Candy and a Card

No, I don't have any candy to give away....but check out Ann's blog here. Wow is all I have to say!

And onto the card....

I was loving Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration for this week and had a lot of fun creating today. I originally thought I'd actually try to incorporate bottlecaps into the card, but they proved to be larger than I realized. So I used a fun Hero Arts clear stamp I had and embossed it in silver. The stamp had the letter f in the middle so I punched out some 1/2 inch circles to mimic the bottlecaps in the jewelry and added a flower. Being the packrat that I am I found some beads from a craft endeavor, probably in middle school, and carefully threaded those onto the ribbon. Viola, what do you think?

Even better than making a card and getting to the gym today, I came home from many errands to find some RAK from Susan. I'm sure to create something soon with what she sent me. Thanks so much! The next thing on my summer to-do list is to share the love, and make someone else smile. That and all my cards for Cards for Heroes. And my nephew's birth announcements. And cleaning the house a bit......I'm always adding to the list!!!

Smiles,

Paper: YoYo Yellow, Very Vanilla, Kiwi Kiss, Pink Pirouette

Ink: Olive Green Stazon

Stamps: Hero Arts clear stamps, If the Halo fits (SU-flower)

Other: ribbon, beads, silver embossing powder

Lots of Dots

I just had way too much fun stamping today! And I managed to create a card that fits many challenges....all by accident, how fun. I started out with Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration which is my favorite color challenge, and these bright colors are cheering me up on an extremely blah day in New England. Since the jewelry Stacey chose seemed dotty to me I went ahead to use my new Martha Stewart border punch which is also for this week's Our Creative Corner challenge (ya 50% coupons at Michael's!). I went a bit crazy with the dots. Stamps, border, paper piercer...

I didn't have anything Summer Sun but then I found this ribbon that also had some Tangerinish stitching on it. I just LOVE ribbon with stitching. My favorite part of the card however, is how I dressed up the border. I put 1/2 inch circles of Brillian blue behind the punched out circles and put a pearl in the center of each. How will I ever use this punch any other way?!?

When I took my picture (inside thanks to the rain) I also decided to play around with the white balance on my camera. Lisa Spangler has an awesome tutorial HERE. This was my card picture taken before I adjusted the white balance.....

No more white blah pictures! And in reading LeAnne's blog I discovered that this card also fits the Rubberneck Wacky Wednesday challenge to use an oval.

I'm officially exhausted now! Tomorrow is Friday though....WOOHOO!

Smiles,

Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Brilliant Blue, Tangerine Tango

Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Stazon

Stamps (SU!): Itty Bitty Backgrounds, Thank You Kindly

Other: Martha Stewart border punch, Michael's pearls and ribbon, paper piercer, oval punches, corner rounder, glue dots