On a roll.....

So, I'm getting back into the swing of

card making.  Still trying to do some 

different things along the way.

First up, I decided to buy a Brothers ScanNCut

mainly to be able to use my stamps and cut 

around them without spending a 

fortuning on buying their matching dies.

The wheat stalk on the left side was my

first trial at doing this.  It came out

great and I wanted to use it.

The card is navy and the paper on the left

has touches of blue/navy in it. So I thought

the pops of blue on the 'laugh' and flowers

were perfect.

Now this one, I have to admit, is my favorite

of all time.

I had seen someone do this embossing technique

with gold embossing powder and fell in love

with it.  I had to give it a try!

I ordered some gold embossing powder

and gave it a shot.

WOW!!

I love this card, it is one a the

prettiest ones I've ever made, IMHO.

I had ordered a new peony die and decided to 

do something a bit different with it.  Instead

of tossing the pieces of the petals I took them

and used watercolor on them.  I put 

them back together (rather like doing a

puzzle) and this is how it came out.

Ok, so I may have been buying a few new

things lately.....here's a new stamp

set I purchased from Stampendous 'Build a Bouquet'.

Again, using my ScanNCut to cut around

the pieces I came up with two separate

cards.  Both using my Zig Clean Colors

Brush pens.

The first one is my favorite I think, but 

both are nice.