The Foil Paper Throwdown

When Laurie was here a few weeks ago, we went on a little shopping excursion and discovered a bunch of new paper pads. One was called Floral Dreams by K & Company, but there was only one left in the store. Being the selfless person I am (LOL) I let Laurie have it. The pad has some beautiful papers in aquas and plums. However, there were a couple that left us scratching our heads as to why they were included in the collection. They just didn't seem to go with the feel of the rest of the papers. Well, being the sweet little thing she is, :) Laurie felt she just "had" to share the wealth, so she left me a sheet of one of the ugliest papers I've seen and issued a throwdown for me to do something with it.

I don't back away from a challenge lightly so I spent a day or so thinking about what I could do to make the paper passable. See it's not just that it's a bright purple foil paper (that completely clashes with the beautiful plums in the rest of the pad), but the entire design is printed just a bit offset, so it kind of makes me a little queasy just looking at it. Click the photo to see it a little bigger. See what I mean? That's not fuzzy photography, that's just how the paper looks!

After deciding it wouldn't really count if I just used a little scrap or the back of the paper, I realized I'd have to do some altering. So I first crumpled the whole piece in a ball to try to break the hold of the purple foil a little. Next I pulled out some Broken China and Antique Linen distress ink pads and rubbed some color on to distract from all that purple. Next I painted the entire surface with some Rock Candy Crackle Paint and let it dry to give a really distressed look. A paper distresser around the edges and a couple curled corners and my paper was finally passable.

I knew exactly which stamp I wanted to use, since this was one of Laurie's favorite from the last release. It's the Nehemiah 8:10 Plain Jane. I stamped the verse in Concord Grape distress ink, then punched the edges with an EK SUCCESS border punch. To distress things a bit, I inked the edges with Antique Linen and applied a small coat of the Rock Candy Crackle Paint to just the edges of the panel. I cut a few QuicKutz flourish dies out of the treated foil paper to layer around the stamped panel, then just added some lace trim, vintage buttons and a few primas to finish off the look.

Okay, so there you have it. My first and last purple foil card. I'm still waiting to see Laurie's throwdown card. I know she'll make something absolutely gorgeous and I'll be thinking, "WHY didn't I think of that?!"

Sunny Days

Hi Everyone! It's Monday again already and this week is a Round or Square Mojo Sketch. I only had time for a quick little card, so I went square for my sample card this week.


The papers are all from the Mediterranean Cafe collection from DCWV. I matted everything with pearlized cream, using the loop edge border punch and some petite scallop circles. The sentiment is from Let it Shine, and I finished with a happy little prima flower, a bow, some Stardust Stickles accents and a touch of bling.

Hope you're having a fabulous start to your week. Be sure to check out the Mojo Blog for the sketch, and head on over to the Verve Blog for the next installment in our Fun with Flowers Project Parade.

Material Girl

Hi everyone! Today's card uses papers from the Material Girl collection by Cosmo Cricket. I just loved the patterns in the paper and thought the flower from Feel the Sun would look great paper pieced on the gingham prints. I also played with my new Tim Holtz Alterations Styled Labels die. I just love the shape of it and quickly hand cut a mat for it, before sponging with Antique Linen ink and adding a little dotted border. The sentiment is the Flowers of Tomorrow plain jane and I finished off the card with some lace, pearls, a little Cinnamon Stickles and an organdy bow that's aged by heating with my heat gun until the ribbon starts to curl.

What's In It?
Stamps: Feel the Sun, Flower of Tomorrow Plain Jane (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Material Girl DP (Cosmo Cricket), Chocolate Chip, Cream CS
Ink: Stormy Sky, Crushed Olive, Antique Linen, Vintage Photo (Ranger Distress Ink)
Accessories: lace trim, ribbon, Cinnamon Stickles, pearls, Styled Labels Die (Bigz Alterations line by Tim Holtz), heat gun, corner rounder

Some People

Hey everyone! Happy Wednesday! Last weekend I was chatting a bit with Charmaine and we discovered we both had this Hello Kitty Biz die that we never use because it's ginormous. So in no time (seriously, she's the Speedy Gonzales of stamping, folks!) Charmaine whipped out two darling little cards using it and emailed them to me, {check 'em out here} leaving me thinking I had some big footprints to follow in if I was going to take on the challenge.

