Happiness Always

Hi everyone.  Where has my mojo gone??  .... I have been trying to make some more Easter cards, but things just weren't working out.  It happens to all of us ... but it's been three days of this - which is really long for me :(  I'm thinking that the kids will get a bag of treats and no cards this year.  Yep, I need to let myself off the hook. :)

So today I didn't even attempt an Easter card ... instead I tried making some roses with my Rose Creation die from Spellbinders.  I had seen some gorgeous hand-made roses on SCS by Joanna Krog ... amazing!!  I thought I should give it a try.  Well, it went  ... OK.  I still need to work on them, but I think I'm on the right track.  Just need to figure out an easier way to get the petals to stay "scrunched up" ... I'm thinking glue.  I'll do some more practicing ... but for now, I'm using one of my roses for this card.  Happy with how this card turned out in the end ... this is after I broke my favorite fern punch (it had been giving me trouble for a while so I guess I should have picked up on the fact that it was done).  I subbed in some olive branch dies instead and I'm really happy with how they look ... these are the darker sprigs covered with white flowers.

So I'm happy that I made a card that I actually get to share with you :)   And making something that is pretty makes me happy too.  Hope you like.

Stamps:  Whimsical words (SU!)
Paper:  White, Raspberry Ripple, Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi (SU!)
Ink:  Raspberry Ripple, So Saffron (SU!)
Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, Rose Creation Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Little Leaves die (Sizzix), Olive branch die and 8-petal die (C.C. Designs), paper piercing tool, stylus and mat, Stamp-a-ma-jig, glue, and dimensionals

I pierced a square about 3/4" in from all sides of the front panel.  I stamped the sentiment in Raspberry Ripple using the Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement.

I die-cut the Rose from Raspberry Ripple cardstock and used my stylus and mat to shape the petals and then glued all the layers together.

I created a triangle of Little Leaves die-cut from Certainly Celery cardstock.  Then I added another triangle of Olive branch dies on top out of Wild Wasabi cardstock (the triangles need to be off-set from each other).  I placed the rose in the center and added both sizes of the 8-petal flower dies (the larger ones have a center dot of So Saffron ink).  


Here's a close-up of the rose spray: