Royal Love

Over at Stampin' Royalty blog they offered up the following inspirational photo this week ... love the shades of pink and the little heart throw pillow which I thought were perfect for this submission inspired by my upline from a recent class!

Petal Cone heart embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper and embellished with the Fun Flowers die embossed with the Square Lattice ... offers lots of texture and packs a lot of love - I am going to hide my mans Valentine in this little envelope card and tuck it in his lunch box on Tuesday!

If you are looking for inspiration hop on over to the Stampin' Royalty blog and check out what others were inspired to make with this fresh photo!

Happy Stampin'
Margaret

Anything but a Card ...

This weeks challenge over at the Stampin' Royalty blog is to create anything but a card .... and well I have always wanted to try one of  these snowflake candles I have seen on the various blogs ... so here is my take on one!

 Can you say BLING isn't it just divine? Plus it took less than 10 minutes to make - use the Big Shot to punch out two snowflakes using Roofing Tin. Spread some Tombow along the edges of the snowflake and sprinkle with Silver Glassy Glitter as well as a strip around the edge of your tea candle. When dry use a hot glue gun to adhere the two snowflakes together and place  candle in the middle - done!

Thank while I had the snowflake and roofing tin out I was inspired to make an ornament as well as a gift for my super awesome totally rocking hairdresser as a thank you for all her work on keeping my grey's hidden!

I am just loving the 'lollies' right now and the Stampin' Score sure does make them easy .... however must admit that I am super excited that the Stampin' Up Occasions mini is going to have a new die to help speed up the process of making these!

Happy Stampin'
Margaret

Cardinal Bliss ...

Just loved this inspiration over at JUST add INK ... the minute I saw it a Bird Builder Punch Cardinal popped into my head flying over some Pine trees this time of year!

I also just loved this one over at Stampin' Royalty blog and wanted to play along with this one with visions of glittery paper coming to mind at the back and the above sketch incorporated into the circle on this one!

And well being that I am preparing for Christmas the traditional color inspiration over at Just Us Girls was still in my head ... 

And well here is my challenge inspired offering ... A Christmas Cardinal using the Bird Builder and the Lovely as a Tree Stamp set with some 'berries' from the Cupcake Builder and well BLING from our red and silver glitter paper and a sentiment from the Many Merry Messages to tie it all together!

Happy Stampin'
Margaret