Hi friends! Happy Monday! How are you? I hope you have a great week. Last week I went down hard with a cold! YUCK. Summer colds are the absolute worst. Over 100 degrees outside every day and I'm hacking up a lung. It wasn't pretty... And I was pretty...crabby. UGH. Much better today - feeling human again and the morning was cool when I woke up. I'm in the studio trying to get some stuff done. I'm way behind now. I have good hopes though. It's still early and I've already checked off about six things from my to do list. Lucky is curled up on his blanket on my desk snoozing and my favorite podcast is on my phone. Bam...let's do Monday.
Since I didn't make anything last week I'm sharing a couple of cheerful Summer cards I made the week before. I've already shared these on Instagram, but not here on my blog yet. Sometimes I'm doing that from time to time...making a card and taking some pix and posting to Instagram first. Then I can circle around and blog later with the supplies, etc. Pretty soon it will be time to switch to Autumn/Indian Summer cards (yay) so I wanted to share Summer today!
First up is a pretty butterfly card combining lots of textures and colors. I love to mix papers!! Here I've used textured cardstock, vellum and metallic silver cardstock. I love the play and contrast of the mediums. I kept it simple - no stamping! Just a beautiful die cut from Pretty Pink Posh to finish it off...
I used a SUPER fun technique to make the background stripes!! If you look closely, you can see that I made that striped paper!! I took a sheet of white cardstock and covered it with sticky tape. Then I used several colors of AC Textured Cardstock and cut it into 1/4 inch strips. I laid the strips down onto the adhesive tape making sure to push them snugly against each other. Once I had enough stripes, I used a rectangle stitched die to cut it into a panel. SO easy! I can't wait to use different colors and different widths of strips of paper for different looks!! That served as the pop of color for the card, so everything else is pretty neutral. I die cut a butterfly from silver cardstock and the branches from vellum...then the sentiment from black cardstock (supplies at the end of my post). I used white ink to make splatters on everything! Glued it together and done!
Here's my lovely photo assistant! He has to be right where I am at all times! It's the absolutely sweetest thing ever. I don't mind one bit.
Next up is ICE CREAM! I made this card for National Ice Cream Day! I loooooove these stamps from Sunny Studio Stamps. They are my favorite ice cream stamps. You stamp them in three layers and the results are amazing. You can make such fun cards with this set. I used a beautiful background plate from Lil Inkers too....and Doodlebug papers....
I started with an A2 card base and layered pretty pink gingham (Doodlebug) and then a strip of plaid (also Doodlebug)... I used the cover plate to make the background on the white circle part...then die cut it into a circle. Love it as a background for ice creams!! I stamped the sentiment and some sprinkles onto a smaller circle. I stamped the cones, ice cream and cherry and added a few clear sparklies to finish. Another fun and easy card layout.
Thank you for coming by to see me! This week will be kind of quiet until Friday...then I have THREE new release blog hops that I'm in! SUPER stoked for those! I love the excitement of new releases and fun blog hops. Don't you? I hope your week is full of blessings and joy. XOXO
SUPPLIES FOR TODAY!
So fresh & pretty. Love the strips of paper on the first background.
Happy to see Lucky likes stamping.
Posted by: Geneva | 08/03/2018 at 08:31 AM
What a fabulous set of cards. Your butterfly card is smashing, girl. So pretty. I love that color combo.
Posted by: Marisela Delgado | 08/01/2018 at 04:27 PM
Fabulous cards—fun to see Lucky growing up with a true appreciation of art!
Posted by: Julie | 07/31/2018 at 09:02 AM
So sorry that cold is holding on. I am sure Mr. lucky is great company. These cards are really pretty. They sure made me smile. I went picking blueberries with my sister yesterday and then to coffee and a huge gab fest. So fun... feel better my friend.
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 07/31/2018 at 08:44 AM
Oh Wanda! I'm so sorry you had a yucky cold. That's the pits. Glad you are feeling better. I had to stop and say that the butterfly card is gorgeous! I love those stripes and the colors you chose. You had me at butterfly though. Love 'em, especially when they are sparkly. The ice-cream looks good enough to eat, that is for sure. And your studio assistant is as cute as can be. Enjoy seeing him in your Stories. And I show my daughter just about every pic of him, too. :) Have a great day and hope you aren't affected too badly from all the fires.
Posted by: Jeanne | 07/31/2018 at 05:11 AM
Your cards are fabulous!!! LOVE that you made that striped paper.
Posted by: Nora | 07/30/2018 at 05:53 PM