Saturday, April 11, 2009

Embrace Happiness

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.

I pray all of you have an especially blessed Easter weekend. I am off with my family to an Egg Hunt at our church. The kids are really excited. They get to hang out with their friends and eat candy and watch puppets. What more could a kid ask for?!?!

Supplies
Stamps-With Sympathy, Mega Mixed Messages (Papertrey)
Ink-Palette Beaux Arts Blue, Spring Moss, Berry Sorbet, Plum Pudding (Papertrey)
Paper- Papertrey White
Accessories-Angel Wings and Iced Lavender Shimmerz

8 comments:

Jennifer Scull said...

wow! this is beautiful! I love the simplicity of the white - which you know I can not do at all. and yes, I do love shimmerz with a passion, and yes, I know it doesn't photograph or scan well. but know in your heart that it is there! ;) and you know how pretty it is irl!!!

Happy Easter to you and your precious family! :)

Miss Molly said...

The simplicity of this card makes it great!

Carmen said...

I love the sentiment! Happy Easter to you and your family. I think I might have to draw inspiration from this card....

Gina Lindsay said...

Happy Easter! I love all the colors you added to this stamp set, it is very pretty.

Dru said...

Hi Karen - this is such a pretty card - this set is on my list as a must-have along with the one you used on Thursday's post - I absolutely love that card, the background, the pearls, the colors, everything. Hope you had a nice Easter

Unknown said...

just wonderful, i love it.

Unknown said...

Very pretty as usual. I have not used shimmerz yet. Are they like twinkling H20's?

specialcraftmom4 said...

What a pretty card! Very Spring like (: