Verve's Get Your Diva On!

Good morning everyone,
Today's card is one of the many Thank You cards that I need to make.  It seems I never have enough on hand.  I saw that Verve is having a little challenge for guest diva and I am submitting this.  The "Get Your Diva On" link is here.  It's not too late for you to try too!
This Verve flower from the Great Friend set was just screaming to me to take out some silk ribbon and make some French knots in the center.  I have a stash of hand dyed silk ribbon in bitty lengths and used various colours for this flower.  I stamped the flower on two different patterned papers from the Graphic 45  Once Upon a Springtime 8X8 paper pad, cut out and then did the French knot sewing and layered the two flower sizes with dimensional foam.  Love stamping directly onto patterned papers, instant visual texture!  The center panel has distressed edges and I stitched two rectangular panels together.
  I layered the Verve Thank You from the Dream Big stamp set onto another Graphic 45 sheet from the same pack.  The lace is some that I have in my growing stash and I just ran a length of the tape runner over the card front, pleated the lace as I was positioning it and then ran the sewing machine over it.

A Cameo appearance

Hi there!  I am still in Austin, leaving for Montreal tomorrow as my flights were cancelled today through Dallas.  It sure is cold and windy here in Austin!  The temperature fell 30 degrees early this morning from 64 to 34.  The wind picked up and did some damage to a fence, knocked down  five panels, oh dear.  DH is in a snowy part of the country until Friday, Boston.  What a thing to have to deal with upon his return, but I just could not do anything about it today.

I had started this Cameo card on Monday, but did not have time to finish, so that's what I spent a little time on today.  The cameos that Cath showed us on the Moxie Fab World blog are so breathtaking.  Here is my humble attempt at making a card with one.  The Cameo is one that I had in my stash from Webster's Pages and I touched the ivory parts of the flower with a peach Copic marker and some craft SU blush blossom ink to add a very slight hi-light to the piece.

The papers are from Graphic 45 "Once Upon a Springtime", a very romantic collection of 8 X 8 sheets with some whimsical images on the reverse side.  I added teeny tiny black rhinestones around the Cameo that was layered onto a scalloped oval.  I stitched around a Label one die cut (I cut out a section of the label shape to make it more rectangular) and used this as the "frame for the Cameo.  The sentiment is from the Well Scripted SU set and I also made a flower from the same patterned papers and added a Tim Holtz button to the center and set some of the same black rhinestones in the center. 

All of the paper edges are sponged with craft SU blush blossom ink.

That's it friends...

So, hopefully I will be getting to my destination tomorrow, although I just checked the weather and Montreal is expecting 20 centimetres of snow tomorrow...I will get to test my driving skills after having not driven in wintry weather for 12 years now!  Wish me luck,

Until later,

Chriss

Dreaming GREEN Christmas tag

Good Monday morning everyone! For all Mother's, hope you day was very special!

For the start of this week, I made a tag for the new City Crafter's challenge blog. It is their challenge #3 and it is, to make a tag this time around.

I recently purchased this new to me Dreaming of a GREEN Christmas stamp from InkaDinkaDo and thought I would try it out on this tag challenge. The base is SU Old Olive card stock That I used the MS branches border punch on either side and I attached a small Kraft flat bag as the tag/gift card holder. The small tags on the inside and front of the tag holder are made from a recycled coffee sleeve that I added various punched branches and oval/ label shapes to with A Little Something sentiment from SU stamped in black. I made the layered flower from Graphic 45 papers line Botanicabella and the floral shapes were made with a MS flower punch a CuttleBug floral die. The narrow silk ribbon is from PaperTrey Ink. The whole project measures approx. 3" X 5". That's it for now! Hope you have a great start to your week and thanks for looking!