Siimple Pleasures & Cherry-O Card

I'm always trying to use up some of my stash of old papers, and I was probably successful in using a whole 12x12 sheet for this card, so it doesn't look like I'll run out any time soon.  I used the CTMH retired "Simple Pleasures" for the brown and blue papers, and "Cherry-O" to make the Tim Holtz rose.  The ribbon is CTMH, the punch is from EK Success, and the sentiment is from CTMH's "Fringed Phrases" set.

Scrapfest II

More pictures from Scrapfest.  This was the main classroom at the Best Buy Rotunda.

Here's Tim Holtz at a Project Demo.  I like a lot of his products.  Most stampers/papercrafters are familiar with him--here's his website:  http://www.timholtz.com/.  Other businesses that stood out to me at Scrapfest were:  Karen Foster Design (great products and a wonderful booth), Cosmo Cricket (a fun booth--really nice people), Graphic 45 (new to me--their papers are awesome), and lastly, my favorite new find of the weekend, Unity Stamp Company.

 

These pictures were from Unity's booth.  I love their stamps, and the people working were fun, knowledgeable about their products, and didn't take themselves too seriously.

Girl Cards with Be Yourself and Just Because

This card is Tulip, White, and Black.  I embossed the background with my Cuttlebug and sanded it to show the white core of CTMH's cardstock. The stamped images are from CTMH's "Be Yourself" stamp set.  I stamped the girl once in black and then again in Tulip.  I cut out the tulip dress and glued it over the black image.  The flower is a "Tim Holtz rose," although I used a different six-petal flower punch I had on hand.  The flower sticks out from the card a long ways, so this card will have to be presented by hand without an envelope, or included in a gift bag or box.

I love using CTMH's "Just Blooms" flowers and cutting them up to make skirts.  I paperpieced this image just like the one above, and I used CTMH's "Cherry-O" paper for the mat.  The image is from the stamp set "Just Because."