Gina's Little Corner of StampinHeaven

Happy Mother's Day!  My mother spends her days working in her backyard which really needs to be referred to as a garden.  It's a beautiful labor of love. When you step into her backyard, you feel like you are stepping into the pages of a Southern Living or Better Homes & Garden magazine. Unfortunately, I did not get that green thumb from her.  My thumb is more of a 'inky' thumb. She loves hydrangeas so I really wanted to incorporate some on a Mother's day card for her. I used A Mother's Love (B1447) stamp set which is a special stamp set available only for our Hostess'. The paper is from the Skylark paper pack .  I cut a decorative rectangle using the Art Philosophy cricut cartridge for a backdrop for the hydrangeas.  The stamp for the flowers is a two-step technique.   I stamped the base of the hydrangea in Sweet Leaf ink and the outline layer in Desert Sand in.   I tried several colors and colors combinations for the hydrangeas befor...

When I sat down last weekend to start working on a couple of graduation cards and Mother's Day cards, I was rummaging through my Skylark paper pack and pulled out a card I had started but never finished!  I decided to use the Mother's Day and the Frame Flair stamps that I had used on the card I shared yesterday.  See it HERE . Recipe: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 White Daisy Card & Envelopes Valu Pack - X254 Skylark Paper - X7177B Skylark Assortment (resin flower) - Z3000 Lagoon Zipper Lace - Z1917 Sparkles Clear Flourishes - Small Z1812 Bitty Sparkles - Z1263 Scallop Punch - Z1851 Art Philosophy - Z1686 I'm entering this card into two challenges: Crazy 4 Challenges - Bingo (Flowers, Sentiment & Bling) Clean & Simple Challenge #292 HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!   I'm headed to my craftroom to work on a card for my mom!

I'm back!!  I've got lots of new product and I'm ready to play.   Over the next couple of weeks I'll start giving you sneak peeks of things to come in February! Last night I finished up the Skylark Workshop on the Go Kit that my StampinHeaven Hostess Clubs will be creating in February.  It is so pretty!!  You can get a glimpe of these layouts on my " StampinHeaven Hostess Club " tab.  Currently all my Hostess Clubs are full but I have plenty of room to add one or two more.  If you have 4 or 5 friends that would love to put together 1-2 layouts each month AND get rewards, contact me! After I finished the two layouts from the kit I created this card. The sketch is from Mojo Monday . Oh how I've missed participating in challenges the last couple of weeks. I want to just squeal when I look at this card because I love this paper so much!!  What is it about Close To My Heart paper that just makes you fall in love with it more and more when you w...