 
Happy sleep late, lollygag in sweat pants, weekend day blog friends. All I can tell you is that today, nothing can keep me from smiling and humming and singing my favorite songs off-key. It’s a busy day but I’m blessed to be busy. How about you? Isn’t just the ‘little’ things that accumulate like snow to make you feel that life is good? Yep! Well, another card to share today and this one is for Valentines Day although the outside sentiment will disguise it as just about anything. I used a sentiment and matching label stamp from JustRite Papercrafts set called Vintage Pearl Labels. It’s mounted on a custom JustRite Die called Vintage Labels that matches the stamp set. I pulled out a Martha Stewart punch and punched 9 times to make the 4-3/4″ square background.
Don’t forget, JustRite Papercrafts is having a fabulous New Years Sale and everything on the site is 25% off. In my experience they have sales throughout the year, but never at 25% so if you are a frugal coupon shopper like me – I’m just sayin’ :-)
Okay, so it’s time to shed the sweats and run some errands. Hugs to you friends, and those of you up north in the snow storm, warm hugs!
Sweet blog friends, the fog of Christmas dinner has worn off and we’re turning the corner! Reality hits as it is three days from the beginning of a new year!! I really got caught up in Holiday cards quite late but wait until you see how far ahead of the game I am today – Mothers Day!! I have a soft, feminine card to share – it makes me want to have several to share around. You just know that I could never deny pink so I wallowed in my comfort zone today. In fact, that will be one of my New Year’s resolutions – that it’s okay to make your own heart sing by doing the things you really enjoy!! This past month has found me being very kind to myself – beating myself up has stopped. I’d encourage the same thing for you in the coming year – life is short.
I chose a pink ink and pearls to showcase this sweetly feminine background stamp called Elegant Damask Background from JustRite Papercrafts — it’s truly so stunning that I dare not cover it up! I cut the background using Spellbinders™ Labels Eight which I framed with Spellbinders™ Decorative Labels Eight. The sentiment from the Hugs and Kisses Sentiments set spans the card horizontally framed by Spellbinders™ French Frills. I do like depth on my cards so I cut tiny pieces of foam tape to lift up the frame made with Decorative Labels Eight. Lastly, an easy bow tied with the Bow Maker and embellished with a pearl and crystal and corsage pin make it undoubtedly girly!
By the way, ‘everything’ on the JustRite Papercrafts site is 25% off, just in case you want to get a jump on Valentines Day and Mothers Day or like me, you have a couple of gift cards from the holidays to satisfy your stamping wish list :-)
| SUPPLIES I USED |
Stamps: JustRite Papercrafts – Elegant Damask Background, Hugs and Kisses Sentiments
Paper: Amuse Blush, The Paper Company – Cream White
Ink: Amuse – Blush, Bubblegum
Accessories: Spellbinders™ Labels Eight, Spellbinders™ Decorative Labels Eight, Spellbinders™ French Frills , Want2Scrap – Finesse Swirls Pearls, Maya Road Triple Pearl Pic, Pearl, Crystal, May Arts Silk Ribbon, Recollections Half Pearl Stickers, Bow Maker |
I’m so optimistic for you and me for the coming year!! Hugs friends – you really make me smile!!
Posted in >Best of 2012, *Decorative Labels Eight, *French Frills, *Labels (08) Eight, -Mothers Day, 5.5 x 7.5 (A7 Wide), :Cream, :Pink, Retired Products, Spellbinders Die Templates, |Elegant
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OMG this card is just screaming my name. . . What a gorgeous card! Oh Becca I so love your style from your papers, die cuts to all the gorgeous embellishments, your work is Absolutely top notch! I want to be you when I grow up! (Of course I’m still a kid at heart!)
How in heaven’s name do you make such beautiful bows! They are all so perfect!!!! Keep on going, Becca!
Very unique idea to punch the way you did. Beautiful work.
Wish you had a video to show how to do the M.S. punch. Love that look!! Just a beautiful card and one that could be used for so many sentiments!!
Happy New Year to you fabulous lady!!
Hugs,
Mstgane
Ann
Oh Becca, as always, a beautiful card! Love the MS punch and what you did with it! Awesome! Happy, healthy New Year to you!
Gorgeous and so was the last one, I love them both!!!
Oh Becca, That background was LOVELY! I do hope that you have
sent an email to Martha S to show her a sample of the results of her punch!
Happy New Year to you, and God Bless.
This is so stunning Becca — you are amazing with punches! I just love that floral background!
Becca . . . . You are so creative with dies and punches. Your card is beautiful. Have a great and safe New Year. Hugs, Mary
Wonderful work Becca and just love how you have punched out the square. wow wonderful punching. Happy New Year.
