News-worthy Love

Shabby Chic was the style in mind when creating this card. I started with a basic pink card stock and used the Tattered Angels glimmer mist in pink and yellow to add a textured look to the background. The love tags were made using a stamped image that I cut apart into individual tag shapes. To keep with the shabby chic motif I used brown distressed ink around the edges to give the appearance of old newspapers. I finished each tag off with a eyelet and ran a string through to give a hanging look. To finish off the card I added the pearl and lace accent ribbon and then added the worn news print flower to correlate with the tags.

Beary Happy Birthday

Two cards, one image. I had so much fun coloring the first card, I decided to try it again. My husband was happy to see that stamps can be used more than once!!!! :-) The first card is an all purpose card that could be used for kid birthdays, boy or girl. The second is geared more towards a lady with the pink and the purple. The great thing about Copic Markers is that this can be colored to fit anyone's personality.

Birthday Wishes

Now if these little bunnies aren't just the cutest things, I don't know what is! I couldn't resist this stamp when I saw it on sale, and yet it was one of the many things I bought, not knowing what I was going to use it for! I came home really just wanting to color the image with my new Copic Markers. But once it was colored I found the Birthday Wishes stamp, and alas a birthday card emerged! The sentiment couldn't have been more PERFECT for the image!

At Last!!!!

Okay, life has finally slowed down enough (if only for 15 minutes) for me to blog my niece's final invitation choice. Like any true women (she's 10) she wasn't satisfied with the options she had, so she decided to customize her invites. Lauren chose 2 of the girls from 2 different invitations, and wanted me combine the 2 onto 1 invite. Now the funny thing is, the patterns and colors weren't an exact match, so I had to rework it a little bit to keep everything in sync. And as much as I would love to take credit for the awesome font choice, that was all my sister's doing. I left the invites for her to finish while I was on vacation. I thought this turned out pretty well. Lauren's goal was to channel Twilight and she thought these two girls looked like Bella and her friend. I am just going to take her word on that.... :-)