Stampin' Mama: A mama that stamps

1/2 pint Playful Alphabet & Snow Flurry card

Lately, I've been really digging this color scheme....those muted reds and greens with icy blues. It's a nice twist on the traditional holiday colors and even when it's NOT used for holiday cards, it's a very catching color combo.

I've also been digging using strips of patterned paper on my cards, as well.

For this card, I used the new 1/2 Pint Playful Alphabet set from Kitchen Sink Stamps. I also pulled out the Snow Flurry set and paired that up with the alphabet. Oh, I'm lovin' it!

By the way, the snowflake that I used as my stamped focal point is actually the letter "o" from the letters that spell out "joy" from the Snow Flurry set. You wouldn't know it was supposed to be used as a letter by looking at it here on this card.....which just proves it's versatility.

The patterned paper strips are from the Holiday Treasures Designer Series paper pack (Stampin' UP) and I cut them in 1 inch strips, then distressed one of the edges on each with my distressing tool from my Stampin' Up cutter kit. I love the contrast of clean lines with a little bit of grunge.

The "merry" was stamped using letters from the 1/2 Pint Playful Alphabet set and because there are multiples of the more popular letters, I was able to spell this out on my acrylic block to get them lined up and only ink and stamp once.

I wanted to add a little bit of sparkle to my snowflake (because I like ALL my snowflakes to sparkle.....it just makes them more real in my eyes) so I applied some glue with my 2-Way Glue Pen and dusted it with Dazzling Diamonds glitter.

I punched out the snowflake with a 1 1/4 inch circle punch and mounted it on a 1 3/8 inch punched blue cardstock circle and then mounted that on top of a white scalloped circle that I sponged around the edges with matching blue ink.

I added three little self-adhesive rhinestones in the bottom right corner to finish it all off.

Happy Creating!

-Stampin'  Mama

CD Tin full of fun gift tags (Kitchen Sink Stamps)

I love altering CD tins and lately, I've been having fun filling them with little gift tags so that the tin can serve as not only a consumable gift, but also a practical and permanent gift. Once the tags are all used up, the receiver still has the tin to keep other things in, like jewelry, rain-day-cash, etc.

I thought it would be fun to make a tin full of gift tags using the Limited Edition 1st Anniversary Set - A Year of Thanks + 3 Step Humming Bird sets from  Kitchen Sink Stamps.

Maria brought this set out during this last release and it includes all 12 “Thank You” stamps that were sent with each and every order over this past year! Plus a Bonus mini set. This mini set is a very special 3 Step Hummingbird, that can only be found here in this set.

I used pretty much ALL the images in these sets for this project, except for the greetings on the hummingbird set. 

The front of the CD Tin was covered with patterned paper from the Urban Garden Designer Series pack (Stampin' UP) using my Coluzzle cutting system. Using the Coluzzle cutter made it really easy to measure out and cut the strips that go across the large circle on the top of the tin.

The hummingbird was stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock and I used the oval template in my Coluzzle cutting system to cut that out and the layer that it's mounted on. I used a couple of copper brads for embellishment and mounted the ovals on top of the tin using pop-dots.

I know that you all like when I post the inks that I used for each layer when it comes to these types of layered images.

The hmmingbird actually has 6 stamps to completely the image, but it's not hard to use at all. I promise!

Hummingbird Layers

Step 1) Kiwi Kiss (stamped off once on scrap paper)
Step 2) Kiwi Kiss (fully inked)
Step 3) Old Olive
Step 4) Taken with Teal
Step 5) Elegant Eggplant
Step 6) Basic Black

I actually came up with my color theme by matching up my ink colors with the colors of the index sheet that these stamps come on. There are so many more combinations that you can come up with, though. I find that one of the easiest ways to make color combos work for these multi-layered images is to "stamp off" my inks and then layer a full inked image on top (stamp the image once onto scrap paper for one layer, then stamp a fully inked image over the top of it). It's much easier to use two different shades of the same color rather than trying to match up multiple ink colors.

I stamped the little "thank you" images on white cardstock and then either punched them out or cut them using my paper cutter. I mounted each one on either a punched scalloped circle or on trimmed cardstock. I punched a circle in each of them using my 1/8 inch hole punch and threaded gold and copper cording in each to make a slip knot.

