you make me happy

Friday and that can only mean one thing...It's new release day at A Day For Daisies and if you are like me you are going to fall in love with this weeks collection that Tammy has created.

For my card I chose to use the Little Boy Loves image from the "you make me happy" collection.

 I knew immediately when I saw this image I would make a clean and simple card this week. Arielle who is also on this design team had done a very similar look with one of the digital images a couple weeks ago and I wanted to give it a try this week.

For my card I used Neenah solar white linen and distressed the edges and added the red felt heart for a little pop of color. I think I will put this card away and let Micah give it to his Mom this coming Mothers Day.

Check out all of the new releases for this week and let me know which one is your favorite.

Enjoy!

water baby play ~ for Amy!

So a few days ago my friend Amy sent me this sketch from sweet peach crop shop and wanted to know if I was up for a friendly challenge. Well of course I couldn't turn her down, although I probably should have.

This layout took me 3 days to complete. It was a lot of trying out different paper combinations, adjusting the photo color, ripping off what I had put down, trying new papers, and new embellishments.

Well after working on it last night until the Tornado sirens went off I finally finished it up this morning. I think I am okay with it now, just wish I could of toned down my felt embellishments just a notch. Did you happen to notice the stitching around the largest piece of patterned paper? I finally brought out the machine and did some sewing. (not as hard as I thought it would be)

Enjoy!

~ supplies ~

paper: the paper company (cream white cardstock), we r memory keepers (72 and Sunny), neenah natural white

ink: ranger distress (vintage photo and tumbled glass

embellishments: felt circles, american crafts (thickers), nestability (label one), pti (die-namics banner), cosmo cricket (tiny type stickers), karen foster (scrappers floss)