More Best Witches

This is another Halloween card I made using the Tiddly Inks digital stamp. I added some more of the super cute Halloween Parade paper from Doodlebug and added some fluffy black ruffled trim. The green and purple dots are liquid pearls.
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Wish BIG

My daughter needed a quick birthday card the other night for a friend. I have a box of completed cards I keep for just this type of card crisis, but none of them were exactly what she was looking for.
I pulled out my Taylored Expressions Make a Wish stamp set and stamped this beautiful cake in brown ink. I colored the image with copics and then added some glossy accents and mint green liquid pearls. The patterned paper is a new pad from First Edition Paper called Animal Antics. The Wish BIG sentiment and the open scallop die are both from My Favorite Things. I added some of the liquid pearls to the scallop strip to finish it off.
Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Family Recipe Book

It has been a long time since I posted, but I hope you will agree with me when I tell you it was worth the wait. 

My oldest daughter lives in the Midwest with her new hubby and my granddaughter. Hubby, my youngest daughter and I are in southern Maryland. We were hoping that they would be able to come out here for Christmas this year, but since my oldest daughter just started a new job it doesn't look as if that is going to happen. I'll admit, I was very disappointed, but decided that maybe I could send a little bit of Christmas to her. 

I made a recipe book of the cookies, candy, bars and treats I make at Christmas time.

 This is a picture of the cover. I used my Cricut machine to cut the tree and reindeer (PDDU), then added some highlights with a white gel pen, black marker and liquid pearls. The snow was cut with a scalloped punch and then layered, I added some stickles for a little sparkle. Merry Christmas was stamped and then heat embossed with PTI white filagree embossing powder. I added some red ribbon and a couple of rows of liquid pearl dots to finish it off.

When I was done I used my Cinch to bind it all together. I used white spirals and added ribbons.

The book is made up of five pocket pages, all sewn on to make sure they will last.  I printed the recipes on my computer, wrote notes on the back of each and then used My Story laminator to laminate the pages. Easy for her to pull out and keep on the counter while she is baking or even stick in her purse for a trip to the grocery store.  

 After each recipe was laminated I punched a hole with my crop a dile and added eyelets and more ribbon.

I usually make twenty or so different treats, some old favorites and a couple of new ones too. I think this is a great way to share these with my daughter. I am going to have a hard time putting this in the mail to her next week, it has to be one of the nicest things I have ever made (IMHO). I am going to pick up a couple of cute rubber spatulas and some of the spices she will need and send it on it's way.
Thanks so much for stopping by, I really appreciate your patience!

Easter Lamb

I have been a follower of Taylor Van Bruggen's for a long time. She has some of the cutest stamps on the market and the greatest ideas to put them to great use. I followed her lead and decided to use the Easter Joy stamp set for a set of Easter cards. I even ordered the clear card boxes to put them in--I will post a pic of the finished box in a later post!

I stamped the little lamb and then colored his face and feet with copics. I added some quick highlights around his fleece to make him stand out a bit and then cut the whole thing out with a Nestabilities die. The white dots are actually liquid pearls (and look even better IRL). The patterned paper is more from the Echo Park Little Girl collection.


I stamped the sentiment and then layered onto matching cardstock to finish it off.
Will post more cards from the set this week.
Thanks for looking!