Sunshine and flowers

Edited June 2015  Thanks to Great Impressions for choosing my card as featured below.
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Spring is in the air. Well, chilly air, at the present time. But, flowers are blooming, sun is shining, birds are chirping and I am stamping. LOL. I made this card for the Great Impressions Monthly Challenge theme Spring. The two stamps I used are Said the Butterfly E149 and Potted Kitty E617. The paper is from We Are Memory Keeper spring from a few years back. I just love the soft colors in this set.

Thanks for stopping by.

Joanie

Great Impressions Stamps Bunny Hop

Hi friends and welcome to the Great Impressions Stamps Bunny Hop!  We are excited to be celebrating all things Spring!  

If you came here from Jenny's blog you are in the right place.  If not, start at the beginning with Angi . There are ten stops on the hop which ends at the Great Impressions Stamp Blog. Be sure and leave a comment at every stop so that you are in the running for some fabulous stamping prizes!

For my card, I used the Great Impressions stamp Spring Boots F545. I just love these boots with the bouquet of tulips. I used Spectrum Noir markers to color my image and my pearls. Then I fussy cut the image and popped it up on the white background.  I used pink and white twine from American Crafts and some green leaf ribbon. The background is embossed with Window Panes from Cuttlebug.

Up next is the very creative Mary.

If you get lost along the way, here is the line up for the Bunny Hop.
Angi

Cheryl

Erin

Jenny

Joan (you are here)

Mary

Patti 

Shanna

Sue

Great Impressions Stamps Blog

 Thanks for hopping by and leaving some bunny love.

One Autumn Morning

Autumn has really arrived here in the Mid West. Yesterday was 80 degrees and today we are at a whopping 46 degrees. With that in mind, it was easy for me to create this scrapbook page. I love having pages ready so that I can just add a few precious photo's and insert them into my book. 

I kept this page pretty simple. I dug into my autumn stamp drawer and found this beautiful poem by Nita Harksell. This is a Great Impression stamp that I inherited from a friend. It is One Autumn Morning coded J48 from Great Impressions. Not sure how recent this stamp is, but it is a gem. I couldn't even find it on the blog store site, so it really must be older. 
I also used a die of autumn leaves that embosses the veins of the leaves. Not sure who manufactured this die. I picked it up at a resale shop and I just love it. 
I  used Stampin'Up Four Frames for the poem title and the place a stamp tool to adjust the poem title. I used a burlap looking paper from the Paper Studio.

Well, my page is all ready, waiting for my special photo's. I am submitting this page for the Great Impressions Challenge Blog.  Thanks for stopping in today. Have a beautiful autumn day. 

Joan