Purple Overdose

This morning my scrap-buddy bailed on me to go shop the spring break sales! *gasp*

I love shopping (and sales) just as anybody else, but shopping instead of stamping?? Unless you are shopping for stamping/papercrafting supplies, then it's an easy choice for me... ;-) And my bank account was screaming at me to just stay home and stamp anyway...

So, after getting over my disappointment, I finally worked on the Thank You card for the generous sender of my happy mail package.... :-) Her favorite color is purple so I used lots of it obviously! And I used the butterfly stamp that was among the goodies she sent me, since she loves butterflies also... ;-)

The colors are a little off (as usual! ;-)), I can't seem to be able to fix it, but I like this card (in real life!) even though it is monochromatic (which is not something I do often or really like).

My only regret is that I didn't have any wire, because I really would have liked to make little antennaes for the butterfly with golden wire!...

Flowers field

I made this card for a friend of mine that recently moved out of her parent's home, quite a big step... I wanted to do a "home warming" card, but I don't own any sets for that (yet! ;-) and my stamps budget is not exactly expanding (I got a HUGE ticket while driving my kids to school, my first!...) and I am really trying to use what I have... :-)... so I made a generic enjoy life type of card....

It actually all started with some happy mail! A (very) kind hearted and dear internet friend who knew about my difficult time sent me a belated birthday gift. It was more a "lift-your-spirit" package and was just overflowing with acrylic (fun) goodies and a beautiful card! :-). I won't tell you who this is or everyone will try and be a special friend of hers, LOL! ;-) Wait till you see the hula penguins she sent..., my hubby and daughter both flipped over those, too funny... :-D

So anyway, yesterday I was walking by my dining room table and saw the pile of goodies right there, and I just stopped what I was doing, sat down and decided to just try some stamps... I picked up this "Flower trio" from Autumn Leaves and stamped it with several inks to give some contrast and shading. I was just playing around, but when I was done I liked it so I cut my little essay out and mounted it on a card... I finished it with my gel pens, and embossed the sentiment at the bottom with black powder. The flowers look better in the big version but then you'll see my sloppy job with the embossing powder, LOL!...

I hope it brings some spring in her snowy and cold winter! :-)

Autumn

This morning my friend came over and we did some scrapbooking. We didn't have any project in mind so we let our mind wander....

I made a few tags and this card with a fall theme. Even though it was still 96 degrees here today, I was in the mood for Fall!!

As usual my pic isn't very good ;-) and with the flash you cannot really see, but the ribbon is orange with fall names written on it like acorn, pumpkin, harvest, squash, cider, sweater....

Of course I couldn't resist playing with my metallic gel pens (but I did stay away from the Stickles!)... ;-)

I don't have a clue whom to send the card to, but it doesn't matter, I had fun making it... :-)