Dreams du Jour

Stamps: Dreams du Jour
Ink: Basic Black, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss
Paper: Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Very Vanilla, Designer series (retired)
Accessories: Vanilla taffeta ribbon, Pretties Kit, stamping sponge, Crystal effects
Technique: Watercoloring

Butterfly is stamped off three times with only one inking to create a background with a butterfly path. The ribbon is wrapped around the paper twice and tied in a knot. After all is afixed to the card use crystal effects to add flower (color added with stamping sponge) and pearl.

Baroque Motifs

Stamps: Baroque Motifs, Wonderful Words
Paper: Going Gray, Whisper White
Ink: Going Gray, Groovy Guava
Accessories: Pretties Kit (hatpin, flower), Guava Double Stitched Ribbon, White Organdy Ribbon, Stamping Sponge, Crystal Effects

I almost never use gray but it really looked nice with the guava. We stamped the image from the Baroque Motifs on the white and placed the sentiment in the middle. Wrapped the white paper with the guava ribbon, laced some of the pearls on the hat pin and attached it to the ribbon. Finished accessorizing the hatpin and finished it off. Using the sponge we colored the flower with the guava, and adhered it to the ribbon with crystal effects. Again, using crystal effects we centered another pearl in the flower and we're done. An elegant, yet simple card.