Peony Garden Paper

The Peony Garden Papers can be used in so many ways.  I never got the stamp set to go with it, but I like using the colors in other things.  

Here's another card using Fancy Phrases.  I'm sad to see this pretty flower retire.  I used the Ornate Layer dies for the frame.  I stamped the flower twice and added it with a dimensional to give the card some color.  

I love the little umbrellas and flowers in this set - Under My Umbrella.  I used the Peony Garden papers for the background and the umbrellas, although the darker one is from another collection.  I thought the card needed a bit more"pop" so I added the darker shade.  Because this set has an easy to use punch, I love making things with it.  It definitely needed to stay longer in our catalogs.  

For my final card, I used a strip of the Peony Garden across the front of the card to ground it.  The flowers are cut outs from Poppy Moments dies.  The idea is from Kathy Penner.  I love the vellum look to the flowers in this card.  

In what ways have you used the Peony papers?

 

Poppies Parading Everywhere!

When I first got the new mini catalog, I wanted to recreate the front page and put poppies everywhere in my craft area!  Well, I never did that, but I have made a lot of cards with the Peaceful Poppies suite.

I ordered some mini calendars from Amazon and made these cute little desktop calendars.  They are made with a "W" shaped piece in the center so that they stand up and don't collapse.  I used some Poppy designer paper and added one of my favorite stamps - Do something creative every day.  Although it doesn't say, Be creative every day, it's pretty close to my business and website name.  Then I cut our a bird and flower from the Bird Ballet papers to decorate it. I got the idea from Mary Knabe.  I love how it came out.

Our first card uses both the Poppy Moments and the Painted Label dies.  The only stamping is the saying.  I used the Peaceful Moments sympathy saying, but you can put any saying that you want on this card.  This idea is from Bonnie O'Neill.

Look how sweet these two go together.  :)

I just love this next card!  I got the idea from Jaimie Babarczy.  At first I made the card using Rococco Rose, but I like it better made with Real Red. 

It's a more subtle way to showcase the poppies.

When I plan for my classes, I like to make the projects coordinate.  I just love how these all came out.

Lastly in this collection, is this card made using the beautiful Poppy papers.  The paper is so amazing that you don't even have to add much to make it a nice card. 

All that I added to these is some ribbon an a saying. 

The ladies who came to this class all loved the cards, the papers, the poppies, etc.  What is not to love about this?