Purple onion designs card

Purple onion designs had a spur of the moment sale for a short day!  I got a chance to stock up on some more Stacy yucala stamps.  I love her images.  So adorable.  I can use them for all occasions.  This card is just a sweet hello card.  I used my distress markers to color the images.  I masked off the bear and tent to add walnut stain and faded jeans for the background.  

I paper pieced the marshmallow stick and the fire and popped them up for more dimension.  I got the happy camper sentiment as a freebie from Michele! 

I added wink of stella to the fire but it's hard to see in the pics.  

The stars in the background is from the lucky stars stamp set from lawn fawn. Cute puffy stars! 

Happy Spring banner

I was so inspired by The Chester cards I wanted to use him on something else other than a card.  I decided to make a banner with him!  I love making banners for the holidays.  Banners are so quick and fun to make.  Originally I was going to make an Easter banner but decided again to go with spring theme so it could be kept up longer.  Here I have pix showing up a few up close pix of the banner.  I will also be doing a YouTube video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8jfzFvAWW0&sns=em

Sorry for the lighting it was late when I finished it.  I made this for my girlfriend's daughter.  She has a super cute play area and I figured she could hang this up somewhere.  First I used my My favorite Things banner die.  I used the largest size and cut it with burlap.  It's a burlap paper stack I got from Joanns.  I used the next size down to cut out the pattern paper.  The stack is a pastel 6x6 pack from michaels.

 I die cut 3 circles out with my stitched mft circles in watercolor paper.  I colored all the images with my distress markers.  I stamped Chester on one, used paper smooches mini monogram set for my sentiment, and the third circle I remembered my new Purple Onion Design stamps!  I couldn't wait to use the toadstool and snail stamp.  I thought it went perfect with this project.  

I backed the circles up with kraft paper that I punched out with my scallop punch.  I glued the circles down but then popped up the scallops for some dimension.  

Then I started embellishing the banner with little flowers and buttons.  I used random items in my stash including the adorable green clip. 

I also used my martha Stewart punch for the butterflies.  

I used my crop a dile to make holes for my white grommets to run pretty white satin ribbon through.  

I hope that you enjoyed my quick spring project!