So I dusted off Hello Kitty Bigz and some Paper Studio specialty paper that I just kinda LOVE. :) I knew I wanted her popping off the card a bit, so I just grabbed a scrap of Material Girl paper laying on my table for my other panel, used the loop edge punch for a border, then stitched a couple lines down it. Then I picked my sentiment from Feel the Sun and stamped on a Nestabilities ribbon slider tag. I finished off with a cameo rose on HK's bow and some pearls down the side of the punched border.

What's In It?
Stamps: Feel the Sun (Verve)
Paper: Red specialty (The Paper Studio), Material Girl (Cosmo Cricket), Black, White
Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine)
Accessories: Hello Kitty with Bow Bigz Die (Sizzix), Tag (Nestabilities), ribbon, sewing machine, loop edge punch (SU!), pearls (Melissa Frances), Cameo Roses (Prima)

Go Confidently

Hi everyone! I've been feeling under the weather and have spent the last several days hanging out on the couch. So I thought I'd just pop in and change up the scenery with a card I made before the sickness took over!


This one's a long card (9" to fit in a regular sized #10 business envelope) I just love the Henry David Thoreau quote {"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."} on this Devonshire Collection paper and couldn't bear to cut it up, so I knew I had to go long with it. I added a few scrappy elements to complete the layout and a paper pieced flower from Feel the Sun, layered and accented with some German Glass Glitter from the Holiday Glitzy pack. Okay, back to the couch with me. Hope you're staying healthy, wealthy & wise! :)

Oh, and if you haven't already be sure to check out the Verve Blog - the Divas started their Fun with Flowers Project Parade yesterday!

What's In It?
Stamps: Feel the Sun (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Cream, Devonshire Collection (KaiserCraft)
Ink: Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, Vintage Photo (Ranger Distress Ink)
Accessories: Fountain Fun Corner Punch and curved border punch (EK Success), pearls, Holiday Glitzy (TCP)

Fabulous Hello Kitty

Happy Friday! I don't know about you, but I'm so glad this week is almost over. It's been a rough one around here, and I'm sooooo ready for a little break. And since he's worked so hard following me around all week, I'd be overjoyed if my migraine would take the weekend off, too! Hear that, migraine??? Scram! LOL

Well, it's time for another Viva la Verve! challenge over on the Verve forum and one of the inspiration photos this week was especially for me! Isn't this Hello Kitty apron from Etsy just adorable? EEEK! I've been resisting the urge to buy one since Amber peeked the photos to the team earlier this week! And look at this one, the lace and vintage pattern of it just make me giddy! Hello Kitty heaven, I tell you! :)


Anyhow, I knew as soon as I saw the inspiration photo, that I needed to pull out the fabulous Hello Kitty Spring Set of embossing folders that Laurie gave me. I had to tweak the sketch a bit to accommodate my HK face, but it was totally worth it! She's embossed on white and cut out with Classic Circle Nestabilities. I inked her whiskers, nose and eyes with a black multiliner pen and then carefully colored her flower with Copics, adding a few polka dots to it with a colorless blender. The flowers on either side are from the Love's Flower set and colored with Copics and accented with liquid pearls and a mixture of glitter and diamond glaze. The black strips are a flocked zebra print that's just fabulous in person, but hard to see in the picture. I embossed both the hot pink paper {I promise it's not as neon as it looks - the colors just wouldn't photograph right!} from BasicGrey and the pink pirouette paper with a Cuttlebug folder, then added some bling and a ribbon up top to finish the card. Finished size is 5.5" square. And I chose the "fabulous just the way you are" sentiment from Love's Flower because it was something I really needed to remind myself of this week.

Hope you all know just how fabulous you are, EXACTLY the way you are today. Have an awesome weekend!

Hello Sunshine

So the other day with my shabby birthday card, I was talking about the Devonshire Collection papers from Kaisercraft and how I loved its versatility. Today's card uses the same collection, with a much bolder look. Love the deep orange and aqua!


I started by stamping the sun from Let it Shine twice on choice buttercream cardstock in A Muse black ink. Next I colored with Copic markers. I LOVE the way my shading turned out, although I ended up glitterfying the whole thing, so you can't really see the shading anymore. LOL! Oh well, 'tis the sacrifice one must make for sparkle. :) I cut out one sun with a circle die, then trimmed the other with scissors and popped up on dimensionals. None of my cardstocks were giving the right look for a mat, so I decided to go for a whimsical hand-drawn double line border with a Copic multiliner and then colored in with a Copic marker. To pull things together, I extended this look to the sentiment panel and the designer paper panel.

