Flourish Gathering

What a great day celebrating our last get together for the year with our amazing

Flourish group. 

We met up at Evergreen church to hear our last message from our mentor/leader

Marjie Schaefer. 

Our groups gathered at tables that we decorated for spring and shared a light lunch.

Always bittersweet parting for the summer months ahead.

What a great group of ladies! 

Our theme was lemons so everything was lemons,

 we had chicken lemon salad, lemon bars, strawberry lemonade,

lemon scones, salads and lots of laugher! 

Lakeside Retreat

April's a beaut with the new paper pumpkin called 

"lakeside retreat"

Here's card number one from the kit.

I always like to change my cards up a bit from 

the kit by just tweaking them slightly.

I barely changed this one up by adding the greeting to the top

of the card instead of the bottom, then added some

glitter to the rainbow trout.  

This was a great father's day kit, the background paper

is gorgeous! 

Mini Coffee cups

Now available in my Etsy shop!

I've added two other mini coffee cups, 

now available are the mini Starbuck's, Dunkin Donuts and Chick fil A.

You pick!

Chick Fil A cup 

Etsy shop mini cups Here

Beautiful scenery card take 2

Morning!

Back with some sample ideas on the scenery card.

A few of you asked what this looked like.

You can see I chose scenery paper, then below cut 1/2" strips.

Layer up you card, then using dimensional dots add your 1/2" pieces to the card.

I didn't line up mine very well with this one! but you get it!

I suppose this shows you it doesn't have to be perfect to look decent!

beautiful scenery card

This is a fun technique to try.  I saw this demonstrated, you choose

a designer series paper that has a scenery.  Cut two pieces the exact size,

I cut mine 4 x 5 1/4".  Set one aside. 

Take your other piece and start cutting it into 1/2" sizes till you are done.

Now it's time to layer and adhere the pieces to the card. 

In doing so, you will leave a space between adhering each "slat".

You may have a few pieces left over. Just discard them. 

This is the end result.  It gives you a 3D effect. 

Pretty cool huh?

Just add your greeting and there you go, doesn't need much more to pop! 

Perfectly Peared

Using up the rest of the perfectly designer paper, 

This is the last of it!

They turned out so pretty! 

These card are very easy, just cut the designer paper

and fussy cut a few pairs and add them with dimensionals

to make them pop. 

Perfectly peared round 2

Happy wednesday!

Back with round two of the perfectly peared set and designer paper. 

I have officially used up all the scrapes from this paper series.It's fun to fit all the pieces together to make the quilt card. 

Perfectly peared...

It's was a perfectly pear weekend!

I pulled out this gorgeous paper and decided to try and use it as

I have been with many other designer papers lately.

The patchwork/guilting technique. 

I cut my card a regular sized A2 then used cut strips of the paper

at 1 1/2" each.  Take your adhesive and add pieces, they will hang

over the base of the card.  Just cut away the excess when you have the

card filled.  It's like a little puzzle and a great way for you to use

up your pieces of small amounts of paper.  

You can also cut your strips smaller if you like. 

This paper gives me Hawaiian vibes....

I used the aqua painter to color in the pear with coordinating ink tones.

Have you tried this technique yet?

If so,  send me off your pics! 

Beautiful gallery

Hello!

If you love the Beautiful Gallery designer paper, now is the

time to order as it will only be available through April 30th.

I needed a quick thank you card so here it is!

Easy layered up card with a hand cut little banner

that I added the flower cut out to. 

Take a look at all the beautiful paper in this packet. 

Here is the link.....

Beautiful Gallery

Easter table setting

Better late than never right?

Sharing my Easter table setting for Easter. 

These napkins are so sweet.....

You can't tell in the photo, but these napkins are a sweet subtle

sage green color. 

I found these adorable plastic chocolate bunnies at Hobby Lobby.

They open up so you can fill them with treats. 

I tend to lean into using what I have on hand,

so out came the dried hydrangas I had on hand.

That cutie antique vase I found at Target. 

The wood Easter tomb I found at Walmart. 

Pretty simple table this year.

We had a wonderful day celebrating Easter with family and 

friends.

I made these deviled eggs and saw online how to cut the

little bunny egg. 

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Hoping today finds you walking in freedom, joy, and the authority of the risen Christ today and everyday knowing that His life in you in is greater than anything that comes against you. 

How cute are these bunny cupcakes?

To get started I found this package of Lindt candies at Costco for $9.97

their are 51 pieces in the package which is a lot of candy! 

Start by making some chocolate cupcakes, let them

cool. You can buy or make your own chocolate

frosting.  Once cooled, frost and set aside. 

Get some graham cracker crumbs, put them in a ziploc bag

and add green food coloring.  Shake the bag around

to cover the crumbs til you get the desired color of green

you'd like. 

You want to get the color of moss the best you can.

Once achieved, roll the top of your frosted cupcakes into the 

crumbs to coat.

Unwrap your chocolate bunnies and insert a toothpick through the

bottom, push into the top of the cupcake. 

You'll find these are very easy to make.

Now,  I hope they taste good!

You can't go wrong with chocolate cupcakes......

and these are so whimsical and fun! 

Happy Easter!