Inspired by...

Bibbi's blog http://bibbisdillerier.blogspot.com/ is such an inspiration for me! She designs for Melissa Frances.

Hand beading on the wallpaper heart. I love the Spellbinders scalloped heart dies. The word is embossed using a Sizzix folder. The leafy gold embossed layer is a stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms.

The sentiment is one of my early stamp purchases from Stampa Rosa. I still miss that company!

The background blues on the last 2 cards is The Dollar Tree's Miss Elizabeth line. The narrow gold star is wrapping paper. The 'love' sentiment is a Studio G stamp.

All these cards went off to Operation Write Home. Hope someone feels loved when they get this card!

Naughty or Nice?

The challenge at The Cat's Pajamas this week is embossing, hot or cold;-) Of course mine is hot. Couldn't be anything else with devilish Sprinkles on the front. This was one of the first of The Cat's Pajamas' stamps I bought. The sentiment and the pierced swirl are clear stamps from a set of Alma's Christmas stamps. I stamped the swirl on a text weight heart die cut, layered it onto the hot pick heart and pierced through them both with a push pin. You do need a foam pad or stack of newspaper to stop the pin. The words are gold embossed and I used bleach to make them stand out on the pink.