Handmade Greeting Cards

Hello! Today I am sharing with you a few Handmade Greeting Cards that I created using my new "Your Own Kind of Wonderful" CTMH Acrylix stamp set  

 As you can see there are six different sayings along with six different sized butterflies.  Making this a great value with twelve different stamps in one set.

I love this set for it's versatility in creating cards for several different occasions.  I like to make up several cards at one time so I always have a handmade card on hand for any special occasion. After all who want to pay $5.00 or more for a store bought card? Any everyone loves a handmade card better anyway.

 I used some pre-made chalkboard style cards for my base, I then pulled out my watercolors and painted the background for my stamped image.  I really like the bold outline of the butterflies and when I painted the inside with my watercolors they really pop off my cards. CTMH Arcylix stamps are some of the highest quality stamps I have worked with.  They stamp a clean image every time. They peel off the backing and are super adhesive to the stamping block, they also clean up really easy.

 I used the same butterflies on this card. After I painted them in I fussy cut them out and used some 3D pop dots to mount them to my card base.  I then created a watercolor banner that I stamped my sentiment on.  I used some sequins to embellish my cards too.  You can find this pretty Fruity Pebbles sequin mix in TheCraftyPickle Etsy shop. 

This one is my favorite. I just love this sentiment. I plan on giving this one to my daughter for her Graduation this year. 

Want to win a CTMH stamp set of your own, pop on over to TheCraftyPickle blog to enter. 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Happy Scrappin'

Carrie

My First Winter Layout

Happy New Year.  I can hardly believe it's 2015.  

Today I am sharing my first winter layout. This page will actually be at the end of my 2014 family album.  We had a rare snow fall where I live in Murrieta California.  It has not snowed here in ten years, and even then it was just a dusting.  We actually got about a foot of snow that lasted several days. 

For this page I used a ton of beautiful shiny sequins from TheCraftyPickle they came in the Winter Mix pack.    Can I just tell you that I am a bit obsessed with sequins right now. They are such an easy embellishment and very reasonably priced.  Easy to apply with a bit of liquid glue or mini glue dots. 

Here is a closer look at some cards I created by embossing some snowflakes onto vellum and then adding a bit of shimmer watercolors.  I of course added some sequins to embellish these cards too. 

When you order flair from Taniesa your flair is packaged with sequins/confetti in a glassine bag.








Its like a little party when you open the cute little package. I use these sequins all the time, they are the perfect accent to any project.

This glitter flair is perfect on my pages, adds that special touch I like to set the feeling I want to document.

Of course I had to add one of my new blue color pop flairs to this card. It matches my sequins too.  

Thanks for stopping by today. 
Happy Scrappin in the New Year

Carrie