Love You My Friend

In the middle of cleaning out book shelves I had an idea for a card.  So I went to my desk, pulled out the stamps, dies and ribbon, and went back to my shelving.  This morning I just looked at them and thought, “What did I have in mind?”  Not sure, but this is what I ended up with.

Love You My Friend

I think it is funny because if you don’t read the little word love that is inside the heart cut out, the tags just say “you my friend”.  A bit basic, but really made me laugh.

Love You My Friend

All of the detail work went pretty quickly.  I started out by using the heart die cut on the whisper white paper and then ran it through the big shot to emboss it.  I thought the stamping inside the heart would be tricky to place.  Not at all.  I just eyeballed it and it was perfect!  Go figure!  The tags were simple stamping on scrap.  I do save scrap a bit too much sometimes.  But, the half inch that gets cut off when I trim down my paper works perfectly for sentiments and the banner punch.  Some might call it clutter, but I have used them so many times.

Love You My Friend

Have a creative day!

Moana

You Are So Kind

Nothing says elegance quite like a white on white greeting card.  I love how they look and how subtle their beauty is.  I am not sure this will fit into a regular envelope with all of those layers.  I think I will have to make a custom one.

You Are So Kind

I knew I wanted to use the new brick wall embossing folder, I have been so excited to get it.  I also knew I wanted to use both sets of butterflies dies.  I just didn’t know for sure how to fit them all together nicely.  They ended up all layered together, all five of them.

You Are So Kind

I only used one stamp from the watercolor wings set for the sentiment.  I haven’t let myself play with all of the other stamps.  I do try to budget how much time I give to my craft each day, otherwise nothing else would get done.

You Are So Kind

I used the bitty banner punch to give me banner ends on my sentiment and layered everyone up with dimensionals.  I glued my butterfly layers together using tombo and put the final butterfly object on dimensionals as well.  I finished it off with basic rhinestones, a string of nine for the body, and a scattering along the left side and bottom.  Just right.

Have a creative day!

Moana