Good morning. Well this is the first installment of my new Wednesday morning posts. A little later than expected but I have three projects to share today. The first card has been made using the My Mind's Eye kit Good Day Sunshine. I find that once I start with a paper pack or colour pallet I use it for a few projects and then tire of it and move on to something else. I used another Pagemaps cardmap as inspiration. I find that using these cardmaps I am pulled away from using strips and squares on all my cards, I have to go out of the box. I used the SU! Blossom Bouquet triple layer punch and the mini flower punches for the accents and Spellbinders for the label.
This next card was made for my niece Clare who turned 4 yesterday. It is another one of the gift card holders that I have shown before. The cardstock is folded into four using a zig zag, the centre seam becomes the part that holds the gift card. I used the word window punch and the 1 1/4" circle punch to notch out the holder. I went a little DSP crazy on this one, every surface is covered! I used the Razzleberry Lemonade (Melon Mambo) and the Day and Night Specialty DSP on this one. I closed it with a belly band of DSP, black lace from my mom's stash and some 1/4" grosgrain ribbon in Basic Black. I cut out a heart using the heart punch and then layered it onto a die cut embossed heart. The sentiment is from the Birthday Bliss stamp set, and the button is from Bo Bunny Petal Pushers tied with Charcoal twine from the Twinery.
My last project is a scrap page that I have been meaning to do for a long time and just finally completed it this morning (hence the delay in the post). I have used DSP from the Greenhouse Gala series, I absolutely love this pack and had intended on using it for some home decor projects but I had to use it on this page, the colours were perfect for the photos and the layout. I once again have used a Pagemaps (October 2011) for this one, I can't stress enough how useful Pagemaps are and how much I love them! The punched butterflies are from Martha Stewart punches (I made these while at a crop at Up The Street Scrapbooking back in October). Not only was the scrap page fun to make the subject matter is also fun. Raising butterflies is amazing and so rewarding, imagine finding a tiny little egg or larva on a milkweed plant, bringing it home and watching it grow, chrysalize and then morph into a beautiful butterfly. The whole process takes about 30 days.
Well what do you think about the new format? I think doing a post once a week will take the pressure off me and reduce the waste in my stash because I can focus more time on my projects and not have to make so many. Also I think this will help with my blogging consistency. Happy reading! E
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