Camellia Love

Hello, Friends.  Our challenge this week from Flourishes Friends DT Toni is to use "silver."  I love this metallic paper and thought of it as soon as the challenge went out.  

Here it is paired with Camellia Love from Flourishes lc without a sentiment because I am not sure which event will come up that this card will be appropriate for. My plan is to have the sentiment at the base of the plant hiding the base of the circular shape.  Maybe this card will be for myself since today is my birthday!

Today's tip:  Have a pile of stamped sentiments on die cut shapes for events --birthdays, anniversaries, thinking of you, and sympathy-- and you can easily pop what you need onto a finished card at a moment's notice.

Sweet Things

Hello, Friends.  I am sharing a card I made for a friend.  She is spending long days with her husband in rehab and misses her cat or "Sweet Thing" as she calls it fondly.  She misses the purrs, rubbing against her leg, and being able to get that comfort she enjoys with her pet all hours of her day.     So instead of reaching for hearts and flowers for my friend's card, this image from Just for Fun Rubber stamps was the perfect fit for this thinking-of-you card.  Each minute my friend spends with her husband at the rehab center is an act of love.  I hope she will gain solace from her Sweet Thing each evening when she returns home and from this card when she goes to her mailbox.

Supplies:  JFF Stamps, Distress Inks, embossing folder
I will share this project in the monthly challenge at JFF Stamps.

Friendship Quilt

Hello, friends.  I'm focusing on cozy and warm thoughts and hearts today.  My pieced quilt card speaks of friendship.  What could be more cozy than a warm quilt.  I punched square and adhered them to a card top to create a pieced quilt and used an embossing folder to add texture.  The sentiment may be from TCM Studio, not sure.   I will share my project at the Paper Smooches Challenge Blog with the theme of "cozy."  I will share it at Word Art Wednesday too.  Hope you enjoy!