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You Make Me Smile

Welcome to another Monday!  This week's my favorite type of mojo - round or square!  So head on over to the Mojo Monday blog for the sketch and some fabulous inspiration from the mojo team.  I hope you can play along!


For my card, I pulled out the newly released Blue Skies set and some pretty papers from The Girls' Paperie.  I stamped the You Make Me Smile sentiment on the yellow gingham circle, then matted with chocolate chip and added some yellow liquid pearls for some pizazz.  Some days I just feel I need a little pizazz, you know what I mean?  Next I stamped the notebook paper from Blue skies in Brushed Corduroy then stamped the flourish in pink pirouette on the paper.  I trimmed this out and matted on chocolate as well.  I subsituted a butterfly for the star shape in the mojo sketch, and this is the larger one from Blue Skies, which I stamped directly onto patterned paper, cut out and added a few chocolate pearls for its body.  I also stamped the flourish with a little Shabby Shutters ink on the green polka dot paper to balance things out.

To finish things off, I added a little punched border, some May Arts pink ruffled ribbon, more liquid pearls and hand stitched a few coordinating buttons onto the card.  The finished card is 4.25" square so it'll fit inside a normal A2 envelope.  Okay, that's all for me.  I've got to get back to shipping orders.  :)  Hope you have a fantastic start to your week!


What's In It?
Stamps: Blue Skies (Verve Stamps)
Paper: The Girls' Paperie, chocolate chip, white
Ink: Brushed Corduroy, Shabby Shutters (Ranger Distress Ink), Pink Pirouette (SU!)
Accessories: Round-it-all, loop edge punch (SU!), buttons, string, ruffle ribbon (May Arts), chocolate pearls (KaiserCraft), liquid pearls (Ranger)

16 comments

Jessica said...

I love this card, and that butterfly is amazing!

Michelle said...

Such a pretty card. I love the colors! The butterfly is so pretty.

Dawn Easton said...

This card makes me smile! Beautiful, Julee! Hope I can play along again this week!

Cindy Haffner said...

Julee this is so PRETTY, thanks for a wonderful sketch.

Jackie Pedro said...

This is just beautiful, Julee! I really need to think about using my distress inks for more than just sponging!!

Charmaine (CharmWarm) said...

Julee, this is GORGEOUS! Oh my goodness!

Deborah Young said...

Oh my - awesome! I'm going to have to spend some time looking at those new releases!!!

Luanne said...

I love how you put things together! It fits the sketch so well. I love that little notebook too! Very pretty card ~ you made me smile. :-)

Mary Fish said...

Beautiful stamp images. Totally digging this layout and the liquid gold dots! Hus, M

Kristina said...

This is so incredibly gorgeous. I think that little pizazz was definitely the right call! It just give the card a little extra "umph!"

Amy Rohl said...

Scrumptious! Lovely papers and perfect stamps for the sketch! Love that butterfly and the notepad stamp!!

Arielle H Gordon said...

Love all the details on this gorgeous card - that butterfly is awesome & I love the buttons, too!

Debbie Henderson said...

Julee your card is gorgeous. Stampin' Up is finally coming out with some 'jewels' on July 1st and I can't wait. Love the little 'jewels' on your card!

Laura (scrapnextras) said...

Ack Julee...I'll be stalking the mailman now for sure! This is absolutely gorgeous! I love love love this card!

Basslady said...

a very beautiful card!

the paper is so nice!

xoxo silvi (from germany)

Maureen said...

Love how you used the notepaper for a panel, Julee...yippeee!!!! I'm done work for 2 months and get to stamp the summer away...fingers crossed my order arrives Friday...but since it's our holiday tomorrow...maybe Monday...in time for Mojo!!!