Teacher Thanks...A Little Early!

It is so hard to believe that my summer break is almost over!! In less than 2 weeks I go back to work! AHHHH!  I'm not ready yet!!  But I am thankful for my job and I really do enjoy it, so that helps!

With school on my mind, I made a card for my daughter's teacher in anticipation for needing one this coming school year.

I was inspired by a sketch from the Clean & Simple challenge blog.  I used several Whimsy stamp sets that work so well together!  I started with my sentiment from the Whimsy Stamps School Spirit stamp set.  Then, I used various stamps from Whimsy's School Spirit, Smarty Pants & Happy Everything sets. 

My daughter's teacher is a big K-State fan so I went with a purple theme for the card.  That was kind of hard for me being a Jayhawk fan!  The rest of the color scheme was built around the purple.  I find it very difficult for some reason to photograph this particular color of purple, so the colors are a little off in the photo.





This is the sketch that inspired me from the Clean & Simple Stamping challenge blog.

Thank you for stopping by today!  I hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:
Stamps: Whimsy Happy Hello, School Spirit, Smarty Pants
Dies: Lil' Inker Designs Stitched Mats: Rectangles
Ink: Amuse Grape, Lime & Bubblegum, Avery Elle Orchid, Mimosa & Aquamarine
Twine: Purple Shimmer Twinery
Sequins: Pretty Pink Posh 4 mm clear

Butterfly Love

Hey everyone!  We are a little over halfway done with a busy week of Vacation Bible School!  We are having a great time but boy do I go home tired!  LOL!  I'm out of my routine and feeling it!  I am in charge of the KidVid Cinema for our Weird Animals VBS theme.  It's been a lot of fun seeing all of the kids this week and teaching them about Jesus!

I wanted to stop in and share a card I made way back for the Lil' Inker Designs March release!  I know...March, and can you believe that this isn't the only one I haven't shared with you yet? :)  I think that this was actually the first card I made for that release.

I love, love the Lil' Inker Designs Stitched Butterflies dies!  For this card I used all FIVE dies included in this set.  The sentiment is from Spring Sentiments and I embossed it in white.

I started the butterflies by cutting out the largest butterfly from my Echo Park Splendid Sunshine patterned paper pack.  Then, I die cut the three smaller butterflies from the same paper pack.  I used my sewing machine to stitch them together and make a butterfly body.  I left short tails for the butterfly antennas.  I also used the butterfly trail die that is included as well.  Don't you just love how these dies cut the stitching into both sides of the image!  Such a great detail!  

Well, time to get on to my next project for the day!  Hope you have a wonderful day!  Thanks for stopping by!

Exciting News!!

Hello everyone!! I have some fun news to share today!

After this last Whimsy release that I was a Guest Designer for, I was so excited to receive an email from Denise asking me to stay on! Yes! I am joining the Clearly Whimsy Stamps Design Team for the next term!  I'm so excited!  

In celebration, I created a card today using stamps from the latest Whimsy release.

I LOVE the school/teacher sets that were released last week!  I am always looking for good images to use for my kids' teachers!  But I also love how these same sets are perfect for office cards too, for co-workers! I love all of the options included in these sets!  They are packed FULL!

The pencil, sentiment & paper clip are all from the Smarty Pants set and there are little arrows that are hard to see in the photo (next to the eraser) that are from the coordinating set School Spirit.  I used a Wink of Stella glitter pen on top of the paper clip to give it a little sparkle.

I am entering this in the Poppy Sketches #7 challenge which is to use the provided sketch and to use polka dots on your card.  

Thank you so much for stopping by today and letting me share my news with you!

Have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Supplies:

Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Smarty Pants & School Spirit

Patterned Paper: Fancy Pants Designs Off to School

Ink: Avery Elle Mimosa, Sea Glass & Aquamarine, Fresh Ink Tomato Red & Provincial Gray, Palette Charcoal

We Just Fit!

Happy July!  As I'm typing this post we are heading in to another stormy night in Kansas!  The farmers are frantically trying to finish up wheat harvest before this one arrives.  They just can't catch a break this past week!  It just keeps raining and raining it seems.  I know in July we'll be waiting for the rain to come, praying it'll come quickly.  So the rain, even the puddle that comes with each drop in the corner of the basement, is a blessing.  The sky is constantly lit up with lightening.  We are getting quite a show!

So, on to the crafting!

I had some fun playing around with these Puzzle Pieces dies from Lil' Inker Designs.  This is the card with the puzzle dies stuck through the windows in the card front.  It'll make more sense when you see the next photo.

Without the puzzle pieces sticking through, this is what the front of the card would look like.  The pieces are made to fit exactly through the hole on the front.  Make sense?  The sentiment if a cute one from the Pieces of Me Stamp set.

The inside of the card looks like this. I added another sentiment from the Pieces of Me stamp set.  

I am entering this card in the Pink Elephant #257 Anything Goes Challenge & also to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.

Thanks for visiting!  Happy July 1st!