Awash with Flowers sponged happiness...

Awash with Flowers has 18 stamps in the set! It's huge. It's a set that will be in the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalog and it's one you can purchase now! The wood-mounted set is $39.95, while the clear-mounted set is $27.95.

There is another way to earn this set FREE - how? With a $350 order/purchase. This is in addition to the regular hostess benefits!

I CASE'd this idea from Jan Tink's blog here. I do prefer hers more just because she used the bigger stamps, but since I was doing two cards with the same stamp set for a class, I used the smaller stamps here.

I stamped the flowers in Basic Gray, then burnished (basically rubbing an inked sponge dauber in a circular motion) the images, as well as the space inbetween them. The sentiment is from Heart from the Heart.

I used Mellow Moss, More Mustard and Perfect Plum card stocks, as well as the horizonal slot punch for the white taffeta ribbon knot.

Serene Snowflakes & Heard from the Heart...

For stamp-a-stacks, the idea is to get everyone stamping 10 cards in a couple of hours. The cards need to be pretty simple, attractive, and with an embellishment (those are my rules!).

I borrowed this idea from Holly Endress, my downline in Virginia. She does some great stuff. Look here.

This Bashful Blue card uses Serene Snowflakes and words from Heard from the Heart. I stamped different snowflakes in Bashful Blue and Bermuda Bay inks on Shimmery White card stock, tied some polka-dotted Bermuda Bay ribbon in a knot after distressing the edges with the Cutter Kit, then layered on a distressed piece of Bermuda Bay that's attached to the front of the card.