Pretty in Pink and White!

Good Evening!!!!

They say death and taxes are the only things you can count on in life,,,,,,,I disagree. If you're very lucky,,,,,you have friends.

Recently a couple of friends did some very nice things for me,,,,,,,,,,and so of course, thank you cards are called for.

Can I tell you I am totally in love with my new Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page set?  L-O-V-E!


On this one, I punched a 6 3/4 X 5 inch panel to use as my first layer,,,,,,,

I layered that with Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles that I had embossed with a My Favorite Things die.  Some framing and layering, some pearls and handmade flowers, a bow, and she's done!

Here's a close up! The Stamp is CTMH.

For this second thank you card, I fell in love with this stamp on EBAY, and my wonderful husband bought it for me,,,,,,,,,,without telling me :)  He's so sweet sometimes :)

I colored the image with copics, of course,,,and created a frame around a spellbinders M-bossabilities,,,,,,,a MFT Die-namics flourish, more hand made flowers and some bling,,,,,,a tim holtz button adorns another sweet pink bow!  I even used the corner punch to punch around a circle! Easy peasy!

Here's a close up of that gorgeous stamp!

Card Recipe:

Cardstock: GA Pacific (white), Coordinations (pink)

Stamps: CTMH Cricute Artiste Collection Kudos, Rubber Stampede
Ink: Momento Tuxedo black for image, Copic Markers, Versafine Onyx black, Momento Angel Pink for highlighting embossing
Dies and Punches: MS Eyelet Lace punch around the page set, Spellbinders circles Large,  Ovals Large, MFT Die-namics Vintage Flourish, MS winter branch punch, MFT Die-namics Mini Royal Rose, MFT Die-namics Sentimental Flourish
Embossing Folder: Spellbinders Regal
Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon, January ribbon club collection.
Pearls and bling: Recollections
Buttons: Tim Holtz and Bazzill

That's all for today!  I hope you liked the cards, and I hope the recipients love them as well!

My Sweet Mother-in-law

I often hear jokes about mothers in law,,,,,,,most of them are funny,,,,,,but usually represent mothers in law who are less than desirable LOL. I am happy to report that I have been married to my mother in law's son for 29 years,,,and I've never had occasion to regret having her for a mother in law!  She's a wonderful woman, and extremely generous.

She was especially so this month and did something very nice for my husband and I,,,,,,,,and so, of course, I had to make a thank you card,,,,,,

Here it is!

Card Recipe:
Papers: Fancy Pants
Stamps: vintage digi image from my stash/Justrite Just the Right Words Set
Inks: Versafine Onyx Black
Dies: Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles, Eyelet Pendants/MFT mini rolled roses/Memory Box Lorelai Outline leaf, elegant scrollwork, iron gate
Pearls, ribbon, corner piece: my stash

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking,,,,,,,,,,,

Thank you, Thank you!

This is my second post of the day! If you're looking for my PTT post, scroll down one post!

So we had a TON of birthdays in March in our family,,,,,,,three out of the four people living in this house right now, have birthdays in March,,,,,,2 of us on the 9th, and one of us this next Friday, the 23rd.

Birthdays mean presents, and presents mean thank you cards to our relatives who were kind enough to send gifts and money presents! My MIL and mother gave me $$$$$ and so I was able to buy several sets of nesties and my FIRST grand nestie (Labels 23) which I am DYING to get,,,,,,it's taking forever to get here LOL

Anywho, I made up some thank you cards, and I thought I'd just post them all here in one post :)

I had a ton of fun playing with my new spellbinders Romantic Rectangles, and another of my favs Parisian motifs. I also used some of the very first tools I ever bought, some flower punches, that have been sitting neglected in my cupboard to make some of the flowers. I am REALLY happy the way they turned out, after shaping with a ball stylus and glittering!

Here's a close up!

The butterflies are MS, and the leaves are all Spellbinders foliage.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you're having a wonderful week!

Vintage School Girl!

Good afternoon! I hope everyone else has gotten more accomplished today than I have. I have been LAZY! Husband is working, and I have done nothing but lounge in bed and take pics for my blog LOL.

Whatever you're doing today, I do hope you have a bit of time to relax in this crazy last week before the holidays!

It's time again for the new Sugar Creek Hollow challenge! YAY! the theme this week is THANK YOU. They want to see our thank you cards, and you can find that challenge HERE!

Well, it just so happens, I have a lovely reason for a thank you card. My MIL sent us all some money for the holidays,,,,,,how sweet! I think I am going to spend mine on several sets of nesties and dies!

So, onto the card I'm sending my MIL. This is an adorable image from a new site I happened to run across yesterday,,,,awesome site! You can find the button on my side bar (Pointing finger), but the name of it is freevintagedigistamps.com. FANTASTIC SITE! I took this darling school girl and cropped out the ABC that was above her,,,,,I pulled her into Picnik and added a THANK YOU to the bottom and printed her in sepia. I then colored her with copics. I wasn't too worried about blending, because I wanted the old 50's children's book illustration look. Plus, I was going to be toning all the colors down by tapping sepia ink onto the colored image with a sponge, so blending wouldn't show as well anyhow. I layered on the MME paper (Market Street) using the sketch over at the MME blog here! A bit of lace, some stickles, pearls, hand died seam binding in this GORGEOUS peachy pink, a bit of border punching, a stick pin and TONS of inking, and she's done! Isn't she adorable????

Do go have a look at the two challenges here,,,,,the Sugar Creek Hollow and the MME challenge. But HURRY on the MME, it's got less than a day left!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed! I hope you have a lovely last day of the weekend!