The sentiment is also from Let it Shine, and I accented with a few different sizes of aqua rhinestones from the Lush collection by My Mind's Eye. Inspired by Amy Sheffer's use of twill on this little card, I dug and dug through my stash of ribbons and finally found a small length of twill to use on my card. The orange dp is embossed with the Script background folder, with a little sanding to set it off. And everything is on a 4.25 x 5.5" choice buttercream card base.

What's in It?
Stamps: Let it Shine (Verve)
Paper: Devonshier Collection (KaiserCraft), choice buttercream (Taylored Expressions)
Ink: A Muse Black Dye ink, Copic Markers, Copic Multiliner, Wild Honey Ranger Distress (for sponged edges)
Accessories: Lemon Stickles, twill, linen thread, Lush rhinestones, Script embossing folder (Cuttlebug)

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I'm back again with my second post for the day. Tonight we're headed out with some friends for our 2nd annual St. Patrick's Day dinner at a local pub. Then we're going to do one of my most favorite things in the world... put a jigsaw puzzle together! What an exciting night! LOL I searched my wardrobe high and low last night and couldn't find one stitch of green clothing. I remember trying to buy a blouse earlier this year that was green and Mark telling me, "Honey, that's NOT a good color on you." LOL - who knew men could be so helpful? In his defense, it was a really good papercrafting color, but probably a little too yellow-green for my complexion. :) So, I'm going to cheat and bead myself a little green bracelet this afternoon to go with an aqua sweater (that's almost green, right?) and black shell.


Since I was thinking about aqua, green and black, those colors ended up as the basis for my card for the Waltzingmouse St. Patrick's Day Blog Hop. The hop list is located on this thread on the WMS forum. {I'm not sure, but you might have to register to see it, but Claire's such fun, you won't regret hanging out there!}

When I saw Claire's free St. Patrick's Day digital stamp set, I just couldn't wait to print it out and color all those shamrocks! Such a fun image. I combined it with a few stamps from the Celtic Heritage set, to tie it all together. And I added some really wonky stitching, a little gingham ribbon and those Fountain Fun corner punches I'm loving so much lately. Okay, that's all for now folks. If you're hopping, head back to the March Blog Hop Links thread for the next hop.

What's in it?
Stamps: Celtic Heritage, St. Patrick's Day Digital Freebie (Waltzingmouse Stamps)
Paper: Soft Sky, Black (SU!), White (Neenah), Lucky DP_ (Little Yellow Bicycle)
Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine), Soft Sky (SU!), Copic markers
Accessories: Fountain Fun Corner Punch (EK Success), Circle punches and modern label punch (SU!), Petite Ovals Nestabilities (Spellbinders), gingham ribbon, Janome sewing machine, mixture of diamond glaze and glitter for center of shamrocks

Time to Celebrate

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! I've got another post scheduled for later on today, but since I've been crafting up a storm lately, I thought I'd share this little gift ensemble I made. I've been so busy that for the last couple months I haven't had much time to stamp. This weekend, I finally got some quality stamping time in and made about 6 cards. Then I was just so bored with cardmaking (eek, say it's not so!) and Mark was still X-Box-ing, so I decided to do a hybrid project. I downloaded this fabulous little Pointy Treat Bag template from Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs back in January, and I haven't had a spare moment to play until now.


I used a gorgeous digi paper pack by Sugarplum Paperie called Le Petit Oiseau. I loved the flowery paper so much, that I shrunk it down to a little accent size and printed two in the margins of the template, so I wasn't wasting any paper! I think being able to scale a pattern like that is my favorite part of using digital papers.

A little side note about printing: several of you have asked what type of printer I print my digi projects on. I have an Epson R1900 printer. I absolutely love it. It does print wide format up to 13x19", and although I rarely print anything larger than 8.5 x 11", I purchased it with the idea that I'd do some 11 x 17 brochure printing (which hasn't happened...yet! LOL) Ink usage is always a big question, too. And just like with Copics and cardstock, the paper is a big factor in ink usage. I use Epson Ultra Premium Matte Presentation Paper for almost all of my hybrid projects. I've had the printer over a year and only just had to replace the yellow and cyan cartridges last week. (I print more aqua than anything else - go figure! LOL) I also always adjust the print properties each time I print to let the printer know exactly what paper I'm using so it will automatically use the right amount of ink for the paper type. I don't print a whole lot of digi papers, just a couple pages a week, so I would categorize myself as a moderate ink user.

