{Make Lemonade}

Hi everyone,

I pulled out an old, now retired (I believe) Taylored Expressions stamp set I have today and decided to make a card around it. 

For the cover panel I used a Perforator Cutting Blade for my Cutterpede Paper Trimmer to create the diagonal lines pattern. I then took a circle die and cut out a circle out of my white cardstock. I used a slightly smaller circle die than the previous one and cut some yellow cardstock with it. I then layered the yellow behind the white and trimmed off the excess on the straight edge.

I colored my lemons and lemonade glass with Copic Markers, added some glitter for texture and added some clear Jewel Dew Drops as final touches.

Closer look: 

thanks so much for stopping by!

Sonja

{Happy Anniversary}

Hi everyone,

I have two silver wedding anniversary's in my family coming up this year so I'm in desperate need of some cards. Came to find out - I don't have a lot of wedding themed cards so I had to get a little creative but I thought Sprinkles and Poochie on the swing from Just Let it Happen (TCP) would make a really cute anniversary card. 

So...for this card I started out with blending some Distress Ink (Mermaid Lagoon) into my paper. I then stamped some splatter using  the Watercolor Basics Set from TCP. I love this set because you know exactly what your splatter will look like. Very handy! Then I stamped Sprinkles and Poochie on top of my background and colored in the swing with Copic Markers. The sentiment I took from the Simply Said Set. As a final touch I added some Clear Jewel Dew Drops and a little bit of glitter to Sprinkles collar.

Closer look:

thanks so much for stopping by,

Sonja

{A Sweet Hi}

I somewhat recently came across HoneyBee Stamps and fell in love with their whimsical designs. This card here uses the Sweet as Honey set, which is currently on sale. I used the modular hexagon bunches Die from HoneyBee to cut out my bee hive pattern. For embellishment I used clear Jewel dew drops.

thanks for stopping by,

Sonja

{Love U}

I had a lot of fun making the last clean card so I thought I'd go ahead and make another. I really love adding dimension through layering. For this card here, I started off with a white card as my base. I then use some black cardstock for framing and topped that off with another layer of white cardstock which I embossed to give it some interest and texture. I used one of my old Verve dies to cut out the U and put a piece of red cardstock behind that to make it pop. The final and very top layer was the little black heart, which went on top of everything.

Here is the final card:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy crafting!

Sonja

{Sending You Love}

Happy new year everyone,

I'm back with my very first card of 2019 and I wanted to keep it a bit more clean this time so I stuck to an almost all white card and really tried to constrain myself with the layering. For this card I used the Clouds CutUps Die from TCP. I used a polka dot embossing folder for my sky, just to add a bit more texture to it and pop the clouds a bit more. The sentiment is from the Just Let it Happen set by TCP and the rocket is from an older, now unfortunately retired TCP set.

Here is my card:

Thanks so much for stopping by and to a happy crafting 2019 :)

Sonja