Hello!

A friend of mine placed an order with Amuse right after the Elzybells "Friendship Collection" was released. I have had much restraint and have not placed any orders except with Stampin' Up! but she was sweetheart and let me stamp some images when I saw her last month. This adorable image is "Gossip Girl" and don't you think this paper is a great match? See the blue curlie-q's? I thought it looked like a telephone cord. How many of us even have phone's with cord's anymore?!?!? (Honestly we do have one in our bedroom! At least it isn't rotary!) This paper is made by Sassafrass Lass (Seredipity Blue Boutique Collection - Treasure) and I got it at All That Scraps: http://www.allthatscraps.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=10_376_377

I did this card for another DKOS swap (I told you about those a few months ago). You don't have to be a demo to do those swaps and you get FULL cards back to use so it is fun. Here is the link to this one if you are interested: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=309685

For this one we had to use an Elzybells stamp, printed paper and it had to be a 4 1/4" square card, use designer paper and an embellishment. I used Night of Navy and Real Red card stock. Throw in some scallops and the SU Circle Scallop Punch and a simple sentiment from the Fundamental Flexible Phrases set and it's done!

Sweet Little Elzybells

I haven't played with my Elzybells in awhile. Luckily another set of cards I signed up for in that DKOS swap (see a couple posts below) required me to use my Elzybells. This round required Elzybells, a pastel colored panel and an embellishment. I LOVE these colors together, they seemed appropriate for our Michigan weather this week. Usually when I drag out winter stamps and sit in my Michigan stamp room I reach for the color blue. A very "cold" and snowy color. But this week in Michigan we had a couple days reach 50 degrees! Seriously! My oldest daughter wore her denim jacket to school for 2 days! Anyway, the pink and green reminded me of spring! It is much colder today than the rest of the week but still pretty mild for January and there isn't a speck of snow on the ground!

Supplies Used: Purely Pomegranate ink, cs, double stitched ribbon, Black Staz On, Pretty in Pink cs, ink, Old Olive ink, cs, Stardust Stickles, Ticket Corner Punch, Marvy Oval Scallops (Mega and Giga), Elzybells Falling Snowflake, Elzybells Winter Girl.