Happy Thoughts

 

To make this card I used the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. I used the card Feature and used the square3 Button (C3) for the cards base. I also set it for the 5 ½ size. I then made the layer function of the same size to give a border around the outside of the card. The inside of the same cut was used on the inside of the card to decorate it. I love the yo-yos on the front and made them with the striped paper from the Florentine paper packet. Different borders made different sizes and patterns. So cool with little effort!

All supplies are from Close To My Heart:

Z1686 Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

X7153B Florentine Paper Packet

X5646 Vanilla Cream Cardstock

D1476 Card Chatter Sympathy

Z2118 Desert Sand Exclusive Ink

Z1708 Sparkles Flourishes

Z1707 Bitty opaques Pearls

Z1718 Color Ready Garden Shapes

Z1391 Clear Buttons

Z1701 Neutral Assortment Bakers Twine

Z679 Liquid Glass

Z906 Bamboo Waxy Flax

Z726 Sponge Daubers

1772 Glue Dots

Z1151 3d Foam Tape

Z608 Scoring Stylus

Thanks for stopping by…

Laurie

Sympathy Card

One of my favorite stamp sets to make Sympathy cards is Treasure Life D1306. It has some awesome images of flowers and grasses to work with. This stamp set is also going to be retired at the end of July so If you are thinking of purchasing it you better do so soon. You can find it here

 

Supplies are from Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted:

Stella Paper Packet X7147B

Colors are Cocoa, Olive, Tulip and Colonial White

D1306 Treasure Life Stamp Set

D1476 Card Chatter - Sympathy

Z2137 Olive ink

Z2166 Tulip Ink

Colonial White Edge Anchors

Colonial White Brads

Colonial White Waxy Flax

Clear Buttons

Mini Glue Dots

 

Thanks for stopping by…

Laurie

February Blog Hop - All About Color

Welcome to the February Blog Hop.  Today we are featuring

 "All about Color" 

If you have just come from Corina Mitchell's blog you are on the right track. 

I think this has to be my favorite Color Combination: Olive, Goldrush, Honey, Cocoa and Colonial White. When you work with 4 or 5 colors, you want to make sure your color is balanced with one or 2 main colors and the others are just accent colors.  What I mean is make one color your main color…in this case Goldrush is my main color so I want the biggest proportion that color or about 50% that color. Next is Honey…which is about 25% that color.  Next is Cocoa and Colonial White which is about 10% each and then we add in the Olive at about 5%.  What you want to avoid when working with colors is having the same proportions of each of the color, or equal amounts of all the colors.   

All Supplies are from Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted:

Goldrush, Honey, Colonial White and Cocoa Cardstock.
Olive patterned paper from the Lucky Paper Packet X7137B
Honey, Goldrush and Olive Ink
Stamp Sets: Cards Chatter – Sympathy D1476
Sofia B1379
Bitty Clear Sparkles Z1263
Medium Grit sandpaper Z1294
Olive Brads Z1364
Martha Stewart Swirling Lace Punch around the page
Nesties: Scalloped Circles, Scalloped ovals and Petite Ovals small
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder
Tim Holtz Checkerboard Large Embossing folder

Now it is time to hop on over to Adeline Brill's blog here
 
Thanks for stopping by...
Laurie