4th of July tablescape

Getting my red, white and blue out.  I put some of it out May 1st for Memorial day 

and carried it through to flag day, June 14th and now adding more for the 4th.

I had quite a few extra charcuterie cups left over from a Valentine's day luncheon. 

Most everything at the table is what I had on hand,

I found this adorable table runner with with vintage vibe at

Homegoods, it's by Tommy Hilfiger.

each place setting......

I had these amazing vintage style pitchers and just implemented them

into the table decor with the flags and my faux baby's breath from Michael's.

In the charcuterie cups I placed some crackers, blueberries,

pistachio's, cheddar cheese sticks and cherry tomatoes and the cutie

little poof of a firecracker is on a toothpick.  They can be found at

Hobby Lobby.  

Happy 250th Birthday America

Gearing up for one bang of a celebration!  250 years America!

Here we go! 

What a celebration it will be!

Again, heading into my scrap box to find anything red, white and blue.

I truly cannot remember where this designer paper is from as I tend

to cut all my retired large 12 x 12" paper into 6 x 6" pieces.

I just cut these to fit the base.  

Since there are no stamps that say anything remotely close

to Happy 250th birthday America, I ended up creating one in canva and printing it

out.  I added some red baker's twine and some silver glitter to the stars. 

Mediterranean Blooms

Back with a different take on the mediterranean blooms paper.

I posted one similar to this a while back.  I just love that this 

paper is double sided and the navy and blue complimentary colors 

used to tie it all together.  

Using your scraps cut your pieces at 3.5" cutting the end pieces

at an angle.  Attach to the base card and fussy cut out the pears.

Attaching over the strips.  Add your greeting and that's it~

Sweet Strawberry

Happy wednesday!

After sitting in the strawberry fields it prompted me to want to 

make more strawberry cards. 

I went straight to my scrap pile to make up this rather summery

sweet card. 

You've got to add a little bit of glitter to each strawberry,

looks like they've been dipped in sugar!

Good enough to eat! and I tell you, the ones we picked 

were beyond sweet and tasty!

I used the aqua painter to add the deep real red ink to the strawberry.

It allows you to have a bit more control of the color from light to

adding a more rich color to heighten the richness.

Fun to use too! 

Good enough to eat!

Hello strawberry season! 

Remlinger Farms

It seems quite early for strawberry picking but we decided

to go, and go we did!

We headed to Remlinger Frams to pick strawberries.

It was a nice cloudy day, not too hot for picking and boy

were the berries ripe and large!  delish!

absolutely worth the bending!

ifykyk!

They literally were the biggest strawberries we each have ever picked. 

If you are local and are looking to pick, head over to Remlinger farms.

They will also offer raspberrie picking the first of July. 

Mediterranean Blooms

Summery fresh, that's what this card reminds me of.

This paper is sadly retired but called: Mediterranean Blooms.

it's that gorgeous.  I think it's due to the fact that I have so much

scraps from some of the designers series paper that I want to put it to good use.

I just cut out the lemon and add it to the center and the greeting.

Super easy~

Just Peachy

I'm literally obsessed with this quilted technique,

I can't stop making cards with using up my scraps.

This one is some of the summer inspired "Just Peachy"

designer series paper which is retired. 

I went through my stash of paper and just matched the colors in the just peachy 

line to make up this card.  It is very easy.

I ended up cutting the peach out of the paper and just layered on top.