Quick Cards

Here are 2 cards I made for co-workers' birthdays. I needed to get them done in advance because the little party we have at work is today and I am off work this week. I used Memory Box matching cards and envelopes for both cards. Memory Box products are not that easy to find on line. I buy from Karen at Paperosity, Ellen Hutson, and Anna at Sassy and Sweet Crafts. All are listed in my $$$ links on the right! My local stamp store, Angela's Happy Stamper (about 25 minute drive for me, so not that local) also carries Memory Box and the owner of Memory Box, Dave Breuthauer, is coming to Angela's in September to teach two classes. I signed up immediately and cannot wait to learn from him. He is a master at watercoloring and using colored pencils on greeting cards and I love his style. For the top card, I adhered strips of 1 inch wide copy paper onto the Eggshell card and used temporary tape to hold down the strips while I stamped, creating a negative space border and then stamped SU Lilac ink and a flower from Autumn Leaves Rhonna Farrer Flowers set. I like this layout, but will take a little more time to place the flowers in a better arrangement next time I use it. The bottom card uses SU's Artfully Asian and CTMH's Card Sentiments set. The inside is "you are getting better." I used SU markers to color in both cards. Hope Jennifer and Ron like their cards! ****** No stamping today until I clean up the mess I created yesterday making a card (I'll post that later.) I've been keeping to this cleaning plan more or less for the past couple of weeks and it really helps keep me in the mood for stamping.