I cut a circle of white tissue paper and lined the bottom of the CD tin with it and laid the tags on top.

These little thank you tags are great for giving a gift to someone when you want to thank them for something....like babysitting, bringing over a meal when you're sick, doing something kind for you, etc.

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

One Design - Multiple Projects - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I usually do a One Design - Multiple Card feature but this time around, I thought it would be fun to do a 3-D project instead of a card.

I made these cute little Hershey Kiss holders with new Kitchen Sink Stamps sets. 

For the first holder, I used the new 3-Step Pansy set. This set has a lot of possibilities when it comes to the masking technique. There's 2 really cool samples on the back of the package these stamps come in that show how to make a beautiful garden of pansies with simple masking.

Speaking of masking, I used that technique for this project so that the leaves looked like they were setting behind the flower. It's a really easy technique that consists of simply stamping the base stamp of the pansy on a piece of scrap paper and cutting it out, then placing it over the finished pansy image on my cardstock and then stamping the leaves on top of the cardstock, slightly overlapping the flower. Because the flower on the cardstock is "masked" by the scrap paper flower, it's protected and when you pull up the mask, it looks like flower is sitting on top of the leaves. LOVE this technique! So simple, but SO wow!

The steps I used for the flower were:

Flower

Step 1) Bashful Blue (stamped off once on scrap paper)
Step 2) Bashful Blue (fully inked)
Step 3) Perfect Plum (stamped off once on scrap paper)
Step 4) Perfect Plum (fully inked)
Step 5) Elegant Eggplant

Leaves

Step 1) Kiwi Kiss (stamped off once on scrap paper)
Step 2)Kiwi Kiss (fully inked)
Step 3) Old Olives

I used Perfect Plum cardstock for the holder, Baja Breeze for the blue layer and Kiwi Kiss patterned paper from the Urban Garden Designer Series paper pack for the green layer. I punched the pansy out with my Scalloped Circle punch and sponged around the edge with Perfect Plum ink and mounted it on top of a Perfect Plum circle twisted just a tad so that the scallops could be seen behind the top scallops. I wrapped a piece of Old Olive grosgrain ribbon around the patterned paper.

There are 3 Hershey's Kisses adhered inside the holder. I stuck the top closed with a small piece of adhesive and then punched a little handle using the Word Window punch and tied the ends with Old Olive ribbon. I mounted the pansy on top of the patterned paper using pop-dots. I made sure to punch the handle BEFORE mounting the pansy on top because I wouldn't have been to fit the Word Window punch over the top if I had.

For a little extra bling, I adhered a couple of clear Dew Drops with glue dots op either side of the pansy.

For this second Hershey Kiss Holder, I used the same design as I did with the first one but changed out the colors and the stamp set.

I used the new 3-Step School Days set and added the "thanks" image at the top. This little holder makes a really sweet teacher's gift and your kids can even help you make them!

I used Riding Hood Red cardstock for the holder, Baja Breeze for the blue layer (and the bottom Scalloped punch) and striped patterned paper from the Summer Picnic Designer Series paper for the green layer. I used Very Vanilla grosgrain ribbon and dark orange Dew Drops on either side of the apple.

Here are the steps I used for the apple:

Apple

Step 1) Cameo Coral (stamped off once on scrap paper)
Step 2) Cameo Coral (fully inked)
Step 3) Ruby Red (stamped off once on scrap paper)
Step 4) Ruby Red (fully inked)

Leaf

Step 1) Kiwi Kiss (stamped off once on scrap paper)
Step 2) Kiwi Kiss (fully inked)

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

Scrapbook Page - You're the apple of my eye (Kitchen Sink Stamps)

We go apple picking every year. I always bring my camera and take pictures. It's fun to look at them and compare them year by year to see how much the kids have grown.

One of the things my kids love to do is climb the apple trees. They look forward to this almost more than picking the apples or the warm apple cider donuts we buy at the orchard farm stand. The kids know that I'm going to take their pictures up in the trees, so they usually "perform" for me and pose for the camera.

This picture was taken last year at the orchard and I've been wanting to scrapbook it for a while. I've been trying to decide what sorts of papers and embellishments to use for this picture and when I was looking through my new Kitchen Sink Stamps that Maria sent me to work with this month, I knew I'd found my answer!

