I made a stationary basket for the Silent Auction at my church. It included 10 cards-2 for 5 different occasions-10 notecards and 20 matching envelopes. This is one of the cards I made. I used Damask Designs to make this set. I stamped the damask in black and the sentiment in Raspberry Fizz. I also added a pink rhinestone from my cell phone bling collection. 
I made the notecard one layer. I stamped the damask strip on the top and stamped the large damask off the cardstock. I stamped Take note in the corner and matted it on black cardstock. 
I tied the cards, notecards and envelopes with raspberry fizz grosgrain ribbon and placed them in a basket filled with matching Easter grass. I was so excited when I found matching grass! I also included a pen & pencil set and 20 stamps. I printed the contents of the basket from my computer and die cut it with Labels One for the tag. I love the color scheme of black and white and a pop of bright pink. So fun.
I decided to play around a little with my Walnut Inks. I stamped the image from Love & Laughter in Versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. I then lightly sprayed the Walnut inks. Lightly is the keyword here, you don't want to see how my first one turned out. It was a disaster. I sprayed cornflower on the top, then willow on the bottom and a fine layer of eucalyptus on the very bottom. I then wiped off the tree image. My kids were watching me do this and thought it was so cool when the ink just wiped right off the embossed image. I used my heat gun to speed up the drying time, but still needed to let it set for a little while before I felt really confident handling it. After it was dry, I stamped the word Dream from the Small Sentiments Limited Edition stamp set. I wrapped the ribbon around, tied it in a bow and matted it onto brown cardstock. I adhered it to my card base of Kraft cardstock and added by button threaded with hemp twine from the Sophia Buttons & Blossoms collection. 
I am so behind on challenges. The wedding really set me back, but I was able to get two in one finished with a project I had to complete anyways. Love it when that happens. So this little bookmark meets the requirements of Carmen's Quote/Verse Challenge and the Divine Design Bible Verse Challenge. I was down for the Book Theme Basket for the Silent Auction our ladies are doing at my church, and I needed to make a bookmark. I used With Sympathy and Everyday Blessings. I colored over the butterfly with a Stardust clear pen. It doesn't show at all in the photo, but in real life it is quite dazzling. 
And here is the completed basket. I typed up the items in the basket on my computer, cut it out using Labels One and tied it onto the basket with hemp twine. I made a Stationary Basket as well. I will be sharing that with you next week.
This card was inspired by Becca of Amazing Paper Grace (LOVE her blog). I fell in love with the cards she made here for the JustRite Stampers blog. I love being able to personalize my cards and JustRite stamps are so perfect for that. I used Basic Grey Granola paper as my starting point and then planned everything else around that.
For the inside, I added strips of paper from the front and stamped the sentiment. The little leaves are from Borders and Corners {Square}. The butterfly is from the same punch I used on the front, just glued flat.
I am sharing a card today made with the True Beauty set by The Angel Company. I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and OMS and I decided it needed some sparkle. I used all kinds of things on this card before I got it to look as sparkly as I had envisioned it to look. I added microbeads to the butterfly and flower centers and then I sprayed some pearl glimmer mist on top of the whole image. I still didn't think it shimmered enough so I added some Shimmerz to it. I used iced lavender on the butterfly and painted the flowers with December Sky Blingz. I think I also added some Angel Wings Shimmerz to the flower centers. Anyways, after all of that, I love the way it turned out and it was a lot of fun. It really does shimmer and is so pretty. 
Here is a close-up that shows the shimmer a little better. The pattern paper is DCWV pocket full of posies. I inked the edges with Spring Pansy Versamagic Chalk ink. I punched a border with Martha Stewart's doily lace border punch and adhered the panel with foam tape to add dimension. The main image is also inked with the same ink and distressed. I also adhered this layer with foam tape. The ribbon is from the bridal section at Target. 
Happy Saturday! I was playing around with the With Sympathy set and this is a card I came up with. I stamped the swirl in Spring Moss and the flowers in Berry Sorbet and Plum Pudding. I painted the purple flowers with Iced Lavender Shimmerz. The butterfly was stamped in Beaux Arts Blue and I painted over it and the berry sorbet flowers with Angel Wings Shimmerz. Have you tried Shimmerz yet? That stuff is amazing, but so hard to photograph. When I take my pictures it seems that the shimmer either glares or doesn't show at all. It is so beautiful in real life. I wish I could capture the gentle sparkle of it in a photograph. The sentiment is from Mega Mixed Messages and is stamped in Plum Pudding. Just a simple card, that swirl was just begging me to ink it up. I love it. 
This is the first time I have used Guide Lines. I don't know why I waited so long. It was so much fun. I did not get it exactly right, if you look closely I am sure you will see that. I still like the way it turned out. I stamped the grid with Aqua Mist onto Aqua Mist cardstock, then stamped two other images from the set in Ripe Avocado and Burnt Umber. I used a white Souffle pen to color the dot in the center of my image. It doesn't show in the picture, but it does add a little dimension to the card. I distressed the edges with my Heidi Swapp edge distresser and then inked the edges with Chestnut Roan Colorbox Chalk and matted it onto Ripe Avocado cardstock. I stamped Birthday wishes from Butterfly Kisses with Ripe Avocado onto the ribbon slide and threaded my ribbon through it before adhering the layer to my card of Dark Chocolate cardstock. The flowers were made using a cuttlebug die. I made one with Aqua Mist and one with Ripe Avocado cardstock and then added the adhesive pearl.
This card uses the fabulous black and white paper that you can download free at The Angel Company website. It also uses the image from the Vintage stamp of the month Mabelle Favorites. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and OMS and shaded it with a Copic C-1 marker. I cut and embossed it with Spellbinders curved rectangles and matted it onto Summer Sunrise cardstock cut and embossed with a Spellbinders Labels Three die. I adhered my image with dimensionals and added some New Leaf ribbon. The tag is cut with Spellbinders and tied with a piece of embroidery floss. I secured the tag with foam tape so it would stay in place and add dimension.
Check this out. Free paper download on The Angel Company website. Click here to download yours. 
This is the program. It is a little hard to see the monogram, it seems my lighting was off. It's funny how I think it looks fine until I go to post it on my blog and then I notice all of these flaws. I created the monogram using Photoshop Elements 7. I then cut and embossed it with square nesties and adhered it with foam tape to give it some dimension. The cardstock is the same as the invites. These took so long to make because there were so many steps, I thought I would never get them done, but it was worth it. They looked so classy.
The table cards are again the same paper and designed on Photoshop Elements 7. They are A2 size so they were super easy to make and very economical. 
All of my cardstock was purchased at www.cutcardstock.com. I have ordered from them several times in the past. They are just amazing to work with. I received my order in just days and I had it cut to size. I even over estimated the amount of cardstock I would need and they called to verify and saved me lots of money. How can you not be impressed with a company like that. I highly recommend them.
