Fairy Tales Do Come True

For today's Inspiration challenge I chose this Pink Carriage print by Dazzle Designs.
Once Upon A Time paper by DCWV layered on Cocoa and Pink Pirouette. Carriage stamp is by Me & Carrie Lou embossed in gold and shaded in with markers. Elzybells image colored, cut out, and popped up on dimensionals. The sentiment "fairy tales do come true" is by A Muse and was embossed in gold.

One Layer Cards

I love the way this card looks in real life, I used Pebbles Inc. Pearlescent Chalks to shade the sun and sky and it has such a pretty shimmer hard to see in photo. I used Garden Silhouettes on Whisper White cardstock. Inks and markers were used for flowers- Celery, Mustard, Ruby Red, Old Olive, Ballet Blue, Lavendar Lace, Apricot Appeal. I also used Art of Life for sentiment and Happy Hamony and Watercolor Minis for flowers. My favorite part of this card is that it reminds me of an Impressionist style of painting. I used the leaves stamp from Branch Out and stamped repeatedly in stamped off Soft Sky and Cool Caribbean. For the grass I did the same with Kiwi and Celery.


This was a super quick 10-15 minute card. I used the retired Looks Like Spring set on Naturals White cardstock. Inks were Coral, Pretty In Pink, Saffron, Celery, Cameo Coral, and Amethyst. Layered a silk flower, a button and a pearl.

Mermaid with Punches

This idea was inspired by a cute card I saw by Stamp Mom on SCS. For the mermaid I used a 1 1/4" circle punch in Blush Blossom for head and body. The tail was first embossed with a Cuttlebug borders folder in Taken With Teal and punched with medium oval and 5 petal flower for tail. Her hair is Tangerine Tango and the scallop circle and oval were used. I drew her face on and gave her some blushed cheeks and popped her up a bit on dimensionals.
The background was one by inking the Bubbles Cuttlebug folder with Cool Caribbean ink and then running it through the Big Shot. The seaweed is Sizzlits Little Leaves in Celery and the Martha Stewart branch punches in Kraft and More Mustard.

Forest Friends

Fence was made using Really Rust swiped with Creamy Caramel ink and tag punch. Clouds in background sponged in Caribbean using the retired SU cloud template. Three Flower punch and Sizzlits Little Leaves also used.

Nice Ride, Cinderella!

This Cinderella Coach stamp is from Me & Carrie Lou. I embossed it in gold and colored with markers and Tangerine Tango re-inker. It is hard to see in the phot but this is highlighted with Sakura Gold Dust pen in the netting and on the wheels. Sweet Nothings paper by SU.

Ocean Commotion

For today's Clean and Simple challenge on SCS we were to pick a beach blanket or tote from the Land's End catalog. I chose the seahorse blanket shown in the picture here.
The pre-embossed cards were from The Paper Company, I found these in the clearance bin at Michael's. I stamped the seaweed in Garden Green and the seahorses in Positively Pink. Embossed the fish in clear over everything. Added pink beads and Dazzling Diamonds for the ocean floor. Clear dew drops for bubbles. This looks much prettier in real life.

Simple Friendship Butterfly Box

The SCS technique challenge was to make a butterfly box with the template supplied there. This was really quick and easy, surprisingly. I used Tea Party and Walk In The Park designer paper, the Big Shot butterflies die, Pretties Kit pearls and beads. 3x3" Love Notes on Whisper White were stamped using the Simple Friendship stamp set with matching envelopes.