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

My Heading Photo...

I haven't had time to photo a pile of card for my heading picture, so I decided to add today's card as the heading shot. After all, it IS almost Valentines Day. 

This card is a simple one to make but folks always like this fold.  Start with a 4.5" x 11
 piece of Always Artichoke cardstock and fold it in half (at 5.5").  Then score and fold the front at 2.75" and fold it "half-way back" and that gives you the front.  I layered striped Rose Red DSP on the half of the front that folds back. 

I cut a "doily" using the Perfect Pennants die and layered a heart stamped with the boy and girl from the Take It To Heart Stamp set.  This is stamped in Melon Mambo. 

Here is how the card would look opened up.  For the inside, I used 5 stamps from the P.S. I Love You stamp set (Occasions mini).  This set is one that I will keep for years because of all the great stamps in the set (15 in all!!).  The images and sentiments are stamped with Artichoke and Melon Mambo inks.

We made this card in my January classes and I think the ladies liked it.  I hope you do, too!

Smiles, Laura