Wine makes a nice Hostess gift!

One  of my favorite things to bring as a hostess gift when we've been invited to dinner is a nice bottle of wine!  This one was a Malbec from Argentina.  I combined two Close-to-My-Heart stamp sets and used the For Always paper (which is retiring - so get it while you can!).  We wrote a little greeting on the backside of the tag.  Our event was Thanksgiving - we gathered with about 20 friends for a pot-luck type of meal.  The food was fabulous and the friendship was superb!  Hope your Thanksgiving Day was wonderful, too!  

Hugs!!

Watercolors

Happy Saturday!  I hope you are fully enjoying this weekend - in our part of the world the weather is glorious and it was just delightful doing EVERYTHING today - even my little nap ( ! ) in the late filtered sunlight.

This card was embossed with white embossing powder on white cardstock and then watercolored with a water-pen picking ink directly off the ink pads.  I used Close-to-My-Heart Sweet Leaf, Olive, Blush, Cotton Candy, and Hollyhock.  I found this sparkly pink ribbon at the Metal and Paper Scrappers store in Payson AZ.  I really like this card, not sure why.  Hope you like it, too!  

Hugs!

Simple sympathy cards

There is a lovely local scrapbook store in Payson AZ that I have done my best to keep in business!  You need to visit them:  Paper and Metal Scrappers.  Brenda has the best of everything there (I'm especially partial to her ribbons!!) and I don't get up to Payson often, but when I do, I always come home with lots of new treasures!  This time I picked up some plastic templates that can be used for spraying or sponging designs.  

Both of these simple sympathy cards were made with template.  The dark one was just a section of what was available to use - the base paper was white so the tree parts are what were covered by the template and I sponged in inks over to create the night sky.  Does anyone know of an awesome vellum adhesive?  I wasn't too thrilled with the "tape runner" type that I used here (it said for vellum but it really shows through). 

On the other hand, the template used to make the card with the gray leaves had the leaves as the open part.  This particular template was a little more challenging as the edges were sharp and jagged - catching on the sponge and requiring a careful straight up and down motion to put the ink down without lifting the template or tearing the sponge.  

I'm hoping if I stock up on a gazillion sympathy cards that I won't need any for a long time!  (one of Murphy's corollaries).  

Hugs!!