Green with Gratitude

I have had a lot of fun with this ONE stamp since I bought it. It makes such pretty DSP. I made 8 of these for OWH this weekend. The Fresh Vintage set is used to make the dsp look in the bottom. Start with the large stamp in the middle and then stamp around the edges. Layer on a border punch and add some ribbon. The inspiration for this had the same always artichoke ribbon on the border strip, I liked the pop of white better. The inspiration card also had pearls on the corners, but in the OWH video this week Sandy said those are a problem - so I lined them up over the sentiment. Inspired by this PIN

Vintage Tree

Me and pinterest will keep those heros in cards for sure!! The Pinterest one was oriented a little different and had bling, which I left off. And I added the piece with the border punch. On that piece of white core paper, I also ran the score lines just behind the punched border. Then I sanded it to show that core. I thought that really added to the vintage feel and I love to show off a white core. Four of these for the OWH box.

Merci for Pinterest

Remember those steps I gave you on CASing a Pinterest card a few days ago? I did it again! This has a subtle polkadot backround so the image just went right on there with the 'merci' stamp and some pretty bling. Very Vanilla seam binding and coorinating papers. I added some fleur di les on the inside and three of these for soldiers who seem to always be in need of thank you cards. Though, honestly, we need to be telling them Thank YOU instead!!

The art...er craft, of the CASE

CASE - Copy And Steal Everything... I do this a lot.. A WHOLE LOT! When I buy a new stamp set I go to Split Coast Stamper's AMAZING gallery for inspiration. Or Pinterest... also known as where I am at 4:45 at work ;)
I bought a new (ok a couple new) sets from Stampin Up this month and went on my usual quest. Which led me to this super cool card on Pinterest -

Except... I didn't have twine and after I embossed the paper, stamped and embossed the image, I realized by circle punch wouldn't go in the page like the example. So I used a nestie...only I didn't have a round one. And I had these great tags and I am not super crazy about sentiments stamped and embossed over. So I added that, too. I think it looks good. Seven of these to the OWH Box

So good, I turned it sideways, added the swirly ornament and did it again...six times for OWH!!