Another Botanical Card Sketch

This was a fun sketch to follow:

I've used:

Paper - Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, Botanical Gardens DSP

Accessories: Expressions Natural Elements, Rhinestones

Easter Carrot Treats

I just wanted to quickly share these fun Easter Carrot treats with you today.  These were a bit of a last-minute creation as I had actually forgotten that I'd purchased the Polka Dot Cone Cellophane Bags from the Occastions Catalogue!

So last minute that I didn't have time to go very far looking for orange treats to go inside my carrots.  Best I could come up with was a couple of bags of Darrel Lea "jaffas" and a giant bag of Smarties from which I picked out all the orange ones! LOL!

Then my eldest child reminded me that carrots can be purple too so we picked through the Smarties and made a purple carrot as well.

The bags are tied closed with Cucumber Crush lace and a little tag popped on, stamped with the And Many More stamp set.

Simple Sketch with Perfect Pairings

Here's another very simple card I made on the weekend retreat:

I've used Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey and Whisper White cardstock, Botanical designer vellum, Perfect Pairings stamp set and Mossy Meadow ink.   I also used the Project Life corner punch.  That's it! Super simple and easy to make lots in one go.

Mediterranean Achievers Blog Hop March

Welcome to another Mediterranean Achievers Blog Hop - our theme this month is "Wedding Dreams"

My eldest child's former teacher got married last weekend and since she was his teacher for 2 years in a row, we really wanted to give her a congratulations card.  When she returns from her honeymoon he can take this card to school to give to her.  She is such a sweet young lady and we loved having her as his teacher.

Since she is young and trendy, I didn't want to go too old-fashioned or shabby chic etc.  I wanted to keep it clean and simple and include some bling!
I also didn't really have too much in the way of specific wedding stamps so I actually did NO STAMPING on this card! OMG!

I've used the Expressions Natural Elements for the sentiment.  I tried out a few different options for colouring it and adding some sparkle. I settled on the bottom option - emboss with Whisper White embossing powder and then add Clear Wink of Stella over the top.

It is a little difficult to capture the sparkles on camera - always much prettier in real life - but hopefully this photo below gives you an idea of how each option looks.

The materials and tools I used for this card were:

* Shimmer White card stock (card base)

* Gold glimmer paper (layer and heart)

* Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack (earned free with a $90 sale-a-bration order)

* Mini Treat Bag Thinlits dies (for the heart - the sweetheart punch was too small for what I wanted)

* Expressions Natural Elements (sentiment)

* Whisper White craft ink and embossing powder

* Heat Tool

* Clear Wink of Stella brush

I hope you enjoyed my project. Enjoy the rest of the blog hop!

1.	Anja Luft
2.	Bec Ross
3.	Kylie Bertucci
4.	Sarah Berry
5.	Jan Farring
6.	Jennifer Michalski
7.	Georgia Giguere
8.	Julie Brancart
9.	Chris Slogar
10.	Connie Babbert
11.	Angela Westland
12.	Karina Chin
13.	Tami White
14.	Genevieve Ko
15.	Cynthia Millan
16.	Constanze Wirtz
17.	Mikaela Titheridge
18.	Dania Welch
19.	Rose Marie Coleman
20.	Ann Craig
21.	Janet Wakeland
22.	Linda Dalke
23.	Carol Payne
24.	Kirsteen Gill
25.	Zoe Tant
26.	Karen Titus
27.	Anna Wheaton
28.	Patty Chenail

(Linkup closed)

Botanical Gardens - Card Sketch

Just recently my team and I spent a lovely weekend away at our annual team craft retreat.  I'm never sure what I'm going to make at these weekends so I take ALL my stuff (well, just about!) and just see what happens and what mood takes me.  This time I mostly created cards using sketches for the layouts.  I'll share them all with you over the next few posts but here's one to get us started.

It's a very simple card using just stamps, inks and papers.

I've used the following supplies:

*Mossy Meadow card stock

*Whisper White card stock

*Botanical Gardens DSP

*Perfect Pairings stamp set (sale-a-bration item)

*Mossy Meadow ink

*Cajun Craze ink