain ribbon, and mount on the card base.  Quick, simple, with a literal splash of color thanks to the Stampin' Spritzers.

Best of Purple

I found a new color combination that I love--Wisteria Wonder and Concord Crush (both In Colors).  This card uses the Best of Everything stamp set and the Happiest Birthday Wishes hostess set.  I inked up the flower stamp by coloring directly on it with my Stampin' Write markers so that the flowers and leaves could be two different colors.  The green is also an In Color--Lucky Limeade. 

Hooray for the Best of Everything

I'm hooked on this color combination!  Poppy Parade and Pear Pizazz are just so fun together (and add in a bit of So Saffron).  I'm so glad that Stampin' Up! decided to keep In Colors for two years now instead of one, so at least I have two years to make samples with these colors.  The red paper is from the In Color DSP Patterns Stack (surprise, surprise).  I used the Best of Everything set once again for this card and the greeting is from the Happiest Birthday Wishes Hostess set.  Have you noticed that the hostess program has changed?  Instead of having to choose from a hostess set plus an amount in free product, you get "hostess dollars" to spend.  With the hostess dollars you can choose from ANYTHING out of the current catalogs, and get even more for your (free) money by selecting from hostess sets.  I love that the Happiest Birthday Wishes set is the biggest set (value of $37ish) and I was able to get it for FREE with a $150 order (you couldn't do that with the old program) and I even had a few hostess dollars to spare!  I love free stuff :)

Best of Everything Bird

I've been using my Designer Series Paper Patterns Stacks a lot lately, so I've decided that I need to start using up some of the scraps now.  They work perfectly for a background!  I chose colors from the Subtles stack--Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, and Certainly Celery.  I stamped the branch, bird, and greeting from the Best of Everything stamp set. Overall, this is a pretty quick and easy card (yes, quick and easy is my motto lately, it's the only kind of card I can find the time for these days)!

Best of Friendship

Happy Pioneer Day to all of you from Utah (for those of you outside of Utah, today is a state holiday where we celebrate the arrival of the pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley).

This card features the new Best of Everything stamp set.  I love the bold images with the outlines.  I used Poppy Parade and Pear Pizazz (2010-2012 In Colors) to make this quick and easy card.  The flowers were inked up with Stampin' Write markers so that the flowers and stems could be different colors.