4 Lauren

If you read my blog regularly, you know I like Lauren Meader's work... You also know that she recently decided to start her own business and now sells stamps, digital paper and templates (http://www.mytimemadeeasy.com/).
Now I am not part of her design team, and she doesn't pay me to advertise for her, but this card is made using 4 of her products: 2 stamps set and 2 Cut Files!
That's because the card is for her, a little pat on the back for her hard work and her leap of faith for starting a business in this economy. Of course the main color is purple because it is her favorite color... ;-)

The little argyle panel was made with her stamps set "Argyle Amazement", the butterfly, flower and leaves were cut with my Cricut and SCAL using her "Flutter and Flowers" Cut file (really great in svg. file since you can resize things the way you want!) I then stamped a pattern on the butterfly with her stamps set "All a Flutter" (tons of options to make your customized butterfly....) and the little border I weaved my ribbon into is also a Cut File called "Random Ribbon"...

The "congratulations" stamp is from a My Favorite Things sentiments set (I think she'll forgive me!... ;-)) and the border punch at the bottom is from EK Success.

I hope she likes it. It must be quite a feeling, albeit a weird one, seeing something made with stamps and such that you created!! :-)

Florida life

This morning I went biking, and this is what I saw. It might seem like a weird scene to people who never came to Florida, but that's the way it is where I live. A lot of little (artificial) lakes, sometimes with lily pads or water plants, bordered with palm trees...

It is truly quite beautiful. :-) On my way back I saw 3 orange butterflies in my garden, so I decided to add some butterflies on my card too....

The grass and waterlily are from Melanie's new set "Hip-hop accessories", the butterflies are form her "So hoppy" set. The water ring and the tall grass are from PaperTrey Ink (Madras Design) "Pond life", and the palm tree is from an "Aloha" set from Oriental Trading, the sentiment is from MFT...

I think I'll send it to my parents.

Oh my dog!!....

I received my very 1st order from My Favorite Things! *grins*

Those of you familiar with that stamps set will likely be horrified to see that the labrador disappeared... As my husband put it, I did a "dogectomy" (please, don't throw stones at me)... I am not a dog person (I'm a cat person ;-)) and didn't feel like having the dog there.... I just wanted the seashore because living in Florida it's a must! ;-) I think I'll have some good use of this sentiment over the winter!!...

The little sticks coming out of her hat are supposed to be hair and I used the wave stamp for that... My coloring is pretty dreadful (I used watercolor pencils and regular pencils) and from the pic you can't really see but I used some Stickles here and there... The frame is on pop dots but I kept the image flat for my 1st try.

I really like my "suntiment"! ;-)

And I used my new Nestabilities (Thanks to my in-laws who gave me money for the holidays... ;-))...