Springtime Stems Makeover

I have a stack of retired Stampin Up! stamps that I am hoping to send to someone else's home. In an effort to revive them, I have made up some digital cards to highlight the versatility of them. This set is an oldie but goodie. I created a digital image for two of the flowers and used them as the little blue background flower and the white flowers in the center of the card. All the other items were freebies that I found online. I love that you can find so many free digital scrapbooking items online. It makes learning free and fun. I have been throwing around the idea of putting some introductory "how to's" tutorial on here. If you think you might be interested, please spread the word and let me know. I use Photoshop Elements 9 which is SO worth the money. I had the older version and upgraded to 9 last winter. They have incorporated many of the standard Photoshop abilities into the home version. It is a great product.

If you are interested in purchasing springtime stems, drop me an email.

Here is a snapshot of what is in the set. ;)

Enjoy the card and Happy Stamping!

PTI Make It Monday Challenge and Blog Hop

Hi all!

I decided to participate in the Papertrey Ink Blog

Hop and luckily was inventive enough to add the cute square idea in today's Make It Monday video so I can participate in both. This card is made with the Pond Life and Pond Life

Sentiments set. Colors are Sahara Sand, Always Artichoke and Kraft for paper and the same for ink. Water lilies were colored with copics. The lines were drawn with a fine tip sharpie. This card was actually my second card, the first being below. However, the bird card didn't seem manly enough, so I went with a turtle. I struggle with masculine cards...so this was a challenge for me.

This next card was made with a set that was a freebie from PTI a few years ago.

If you

purchased 12 stamp sets within the year, they sent you this set. I love this set, but, if you can

believe it....I hadn't even inked it up until today. If you are lucky enoug

h to have this set,

definitely use it...it has cute things in it. The colors are black, daffodil delight and summer sunrise. I added lots of bling to this card and also incorporated one of the images from guidelines.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stamping!