Aviary with Thoughts & Prayers

When I saw this card, I just thought it was so cute, so I prepped it for my club members to make this month. First we stamped flowering branch from Thoughts & Prayers in Pear Pizzazz at the top of the card, then tried to match the stand from Aviary below it, lining up the stem and stand. The flower actually covers where they kinda meet. I love the combo of stamp sets, because it's unexpected. Thoughts & Prayers is pretty much a sympathy set, and Aviary has adorable birds and cages in it. I CASE'd the idea from LeeAnn Greff and also saw it on Pinterest. I used Baja Breeze, Peach Parfait and Riding Hood Red, with the Itty Bitty Punch flower and rhinestones. The sentiment is from Petite Pairs.

 

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More team make & takes with another Sneak Peek

Barb brought this Crumb Cake make & take for us Saturday. It uses a new hostess set called Faith in Nature. The sentiment is from Happy Greetings (Summer Mini Catalog). We burnished the pear using a sponge dauber, and used the Cutter Kit on the top two layers. You can also see the Framed Tulips embossing folder used for the front of the card.

Bea's make & take uses Paisley Petals dsp, which is going to be in the new catalog July 1. This card also used the Fun Flower die for the Big Shot, Scallop Trim Border and Modern Label punches.

Debbie brought this beautiful Very Vanilla square sympathy card, which uses a phrase from Thoughts & Prayers along with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder and a piece of vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware with a few inches of taffeta.

Heather brought this clean and simple make & take, which uses the Cottage Garden stamp set with some 1-1/4" Old Olive striped grosgrain and basic rhinestones.

A handful of our American Ink group. (Top) Kay, Barb, and Bea; (Bottom) Karen and Terry S.

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Fun Flowers die and Elements of Style sympathy card...

I really like the look of Very Vanilla and Basic Black together. It looks sophisticated and "clean." This was one of the stamp-a-stack cards at Ginette's a few days ago. We stamped the largest stamp from Elements of Style on each layer of the Fun Flower (Big Shot die), adding dimensionals with each layer, and finishing it with a Neutral designer button (black, of course). The flower is adhered over a ric-rac strip I cut using the Tasteful Trim die. Finally, the sentiment is from the Thoughts & Prayers stamp set.