Paulette's 2025 Birthday Card

 The last February birthday card is for dear Paulette.

Her favorite flower is the Sunflower and favorite color is purple.

So, I combined these two for her card.

Out of all the others, the Sunflower was the easiest to draw,

which was a welcome relief for me since it's very difficult for me to draw anything!

The petals of the Sunflower are colored in Yellow Ochre & Canary Yellow.

The center is a combination of Light & Dark Umber, as well as Green Ochre.

The seeds are brown colored rhinestones.

The flower name is raised up with foam tape.

The beautiful purple background is a soft pastel in Violet color,

which is applied with a make up sponge wedge.

Thanks for viewing Paulette's card!

Very Happy Birthday to Paulette!

Have a blessed day,

Lisa

Products used:

Bazzill "Puppy Love" for the main card

Strathmore 400 Series Colored Pencil Paper 

Prismacolor Premier 150 set Colored Pencils

Faber-Castell mini 72-Soft Pastels

Colorless Blending Pencil

Want2Scrap Brown Baby Rhinestones

Grumbacher Final Fixative

Tools

Fiskars 12" SureCut 
Deluxe Paper Trimmer

Martha Stewart Scoring Board

Adhesives

Nuvo Glue

Scor-Tape

Elmer's Foam Adhesive Tape

Michelle's 2025 Birthday Card

Like my other friends, 

I asked Michelle what her favorite flower & color is.

 

So, here it is.

A purple carnation!

This one took me numerous tries to free hand draw, 

but the end result amazes even me! LOL!

I'm really excited that it actually looks like a carnation!

So far, it's my most favorite flower drawing!

I chose Violet, Purple Violet & Mauve in Faber-Castell Polychromos 

colored pencils to color the flower and draw the dark lines.

The leaves & stem are done in Prismacolors - Kelp Green & Moss Green.

Some pretty purple bling dresses up the card.

I used Cadmium Yellow soft pastel for the background.

I've been rubbing these onto the card with a make up sponge.

The flower's name is raised with foam tape.

Thanks for stopping by!

Big Happy Birthday to Michelle!

Products used:

Bazzill "Royalty" for the main card

Strathmore 400 Series Colored Pencil Paper 

Faber-Castell Polychromos 120 set Colored Pencils

Prismacolor Premier 150 set Colored Pencils

Faber-Castell mini 72-Soft Pastels

Colorless Blending Pencil

Recollections Rhinestone Stickers

Grumbacher Final Fixative

Tools

Fiskars 12" SureCut 
Deluxe Paper Trimmer

Martha Stewart Scoring Board

Adhesives

Nuvo Glue

Scor-Tape

Elmer's Foam Adhesive Tape

Cards with Printed Canvas

I don't know about you, 
but I tend to forget about the craft supplies 
that I have when I don't use them regularly!

I started digging through my loose 12 x 12 scrapbook papers. 

I ran across a cloth piece that was made by Recollections

 (Michael's Arts & Crafts store) nearly ten years ago.  

I bought it because I love butterflies and moths.  

I wish I would've taken a photo to show you the whole piece!  Darnit!

This REALLY and TRULY wasn't a page to do a scrapbook layout on!  

When I began the craft of scrapbooking,
I would buy whatever was 'pretty'; 

never thinking clearly about how to use it. 

So, here I am staring at this piece and decided to make some cards with it!
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This first card is a 5" x 7" size and has a shaker.

Bazzill's textured cardstock, in the gorgeous aqua color named "Rain", 
is used as the main card.
 Layering a jet black piece of cardstock; 
then another piece of "Rain" color, 
made a nice frame for the front of the card. 

A cut piece from the printed canvas serves as the center for the shaker.
A triple layer of Creative Embellishments Square Mini Frames, 
(top piece heat embossed in jet black), 

along with pretty sequins,
finished the shaker piece.

Selected sequins; flat back pearls & glass glitter make up the mix for the shaker.

Here are some of the items that I used in my shaker mix.

Buttons Galore - Sparkletz Starry Sky

Prima - Finnabair Pitch Black Glass Glitter

Buttons Galore - Sparkletz Ocean Waves

These next two cards measure between 4-1/2" & 5" square.
Square cut pieces of the printed canvas are placed on top of solid colored cardstock and can be further embellished at a future date.
Pretty flat back pearls in jet black enhance the look on one of them.

