Happy Day card

Hello!  Today's post is a card featuring one of the stamp sets that is 25% off until the 28th of October, the "Happy Day" stamp set.  I love this card.  It's been sitting on my desk on top of a stack of cards for the last week or two, and every time I see it, it makes me happy!  I love the colors and the simplicity of the design, and I love that perfect bow!!!  This card was made by Felice Gladue, and was one I received as a swap from convention.  This is an almost exact case from a card in Stampin' Up!'s annual catalog, but the layout is flipped to be a landscape rather than portrait layout.  The colors used are crushed curry, smoky slate, midnight muse, very vanilla and raspberry ripple.  The card base has the "doily" design stamped lightly in crushed curry, for a tone on tone technique, making it ever so subtle.   That same technique is used again on the raspberry ripple 'tag', to kind of tie the whole card together.  

I hope you liked today's card. I've seen it about a million times and still love it!  Thanks Felice for the beautiful card!  Stop by tomorrow for a halloween gift I made for some friends tomorrow!  It shows off ways to reuse old jars lying around your house, halloween washi tape and I figured out another use for my Stampin' Chalk Marker from Stampin' Up!  I'm SOOOO excited to show you!  See you tomorrow!

Oh, Hello Lace Card

Hello.  This is a card I absolutely love!  This is a swap I received from demonstrator Kandi Phillips while at Stampin' Up!'s convention over the summer, and I just love the colors and the design of this card.  I love the use of the gorgeous grunge stamp set in the background, the doily, the little flags, and the tag.  

Here you can see she used the stampin' mister all over the card for a splatter/sprayed effect.  It's subtle, but it really adds detail to the card.  I think the color scheme was a good choice.  It's elegant but at the same time could be used on a more manly card, minus the doily of course!

Other stamps used on this card were Oh, Hello and Really Good Greetings.  Colors used were daffodil delight, pool party, basic gray, basic black, and whisper white, and one of Stampin' Up!'s tea lace doilies.

The basic gray chevron design was part of the stamp from the Oh, Hello set, colored with marker to make the rectangle shape rather than the whole image, which is an oval stamp originally.

Hope you enjoyed today's card!  See you again tomorrow!