Delight in Life

This old set is great and I have an extra one, so I'm sending it to my sister for her birthday. (I don't think she looks at this blog!) This card was cased from a design by Sara L. I'm also sending my sister some cards made using this set to give her some tangible ideas for future cards to create. I hope she likes it!

It's your day

Here's a quick birthday card, nothing too exciting.

• Stamps: Delight in Life, Simply Said, Stampabilities-It's Your Day
• Ink: Ruby Red, Cool Caribbean, Chocolate Chip
• Paper: Kraft, Very Vanilla, Ruby Red
• Accessories/tools: ric rac (looks more like turquoise and wished I'd used turquoise ink), blender pen, staples, pop-up dots

Delight in color potpourri

This was a quick card with zero coloring using the larger floral image from Stampin Up's Delight in Life set, which is an easy flower to cut out, stamped in black ink on colored papers. The background paper is from s.e.i. Penelope's Potpourri.

Aaron and Jaime's wedding

Last week was Aaron and Jaime's wedding and next week is their reception. Congratulations! The wedding cake stamp is a Michael's $1 stamp. The background stamp is from Stampin' Up's Delight in Life set. Here are a few more details:

Ribbon: rose grosgrain, narrow white organdy, and pink ribbed "Flirty" ribbon, all by Stampin' Up!

Paper: Cool Caribbean, Taken with Teal, Regal Rose, Whisper White, "Loves Me" designer paper, all by Stampin' Up!

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Versamark, and Regal Rose Stampin' Write markers by Stampin Up!

For the scallop, I used the handy technique using the slit punch and the 1/8" handheld punch on the bottom paper layer. The round paper clip is from Target.

My first Sketch Challenge

Today I've completed a sketch challenge, my first one on SCS. It was my third challenge of the week and I'm having fun with it. It's like a little homework assignment to improve in your card making art. I like that I've used papers and stamps that I've been wanting to, but haven't. This card was using more of my Dutch Girl paper kit, and a stamp from Delight in Life and the cherish stamp is from a little boxed set by Nostalgiques, the Attic Collection. I always keep any random buttons that I come across or that come as extras with clothes, and I nabbed this red one from my surplus stash. I'm off to lunch with Carol now.