A New Birthday Card

Now that I'm caught up again on Project Life, it's time to work on my stash of cards again.  I found a lot of inspiration via Pinterest this weekend and I'm excited to start making my own versions.  I started with this one tonight from Flowerbug Inkspot's blog.  I loved the card.  It was so fresh and pretty.  My own version isn't quite right.  If I remake it, I'm definitely making the sentiment oval smaller, but I do like the embossing in the background.  Instead of buttons, I used some brads from my stash, but it was pretty simple to make with a few cute flowers cut on the Cameo and a flourish for the stem.  The sentiment is from the Inkadinakado set Expressions and Frames and I used a flourish from the Cloud9 Design set Chocolate Chalet.  The paper is all from my scraps stash and I used the Sizzix Dots and Flowers set for the dry embossing.  Quick and easy!

More inspiration from Julie Davidson

The other night when I was looking for the original source for a Pinterest link that inspired me, I spent a lot of time looking at Julie Davidson's blog.  I found so many cards that were inspirational.  Today I made my own take on this one I found in my search.  I found this flower and the leaves in the Silhouette Design Studio.  The patterned paper is from the Stella and Rose collection from My Mind's Eye.  The sentiment is stamped from Finley's Estate by Cloud 9 Design combined with the flourish from Birthday Wishes from Expressions and Frames from Inkadinkado. 

Scrapbuck Haul

Last Tuesday, I received an e-mail from Scrapbuck and saw this cute stamp set called Gem Stone Cats by Inkadinkado. I had not seen it before and certainly no store around here carries it (trust me, I own every cat thing that they do carry). So even though I've only purchased from them at scrapbooking shows, I decided to take advantage of their free shipping on orders $20 and over and did a little, well lot of, stamp purchasing since I couldn't believe how good their prices were. Then I was surprised at the prompt e-mail I received confirming my order and the follow-up e-mail for shipping/tracking. They really did ship in one day like they said they would. I'm always little leery of ordering online from a new company, but they delivered on their promises.

I was so excited to get this box the other night. So even though I was nursing a headache and should have just gone to bed, I had to open the box and this is what I found: and the whole reason I ordered: Gem Stone Cats!

Oh and a roll of foam "pop dot" type tape and a fun little acyclic stamp block that has a handle for easy stamping. I have one already but my mom saw it when they visited while we were camping a few weeks back and really liked it, so I ordered it for her. Now that I think about it, I should have ordered one for my sister and DaisyMaeMaus too. Hmm... maybe I'll give them a little time to re-stock and do some more shopping!