To start of my blog and show off a bit of my craftiness and the joy card making and scrapbooking gives me, Ill share a few cards I've made in the last six months.  I'm a HUGE fan of Altenew stamps and products.  No endorsement, just a  customer that's slowly collecting everything I can get my hands on (wallet approved however!!).  Most of my cards designs and layouts  are inspirations that I find on Pinterest.  I think its so wonderful to share our creations with others to inspire them to make something wonderful themselves.  My all time favourite stamp from Altenew  would be "painted flowers".

 

 

These cards were so fun to create.  I stamped the flowers and leaves on Nina white 110lbs cardstock in black versa fine ink without masking the areas.  That's the nice thing about this stamp is that its really versatile to make clusters without having the mask.  To colour, I water coloured the centers with my Tim Holtz Distress inks by smooshing the ink on my craft mat and using a water brush pen.  I let them dry and proceeded to embellish with word die cuts and sequins or stamped sentiments.

They are the perfect matching gift set to make for a loved one.