I used the new 3-Step School Days set to create my apple embellishments and I also used one of the apples as part of my title.

I inked around the green and pink cardstock with my Whisper White craft pad. I mounted my photo on Kraft cardstock and then used photo corner mounts on the corners. Both the white and green rub-ons that I used on the pink and green cardstock were left over from this past Stampin' Up Sale-a-bration.

The title was stamped using Kitchen Sink Stamp's new 1/2 Pint Playful Alphabet Buddy set.  One of the coolest things about this set (besides the super convenient size) is that there are multiples of most of the letters. I was able to spell the words out on my acrylic block before inking them up, rather than having to stamp one letter at a time. The word, "eye," was spelled out completely on my block because this set has two letter e's. LOVE that feature! (Psssst.....there's also a companion set called 1/2 Pint Playful Alphabet that has an open center with funky designs in them that you can use as is or layered over the solid Buddy set). I used Mellow Moss craft ink to stamp the title.

I stamped the apples on Very Vanilla cardstock. Here's the list of inks I used for each step:

Step 1: Cameo Coral (stamped off onto scrap paper once)

Step 2: Cameo Coral (fully inked)

Step 3: Ruby Red (stamped off onto scrap paper once)

Step 4: Ruby Red (fully inked)

For the leaves, I stamped first with Always Artichoke stamped off onto scrap paper once and then stamped on top of that with fully inked Always Artichoke. I cut the apples out and then mounted them on green cardstock and trimmed around them, leaving a small border of cardstock poking out. I mounted these on my layout (both at the bottom and in my title) with pop-dots for some added dimension. 

The journaling that I used for this page are words that were part of the white rub-ons. They were so perfect for how I felt about this picture.

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

Nuts about you.......and nuts about Kitchen Sink Stamps

I'm loving Kiwi Kiss as a fall color and it's a great color to use with this cute little acorn stamp from the 3-Step Autumn Squirrel set from Kitchen Sink Stamps.

The fall colors are starting to peep out here in northern Vermont and there are a ton of acorns falling off the oak trees in my front yard. Girly has been collecting them, the little chipmunks have been collecting them and scurrying under my garage with them (I have NO idea where they're taking them under there) and even the puppy has been picking them up and chewing on them. When I was a kid, I used to think that I could gather enough and grind them up to make flour and cakes out of them! Shhhh.....my daughter now thinks that, too, and I haven't the heart to tell her how many it would actually take to do it. :)

Considering the time of year, I figured it was a good time to use these little cuties!

I'm all about the blues and greens right now. So many people are using the other fall shades (orange, brown, yellow, red) and I like to mix things up a bit. Plus, you all know how much I love my blues and greens.

I used Kiwi Kiss cardstock for the base and stamped it in the same color with the oak leaf image and used just the first step so that it created a solid image and a tone-on-tone effect.

The acorns were done in 3 steps. I know you all like when I share the colors I used since that can be a challenge to figure them out at times. Here's what I used for each of the steps:

Step 1: Creamy Caramel
Step 2: Kiwi Kiss (stamped off once onto scrap paper first)
Step 3: Kiwi Kiss (fully inked)

I layered the strip of acorns on Creamy Caramel cardstock and then on a strip of Kiwi Kiss patterned paper (from the Urban Garden Designers Series paper pack) and tore it along the bottom. This got layered onto Baja Breeze cardstock and then onto a piece of striped patterened paper (from the same Urban Garden paper pack).

I stamped the "nuts about you" greeting (also from the 3-Step Autumn Squirrel set) on Baja Breeze cardstock with Kiwi Kiss ink and punched it out with the Word Window punch (Stampin' UP). I popped a couple of mini vintage copper brads on either side of the greeting.

Hope you're enjoying the beginning of autumn, no matter where you live!

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

Altered hot cocoa tin......a special place for beach treasures!

Remember going to the beach as a kid and picking through the sand to find your best and most favorite shell ever? But when you picked through it for the best one, you STILL came back with a huge pocketful of shells because they were ALL the best and most favorite?

I was like that as a kid....and so is my daughter. When we go to the ocean on vacation or when we go down to the lake (Lake Champlain is only 2 1/2 miles down the road from where we live), my daughter loves to beach comb. When my parents go on vacation (or even when they don't, considering they're ALWAYS on the beach because they live on their boat year round), my mom always collects handfuls of shells for her grandkids. My grandparents have even give my kids shells from their trips to Florida years ago.

