Sunflower and Butterfly Card

Sunflowers are from the Bloom cartridge
Flower centers were done with a Bitty Punch from Stampin' Up
Greenery is from Accent Essentials
The butterfly is an EK Success punch
I used a rotary cutter to deckle the edge.

Falling Leaves Card

Inspired by a card seen in Cards Magazine, I used Bloom to cut the branch from some newsprint cardstock and then shadowed it with a dark brown. 

The leaves were made with a Martha Stewart punch; the sentiment was done in Hallmark card making software. 

I added some pen stitching around the outer edge of the smallest mat for dimension.

Super Simple Tulip Card

This was seen on Pinterest and I tracked the source to Karen.     Bloom cartridge was used to cut the tulip and I punched the leaves, circles, and the scalloped border.  The black dots were done with a Pearl Pen and I used a brad to attach the bow portion on the ribbon.

Since the design is so simple, I made a total of sixteen cards.  They're all blank inside and can be used as stationery by the OWH soldiers.

Snow Globe Card

This card was inspired by one seen on Splitcoast Stampers.  I tried to go back on that site today to get the name of the person who posted it on there and the photo has been removed.

I used George, Doodlecharms and Bloom to cut the shapes.  The card front was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.  The bird is from an old set of SU stamps; I colored it with Promarkers.  The snowflakes were made using a Pearl Pen.

Thanks to Okieladybug, aka Shirley, for giving me some photography tips and explaining how to use a homemade light box.  The photos I made of this card really turned out better than the ones I made before she explained how to place a lamp to illuminate the object!

I'm going to have to work a little more on the line work on the snow globe base. The Promarker bled into the cut so I need to smooth it out with some shading so it looks straighter.  

The inking on the card would have looked a lot better if my Color Box chalk inks weren't so dry.  I have several colors of these inks and use them a lot but every one of the blue ink pads I've purchased is dried up when I get them!  There are six blue ink pads on my work table right now and they're all that way---and they're new!  I sure need to find some other brand of blue ink to buy!

Spring Birdhouse Card

The birdhouses came from the Songbird stack I bought at Michael's last week.  There's an entire page of them so I just cut a few out by hand.

Mickey Font was used for the sentiment, SU bird punch for the bird, Bloom for the branch.  I added some doodledots and inking to finish it up.

S'more Card

Looking back through some old issues of Cards magazine I saw a card with a marshmallow and graham cracker on it made of chipboard.  I thought the card was cute so this is what I designed.  The marshmallow was made using the small SU oval punch to trace the rounded top.  Two colors of brown cardstock were layered, trimmed by hand and the corner punched to look like a bite was taken out.

The branch was cut using the Bloom cartridge and the 3 1/2" circle moon was embossed with my Cuttlebug and inked.  The sentiment was printed on my computer.  The faces are Peachy Keen stamps.