What a beautiful Spring day here in Kansas City.........the sun is shining and I see flowers and trees in bloom! Sure beats cold temps and snow!!

This great weather inspired me to make a colorful card.....and to use my new die cut and border punch. This stamp that I bought at Hobby Lobby is so pretty.

Hope your weather is as nice as ours was today. Melodie

I needed to make a gift for a friend so I pulled out some of my black and white One Heart One Mind paper that I love. This is always a quick way to get a gift together. I used the black duct tape that they sell at Hobby Lobby to cover the binding and used some Paper Studio flowers to embellish.

My friend Denise at All About Scrapbooking has asked me to do a project for her 3 day crop on April 17th so I decided to use the tutorial that Michaela posted at Cardheaven.blogspot.com for this cute box that will hold 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 cards. I used some of my old American Crafts paper and one of the images that Michaela send me. I just bought this Martha Stewart punch at Michaels and thought it was cute for this project. I also just bought these cute silk roses at Hobby Lobby, they are on sale, 50% off all stems.

Sorry the picture is not too good but I was just so nice outside I decided to take the picture of this project out there. We finally got some nice, spring like weather today.

Thanks Michaela for the box tutorial........mel

I'm still playing with the Whiff of Joy images that Michaela sent me. This paper is "Blossom" from the Penny Lane collection and because purple is one of my favorite colors, I just had to have it. I used some of my new Copic markers to color the images. I'm new to Copics but so far I love them!!!! Off to get some shut eye...........Mel

Spring Has Sprung

This is a card inspired by my friend Deb Cade here in Kansas City. I got the paper at Archivers and the stamp was purchased by Deb at Hobby Lobby. On this card I wanted to let the paper do the talking for itself.....The hardest part of this card was cutting out the 12 images after I stamped it. Spring seems to have sprung here in Kansas City. The trees are budding and my day lillies are coming up. I see daffodils everywhere and everyone seems to have come out of hibernation. We got our last snow last year around April 15th so we're not out of the woods yet but I am definitely feeling that my hibernation period is over! I actually got out yesterday and worked in the yard. Going with some friends to brunch today for Easter Sunday and then to a movie. I really miss my grandchildren on the holidays that I cannot be with them, and Easter is particularly hard because when we were in Atlanta, I always made a big deal out of Easter. Our Easter egg hunts were always so much fun. Have a great Easter 2010.

Mel

I pulled out some of my old Kaleidoscope paper that I bought last year and thought I would make a card for my granddaughter, Esther. I tell her that she is my angel so this card is just perfect. I love the greens, blues and purples that this paper offers. The embellishment flowers are K&Co.

This is a card I made from one of the images that Michaela sent me last week. How cute is she!

This gave me an opportunity to use some of the One Heart One Mind paper that I have had for a long time. I love this paper because I am crazy for paisley and collect paisley paper at every opportunity. I'm still working on the skin tone issue and am headed out to get a couple of more Copic markers that may help with this problem. Let me know what you think.

Melodie