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The color throw down for this week used elegant eggplant, baja breeze (blue) and certainly celery. I thought I should break into my stash of papers and low and behold there was one with all the colors! What to do next lol. well I pulled out some supplies and let the paper be my canvas.
Next I started with some stickles, added some bling and thought a bird (or two) would add some excitement. Time to do some embossing so the birds would pop!
Of course I had to ink the edges and add some ribbon.
No card is complete unless you add some interest to the inside!
This is just a simple card but I think the effect is beautiful.

For The Love Of Art: Lollipop Bouquet

For The Love Of Art: Lollipop Bouquet

Color challenge

Robyn at My Pink Stamper issued a challenge using the color black. Here's my take also using hot pink. I did about 48 of these for a bridal shower last year. They were really quick using the popcorn container from TBBM and a cute stamp I got from M's. We filled these with chocolates and wrapped them in tulle. Enjoy!

Lollipop Bouquet

Today I attended Mia's 1st "dance" recital I'll use the term loosely since she had a little case of stage fright! At least she moved one foot, a little, at the finale. Oops! Anyways, since she got flowers and a candy bouquet after the recital , maybe next time she'll show us a few of her 3 year old moves!! Since she really has a sweet tooth, Mema (me) thought she should have a lollipop bouquet. I made it with dum dum pops. First I used various size spellbinder round scallop shapes cut out of plum tulle, larger size white tulle + pink paper then the largest circle of 2 pieces pink paper and finally 2 pieces green paper. After cutting all materials you will cut a small slit in the tulle and then slip the pops in the center. I then wrapped a pipe cleaner around the stem to secure the tulle and pop and wrapped in white floral tape. You will need 10 pop flowers that you proceed to form into a bouquet. Next I used a 6" plastic dowel (the kind you use for stacking cakes) and stuffed the "bouquet ends into the dowel. This is when you add the 2 pink circles and then the 2 green circles from the bottom of the dowel to just below the lollipop flowers and secure with white floral tape. To finish off you add a sheer bow to the base of the "flowers" and glue small metallic ribbon loops among the Flowers. Wrap ribbon around dowel and secure with a glue dot. Be prepared for smiles and giggles! I hope you'll try this technique as it is reaaly simple to make. Enjoy, Mary.

For The Love Of Art: Just Us Girls Challenge

For The Love Of Art: Just Us Girls Challenge