Lastly, I made a 'skinny' card (3-1/2" x 8")
and a small 5-1/2" x 3-3/4" card.
I frayed the edges of the printed canvas on these.

Close up of the frayed edges of these printed canvas butterflies.

I printed some sentiments, 
as ideas for future use.

I'm sure happy that I spent time card making 

and used up another piece from my stash!  

Thanks for dropping by!
I'm just passing the time on these lonely days.

I miss being with friends at a restaurant, 

laughing and talking.

Crafting has been a true God-Send in my life.

Stay safe & healthy!

Lisa

I'm a Flower

Well, it was over due time for a Lucy layout!  

I wanted to have "real" fun and dig out some very old stash to create a simple Spring time, girly layout.  

Lucy really loved my birthday flowers (this was in February) so she would sit next to them, but I always tried to keep one eye on her (including behind my head-LOL) because she's very naughty.  She did accomplish shoving her nose in the middle of the flowers but luckily I stopped her before she could rip off the petals!   >^..^<

Bazzill's "Vibrant Blue" cardstock closely matches the color of Lucy's eyes : ).

A flower stencil was applied with white modeling paste.

I used a flower punch and added white pearls along both sides of the layout.  

Then I inked the edge of the whole layout with pretty Perfect Plumeria color.  

What better for a title than "I'm a Flower" - LOL!

The words are die cut using bright yellow cardstock from my paper scrap.

This cute wood flower with stem & leaves was perfect to use for the 'word' Flower in the title!

I simply heat embossed the flower in "Snow" and the stem/leaves with Blue Fern Studios Imagine Ink color Grassy Knoll. I really love this color because it's got two shades of green in it!

The smaller of the two pieces from The Dusty Attic Paisley chipboard fit perfectly under the photo.

I emboss-painted it (same technique used on my Mardi Gras Paisley layout).

I used Blue Ferns Studios Imagine Ink EPs Frozen, Seven Seas & Grassy Knoll.  

The Plum & Snow colors are Michael's Recollections.

You can see a hint of pink on the white paisley and that's because I first used BFS Pink Peppermint.  
Gorgeous color, but it just seemed out of place, so I double heat embossed white over it.  
Also, dots of Ranger Liquid Pearls color Daffodil were added.

I have a LOT of bling in my stash.  I don't use it much anymore, 
but I did remember that I had these cute little blue rhinestone flowers.

Look at the ultra-cute Jolee's Boutique dragonfly!

I was happy to find cute little resin daisies in my stash that are just over 1/4" diameter
 (seen in the photo above & on the paisley chipboard). 
 Along with other older flowers, I added in newer mulberry paper ones from Wild Orchid Crafts.  
White textured cardstock was used for the die cut leaves. 

Thanks for taking a peek at my happy Springy Lucy layout!

Have a great week! Lisa : )

Products used:

The Dusty Attic chipboard - Paisley #3

Tattered Lace dies - Ornate Leaves

Sizzix - Tim Holtz strip die - Typeset

Sizzix - Big Shot

EK Success edge punch - Pointed Flower

Prima 6x6 Stencil - Poppies

Jolee's Boutique - Dimensional Dragonflies

Blue Fern Studios Imagine Ink Embossing Powders - 

Frozen

Grassy Knoll

Seven Seas

Pink Peppermint

Michael's Recollections - wood flower, embossing powders "Snow" & "Plum"

Ranger - Liquid Pearls "Daffodil"
Tsukineko Versa Magic Chalk Ink - "Perfect Plumeria"
Liquitex Professional Flexible Modeling Paste
Want2Scrap - white pearls
Hobby Lobby - White flower stamens

Flowers:
mini resin Daisies
Recollections - blue bling flowers

Prima Mini Sachet - Sunrise

Prima Sculpture Flowers #920982

Prima Lil Missy #571696

Wild Orchid Crafts - 

30mm Yellow Cottage Roses

2-tone Baby Pink Heather

2-tone Pink Champagne Open Roses 20mm

Blue Open Roses 10mm

Fuchsia Pink Open Roses 10mm