Watercolor Blended Bloom

Today I played with my my new flower stamp from Stampin' Up.  I stamped it on watercolor paper and watercolored the heck out of it with several different shades of pink and orange...I even made the watercolor paper curl, so you know that's a lot of agua, right?  I highlighted the curled petals in white for contrast.  You'll be seeing much more of this stamp.  I LOVE IT!

Bird Tag

Just a little gift tag I'd been meaning to finish for a while...Fun way to use texture and color!

Thanks with Gorgeous Grunge

A couple thank you cards I made this week using the Gorgeous Grunge set from Stampin' Up.  I love how fun this set is...you can't get too serious when you're using it!!!

Shore Birds Thank You

I am loving this Wetlands set!  This was inspired by several cards on Pinterest (Thank you, LeeAnn Graff!) which is done using a sponged seascape and Distress Inks.  Super fun, fast, and easy, but I loved the result!

Collage Style

I haven't used this set much since I got it (Nature Walk,) so I was trying to find a way to use every stamp in it!  The result was this card, which was so fun!  I used my new banner punch to make the banner and some chalk ink to dauber on it.  I also altered the background using the new "Gorgeous Grunge" set from Stampin' Up.  The nice thing is this card has lots going on but it's still fairly flat, so I can actually mail it without the envelope exploding!

Love these Papers!

This is a card I started MONTHS ago at one of our craft nights and just finished yesterday.  I absolutely love these papers from Stampin' Up.  I purposely left the sentiment off so I can add it when the occasion arises for me to give the card to someone!

Best Day in Forever

First Sunday afternoon in a donkey's ears...in a coon's age...that I haven't had to study!!!!  It has been such a fabulous day that it actually feels like I'm on vacation or something!  I woke up this morning and leisurely drank my morning coffee and ate breakfast with my hubby, went to church, took the dogs to the park/pond to play in the water, and CRAFTED!  Here's what came out.  I haven't had this much fun in MONTHS.  Now I'm off to work out!  Such an excellent day!