Girly never really knows where to put them. She keeps them in boxes and bags in her room but that's certainly not the most FUN way to keep them. One of my best friends in Belgium recently told me that she sent my kids a little package with shells from their trips to the oceanside not far from where they live. I knew this was a great time to put the new 3-Step Shells set from Kitchen Sink Stamps.

Just the other night, I finished up the last of the Ghiradelli cocoa mix I had in the cupboard. I never throw away something I think I could turn into a groovy crafting idea. When I finished with the round container (it has a red plastic lid that fits on top and matches the Riding Hood Red ink and cardstock perfectly!), I knew it would be PERFECT to turn into a keepsake holder for those shells and beach treasures that Girly is always collecting. And it was SO easy, too!

I wrapped Creamy Caramel cardstock around the container for the base color. I used Whisper White to stamp my sea shells on and then spongeded around the edges with Creamy Caramel ink. I also sponged some Baja Breeze ink above the shells to give the look of sky above the shells.

I stamped the word "beach" on a strip of Creamy Caramel cardstock with Chocolate Chip ink using the Playful Alphabet set and sponged around the cardstock with the same color ink. Right below the word "beach" I stamped the word "memories" using the Vintage Words set. This was done on Riding Hood Red cardstock with Chocolate Chip ink (and matches the lid of the container).

To jazz things up a bit and to give the shells that "salt water sparkle," I applied my 2-way glue pen to parts of the shells (and the word "beach" and dusted them with Dazzling Diamonds glitter.

I lined the container with some white tissue paper so that the shells would have something to nest on, but this isn't a necessary step. I just like the way it looks. :)

I can't wait to give this to my daughter and see what she thinks! I'll have to finish up that second container of hot cocoa so that I can make a matching one for Zach!

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

CD tin full of Kitchen Sink Stamps gift tags!

I was playing around with that fantastic 3-step Aloha set again and decided to alter a CD tin. Originally I was going to make another CD album, but then got to thinking of doing something NON-related to CDs. That's when I thought it would be nice to make something practical AND pretty at the same time. How cute would it be to give a gift of tags that can be used on gifts and when the tags are all gone, there's still a pretty little tin that can be used for jewelry, CDs, change, etc. Who says you can't use the tin once everything inside is gone?

I used my Coluzzle cutting system to cut all the circles I used for this project. The template made it really easy to see through and hold on top of the lid of the tin to figure out what size I would need. To do the bottom layer of colored cardstock, I simply cut just one groove out from what I cut the inside layer.

I used Kiwi Kiss cardstock for the lid and Whisper White cardstock on top. The leaves were stamped in three layers. Here's the layers that I used for the images:

LEAVES:
Step 1) Kiwi Kiss (stamped off once onto scrap paper first)
Step 2) Kiwi Kiss (fully inked)
Step 3) Old Olive

FLOWERS:
Step 1) Apricot Appeal
Step 2) Cameo Coral
Step 3) Ruby Red
Step 4) Baroque Burgandy

The "mahalo" greeting is from the Aloha set, as well, and was stamped with Basic Black ink.

I wanted to make things sparkle a bit so I used my 2-way glue pen to adhere some Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the flowers and leaves. I  added some self-adhesive rhinestones to the top of the tin lid for more sparkle.

Along the outside edge of the bottom of the tin, I adhered a length of Always Artichoke grosgrain ribbon. I love using Sticky Strip (also know as "tacky tape" or "red line tape") for adhering ribbon to tins. I mount the adhesive all the way across the length of ribbon so that it doesn't move around on the tin. Especially when you're twisting the tin open.

Inside the tin, I placed a piece of tissue paper for the gift tags to lay on. I ended up making a total of 12 tags for this tin, but these pictures only show 3 of them.

Again, I used the Coluzzle cutting system for these. It makes cutting lots of them SO easy! I made 6 tags with Kiwi Kiss cardstock and 6 with Riding Hood Red cardstock. I also changed up the floral images on these tags and used the smaller leaf image so that they fit better on the tags.

