You Make Me Smile

I am having a Gathering next Sunday, and my hostess wanted me to create three cards for her guests to make.  These types of Gatherings are so much fun (who am I kidding - all types of Gatherings are fun)!  The hostess invites her friends, and they all get to make three cards for $3.00.  Very inexpensive, and everyone walks away with new ideas!  I am creating a birthday card, thank you, and a Christmas card for her guests all using different techniques and paper packets.  Today I'm showing you the first one.

This gate-fold card opens up to say "thank you for your kindness."  This sorbet is such a lovely color, so the flowers are such a natural choice to use as a means to "close the gate."  I've used foam tape to pop up each lower to add slight dimension to the card.

Items used that can be found on my website:

• 1388 Colonial White Cardstock
• X5924 Juniper Cardstock
• X7141B Elemental Paper Packet
• D1491 Hooray Bouquet Stamp Set
• D1361 Thank You Stamp Set
• Z2164 Sorbet Ink
• Z1104 Clear Sparkles
• Z1615 Sorbet Ribbon from Red Collection
• Z1686 Art Philosophy Cartridge (flowers, leaves, tag and tag layer)

Heart 2 Heart Challenge

This week our challenge at H2H is to create a layout with a story.  Journaling is so very important, and this is a good chance to put that to practice!

This layout was created with Sonoma papers.  Such perfect paper for the black and white photos!  I'll show you some up close detail because that's part of the beauty in this layout.

Here I clustered some of the matching stickease, a resin floer, and I used the Art Philosophy cartridge to cut the butterfly and layer as well as the 3-D flowers.  Don't you love that pewter frame?

I cut the banner with the AP cartridge and adhered them to the matching Dimensional Element.  Of course there had to be the addition of ribbon and bling!  Now I'll share the journaling with you ~

We hope you play along with us this month at Heart 2 Heart!

Items used that can be found on my website:

X7143B Sonoma Level 2

X7143C Sonoma Stickease

D1491 Hooray Bouquet Stamp Set

Z1686 Art Philosophy Collection

Z1487 Pewter Mini Medleys

Z1126 Colonial White Ribbon Assortment

Z1466 Bling Assortment

Z1635 Heirloom Assortment