bunch of flowers

I know it's only Jan and I'm already thinking about mother's day.  It's mostly because I just realized I haven't used the Martha Stewart flower stamp set for a long time while I was de-cluttering / reorganizing my crafting closet. Then I found the 365 cards Back to Nature challenge.   And this fits into this week's all sorts challenge CAS theme.  Here is my card:

This is a closer look.  At first, I thought white/green twine doesn't go with the pink button, but I don't want to introduce another color to the card.  It turns out pretty good. :) 

Sunday sketch

I'm playing along with the 365 cards sunday sketch challenge. I saw someone using different colors of the flower stamp to create a bunch of flowers which look very nice, so I was trying it. Unfortunately, it wasn't as nice as hers. It probably doesn't show very well in the picture, I embossed the bottom part of the card to give it some texture. Now, it looks like a wall.... with green wallpaper, with white panel at the bottom and a wall art. :P

Baby shower favors

I know sometimes things aren't working exactly the way you want. However, when making the baby shower favors, there are more things that didn't work the way I want than I expected. Let me share this adventure here:

The wraps that I got to wrap the cookies aren't big enough. With the limited time, I couldn't find wraps or boxes that I like. So I eventually made my own bag.
When I thought everything will go smoothly, with the bag I made, I wanted to use the ribbon to tie it. However, I do not have a punch with smaller hole (other than my big 3-hole punch), and my craft punches aren't powerful enough to poke through the bag. I had to end up just putting the ribbon in the front.


Anyway, it turns out to be pretty nice (at least from my point of view :-) )