Hugs Trish.
Just lovely. I’d like to learn how you did that with the MS punch x 9, too!!
Becca, this card is beautiful!!!! Do you have a tutorial showing how to make the square background on this card with the Martha Stewart punch? Would love to see how it’s done.
Thanks in advance.
Pam
Wow! This is gorgeous, Becca! I love, love, love your punched background. So delicate, and it goes so well with the sentiment and the other paper. You have such a good eye!
GORGEOUS CARD BECCA!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE that Martha Stewart Punch!!!!!!!!!! :) (Do tell which one it is????)
Absolutely Gorgeous! Your multi punched background is amazing!
Breathtaking! Love each element on the card. You do it soooo well.
Like many others, I too would like to know how you align the MS punch. I know you’ve used other, more geometric-style, punches to create a background. This one seems a tad more complicated.
Thx for all you do.
Ok…ok…I sincerely hope there is going to be a tutorial for this…awesome, awesome, awesome!
gorgeous card. I love the background punch. is it one of the punch around the page punches? I don’t think I’ve seen it before.
Blows my tiny mind! I have such trouble punching around pages with MS :)
Absolutely Stunning!!!!!!
Absolutely scrummy! And I can see that the Martha Strewart punch you used is going to be in short supply everywhere now!
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
Becca, this is amazing! I love the punched background…just spectacular.
Love this card Becca. Your creativity amazes me.
Interestingly, just before I got notice of this latest blog post, I had been reviewing some of your work using MS punches to make medallions as mentioned on Andrea Ewen’s blog. She referred to your tutorial as the beginning point of a slightly different use of the MS corner punches that she likes to use… How strange that all roads seem to lead in that direction today!!
Between the two of you, I have been inspired to look at all my punches a bit differently so that I may be able to come up with some lovely creations such as this one you have for us today… such a beauty!!
I just wish I could find a way to keep the dust bunnies at bay so I could spend hours and hours playing with the tools I have and incorporating your ingenuity into my “play”. I have retired from most cooking but other things still seem to interfere with my crafting time. I don’t know how those of you on Design Team schedules manage it!! Kudos and best wishes for the New Year!!
This is absolutely stunning, Becca!
Pretty!! So very pretty. I just love that lacy look – perfect for Valentine’s Day. Thank you Becca!
WAUW Becca this is sooo gorgeous. And that background, it is just soooooooooooooooooooooo stunning, PLEASE PLEASE show us how you made it and which punch did you use?? I´ve always loved all those gorgeous creations you´ve been making with your punches and this one is really on the top of them, and I just sooo love this, it makes this card looks like a million too, it´s absolutely outstanding …………………………AGAIN Becca.
Have a wonderful New year and can´t wait to see all the wonderful creations you will share with us all here in the year to come. Hope it´ll be the best year ever to all of us. Biiiiiiiif warm hugs
You’re a trailblazer, Becca, when it comes to introducing new brilliant ideas in cardmaking. You’re the best for me. Bravo for this stunning mark of creativity. Martha Stewart must be laughing all the way to the bank again courtesy of this beautiful card using one of her punches that seems to go unnoticed until this lovely creation hit your blog. My best wishes for a great year ahead.
love this card, and the pink is great
Wow, beautiful! Love the pink and pearls!
Really, really beautiful. So feminine
OhBecca, you did it again! Another fabulously stunning card. So feminine. I have your bow maker and absolutely love it. It turns out the best looking bows.
I too would like to know the trick to the MS all over the page punch, punching it so close together. I purchased 2 of them after receiving a card with that type of punch used just as medallions, I have been playing around with them to get them on the paper without a gap between them. Do you have or do you know if there is a tutorial out there to help all of us out.
Thank you for graciously posting your cards. You make my day sparkle.
Have a Happy New Year and keep bringing on your gorgeous cards.
Hugs,
Cindy
HAPPIEST NEW YEAR BECCA ….LORD BLESS YOU, AND YOUR WORK…..AND OF COURSE…..YOUR FAMILY….
Becca,
It’s always such a pleasure to visit your site and be inspired by your amazing creativity and imagination. I’m looking foward to new ideas and encouragement in 2013. Thanks again.
Beautiful card as usual , could you please tell me which punch you used, and could you please be so kind as to show us how you did it.
Thank you
Lorna
Love that punched background and such pretty framing for the sentiment!
I just purchased the crochet star punch but I cannot get it to be spaced correctly. I was wondering if you could let me know how you spaced yours properly. Thank you in advance.