More is More

Happy Friday!  Time to play with another one of Taylor’s fun sketches in the weekly Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge (cupcakes not required).  My Stampin’ Up! Club order arrived earlier this week so I had some fun new toys to play with including my very first Big Shot dies and the stamp set Sip by Sip.  I needed a thank you card for a friend who took me out to tea last week and all of these elements collided together perfectly for today’s card!  Don’t ya just love it when that happens?

I thought the textured dp Sweet Slumber would be great with the retro look of the stamp set.  This card is pretty much self-explanatory I think except to say that the image is embossed onto Sahara Sand cardstock with Black Craft Ink and clear ep.  And the flower is just the dp with the bigz die layered and curled up.  This is an SUO card with full recipe at the end of the post.

Get all the details to play along on Taylor’s blog.  Everyone is welcome to play – More is More!  *wink* And now let’s see what the rest of the Cupcake Crew has cooked up this week:

So it’s almost Easter.  Have you thought about your Easter dress yet?  I still love to have a new dress for Easter – left over from childhood I guess.  Well remember yesterday when I told you about my frantic search for Simon?  While I didn’t find Simon I did come across a Target bag with a dress in it I bought just about this time last year.  Very much wanting a new dress as Easter was quickly approaching I had stopped at Target on my way home from work one night to pick up some necessity (or maybe I just wanted to hit the Dollar Spot?).  I noticed a cute white cotton dress with bright pink watercolor-y roses and since I didn’t have time to try it on I decided to just go ahead and buy it.  When I got home and tried it on I found that it was definitely too small!  *sigh* I put it back in the bag with the receipt to return, but I obviously never got that done.  Today I decided to try it on again and guess what?  It fits and I like it!  Score!  Not only that, but I also came across the bag that contains all of my hats.  I remembered having a bright pink hat that I had purchased for a tea.  Sure enough the hat (which still has the tag on it ’cause I never ended up wearing it ’cause it didn’t match the dress I wore) totally matches the new dress!  How cool is that??  I have an Easter dress and hat and it’s not even last minute!  I’ve really been trying to hold off on buying clothes as much as I can while I’m losing weight, so I hated to spend money on a new dress.  Anyway – just wanted to share my good fortune.  🙂

Wishing you a happy weekend and some small but special blessing along the way!

-Jami

Card Recipe:

stamps: Sip by Sip
ink: Craft Black
paper: Baja Blue, Riding Hood Red, Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Sweet Slumber textured dp
other: BS Bigz die Flower Daisies #2, Jumbo brad 5/16″ neutrals, clear embossing powder, scallop circle punch, scallop border punch, eyelet border punch, scallop scissors (for baja layer around focal image)