Good morning! Is everyone cold and snowed in? Man, I kinda miss it! Now that I'm back in Okinawa, the weather is nice, but for winter, it's just not RIGHT! It was 75 today with like a million% humidity. I loved my hair in Montana. Here? Not so much. Ha!
So on day #2 of my new stay-at-home-wife career, I played with some New Verve Releases! All new releases are 15% off through then end of the year, so MERRY CHRISTMAS to YOU!;)
These sets are truly so fun and today I happened to make TWO cards!
This first one uses this week's Mojo Monday sketch...
For this fun birthday card, I pulled out the new "Amazing Wishes" set. In true Verve form, the fonts in the sentiments are whimsical and fun, and the flowers are SUPER gorgeous and I think match this paper (Modern Home Maker by OA) PERFECTLY! I also used the Vintage Oval Frame stamp and coordinating die!
I stamped everything in Tea Dye Distress Inks and ran the cut out flowers through my Big Shot using the Swiss Dots CB folder! For a little extra ~*SpArKLe *~ I added some rhinestone flourishes by Zva Creative.
OH! I almost forgot one SPECIAL detail, do you see the script stamp on the Aqua Mist cardstock? That's from another new release called Text Objects! I stamped it in Tea Dye distress ink also! For the ribbon panel, I accordion folded some 1/2 wrinkle ribbon from Sharon's Stamp Simply Ribbon store and sewed it down to keep it in place!
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Here's another card I made with the fabulous Wordy Birds!
I went shabby and girly on this one because it's going to a guy I used to work with, his wife just had their baby girl a couple days ago! I plan on tucking this card in with a cute little gift! I was really wanting to play with felt today, so I sewed a whole piece of felt to the green cardstock but then ended up covering most of it! At least I covered it with that gorgeous paper from October Afternoon;) I also cut a felt tag out with the Sweet Scallop Tag die and layered papers, buttons, and the sentiment!
The felt is a really bright Vanilla color so to tone it down a bit, I spritzed it with some Sugar Cookie Shimmer Mist, but sadly, it didn't end up shimmery, doh!
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Well, that's it from me today! I'm sipping some Vino, watching Seinfeld with my Hubs, and off to browse some blogs! Enjoy your day!!
11 comments:
These are both gorgeous Amber!
love all the jewels on the first card and the embossed flowers!!
great color combo on the second card and the felt & stitching give it a nice homey feel
Beautiful cards, Amber! I love the vintage, shabby feel of both!
Two great cards, Amber. You had me giggling out loud re: the humidity and your hair. I don't even want to think about what my curly hair would do over there - African bush woman comes to mind LOL! Koodoes to you for using the big bling - think I'd be wearing more than got on my card LOL! Enjoy your new found role :)
WOW, both of these are really lovely!!
glad to hear you are safe and sound at home...ah, to be an at home wife...I don't see that until retirement :) LOVE that baby card and all that luscious OA paper :) What a great idea to cut the tag from felt :) Hope you enjoyed the wine and Seinfeld!!! LOL
FREAKIN' ADORABLE! LOVE them both!
wow gorgeous cards girl...being at home will be fantastic...lol...keep up the fabulous work...hugs friend!
enjoy *~*
Amazing cards, Amber! Are you just totally lovin' your stampy playtime??! :)
Gorgeous, Amber! You know I love the blingy one! LOL
Two stunning cards, I love the colour combo on the Mojo card!!
Lou. xo
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