In honor of February being my birthday month

 I'm sharing a beautiful birthday card I made for a friend for her to gift to a friend.  I know both these ladies well and I get special joy in creating for people I love.  I used one of my favorite craft consortium paper pads and my spellbinders nested arches dies.  I also used greenery dies from scrapbook.com as well as my FAVORTIE dollar tree butterfly stickers. I used an embossing folder from spellbinders for the background and made this into a shaker card which is also a favorite style for me.  The birthday die cuts are from spellbinders and the sub sentiment is a paper rose premade sentiment I cut up to finish the sentiment. The flat back, faceted gems came from Hobby Lobby and finished out the card nicely.

The same but different

 I like to post my cards on Facebook to have another record of them.  Sometimes, it's easier to find them there than scrolling through my phone, cause you, know, they go to the cloud and all that jazz....

After posting the cards from my last blog, I was asked, by another friend, if she could purchase these.  I set to making her a set letting her know colors may change and have little variances.  I think that's the only caveat to being asked for something I've already given/sold.  I may not always be able to recreate the very same card.  That being said, here is set two.  Same, but different. 

Working in my zone

 This is truly where my style leans, butterflies, delicate, scripture added.  As I've previously mentioned, I enjoy working with butterflies and the Craft Consortium Ink Drops papers.  I guess I sort of work backwards.  I chose my design, laid out my papers, cut the focal image backdrops, assembled then looked to see what I had on hand that would match each design.  It works for me.  Then, I perused through my scripture stamps finding a perfect size for each card. It had been a while since I dipped into my memento dew drops and added sentiments with color, I love how soft and pretty they are.  I finished with coordinating colors of pops of color to finish the design.  I added thinking of you inside the cards.  This set was purchased by a friend who loves my work.  I so appreciate her kindness and generosity.  

Clean and simple #5

 Once again, I reached for another paper pad from CC ink drops line.  This pad contains beautiful oranges and yellows.  I used some sizzix dies from my stash and what was going to be layered squares took a turn.  Literally.  I heat embossed the sentiment from a scrapbook.com gratitude sentiment/die combo.  I added black gloss pops of color to complete the card.  I love using my supplies and being able to use up my stash.  

Clean and simple #4

 Technically, I should have started with this card first, as it was the jumping off point for the previous cards I've posted in this series.  I was inspired by a design team member from Stamp Simply.  You can view her design here. This is how mine turned out.