Some more Sneak Peek fun...

Today's card is a simple one, compared to yesterdays!  This weekend I was working on designs for the Make-n-Takes for my Hostess Appreciation event this Friday night.  I want to use all new products to showcase the upcoming catalogue as well as to promote the new Hostess plan.  Here is one of the cards I came up with:

Cheerful card made using the Hello Blossoms A La Carte stamp from the Summer Mini and the Cheerful Treat DSP from the upcoming new IB&C

I kept this card really simple, knowing that I have LOTS of other fun activities planned for my Hostess Night.  I like the way the flowers from the stamped image are echoed in the DSP...I also LOVE the colour combo:  melon mambo, concord crush and lucky limeade...can't go wrong with such yummy colours!
I am SO excited about the new Hostess program and cant' wait to tell all of my past hostesses about it.  If you'd like to learn more I'd be happy to explain it to you too!  Just drop me a line and I'll give you the deets!

Till tomorrow, happy stamping!

CAS Button Card for PPA 91

This week's challenge over at Pals Paper Arts is to create a Clean And Simple (CAS) card featuring buttons.  Here is the inspiration photo:

Since today is the first day for the new Summer Mini, I decided to use one of my favourite stamps from it:  Hellos Blossoms.  Here is my card:

CAS card for PPA91 using Hello Blossoms (from the NEW mini!) and Flight of the Butterfly

Inside of card

I love how bright and cheerful this card is!  It is sure to  brighten anyone's day...even on a gloomy, rainy Sunday like today!  Here is how I put this card together:

Starting with a strip of whisper white cardstock, I rounded the upper corners and then stamped only the stems from the Hello Blossoms stamp, inking it with my old olive marker.  I then adhered buttons to the stems using glue dots.  (For the "thread" in the buttons, I cut very narrow strips of cardstock and threaded them through my buttons, securing them on the back with glue dots.)  I then stamped the sentiment and butterfly from the Flight of the Butterfly set in pacific point and melon mambo ink respectively.  I adhered the stamped images to a  slightly larger mat of  pacific point cardstock,  the upper corners of which I had also rounded.  I then added the daffodil delight 3/8" taffeta  ribbon and the strip of "grass" in old olive.  I adhered the whole thing to a card base in daffodil delight that I had embossed with my perfect polka dots embossing folder.  For the inside, I stampd the sentiment in pacific point.  I stamped the butterfly on a scrap of melon mambo and punched it out with my butterfly punch.  I adhered it with glue dots. Fast and easy and cute!

Another Summer Mini Preview

One of the first stamps that made my must-have list when I first looked through the summer mini was actually not a set...it was an A La Carte offering called "Hello Blossoms" .  I can't really explain why this stamp appealed to me so much...perhaps it was just the cheerful flowers.  In any case, I just love this little stamp; so here is a card I did using it!

Cheerful little card made using the Hello Blossoms stamp from the upcoming Summer Mini and Playdate DSP from the main IBC.  "Thinking of You" sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set.

Close-up of those cute flowers.

Can you see why I like this stamp so much?  I used it here with some Play Date DSP and my perfect polka dots embossing folder.  So quick and easy...and sweet!

I hope this card brightens your day like it has mine.  The weather here today is dreary at best...lots of rain, cold and blustery...these sunny flowers remind me that spring will come...eventually!