Simply Soft....

Today I am featuring a guest designer, my friend Rose Kerry.  Rose does beautiful work and I asked her if I could share this lovely card she made recently for a swap I hosted.  Look at these beautiful colors!   Rose used Island Indigo for the card and layered it with Lucky Limeade.  Rose was nice enough to provide us with a supply list (see at the end of this entry.)

 Here is a side view.  Rose used the Simply Soft hostess set for the image and the sentiment is from the Loving Thoughts stampset.  The photo above shows the sheen on the flowers.  Rose used Crystal Effects on those flowers to make them stand out.  What a small addition to a card but what a HUGE impact it makes.  I want to remember that trick!

We all call Rose the "Brad Queen" because she always uses so many brads on her cards. It's these special touches that  make her cards such a stand-out!  Big thanks to Rose for providing this LOVELY card for me to share with you today!!

Smiles Laura

Supplies:
Simply Soft hostess set #122565
Loving Thoughts #125843 Occasions Mini
Take it to Heart #125520 Occasions Mini


Old Olive Ink #102277


Cardstock:
Whisper White
Blushing Bride
Lucky Limeade
Island Indigo


In Color DSP2010-12 #117158
Twitterpated DSP #125406 Occasions Mini


For coloring:
Blushing Bride reinker #119676
Regal Rose reinker #105223
Old Olive reinker #100531
Aqua Painter #103954


3/8" Lucky Limeade ruffled ribbon #122977
Regals brads #119737
2 1/2" Punch #120906
3" die #122125
Scalloped Circle #2 #113469
Crystal Effects #101055

Same layout, different cards....

I thought I'd share a layout with you today that's a neat one to use.  I made several different cards with it, using different cardstock colors and different designer paper and yes, different sentiments.  I like a layout that is easy enough to make that I can do many cards ahead to send when needed.

The designer paper for the two front panels are cut 1-1/2" x 3-3/4".  The backing cardsticj is cut 1-3/4" x 4".  In the case, I used the new pAleated satin ribbon and wrapped it around each panel.  Then I stamped the flowers from the Apothecary Art set and cut it out. (It has a border as part of the stamp.)   I used the Labels die to cut out a backing for it. 

I stamped the sentiment from Loving Thoughts onto Peach cardstock, layered that with Pear and glued it onto the image.  The whole sentiment piece is popped up with dimensionals.

 Here is the same card with different colors and different ribbon, made for a Sympathy card.

 For this one, I decided to stand the card up "portrait" format and  added a bow.

 And here is the card made with Poppy Parade and Everyday Enchantment designer paper. 

As you can see, the colors make this cord look different, but still with the same size and layout.  Hope you can make some with this same layout!

Thanks for visiting!  Smiles, Laura