Okay, on with the making of... after printing out the template and accents, I trimmed them out, and scored all the lines. The pointy flaps fold down, so they're actually the back side of the paper. You could easily print the template on double-sided paper for a different effect, but I actually wanted the white to show for my card, to give me a little home for the Happy Birthday sentiment from Big Wish. I simply traced the pointy flap onto black cardstock and then cut slightly larger to adhere a black map under the flap. I inked up the edges of the flap, as well as the square paper accent with some Crushed Olive Distress ink, then just added a big May Arts ribbon and a couple brads. The handle is black cardstock, punched on both edges with an SU! loop edge border punch.
And since it never feels right to make a little gift packaging by itself, I had to make a little 3x3" coordinating notecard. For this, I simply used the other paper I had resized and printed with my template and some black scraps from cutting my flaps and handle. I embossed the white panel with the script embossing folder for cuttlebug and stamped the Time to celebrate sentiment from Big Wish onto a tag die cut from SU!, then hand cut a thin black mat, and finished off with a prima flower, some Kaisercraft pearls and a little polka dot ribbon.

Shabby Devonshire

Happy today! As I've mentioned before, I've really been into shabby chic lately. It's a bit strange, since I've always been a bit of a tomboy and avoided any kind of pastels, frills and lace like the plague when I was growing up. Black was my color of choice for everything. My mom wanted to decorate my room in pastel pink when I was in Jr. High, and it made me sick just thinking of it. Our compromise was a dusty mauve color with TONS of black accents. But as I slowly asserted my personal style over the years, it became black with a miserly few mauve accents. I thought I'd finally gotten away from pink when I moved to college, but in my junior year I was scheduled to have a single room and at the last minute got paired up with another gal, who got there before me and decorated floor to ceiling in pink. My heart sank as I walked into the room. And she nagged me so much about my teal and black decor that I finally swallowed my pride and went home to ask my mom for my old black & pink comforter and pillows. Wow! That was quite a walk-down-memory-lane tangent. Better get on with the card...

So, where was I going with that? Oh, this card is all about the shabby, complete with a sparkly pink cake. It uses this week's Viva la Verve! sketch and I chose the frilly second picture with the over-the-top teapot and teacup chandelier as my inspiration. Next I picked my papers - not a hard choice since I fell head over heels in love when my new Devonshire Collection paper pad by Kaisercraft arrived. This paper is so cool, I've got some more projects to share with it that are super bold. I just {heart} a collection that has the flexibility to create several different styles with it.

I started by cutting the blue paper, then embossing with an Organic Flourishes border folder and sanding. I did some faux stitching with a paper piercer and a brown Copic pen because when Laurie was here she changed the thread in my sewing matching to black and I'm too lazy to change it back! LOL. Then I cut the rest of my layers and distressed with Antique Linen ink and a sanding block. For the main image, I stamped the cake from Big Wish onto prism cream paper, then colored with Copics and then stamped the cake again to create a flower to cut out and pop up for some dimension. I added a little vintage lace trim between my two papers. I'm always loving Laurie's projects when she stamps on muslin, so I had her show me where it's located in the fabric store. I started with baby steps here, since I rarely stamp on anything but paper. The sentiment is stamped in Vintage Photo distress ink, then I just frayed around the edges and glued everything to a Kraft card base.

Okay, thanks for stopping by and reading my rambling thoughts. Have a fabulous day!

To Love

Hi everyone! Did you have a great weekend? Mine was so awesome... filled with not too much work, a movie and quite a bit of stamping. Just perfect! It's Monday, so it's time for another Mojo Monday sketch. For my card, I pulled out my new BasicGrey Green at Heart paper pad and the Easter Joy and Feel the Sun stamp sets from Verve.

I took most of my inspiration directly from the papers. I stamped the flower from Easter Joy a couple times on white CS, then colored with copics and paper pieced, adding some Stickles accents and a pink pearl for some sparkle. For the bottom panel, I embossed one of the Organic Flourish Cuttlebug borders across the panel and then sanded to make it more visible. The top of this layer is also punched with an SU! border punch and I added a few little pearls in between the loopy scallops for accent. The flower panel is matted on pumpkin pie CS and I added some Rock Candy crackle paint to distress it, then a coat of Pearlized Top Coat Smooch for some shine.

