Fun with Stamp of the Month

March's stamp of the month is beautiful and fun!  And perfect for any upcoming spring weddings..

Supplies needed:

CTMH March stamp of the month or a stamp set like this: Love Blooms
For Always paper pack
Colonial White cardstock
Black shimmer trim
Pink glitter gems
Wooden flourishes
Cashmere ink pad
Hollyhock ink pad
Blush ink pad
adhesive
liquid glass
pop tape

The card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  The black piece of paper is from the For Always pack and is 3 1/4 x 3 1/4.  For the flourishes I adhered them with liquid glass.  After stamping the flowers and cutting them out I edged them with the cashmere ink.  To glue them to the card, I used adhesive for the parts that are on top of the wooden flourishes and pop tape for the parts on the card.  The black glitter trim is just on the top and bottom edge of the black square. 

Happy stamping!

Be-You-tiful Layout

Be-You-tiful Layout

Come join us for a beautiful 2-page layout featuring the new stamp set "Happy Thoughts".

Saturday, February 16th 9am- 12pm

Cost: $8; or $12 with the Cricut Cards
RSVP by Feb. 9th

Materials used:

Happy Thoughts stamp set

kraft cardstock

outdoor denium cardstock

sorbet cardstock

colonial white cardstock

creme brulee ink pad

sorbet ink pad

outdoor denim ink pad 

juniper ink pad

harvest assortment bakers twine

clear sparkles

Floral Card

 Floral Card

                                                            

                                                           Supplies:

                                                                        CTMH Dotty For You paper pack

                                                                        X1410 Colonial White cards

                                                                        Z1732 Seam Binding Ribbon

                                                                        Z1336 Cream pearl adhesive gems

                                                                        Z1311“1 ¼ punch”

                                                                        Z1686Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge

                                                                        Z2191sunset ink pad

                                                                        Z679liquid glass

Paper trimmer

                                                                        Adhesive

                                                                        Gluedots

                                                                        Scissors

                                                                        Pencil

                                                                        Colonialwhite cardstock scraps

Cut patterned paper 2 ¾ x 5 ½ inches and tape to the card.  Cut seam binding ribbon 5 ½” and glue to card.  Cut 3 roses from colonial white scraps using Cricut- one at 3” and 2 at 2”.  Ink the edges of the flower with sunset ink.  Gently massage the paper if you want the flowers to be more open.  Roll the flower using the tip of the pencil and then glue the base with glue dots.  Glue flowers to card with glue dots.  Punch circles from green dot paper with punch.  Cut the circles in half with scissors and fringe.  Glue under flowers for leaves.

Sweet and Simple

So for our end-of-the-year gift for my oldest's teacher we made cute lollipop bouquets.  Super easy!!!  All we did is punch holes in die cut paper flowers and put them on the lollipop sticks.  Then I taped those to empty fake flower stems and bunched them together, wrapped it with tissue paper and cellophane, and walla! you have a sweet (literally) gift for teacher.

If you don't want the lollipop wrapper to show you can just cover them with some tissue paper.

I found that taping the end of the wrapper to the stick helped make it easier for my son to put the paper flowers on the stick.  And of course you can always make the flowers and lollipops coordinate better than I did.

So there you have it!  And I also will accept these for mother's day (hint hint kids)