Eggstra Special Thank You

To understand the sentiment behind this card, you need to know something about me. I love deviled eggs. I mean I love deviled eggs! They are my second favorite food--after chocolate-covered strawberries. :-) And I have a friend, Sheryl, who makes the best deviled eggs in the world. And when she makes them--for a get together, a party, a picnic, a potluck--she always makes extra for me to take home. How sweet is that? Well, I wanted to make her a thank you, so I bought a gift card from Vons, and made this little card to house it. I could not resist using Verve's "eggy" stamps, and the chicken-themed paper from Melissa Francis. I fashioned the simple gift card pocket with ScorTape and wrote a thank you note on the top portion of the inside. She liked it!

Supplies
Stamps: Verve--Chicks Rule & Egg-stra Special
Paper: PTI--Lemon Tart; Melissa Francis--Kitschy Kitchen
Ink: Memento--Tuxedo Black; E.P.--Filigree Clear
Misc.: Die--Spellbinders Labels 8; Flowers--stash; Copics--Y00, Y32, YR00, YR12; Ribbon--Ellen Hutson

Another Post It Birthday Card!

Here is the card I sent the talented Jen--check out her blog here (Only Love Is Real! Papercrafts). I adored making this--all that glitter . . . the gorgeous blue of the PP . . . and inside, a matching cupcake--which I forgot to snap a photo of, but you can see a snippet of it in the pictures. :-)

Supplies
Stamps: Verve--Great Friend, Carpe Cupcake
Paper: PTI--Soft Stone; DCWV; Graphic 45
Ink: Versafine--Onyx Black; Versacolor--Celadon; Embossing Powder--Super Fine Detail Clear
Misc.: Glitter--Martha Stewart Coarse Glitter in Crystal; Copic--BG09; Rhinestones--Recollections; Die--Spellbinders Fancy Tags; Corner Chomper; Leaves--stash; sewing machine

Mojo Monday

And now for some Verve-y goodness! I've always wanted to say that. Okay, not always, but since I first discovered Verve stamps! I decided to try the Mojo Monday sketch for the first time--just because I liked it--and here is my entry. It's actually a pretty tiny card, smaller than an A2 (is that the standard smallish size?). I used yellow, black, and white, and Verve's newish Let It Shine stamp set. Oh, and a Corner Chomper--a new toy!

Supplies
Stamps: Verve--Let It Shine
Paper: PTI--Lemon Tart; stash
Ink: Versafine--Onyx Black
Copics: YO2 & Y17
Buttons: PTI--Lemon Tart; stash
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug
Brads: Basic Grey
Spellbinders Oval

Be Still . . .

This was a rare thing . . . a spontaneous card! I was flipping through my folder of purple scraps and I just felt an urge to use the sparkly background paper. Then I found a sparkly flower that matched the pink perfectly, and the stamp already sitting on the table . . . and I had a card. I used an embossing pen for the sparkly embossing powder around the edge of the purple flower layer and it worked great! I had to do it in stages as I thought the fluid might dry too much if I did the whole flower at once. Add some ric rac and a border punch and I was done. Simple and easy, but it will be nice to have in the old card stash for whenever I might need it.

Supplies
Stamp: Verve--Psalm 46:10
Paper: PTI Spring Rain, stash
Ric Rac: Stash
Flowers: Doodlebug Design, Prima
Rhinestone: Recollections (you can't tell in the picture, but it's the borealis kind--love those!)
Embossing Powder: Stampendous--Crystal
Border Punch: EK Success LE
Ink: Ranger--Dusty Concord; Versafine--Onyx Black
Die: Spellbinders--Blossom