The sentiment from Feel the Sun is embossed in white and cut out with Nestabilities circles, then I added a little piercing and a top row of pearls to set things off. I finished off with some rich razzleberry mats and a couple rounded corners.

What's In It?
Stamps: Easter Joy, Feel the Sun (Verve)
Paper: Green at Heart (BasicGrey), White, pumpkin, razzleberry (SU!)
Ink: Versamark, A Muse Black Dye ink, Copic markers
Accessories: Square & Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), white taffeta, border punch (SU!), Organic Flourishes embossing border (Cuttlebug), Round-it-all (Zutter), paper piercer, pearls, Stardust Stickles

Friday Fun

Hey everyone! How's life? Things here have been super busy lately, but I'm really looking forward to a bit of relaxing this weekend. Over on SCS, the Ways to Use It challenge yesterday was to use something new. My studio is overflowing with new things lately, so I got right to work trying to use as many new items as possible.


I started with the new Kioshi paper from BasicGrey. I {heart} this paper. I stitched a little piece to an olive piece that is punched with my new Vine border punch from EK Success. Next I added a little black mat to set off the punch and then added two black punched shapes on either side with the fabulous new Fountain Fun Corner Adorner punch that Laurie surprised me with last week. Next I pulled out my new Labels 11 Nestabilities and cut and sponged with soft sky. After that I embossed the quote from Love's Flower in black, then colored with Copic markers.

For the flower, I pulled out my new Let it Shine set and stamped the three flowers on white cardstock, colored with Copics, then cut out and layered together. The leaves are from the flower in the Love's Flower set, and I just layered them behind my finished flower. For a little accent, I added a sheer black bow then, a new Jenni Bowlin stick pin with some new beady things I picked up on my last trip to the craft store. The soft sky card base is embossed with my new Ornate Flowers & Frame Textured Impressions embossing folder. I finished off with a hint of Pearlized Top Coat by Smooch over the letters in the word Love and the petals on my stamped flower.

See what I mean... that's a whole lot of NEW! :) And there's still plenty more to play with - hopefully I'll get to break some more stuff in this weekend! Hope you have a fabulous day!

Birthday Wishes

Hi Everyone! Happy Tuesday! Today's card is one I made with last week's Viva la Verve! sketch. I was totally inspired by the colors in the Retro Kitchen inspiration photo.


I used the new Birthday Wishes Plain Jane for my focal piece, embossed in black, then colored with Copics and layered on dimensionals. The black mat is cut with the Labels 8 Nestabilities, and I added a few little rhinestones for accent. The Bermuda Bay background is stamped with the coordinating small flower from Feel the Sun and the white panels are embossed with the Retro Squares background. I finished off with a big ole' polka dot bow.

What's In It?
Stamps: Birthday Wishes Plain Jane, Feel the Sun (Verve)
Paper: Bermuda Bay, Basic Black (SU!)
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Copic markers
Accessories: Labels 8 Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Retro Squares (Cuttlebug), polka dot ribbon (SU!), gold stickles, rhinestones

Like a Wildflower

Happy Monday! It's time for another Mojo Monday sketch, and this week Teresa stepped in for me while I'm busy with Verve's latest release. My sample card uses the new Feel the Sun set and some Quite Contrary papers from My Mind's Eye.


I got to play with quite a few new toys, including the Nestabilities Labels 10 & 12, as well as a new EK Success border punch and some flourish die cuts from QuicKutz. The flower is paper pieced and I added a little Sweet Thing Glitzy glass glitter to the center. The olive background is stamped with the smaller coordinating flower from Feel the Sun.

What's In It?
Stamps: Feel the Sun (Verve)
Paper: Quite Contrary (My Mind's Eye), Old Olive, black (SU!)
Ink: Rose Red, Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive (SU!), Onyx Black (Versafine)
Accessories: Labels 10 & 12 Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Flourish dies (QuicKutz), rhinestones (Kaiser Craft), paper piercer, Sweet Thing Glitzy (TCP), ribbon, border punch (EK Success)

Spring Fling Blog Hop

The new Verve sets are here and it's time to celebrate! If you haven't checked them out, bop on over to the Verve store to see the new stamps and the new deals. We've got 4 shiny new sets, plus 5 plain janes, so there's lots of new Verve-iness to be had!

