Thank you Delivery Guy!

Aloha,

Here is a Mahalo card for the endless UPS drivers who deliver our packages. Boy, have I ever kept them busy over the last few months, and I truly appreciate them. I hope to bake more and leave more chocolate chip cookies in bags for them - buttery goodness despite their new year determination to get in shape LOL!

A sweet lady on SCS recommended this older stamp set to me. It's by Paper Trey Ink. I have not shopped there much at all so to find this on sale (they had a ton on sale, clearance) was sweet! It has a generic type truck but lots of little designs to add to it. It's hard to see, but I added a gold stripe down the side of the truck with sparkly ink and one of the decorative stripes in the set. The road is a stamped image that is part of the set, too.

I doodled a little driver man behind the wheel, the ocean and lots of little flowers on both sides of the road with sand. That really looks like the area between the airport in Kona and town - dry and yet beautiful. We live up high at 1400 ft and in lush jungle coffee tree belt, no sand. It rained a lot this morning but it is all sunny now. The birds are gathered at the bird feeder and the ocean is deep, dark blue. I can see little spots of the sea between tree fronds. Hopefully, we can take a few trees down (we have a forest) just to get a better glimpse of the ocean.

I hope you have a very good weekend!


Stamp Set:  On Sale in Clearance, about 70% off and includes dies!!!
                   https://www.papertreyink.com/last-call/special-delivery-stamp-set-die-bundle/

Cardstock: GKD Ivory, Black
Ink Versafine, Delicata Gold
Distress Inks background w/blender brushes
Copic Markers
Decorative "Loopy" frame die by Gina Marie
Wink of Stella, White paint pen

Mahalo for taking a look!

With hugs until next time!

Floral Motif Sunshine

Aloha dear friends,

I seldom get to play in the PaperTrey Ink challenges, so it's so fun for me today. Betsy Veldman posted a video tutorial on how to use small images to create a design. You can see it: HERE

Stamp Sets: PaperTrey Ink "Botanical Silhouettes" and "Borders & Corners Ovals"
Edger Dies: PaperTrey Ink Set #1

Inks: SU "Certainly Celery, Baked Brown Sugar, Strawberry Slush and Crushed Curry"
Cardstock: GKD Pure Luxury Red Hot, White and Kraft
Corner Rounder Cropadile

The inside and the envelope are stamped to match the card :)

Big hugs for stopping by to take a look, and

Thank You for leaving some love!

♥

Watercolor Doves

Aloha friends,

Today is a good day for a stretch -- an art stretch! I'm trying to watercolor again :)  This time is for the Art Impressions Challenge, Anythi ng Goes about Flowers for springtime! Click HERE to join in or see what everyone is making that has to do with flowers.

Card Recipe:

Penny Black "Floral Doves" #1155H (This is an oldy but goodie, from 1998)
Distress Markers and paint brush with small jar water
Spellbinders Pierced Rectangles
Studio G Rhinestones
Heartfelt Creations Sun Kissed Fleur Flower Stamps and die cuts
Perfect Pearls spray
Multi Matte Medium
Sentiment taken from PaperTrey Ink Blooming Button Bits
Tag Die from Spellbinders A2 die set
Blue silk ribbon
All cardstock by Gina K. Designs
Scor Tape; adhesive pop dots EK Success
Watercolor paper by Strathmore 140#

Mahalo so very much for leaving some love 

here for me ♥

Mini 3x3 inch Thank You cards

Hi friends,

Here are some easy mini cards that come in handy for when you need a quick Thank You. Despite their size, they can still be decorated without being too overwhelming.

I used some scoring, piercing, pearls, rhinestones and baker's twine. The envelopes are lined and made using the Envelope Punch board. That is the easiest way for me to make envelopes. I have the regular score board with tool measurement as well as the Ultimate Crafter's Companion boards. By far the Envelope Punch board is the fastest and easiest for me to use.

The stamp set is a gift from Tina G. (thank you!) called Botanical Silhouettes by Papertrey Ink. The flower stamps and sentiments are small enough to use for these mini cards. The inks are Stampin' Up. I also used the Stampin' Up piercing template. All the bling is from Want2Scrap. Cardstock by Gina K. Designs and the pattern paper is by Colorbök. The embossed butterflies are from GKD Stately Flowers 4 by Melanie Muenchinger.

Aloha and thank you so much for stopping by :*

Hidden Sentiment Technique

This was a fun path to walk down. I had never made one of these before and didn't use a template. It was very interesting and a little tedious to make it 'work' correctly. But in the end, it is very worth the extra time and engineering to have a card become kinetic like this.

Stamp Set - PaperTry Ink, Flower Fusions #12
Cardstock and dp - Gina K. Designs

Thank you so much for looking!!!