A few summer cards

I've been playing around with Faber Castell Gelatos this summer, as well as water-soluble wax pastels (basically watercolor crayons). My goal was to figure out the best materials to use while Bible journaling, but I colored a few sets of flowers during practice. Here's a card I made with the gelatos and a stamp from Papertrey Ink.  The inside note was a wooden stamp I bought on clearance years ago and always forget about. 

I used the same stamp on the inside of this next card, a beautiful bouquet of tulips colored with Copic markers. The flowers are from Papertrey Ink.

I used the same hydrangea stamp as before with water color crayons to create this weird but cool effect. The inside is blank.

I colored these Papertrey Ink strawberries a few months ago and added my own Copic Pen scribbling around the edges. Tonight I finally finished it by adding a sentiment, though I wish I had neater handwriting!

I love this card. It makes me want Autumn! The stamps were Papertrey Ink (I was obviously on a 'friendship jar' kick for awhile) and the sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs.

And another bouquet of tulips to finish off the evening.

Cards and CREATE

I found this adorable decal at Joanns with 3-D shapes in each letter to fill in a little space beside my stamping cart. I bought it right after Christmas but it took me awhile to decide on where to put it.

 Here are a few cards I made using a new set of papers from American Crafts. I LOVE the paper! (Although I did add in some extras here and there from another set).

A few more cards

Here are a few more cards I made while off for Easter. 

Thank You Cards

I needed a few thank-you cards last week, and used this lovely DCWV paper I've had in my craft room for ages but never seemed inspiring enough to use... until now! It's called "The Botanicals Stack" and it's from a few years ago. I ended up with more than 15 cards before my energy started to drain. I also used stamps from Papertrey Ink, JustRite Papercraft, and Stampin' Up. I didn't get a picture of all of my cards, apparently, but have already sent them out. 

Magnolia Birthday Card

Here's another card I made today, this time using the magnolia blossom from JustRite Papercraft. It's quite lovely! I colored the flower with my copic markers, and added a sentiment inside the card from Our Daily Bread Designs. They're getting to be my two favorite places! The "Your special day" tiny tag is from Papertrey Ink. I have to add that I LOVE the svg cuts on my new Cricut Explore. They made the magnolia shadow a breeze! 

Tweet Memories Birthday Card Book

I decided to play with the Heidi Grace "Tweet Memories" paper until I became sick of it (which happened around the time I realized I punched the holes in the book backwards and had to re-do it, I think). It has taken a few days, but I finally finished my birthday card book along with 12 cards. The only part I really don't like about making these books is that my rings (2" on the Cinch) aren't quite big enough to make the book close well when full of cards. I wish I could find a better binding for them. 

Here's what the inside looks like. I used brown vinyl to cut the months from Designer's Calendar.

Here are the front of the cards.

Here is a peek of the inside. I used Papertrey Ink's Birthday Sentiments for the words.

Here is an example of what the page looks like. These books are super easy to make. 

The envelopes were all identical.