After a fabulous day of sneak peeks, challenges and set reveals, we’re topping off our Spring Fling Blog Party with a blog hop featuring our new release. And to celebrate, we’ve got a very special treat hidden along the hop. One lucky commenter will win our entire release! So as you’re hopping along, be sure to give a little shout out in the comments if you see something that makes you smile. The lucky winner will be announced Tuesday evening, {March 10} on the Verve Blog. This is the first stop on the hop, so let's get started!


My card features the new set, Easter Joy. I was totally in a shabby chic mood {when am I not, lately? ;)} and wanted to play with this embossing frame I got a while back. It's the Medium Fleur de Lis & Vines Frame from Sizzix. I embossed it on Buttercream CS and then hand cut around the edges. Next I aged with a touch of Antique Linen and Old Paper ranger distress ink. The egg wreath is embossed in the center using Vintage Photo distress ink and then I pulled out my Watercolor Wonder Crayons and an aquapen to do a little watercoloring. The background panel is paper from the Nature's Storybook Collection by Webster's Pages. I distressed the edges and curled the corner with a small dowel.

The sentiment is stamped on cream, then cut with Classic Oval Nestabilities. I wanted to make the sentiment look like one of the eggs, so I used one of the flowers from Love's Flower to stamp on the edges in Tattered Rose distress ink. Then I sponged around the edges with Tattered Rose and Antique Linen and matted on a kraft oval. To finish off, I added a sheer cream bow and coated the frame with some Pearlized Top Coat by Smooch for some fun shimmer. The card base is 4.75" square and aged with distress inks.

Thanks for hopping by! Next up on the hop is the uber talented and oh-so-sunny Sankari!

And in case you get distracted or there’s a bump in the road, here's the complete list of hops:

Be Still

Hi everyone! I've still been working with that unnamed Glittered Paper Pad from My Mind's Eye. The minute I saw this paper with the dragonfly, this card just kind of popped into my head. I love it when inspiration strikes and I have time to listen. LOL! I've been thinking about the great ministry behind the Dragonfly Card Drive and was glad I finally got to play.


I strategically cut the paper so the dragonfly would be on the side of my card, then carefully used a craft knife to cut out just the wings, so they would pop a little and I could slide a Labels 9 die cut under it.

Next I cut a smaller label in butter cream and lightly inked with Antique Linen and Tea Dye ink. I did a little subtle stamping on the edges with one of the flowers from Love's Flower in Antique linen, then embossed the Psalm 46:10 plain jane in Vintage Photo in the center. I finished off with some vintage lace trim, a few pearls and then did a light coat over the dragonfly wings with Smooch Pearlized Top Coat.

What's In It?
Stamps: Love's Flower, Psalm 46:10 Plain Jane (Verve)
Paper: Kraft, Butter cream (Prism), Glittered Paper Pad (My Mind's Eye)
Ink: Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo (Ranger Distress)
Accessories: lace trim, pearls (Melissa Frances), Labels 9 Nestabilities (Spellbinders), sanding block, corner rounder, pearlized top coat (Smooch)

Abundance of Glitter

Hi everyone! It's a new month and time for a new Mojo Monday contest. This week we've got Verve prizes up for grabs, so be sure to play along if you've got some time. Be sure to head on over to the Mojo Monday blog to get inspired by the Mojo Maker creations and check out the new sketch.


This week's sketch is good for using up some leftover scraps. I love this My Mind's Eye paper, so I couldn't let the scraps on my desk go to waste. I just stitched them together, then layered onto a piece of Kraft cardstock that I embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder. For the focal circle I stamped the frame from Accent Notes on Kraft then colored with a Copic marker. Next I stamped the two smaller flowers in Abundant Blessings on the aqua paper, added some highlights with a Copic marker, then cut out, layered, and smothered with a nice coating of a mixture of diamond glaze and dazzling diamonds. It looks fuzzy in the picture, but it's so sparkly in real life!

Next I made a little ribbon embellishment with a satin bow, a button and a jewelry tag punch. The for you sentiment is part of the "so jazzed for you" sentiment in Uplifting Phrases. I coated this in the glitter glaze too, then added a few chocolate pearls for accent. To finish it all off, I embellished the dots on the paper and the dots on the stamped frame with some liquid pearls.