Wild About Flowers Thank You card

One of my favorite Stampin' Up blogs is JanB Handmade Cards. Jan is a Stampin' Up Demonstrator in the UK.  I also frequent Jan's You Tube channel quite a lot too! I get tons of inspiration from her. When I see her cards, I see my style of cardmaking. I can't quite find the word I'm looking for to describe her style except that it is uncluttered and not too busy. The stamps Jan tends to use a lot are those with flowers and today I have made a card that Jan made last week. Yes, I totally C.A.S.E.D her card!  I changed the positioning of the sentiments, that's the only 'selective editing' I did! The primary stamp set Jan used is Wild About Flowers, this includes three sets of flowers which are two-step stamping. The base of the card is Very Vanilla and I used the flourish stamp from First Sight for the background on the mat. These are beautiful stamps, there are tons of cards on Pinterest showcasing these sets. So, without further ado, here are three pictures of the card which include the inside and the envelope. If you would like to see Jan's card, please press here

Jar of Love Mother's Day card

Well, tomorrow is Mother's Day and yesterday I spent some quality time with my daughter's two youngest children, Jaden and Rorey! As 9 and 10 year olds go these days, they are the most fun loving, caring, beautiful children on this planet, states their Grandmother! As such, I was thinking how much I appreciate my daughter for raising my grandchildren to be the way they are. So, because making a card shows how much you care or love someone, I made her a card from me for Mother's Day! Her favorite color is Bermuda Bay, I used that for the card base and the small flowers and hearts. Daffodil Delight was used for the main part of the large flower (it's a two step stamp) and for the center I used Crushed Curry.

I used the 'Jar of Love' stamp set, which, by the way, will continue to be in the 2017-2018 Stampin Up catalog, yipee! It's a beautiful set with 37 stamps in total! Along with the stamps, there are framelits. The set of 'Everyday Jar of Love' framelits contains 17 dies. Enormous value for your dollar I would say! I used both on this card. One of the dies is the small strip of hearts at the bottom of the white mat, first I used the die to cut out the hearts on the white mat, then I repeated the cut on some Bermuda Bay glitter paper (which sadly has retired). I then glued those tiny blue hearts into the spaces left in the white mat! I embossed the rim of the jar using copper embossing powder, a new item in the catalog this year, and then popped it up on the jar using dimensionals. All the stamped images and die cuts are from the Jar of Love sets with the exception of the sentiment. I wanted to hang a label from the jar so I used Teeny Tiny Wishes as that stamp set is just like it states "Teeny Tiny" and this worked really well on the jar. I put dimensionals onto the jar and placed it on half of a white doily. To finish off, I die cut the label with the Stitched Shapes Framelits and tied it to the jar with Bermuda Bay bakers twine. I'm looking forward to tomorrow when I will celebrate Mother's Day with my daughter, her husband and my grandchildren!  If you would like a 2017-2018 catalog, please email with your name and address and I will gladly send one out to you. If you have shopped with me in the past 6 months, you will automatically receive one. Similarly, if you would like to purchase any of the items listed here, please do not hesitate to either contact me by email or shop online from my store, both of which are listed at the top right of this blog. I wish all of you out there in blogland a very happy Mother's Day!