April Stamp Club Cards

How on the ball am I?  I actually have my Stamp Club cards planned and posted more than a week ahead of time!

I've been wanting to try an easel card for quite some time, so I figured I'd better just do it!  I started with Bella Bleu designer series paper and went from there.  It turned into a soft, semi-masculine card since I used the paper with Close to Cocoa in it!  I stamped the tree from Pendant Park in Close to Cocoa ink on the Bella Bleu paper and layered it on some Very Vanilla.  Then I used my mat pack and paper piercer and Close to Cocoa Stampin' Write marker to add some faux stitching around that piece.  For the base piece, I added a strip of dsp to a Close to Cocoa piece that I had punched with the Scallop Trim Border punch.  A Very Vanilla taffeta bow completes that piece.

 

I've posted this card before, but I had some requests from my ladies to do this one when they saw it on my display board!  You can check out the details here.

I've seen a few cards with these tulips, so I thought I'd give it a try as well!  Since it's the last month of the Occasions Mini Catalogue, I figured I'd better use as much from there as I could this month!  I've got the Sending Love designer series paper, edged with some Lavender Lace (punched with the Scallop Edge punch).  I also added a Very Vanilla layer, embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder using the Big Shot. 

The tulips are made from the wing of the Extra Large Two-Step Bird punch.  I used Pretty in Pink, Lavender Lace and Barely Banana for the flowers and Certainly Celery for the stems.  The greeting is from Thank You Kindly, stamped in Lavender Lace.

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Blessings to you,