Never Stop Dreaming

I have another four cards that I created with the Simple Stories Simple Vintage Flower Shoppe, I expect you are getting a little bored with these!

I used the cover sheet to create the background on my first card along with a punched border, the focal image and embellishments are all from the sticker sheet.

 

For this card I used one of the tags, some of the papers and some stickers - I fussy cut the butterfly from one of the papers, there is a whole sheet full of butterflies.

This time I used two more of the tags, some ephemera and more fussy cut butterflies.

For my final card I used more ephemera and some stickers.

That's all for now, hopefully catch you again soon.

Pauline
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Believe in Yourself

I have another four cards created with the Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Flower Shoppe collection.

This time all four of my cards feature a bicycle, on this card I have used a topper from the collection along with a sentiment from the sticker sheet and three of the papers.

For this card I created a photo frame using a rectangle die and a rounded corner square die along with stickers from the sticker sheet.

 

This card features another of the toppers, a fishtail flag cut from one of the Vintage Basics papers and flowers from the cardstock pieces.

On my final card the bicycle is from the cardstock pieces, the sentiment and flowers are from the sticker sheet and I have also added a couple of fishtail banners.  All of my cards are embellished with fussy cut butterflies.

Bye for now, hopefully I will catch you again soon.

Pauline
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All the Smiles

I have four more cards to share that I have created with the Simple Stories Simple Vintage Flower Shoppe Collection, all four of these cards contain butterflies.

For this card I cut a strip of butterflies from one of the papers and layered it onto a piece of dotty paper from the collection, I punched the scalloped border - the words are from the sticker sheet.

For my second card I die cut three different butterflies from one of the papers using a nested square die and rounded the corners, I also cut one of the sentiments in the same way.  I popped the four squares up using foam pads and separated them from the patterned papers using velum.

I cut more of the butterflies and a sentiment using the nested square die and rounded the corners again.  This time I popped them up in a row and edged the panel with a punched scalloped border.

For my final card I cut a section from one of the patterned papers and layered it onto a spotty background with a scalloped edge.

That's all for now, hopefully catch you again soon.

Pauline
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Sunny Days Ahead!

I have some more cards to share that I have created with the Simple Stories Vintage Flower Shoppe collection - I love this collection, I have created lots of cards with it and I still have lots of the papers and ephemera left.

I have used three of the papers and some of the die cut cardstock pieces, I cut the sentiment from one of the papers and fussy cut the butterfly from another paper.

I have used three more of the papers on this card, some of the cardstock pieces again and the sentiment topper is from another of the papers.

I seem to have used three papers on all of my cards, I have also used another of the large toppers, some cardstock pieces and a fussy cut butterfly on this card.

This time two of the papers are from the Flower Shoppe collection and I cut the frame from one of the papers in the Vintage Basics kit, I also used some more of the cardstock pieces.

Thanks so much for visiting today, I will be back in a couple of days with some more cards, I hope you will join me then.

Pauline
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The Good Life

I have created these cards with the Simple Vintage Garden District collection from Simple Stories.

For this card I have used four of the small toppers from the collection, I layered them onto squares of plain paper cut out with a stitched square die and added a fussy cut butterfly.

 

I have used some of the small toppers again for this card, I used a pierced square die to cut them out and and added some more fussy cut butterflies to embellish.

I decided on a more distressed look for this card, I used one of the larger toppers, several of the papers, a sentiment, fussy cut butterflies and a heart sticker.

For my final card I used some more of the small toppers cut out with a pierced square die, some images from the papers, also cut out with the pierced square die, a sentiment and a fussy cut butterfly.

 

Thank you for visiting my blog today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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You are the Best

I have four more cards to share that I have made with the Simple Stories Life Captured collection.

For this first card I used four of the papers, I cut a fishtail flag from one and created a base for a tag from another, the globe and sentiment is a sticker and everything else was fussy cut.

For this card I used two of the papers and two of the 3 x 4" elements, I cut the page edge with a Crafter's Companion die, I think it was from the Vintage Diary Sara Signature collection and added some fussy cut bits and bobs.

Here I have used several of the papers along with a 3 x 4" element and some stickers.

