Spring is on the way!

Yes, it's 3 degrees outside right now.  

Three.  Degrees.

But I cheer myself up knowing spring is on the way!  In 25 days, in fact.  😊 💐

Fun elements for this card:

The Cork Paper* layer is burned around the edges.   I burned the edges with a lighter, dipping the flames in water as I worked.  Warning: your house will smell like something's burning for a while.  Cause it was.

The bird's nest was formed using Natural Twine*.  I loosely wrapped twine around a paintbrush several times and glued the loops to a bit of burlap.  Repeat with increasing larger diameters around a pencil, etc.  While the glue was still wet, I stretched the burlap to make an oval.  Then I cut snips of twine and tucked them into sides and bottom of the nest.  I glued a few pearls into the nest and done!  It would also be fun to color the pearls with blue alcohol ink for robins eggs.

The three layers got a dusting of Stampendous embossing powder to tie them all together.

Have fun and Happy Spring (almost)!

*Creative Impressions products used for this card:

Creative Impressions clear stamp set: Y578 Love

Natural Twine #80604

Bits of Bling Cream Pearls #50511

Cork Paper  #89005

Other:

Stampendous Encrusted Jewel Embossing Powder EJS04

 

Celebrate Everything Green!

 Hi Everyone!  Now that Valentine's Day is over, it's time to focus on St. Patrick's Day.  You know you don't have to be Irish to celebrate and have fun on St. Patrick's Day, right?  One of the things I love about St. Patrick's Day cards is that the Irish Blessings pertain to every day, don't they?  Here is my take on a couple of cards:

I used the same background paper on both of the cards.  

For the first card I stamped the Irish Blessing on a piece of scrap white cardstock over to the right side and then used Creative Impressions rubber stamp AA107 with the sweet set of three tiny clovers, stamping them multiple times down the left side of the card.  I mounted this piece onto a larger green mat, leaving more space on the right side.  This gave me enough room to wrap a piece of our St Patricks Day Clover Ribbon around the mat.

I took three Mini Round Spiral Clips, (84998) adding two to the right side of the main piece and adding a Metallic Green Mini Round (90193) to the center of the Spiral Clips.  To the third clip I added a piece of St. Patrick's Day ribbon before adding it to the left side of the main card and adding another Metallic Round.  This is also a wonderful decorative way to use up those small pieces of leftover ribbon!

Finally I adhered this main piece to a white card to which I have already added a piece of patterned paper mounted to another green cardstock mat.

Now for the second card:

All of the images and sentiments are from Creative Impressions' polymer Stamp set                                 .  I stamped the two sentiments and the image on scrap white cardstock pieces, colored the shamrocks and went around the images with green ink.  I added a Metallic Butterfly Paper Fastener (           )to the shamrock image before adhering all three piece to the center of a piece of patterned paper previously adhered to a white card.

To finish the card, I cut two strips of white cardstock and adhered a piece of Celery Green Grosgrain Ribbon (70561) to the center of the strip, following by a strip of Eyelet Ribbon ( 70729 ).  To finish I added two White buttons (51000) which had Thin Jute Twine (80612 Green Apple) threaded through them (with a bow created on the back of the button) towards the top and the bottom of one strip and adhered them to the card.  I adhered one white button to the other strip and adhered it to the left side of the card.  As you can see these cards were easy to create.  I found that the embellishments used really made the cards pop!

Have fun creating your own green cards for St. Patty's Day or any day of the year!

Susan
 

"Hoo" Loves You? We do!

 Hello Everyone!  Are you scrambling around trying to find a last minute idea for a cute and fast Valentine?  Look no further!  Susan has a super simple idea to make lots of last minute cards for friends and family:

These darling owls and sentiments from Creative Impressions polymer Stamp set (Y201)  will make the                         perfect Valentine.  All  you have to do is adhere a pink felt heart from our Felt Hearts (63130) to a piece                of scrap cardstock, add a Thin Jute Twine bow in Magenta  (80614), a Heart Bling from 50535 Heart Bling and two sweet owls that were stamped in black and cut out.   Adhere this piece to a thin black mat and then towards the top of a white card with patterned paper already adhered.  All that is left to do is stamp "Hoo do I Love?" and "I love you" from the same stamp set with black ink onto another piece of white scrap, adhere to a thin black mat and then add four more little bling hearts, one onto each corner.  So easy you could make lots!

Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at Creative Impressions!  "Hoo" do we love? - All of our wonderful customers!

Susan

An Elegant Valentine for You!

 Hello Everyone!  Today Creative Impressions is featuring an elegant Valentine that was certainly easy to create with the right stamp and embellishments:

Our Wood Mounted Stamp (W361) was stamped with clear pigment ink and embossed with detail gold embossing powder on a piece of black cardstock.  Then I stamped just the heart area on a piece of scrap with clear pigment ink and embossed with red powder.  The heart was cut out and offset onto the original gold heart using foam tape.

Wanting to match the red of the heart, I "smooshed" the clear pigment ink around the edges of a white card and embossed it with the red embossing power.  Voila! Matching cardstock!  All that was left to do was add three Metallic Red Country Hearts (90331) to the card, including one in the center of my embossed heart and a lovely Gold 5/8" Organdy and Satin Center Ribbon (70450).  

The entire piece was added to a white card and it was done!  Fast and Easy!

Susan