Japanese Blossom

I've been on a blogging hiatus again...partly due to a few medical procedures, but I've been busy making cards & scrapping, too!

February & March I was making wedding invitations (150), Disney-themed Birthday Party invitations and a banner for out great-grandsons' 2nd Birthday, and 1st Birthday invitations for a friend's daughter. These are posted on my alternate blog, Dawn's Cards and Craft Garden, because they are not really 100% CTMH. Although I did use my CTMH Cricut cartridges and other CTMH products. I've tried to keep this blog focused on new CTMH products and specials.

I just recently made 2 cards using the Quick Cards - Japanese Blossom set. I paired it with some of my Laughing Lola scraps. 

The stamp is heat-embossed with black detail embossing powder, then colored with watercolor pencils and blended.

I had some Studio G washi tape that exactly matched the CTMH Gypsy purple paper that I used to layer the stamped image. Then I added some Jolee's bling.

The second card used Laughing Lola purple and CTMH black shimmer trim and Hero Arts ribbon with the Jolee's bling rhinestone embellishments.

I love how they turned out.  Thank you for looking!

Let Your Light Shine

This card was turned out perfect to celebrate my father's ordination.
I used the November SOTM, Illuminate, combined with Laughing Lola and Gypsy paper. The stamp set includes the sentiment.
The lantern and pole are white heat-embossed. I added the shining  light using a pale yellow embossing powder I had on hand.
The paisley stamp is also heat - embossed in black. It's the Paisley Perfect set.  Not too frilly, but perfect!

Mojo306

Another quick Mojo card using CTMH Laughing Lola cardstock. See all the great Mojo cards here http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/.

I'm still having my love affair with the July stamp of the month, Sweet Life, I have a stack of these beautifully colored fruits and need to use them up and it fit perfectly with the design this week. I also selected the fruit because in all honesty it needed to be a quick card and these were already colored and fussy cut. :)
The background layers are Laughing Lola patterned paper paired with Twilight on the bottom stamped with Gypsy ink using the chicken wire background stamp. The layers are tied together with a beautiful aqua ribbon.

I cut the background doily circle using the artiste Cricut cartridge on Gypsy cardstock. 
The olive circle is patterned paper that comes specially in the Laughing Lola paper pack. I used a spellbinder circle die to get the right size to fit the fruit.

The sentiment is also from the Sweet Life set, and I decided I didn't need anything more than a matching aqua bow. Thanks for stopping by have a great week!