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Here are some cards I made for the ladies to stamp tomorrow evening.
I stamped in stazon black ink on watercolor paper then used my aqua painter and watercolor crayons to color this cute stamp image. I edged in black paper then stamped happy birthday with black ink on bashful blue cardstock. I added a rectangle of Country Club scrapbook paper from SU. This is one of the cards my ladies made tonight at our stamping night.

This is another project the ladies made tonight at our card making night.

Top Note Oval Handle Bag

by Sue Craig

Base is 11” x 5”

On 11” side score at ½”,3 ¾”, 5 3/4”, and 9”

Turn to 5 ¼” side and score at 2”.

Cut out paper on the ½” line from bottom to the 2” line.

Cut from bottom on the score lines to the 2” line. (this forms the bottom flaps.)

Add adhesive to the ½” inch strip and attach it to the other end making the box.

Fold flaps in and use adhesive on last flap before folding in.

Cut out 2 top notes with designer paper.

Use scallop oval punch to punch the handle on the top note pieces.

Check to see if you need to trim the base cardstock before adding top note pieces to base.

Attach top note pieces and use the scallop oval punch to punch out the base paper showing through the handle hole.

Use the base oval and attach to a piece of computer paper or light cardstock. Stamp your greeting on this. Then punch the greeting out with the large oval punch. Peel off the light cardstock and attach greeting to the designer paper scallop oval. Attach this to box.

Push top note pieces together to fold the sides in.  Tie a bow with a 12” piece of ribbon.








I was very frustrated with this stamp set because in order to make it work, every card I saw had the flowers cut out. I didn't want to do that so I cut one leaf off from the top and one off from the side of the rose plant. That left me with a straight edge on which to put my rose flower. I used wasabi ink for the leaves, then pretty in pink ink for the flowers and image to hold the text. The text is from petite pairs. I added daffodil ribbon and used a roses embossing folder.

This is another card the ladies made tonight at our stamping night. I stamped the butterfly in bashful blue then covered it with versamark and embossed with iridescent ice then cut it out. I stamped in wasabi in the white paper with the text in black. I stamped in wasabi at the bottom of the paper. The border punch was used for adding some fun to the sides of this card.

Check our Karen's tutorial for these gorgeous flowers here:

I haven't put this on a card, but couldn't wait to upload this to show you how easy it was to follow Karen's directions. Thanks Karen for your tutorial. The mambo added so much to this color combo. I am one of those that loves pretty in pink though. Your tutorial made me laugh throughout with your comments.

Thanks for looking.
Blessings to you and yours.