embrace happiness.

This is a simple, happy little card that I made recently. The flower is one that I stamped, colored and cut out for the focal point.

The sentiment is from Mega Mixed Messages and stamped onto a Cricut shape. I'm pretty sure it's the Lyrical Letters cartridge. I change them out so often I forget which one is in there! :)

These two little chocolate leaves are the very last scraps from the baby shower invites. I'm so glad that I could use it all up!

Reminds me of that old saying: "Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without."

I just wanted to share two books that I recently read and LOVED.

The first one is These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner. I found the first 20 or so pages hard to get into but man, I'm glad I stayed with it! I was head over heals when I found out that this was the first in a series!

The second book that I really enjoyed was A Woman's Place by Lynn Austin. It's a fast-moving Christian Fiction book that takes place during WWII.

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AE

hello again.

It's been awhile! But I'm finally back with my first attempt at paper piecing. And I think I probably chose the smallest little flowers possible but I'm still happy with the results!

The two polka dotted flowers were pieced using raspberry fizz bitty dot patterned paper. I used chalks and a blender pen for the other coloring.

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AE

sunny flower.

I think I'm in love with this flower. It's so sunny and sparkly that it just makes me happy to look at it. I'm getting this card in the mail asap for my little sister!

This is a new stamp set that I just got. I stamped the image and colored it in using an aqua pen and chalks. Then I added the glitter with a glue pen and cut the image out.

This was a quick and easy card that I hope you enjoy! Hope the week is starting off well for everyone.

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AE

Bee Mine

Here are two more Valentine's Day cards that I made recently. In three hours in my craft room, I whipped out six cards! That is awesome for me because usually it takes me an entire sitting to get one card done.

Anyway, this card has a shape that I don't normally work with. It happened by accident; I scored the kraft cardstock in the wrong spot and one side was shortened by an inch. But I didn't want to waste lovely kraft since I am down to just a couple sheets. (I need to get some more before I run out completely! That would be bad. Very bad!)

So I just added some Bitty Dot patterned paper on the inside and some heart paper on the outside. The heart was cut using my Cricut and hangs over the edge of the front but is even with the backside.

The sentiment was stamped in Staz-On onto PTI Stamper's Select White cardstock. Then I colored them in using a blender pen and SU chalks. With the glittered bee wings, I love how this little image turned out! :)

This next card uses the same technique on the image. I used a punch to round the corners of the polka dot paper and just put a strip of glitter behind the image to make it pop. There's also dimensionals behind it so it stands up.

I think this simple little 3x3 is my favorite of the two. But I like them both a lot! On both cards, all the edges of the kraft were inked in Fresh snow.
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AE