A card I CASed!!!

This is an idea I "borrowed" CASed from an card I received several years ago. I wish that the person I received it from in a "mingle" had signed the original so I could give them credit. I used some DP to give me the colour pallet, then tried my hand a tearing the edges of it and the green CS. This is something that I am always leery about doing.  I usually obsess over whether or not I've trimmed everything exactly even!!! The two circles embellishments are some I had in my stash and the "thinking of you" is a rub-on.
The card itself is off in the mail to a friend who I just want to know that she's in my thoughts.

Sandy

Birthday card for a friend

This is a card I have made for a friend's birthday this week-end. She is an avid gardener and loves flowers as much as I do.  This stamp of a old fashion bearded iris reminds me so much of those I used to have in my garden. Not to mention that right now in south westerner Alberta we are still waiting for the warmth of Spring to arrive!!!
The base for this card is a "match book" idea a saw on Susan R.'s blog http://simplicitybylateblossom.blogspot.com/  last week (June 6th).  I changed it just a little by embossing the front using my CB.  Then after colouring my image with  prismacolor pencils and OMS I cut it out and mounted it directly to the embossed front.  The five little flower brads that hold up the closure flap are some I had in my stash.
I want those of you who know me well to notice that there is absolutely nothing pink on this card!!!! That brad that looks pink is actually orange, honest, it just scanned looking pink.
Enjoy!
Sandy

Once a month is not enough?

Ok, I know that once a month is really not enough for me to be making a card, however, that seems to be what I'm up to these days.
This is a "little flower pot" idea that I saw on Papercraft Planet Cuttlebug Challenge #73.  The top four flowers and leaves pull out of the flower pot to reveal a note card.
Had fun making it...thanks to M-J for helping me out with the tiny heart shaped brads in the centre on the flowers.  I can always rely on her to have "just what I need" to finish a card.
Enjoy,
Sandy