Here are the layers I used for the 5-petal flower:

5-Petal Flower:
Step 1) Apricot Appeal
Step 2) Cameo Coral
Step 3) Ruby Red

I sparkled the leaves and flowers on the tags with Dazzling Diamonds glitter just like I did on the top of the tin lid. The greetings were all taken from the Aloha set. I made sure to do different types of greetings so there was more variety.

I punched holes at the top of the tags with my 1/4 inch hole punch and threaded Always Artichoke and Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon and secured them as slip knots.

I was thinking about the other uses for these CD Tins (which you can get from Kitchen Sink Stamps for just $3.00 for a set of 2!) besides just housing CDs.

You could fill them with:

* Gift tags

* A mini scrapbook <--- click on that link for a free tutorial!

* Birthday Party in a Tin

* Gift certificate or gift card

* Cash or check

* A tie for the man in your life

* Fairy dust (glitter) for a little girl

* Mini tweezers and magnifying glass for a little boy that likes to catch bugs

What kinds of things can YOU think of to put in these tins?

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

One Design - Multiple Cards.....Kitchen Sink Stamps

I know I just recently did a One Design - Multiple Cards post but when I started playing with the 3-Step Aloha set (from Kitchen Sink Stamps), I wanted to see how the same card design would look with different colors and images. I LOVE how these came out!

I really dig doing tone-on-tone stamping. I used the same technique for both cards. All you need to do this technique is stamp an image on the cardstock with the same color of ink as the cardstock. This gives it a subtle background pattern without visually overwhelming the card.

For the first card, I chose to use the small blossom image and used just the first step image for this in More Mustard ink on the same color cardstock. I tied a length of Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon around the card and secured it with a double knot. I used my paper piercing tool, mat and template to pierce three holes above and below the ribbon and secured mini vintage copper brads in the holes.

For my stamped focal point, I chose the pineapple and stamped it on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock cut at 3x3 inches. Here are the layers that I used for the images:

PINEAPPLE:
Step 1) Apricot Appeal
Step 2) More Mustard
Step 3) Close to Cocoa

LEAVES:
Step 1) Kiwi Kiss (stamped off once onto scrap paper first)
Step 2) Kiwi Kiss (fully inked)

The greeting also came from the 3-Step Aloha set and was stamped with Kiwi Kiss ink.

I mounted the focal image on top of Kiwi Kiss cardstock and mounted it on top of the card/ribbon with pop-dots.

For my second card, I used the exact same design and the exact same dimensions and even used the same stamp set, but just changed up the images and some of the colors.

I used the large leaf image from the Aloha set (the step 1 image) and used that as my tone-on-tone image on my Kiwi Kiss card base with Kiwi Kiss ink. I used the same Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon and vintage copper brads. When I think about it, there's a lot on this card that stayed the same as the first one, but it's amazing how completely different they look.

Here are the layers that I used for the images:

LEAVES:
Step 1) Kiwi Kiss (stamped off once onto scrap paper first)
Step 2) Kiwi Kiss (fully inked)
Step 3) Old Olive

FLOWERS:
Step 1) Apricot Appeal
Step 2) Cameo Coral
Step 3) Ruby Red
Step 4) Baroque Burgandy

The greeting is from the Aloha set and stamped with Baroque Burgandy ink.

Have a lovely evening!

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

Brayering silhouette images....so FUN!

Remember that flower image I used as a silhouette on yesterday's card? I used just the first step image for the stem and the flower. Well, I loved how it looked so much (I ADORE the silhouette look!), I decided to take it even further and do some brayering with it.

At our new house, we have a lot of great sunsets over the fields and mountains behind our house. My grandfather has been bringing his camera with him every time he comes to the house so that he can get the perfect sunset picture. I really enjoy having such a beautiful light show right behind my house.....and the best thing is that it's FREE!

I wanted to create a sunset looking type of effect with these images and with my brayer. I've lately been really inspired by the Brayer Wizardry that is Michelle Zindorf's trademark. What she does with a brayer is astounding and visually stunning, so I'm trying to practice at it.

