St. Patty's Day Clover

I cut out the shamrock from the candy box die and used the leftover negative piece to sponge on grass and evergreen inks for the shamrock.  Then I simply added some washi tape, a little bakers twine and sentiment for a CAS St. Patrick's Day card.

Stamps: Essential Sentiments

Ink: grass, evergreen

Paper: grass, sugar

Dies: candy box

Schtuff: Onyx baker's twine, Tuxedo Collection washi tape

  

Valentine Conversation Hearts

Copic markers gave my conversation hearts card just the right amount of pastelish (yep another new word!) color they needed. I {heart} Copic markers!  

Stamps: Love is in the Air, At First Sight

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: Sugar, Onyx

Schtuff: Tuxedo Collection Washi Tape, Copic markers Y11, BG11, RV21

  

Christmas Elegance Card Class

The three cards below were the projects for my Easy Elegant Christmas Cards class.  Amuse Studio's Christmas Joy & Cheer die set is so versatile, it includes a branch (with leaves on it) and three different birds. For the card below I trimmed off all the leaves from the branch and cut the cardinal from our Cherry felt.

Stamps: Peaceful Forest

Ink: Eucalyptus 

Paper: Winter Sky

Dies: Christmas Joy & Cheer, Lg. Rectangles set

Schtuff: Cherry Felt

I love the amber color variations/hightlights within several of our French Roast buttons.  And the Toffee Natural Twine gives just the right "natural" touch to this card which was inspired by Kristine Vicente.

Stamps: Peaceful Forest

Ink: Fern, Mushroom

Paper: Fern, Vanilla

Schtuff: Gold Washi Tape, French Roast Buttons, Toffee Twine

And how could I have a Christmas Elegance Class without Gold Embossing?!  Our luscious Currant cardstock is just screaming for gold embossing and is complimented by a Shimmer Gold die cut Dasher & Harlequin background.

Stamps: Christmas Joy & Cheer, Harlequin Background

Ink: Blackberry, Versamark

Paper: Currant, Shimmer Gold

Dies: Dasher

Schtuff: Gold Embossing Powder & Heat Tool

Beautiful Botanicals

This was one of the cards everyone made at my Amuse|Studio launch party in July.  It makes a nice unisex birthday card which can sometimes be hard to achieve.  I find that cards are typically either more masculine or more feminine so the versatility of this one comes in handy.

  

Stamps: Beautiful Botanicals, Birthday Builder

Ink: Fern, Mushroom

Paper: Fern, Vanilla

Schtuff: Valentine Assortment Washi Tape

More Halloween Fun

Before I start posting some holiday cards I thought I'd share a few more of my Halloween projects.

Here's a little grave made out of our candy box die and one of the Vintage Labels 1 as the "tombstone", Sleepy Hallow cob web and sprayed the spider with Stardust Finishing spray...love that stuff!

Here's my sweet little girly ghostie made with the new Happy Hauntings die and Tall Alphabet die both found in our awesome Holiday Catalog.  The googly eyes are in there too!  The bow is Bubblegum polka dot and little chalk for her blush. 

A Tuxedo assortment & neon washi tape spooky banner with embossed Tiny Treats skulls.  Used the "negative" from the grass die for an oozing banner and the bows are onyx/white baker's twine.

NEVERMORE is one of my all-time favorite stamp sets and this card was one of the Halloween cards that I sent out this year.  I always tell my stamping peeps that everyone sends Christmas cards but a Halloween card is a fun and unexpected treat.

Here's my little Frankenstein treat made with our Candy Box die and the Grass die was used for his hair.  I used the 1/2" circle punch for his eyes & nose and hand drew his scars & mouth.  I put a silver brad on each side of his neck for his "bolts".