This card kit was so much fun! I love the colors and the cherries and pie! The sentiments are so much fun as well! "You bake my day." and "I love you Cherry much." Just love it!

I've been noticing that I've been spending more of my time creating cards. I love being able to give a hand made card to brighten someone's day!

Until next time, happy creating!

~Holly

 

Back at Christmas I made these cards using the absolutely gorgeous Serenity paper! This was a one sheet wonder, meaning that I used just one sheet of pattern paper for these cards. I paired them with the blue belle shimmer trim and one of my favorite stamps for the hot chocolate cups. I love that there is just a pop of red in these with the candy cane!

As you can see, each card is completely different from each other but they all tie together. This style of card technique really makes you think outside the box when embellishing! I'll be recreating these and others using different pattern papers!

Until next time, happy creating!

~Holly

 

I had so much fun creating these cards for my Oxide Club kit! Each kit will teach a different technique and feature some cards using those techniques. This kit used the blending of two colors and then the smooshing technique to show that you don't have to waste any of that ink. If you'd like to get your own kit, please give me a shout.

Distress oxides and this butterfly thin cut look so good together. I used mustard seed and spiced marmalade for the background on this one. It give such a happy feel to it!

With this one, I used the same distress oxides, grabbed some of the cutouts from the butterfly thin cut and used one of the butterfly thin cuts from the You Are Enough collection. Just a simple butterfly cut out gives such a powerful image with the distress oxide background.

Have you done the smooshing technique with distress oxides? I love the effect it gives when you add some water! And one of the best things, you will always get a different look from it!

This sunburst thin cut over the distress oxide background and add in some Sunbeam holographic paper to give it just that little bit more of flash! This background has the addition of abandoned coral to give it just a bit more of those pink hues in the sunsets or sunrises!

Well, until next time, happy creating!

~Holly

 

Goodness! The entire month of June went by so quickly!! I created and I hid from the heat wave that happened near the end of June. There was no way I could craft during that time. My home doesn't have air conditioning and we were reaching temps of almost 40C. I absolutely love the heat, but when you don't have AC, it gets to be a bit much cause you can't seem to do anything!

This card I made before the heat wave hit. I absolutely love this butterfly thin cut!! And paired with the Sunbeam Holographic paper and black ore paper ... GORGEOUS! There is no wrong color combination with this thin cut and have already made a couple more cards with it!

I had fun creating this layout. Sunflowers and cowboy boots, you can't go wrong! I love the hint of Desert Rose in this pairing. It just seems to draw everything together in a way you didn't know you needed!

But I promise that I won't let this much time go by between posts! I've been working on a few projects and can't wait to share as they are each complete. So until next time happy creating!

~Holly