Nature Silhouettes

"This is the day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it."

This morning when I went to the kitchen, as I usually do, I looked out the back door window and saw that there was a gentle rain falling. I just gave thanks to the Lord for a few minutes because it was the perfect rain for the plants and seeds Dan had planted yesterday in the garden. I love this time of year when the spring rains come and make the whole world look so clean. The dogwoods are in full bloom and they are brilliant against the vibrant green of the new leaves and the wet forest floor and the salmon azaleas border the backyard, it is beautiful. Maybe I'll post a photo but they are never as gorgeous as the real thing.

You may think this odd but since I have started stamping color has more meaning to me. The picture I described above makes me want to make a card with the colors whisper white, kiwi kiss, close to cocoa and cameo coral. Well, now for the cards that I made above. I used Not Quite Navy for the card and Old Olive, Whisper White, and Sahara Sand CS for the layers. I stamped the images from Nature Silhouettes in Classic Close to Cocoa ink on the SS. I used the stamp from my free stamp set I got during Sale-a-Bration for the "congratulations" on the card on the left which I stamped in OO on WW. I used the Versamark Stamp Pad to stamp the Happy Birthday on the OO CS. Just let me say that I love the Versamark Stamp pad because it always gives me the shade just darker than my cardstock (a watermark). I made these on Friday and have adopted the card making strategy of making more than one card at a time so that scraps are minimized. With this strategy hopefully I will build up my card supply so they will be ready when I need them, of course there will always be those time when I have to make a card that fits that special person's taste but that doesn't mean I can't make two cards using the same card stock and ink just different stamp sets or DSP (SU designer series paper). If you have any questions please feel free to call or e-mail.

Here are those photos