You Are the Apple of My Eye

Since I managed to catch up Project Life over the weekend (love doing one month at a time), I had a little time last night to play in my craft room after cleaning it up (because why should it stay clean?). I decided I wanted to use up some stamp sets that I've bought but not really used.  I have them sitting in box near my craft desk for just this opportunity.  I pulled out one called Fresh Fruit from Stampendous and just started stamping images out in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I loved this apple image and the card practically made itself.  After I had stamped, colored and fussy cut the image, I pulled out my Paper Wishes Basic Notebook die and found the cutest quilt type paper in my Jillibean Soup Homemade Six Bean Soup 6x6 paper pad for the background.  I cut it down just smaller than a red A2 card base I had in my stash.  I then layered the die cut and added my sentiment.  I popped on my apple with pop dots, added a bit too much shadow under it, then topped the apple with some clear Wink of Stella and a lot of Glossy Accent.  I found some Peppermint Lawn Trimmings to tie on the top of the note paper and set it aside to dry. 

Wish You Were Here Card Two Featuring Newton's Nook

I really had a great time with this stamp set and since it's a beach themed card, it fits the Newton's Nook challenge to make a beach themed card.  There's still time to play so head over to their blog and check it out.  You can find it here.    The cards just seemed to make themselves and I loved coloring all the kitties.  I've colored them to look like the furballs, Tigger, Cha-Ching and for today's card, I decided to try my hand an orinch one (yes I know that's not the correct spelling).  After coloring my panel, I ran it through my Sizzix with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Card.  I cut some sand paper from the Summer Stack from DCWV to a slightly larger size and chomped the corners with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper.  I messed up my sentiment (missed that I had a piece of lint on it), so I stamped it again on a scrap of the sand paper.  I then used the banner from the Lawn Fawn dies to cut out the banner and then ran it through again with the stitched journaling die to get the stitched look on the end.  For the background, I used a couple sheets of paper from that Echo Park 6x6 paper pad A Perfect Summer.  I added some Peppermint Lawn Trimmings at the join of the two papers.  I added my panel with pop dots and then finished it off with some Doodlebug sequins.