I stamped the large flower and stem from the 3-Step Get Well Teddy set (from Kitchen Sink Stamps) onto glossy white cardstock with Versamark ink. I even curved the stem a few times when putting it on my acrylic block so that I could make some of the flowers look like they were bending towards each other. I embossed the images with clear embossing powder

I punched a circle out of scrap paper using my circle punch and lightly adhered it on the glossy cardstock so that I could brayer over it and it wouldn't move. I started at the bottom of the glossy cardstock and brayered with Pixie Pink ink. Then, I overlapped it a bit with Pink Passion. Next, working up the cardstock, I brayered with Orchid Opulence and then finished at the top with Lovely Lilac. When I was done brayering, I rubbed over the embossed images with a tissue to wipe off the excess ink and then carefully pulled off the punched circle to reveal the full moon.

I sponged some black ink around the outside of the cardstock to darken the edges up a bit. Because I used Staz-On ink and it's permanent, it doesn't rub off the embossed images.

I used the same ink for the Get Well Soon greeting, which also comes from the Get Well Teddy set.

I mounted the glossy cardstock on top of Orchid Opulence cardstock and then on top of a Pink Passion card base.

I am REALLY digging how this turned out and can't wait to take out my brayer again!

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

Vintage 3-Step Get Well Teddy card

Did you know that it will soon be the ONE year anniversary for Kitchen Sink Stamps? It was in October of last year, right before I came home from our vacation in Florida, that I got the email from Maria asking me to be on her Design Team. I can't believe a whole year has already passed!

In the past year, it's amazing to see how much Kitchen Sink Stamps has grown. I love working with the graphic and clean images, but one of my newest loves (thanks to KSS) are the 3-step images. They look so lifelike and photo-like! They're easy to line up and there's just nothing else out there like them! Maria has definitely found her niche in designing!

I have a soft spot in my heart for this 3-step Get Well Teddy set. When I was a kid, teddy bears were my favorite stuffed animal. I had a huge collection. Some of those have been passed on to my daughter and she loves them just as much as I did. Many of my bears were well loved and they showed it. They weren't all pretty looking after the years of hugging, playing, carrying around and friendship I shared with them. When I saw the 3-step Get Well Teddy set, it reminded me so much of some of the most loved of my teddies. My mind immediately saw a vintage look, which is what inspired me to create this card in a vintage style.

You know how much I adore distressing and swiping my cardstock. I love the rough and aged look it gives to it. I used the new Riding Hood red cardstock and swiped around the edges with the same color of ink. I did the same thing with the Creamy Caramel and Close to Cocoa cardstock layers that I used. I used Creamy Caramel ink to swipe around the Very Vanilla cardstock that I stamped the bear on.

Speaking of the bear, I know it always helps with 3&4-Step sets to know what color of inks were used on the different layers to get the look that was created. Here's what I used:

Step 1) Creamy Caramel
Step 2) Close to Cocoa -stamped off once onto scrap paper first
Step 3) Close to Cocoa - fully inked
Step 4) Basic Brown

The 3-Step Get Well Teddy set also comes with two different sized flowers and stems. You can stamp them in different layers for a more detailed look or you can just stamp the first steps if you're looking to create a silhouette look which is really popular right now. That's what I did for the three flowers in the lower right corner of my card. I stamped them at different heights for a little more variety and used the Riding Hood Red ink on the Riding Hood Red cardstock so that it wasn't too visually overwhelming.

Now that I've done the silhouette look with this image, I have a ton of ideas floating in my head to use them the same way with different techniques. I'm definitely going to play around with those ideas this week and show them on my blog.

The greeting that I used on this card also comes from the Teddy set. This is such a great get-well set, especially because of all the unique and original sentiments that come in it. There's the ever-popular "Get Well Soon," but make sure you check out the other sentiments.....you won't find these anywhere else! I used Basic Brown ink to stamp the greeting.

Because I was going for a vintage look, I used my distressing tool (from my SU Cutter Kit) to rough up the edges of my cardstock layers. It really helps to carry over the rough, worn and aged look.

I used pop-dots to mount the teddy bear image on top of my brown cardstocks. (I love dimension, if you haven't yet figured that out....haha!)

I felt like the Creamy Caramel strip of cardstock across the card needed something just a little extra, so I used my paper piercing template and mat and pierced three holes on each edge of the strip and secured some mini vintage copper brads in the holes. They match the colors so well and really carried over the theme.

Do you have a friend that isn't feeling so hot these days? It's amazing what a simple card will do to brighten up the day for someone that's under the weather. Trust me.....I know. :) Why not send a get well card to someone you know to perk them up? :)

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama