We All Need A Little Hope!

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My wonderful husband allowed me to go on crafty shopping spree for Valentine's Day.  I found all of these wonderful Spring products created by K&Company.  This has been a pretty rough week, (must be Spring fever!!), so I decided to create a few cards to provide some hope and inspiration.  The cards are using paper from K&Company, their Specialty pack, along with background material from their Susan Winget Botanical and Nature Designer series.  I love the clear overlays with decorative borders.  I think they make beautiful cards.  The birds, butterflies, and dragonflies are diecuts also from K&Company.  K&Company provides such amazing materials and papers that allow me to create a wonderful card in a matter of seconds. The beautiful bead/flower accent is from Prima Marketing. I think the shade of purple in the beading matches the card materials perfectly.  The word "Hope" and the shadow feature was cut using my Cricut Home Decor cartridge.  I cut the words using maximum speed and pressure at sizes of one and two inches for the corresponding cards.  I can now only hope that these "Hope" cards provide you with some cardmaking inspiration!! Have a great President's Day weekend!! Patty T.

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Happy Birthday

I have a couple of birthdays this month so last night I decided to sit down by the fire and craft a quick birthday card. This also gave me a chance to use my new Cricut gypsy. The purple glitzy card stock is from K&Company. The butterflies and border were cut from another one of my favorite DCWV stacks, Ciao Bella. The diamond stickies are from Michael's, and I used just a little swirl of Pazzles for the butterfly's paths. The butterflies were cut using the Cricut Indie Art cartridge. The "Happy Birthday" and accent border were cut from the Gypsy Wanderings. I hope the recipient enjoys this card as much as I enjoyed making it!! Have a great weekend! Patty T.