Snow Day

As some of you may, or may not know, we are enjoying about 8 inches of snow that all fell yesterday afternoon.  With the weather the way it was, I enjoyed a day inside making cards.  Of coarse, I had to make my run to the store for some Diet Dr. Pepper before it got too bad out.;b  This is something I stamped a bit ago.  I was looking at these flourishes and thought - that looks like a butterfly!  So I decided to try it out.  The rhinestones are the body (in case you didn't guess).  I found this bit of gray/silver ribbon in my stash that was just the right size.  With a stamp this beautiful, you have to have a beautiful sentiment - I went with one from the Carte Postale stamp set.  A few purple pearls to finish it off and - VOILA!

 

As I was making this card I realized why I loved the look of these colors so much - they were my wedding colors.  It's been nearly 11 years but... My wedding colors were a dark royal (or in this case, Elegant Eggplant) purple and silver.  I still love it!!!

For this next card I used a stamp I just bought.  When I saw this sweet mother and child I thought how perfect that would be for a new mom for Mother's Day.  Although I don't have any sentiments for Mother's Day that really flow nicely with this image.  So I went with a 'Sweet Baby' instead. 

I embossed the background in white using the Filigree (retired SU!) background stamp on a scrap of dark pearly purple paper (say that 3 times fast!).  If you look closely, the mother's collar is an eyelet lace - that gave me the idea to punch the holes in my scallop border (Elegant Eggplant).  Add ribbon, a bow and a button and you can't go wrong!

Here you can see a little better detail.  I added purple pearls around the sentiment and there you go!
Both cards are 5x7.