For my final card I used two of the papers, I cut the scalloped border with a Clearly Besotted die and used a Crafter's Companion stitched circle die to cut a base for the fussy cut bird and some die cut foliage.

Thank you for popping in today, your company is much appreciated - please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.

Pauline
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Follow your Heart

I have created some cards with the Simple Stories Life Captured collection, I'm rather enjoying making collage style cards at the moment.

For this card I created six little toppers using circle dies and then just layered up some of the elements, stickers and fussy cut bits and bobs

This time  I used one of the 3 x 4" elements along with some stickers, fussy cut pieces and die cut banners - the inspiration for this card came from the Simple Stories Idea Gallery.

This is a real collage creation, I used a doily from my stash and just layered up some labels, stickers and lots of fussy cut pieces.

For my final card I have used die cut circles again, along with some stickers and a sentiment - the inspiration for this card also came from the Simple Stories Idea Gallery.

 

Thank you for visiting my blog today, please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.

Pauline
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Lemon Twist

I loved this Simple Stories collection as soon as I saw it, I think it is the fabulous colours.  I've had the collection for a while and have just managed to create a card with it

The inspiration for this card came from the Simple Stories Blog, there is lots of super inspiration there.  I have used three of the beautiful papers from the collection along with the black striped papers which are from my stash.  All of the flowers and other bits and pieces are from the Ephemera and Bits and Pieces packs.

Thank you for popping in today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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Mixed Media Blossom

I have created a little mixed media project using some of the leftovers from the Graphic 45 Blossom collection, I was inspired by a project that I saw on the Graphic 45 Blog.

I covered some chipboard with some woodgrain paper and then painted it with Gesso to lighten it a little.  I then stamped some text in pink ink and added some texture with a stencil and texture paste.

I fussy cut lots of the beautiful blooms from the Blossom collection along with some butterflies from some leftover Simple Stories papers, I also die cut a couple of foliage pieces.  Everything has been layered up with foam pads, hopefully you can see the dimension in the photograph below.

Thank you for popping in today - please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.

Pauline
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In my Thoughts

I have a collage style card to share today, I really like this style and Simple Stories paper collections are perfect for it.

I have the digital collection of these papers so I could print several copies of this fabulous image.  I fussy cut three layers and popped them up using foam pads.  I also printed the little banner a bit larger and fussy cut it to attach across the top right corner.  The sentiment is from one of Lisa Horton Crafts Wordage Sheets, I distressed it so that it would fit with the rest of the card.

Thank you for popping in today and thank you for all of the lovely comments that you leave, they are all read and much appreciated.

Pauline
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Happy Valentine's Day

I decided to use one of the Valentine Bag Toppers that I created earlier, you can see them HERE, to create a card.

I used one of the papers from the Simple Stories Simple Vintage My Valentine collection and also added a sentiment from the collection.  I inked the edges of everything and added some die cut hearts.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, your company is much appreciated - please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.


Pauline
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Hugs & Kisses

This is another Valentine card, I have used my Simple Stories Simple Vintage My Valentine collection again.

I recently purchased the Lisa Horton Nested Scalloped Slim dies and decided to use them to create my card.  I used two of the papers along with the hearts that were cut from the element sheet, the sentiment is from the sticker sheet, I have backed it with black cardstock so that I could attach it using foam pads.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, your company is much appreciated - please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.

Pauline
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Valentine Bag Toppers

I have been creating some more Valentine makes using my Simple Stories Simple Vintage My Valentine collection, this time I have created a couple of Valentine Bag Toppers.

I took a couple of doilies and folded them in half, I then decorated them with lots of fussy cuts from the paper collection along with some of the stickers, I always adhere the stickers to card stock and cut them out, this means I can layer them up with foam pads to create dimension.

I used my Die-namics Fishtail Flag Dies to cut the banners from some of the papers, I think I might even make these into some cards, I'm not sure yet.

Thank you for popping in today - please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.

Pauline
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You & Me

As promised I have a Valentine make to share today, I have used my Simple Stories Simple Vintage My Valentine collection to create my card.

I have used two of the papers, a topper and lots of fussy cut elements.  I used foam pads to layer up the topper and elements and added some small die cut hearts covered in 3D Crystal Lacquer to embellish.

Thank you for visiting today - please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.

Pauline
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