spring tulips

Ah, with the blue skies and sunshiny days, I long for the tulips to burst out. It's still cold here with promises of warmer weather tomorrow. the family is going to a maple sugar bush, so it will be appreciated.

Here is my hand at shabby chic. It wasn't my intention when I started, but when I pulled out the box of Amy Butler embellishments from K&Co. I was inspired to do so.


So many themes in that one little box, sewing, flowers, children, keys, birds... I certainly have to think differently to do it. I love the look when others are successful.


have a great day!
Thanks for looking,
Amanda

baby giraffe

here is a card I'm making for my friend who just had a little boy.


I decided I wasn't going to use my cuttlebug machine or any dies for this mass produced card. 20 of them. instead, my design grew into colouring 20 giraffes with pencils and odorless mineral spirits and threading 40 buttons. What happened to simple eh? I used my Marvy scallop oval punch and some SU DP. The little blue dots around the oval is a flower centre from one of the Papertrey stamp sets. can't remember which one at present. Have to look thru my friend's case of prisma pencils to see if there is a more vibrant one. This koh-i-noor one looks a little dull to me.

Thanks for looking,
Amanda

Tag the Ballerina

here is the tag for Saskia's basket:
Image is Stamping Bella. The glitter paper is actually the cards front from a glitter pack at Michael's. Crown punch, ballet slipper Quickutz. Pink papers from Stampin' Up's mini designer papers (hostess set?) and the jumbo eyelet also. The letters are Quickutz, Metro font and the little flowers on the crimped vellum are from the mini punches from the Philippines.

Fun to make, but let me tell you... that ballerina is not very paper piecing friendly. lol That hair is something else. Stamped her on the kraft CS and on white. Lost her shoelace under the vellum. Oh well. I coloured her with Koh-i-nor pencils.



The tags have been delivered and placed ont he baskets. Cute. I put them in clear envelope type bags to preserve them a bit.

Thanks for looking,
Amanda

Diaper duty

WHew, it sure is hot and sticky here. I hope you like this card. I finished it on a muggy day in the attic!! And DUH, I was playing with the heat gun before I abandoned it when common sense came to me.




As shown before, this image is retired SU jumbo wheel I borrowed from a friend. The pink paper is from coordinations and embosses with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots. The green vertical stripe is yummy velvet paper from Doodlebugs and embossed with another cuttlebug folder (sorry name escapes me at the moment) Ribbon is from Walmart. I love this ribbon! ANd soo cheap.
The little flower thingy in the bottom is from a set of 4 charms I bought at the LSS. Sorry, package was thrown away long ago, but I will be making some more with shrink art. I think, if I can figure out the printing backwards thing. Or maybe print it backwards on the computer, then shrink it.?? Any suggestions? I added some $$store bling and popped it on a velvet circle from Quickutz circle. Coloured it with my Koh-i-noor and Odorless Mineral Spirits.

Off to wake the kiddo and go to a music class. Fun to see them dance around and listen to someone else! :}

Thanks for looking,
Amanda