For a Friend

I was feeling in a spring-time pastel mood so I whipped up this lovely card.  

I love the mosiac madness stamp set with the cute little quatrefancy pattern that looks excellent when repeated.

To make this little embellishment, I added color to my simply pressed clay by dabbing it on my stamp pad, blending, and repeating until I reached a shade just lighter than the pink pirouette stamp pad.  Then, I rolled it out thin, and stamped the image with 4 smaller quatrefancies using the pink pirouette.  Press lightly and evenly, and you may want to stamp a few and pick your favorite.  Cut out around the image by pressing down, not dragging, a craft knife.  Then just let it dry!

My edges were a bit messier than I would have liked because I made the mistake of cutting it out after drying- which is difficult.  It works better to cut it before.

Birthday Wishes

You can never have too many birthday cards on hand, and I know a lot of people with April birthdays!  I like to make a "batch" at a time and add them to my card stash so that it's always full of birthday cards for last minute necessity. 

When I make batches I like to keep them simple and versatile.  Here's what I came up with!  I stamped the balloon on watercolor paper to give it a little texture.  The balloon framelits are a must have!

These were really easy to put together a stack of-- and I hope this inspires you to go make something fun!