This week Crafty Secrets invited me to be a member of their design team. Since this is my favourite stamp company I feel greatly honoured. I have an enormous learning curve ahead of me as I am technologically challenged and CS has moved ahead with the times and gone digital. This week my printer should arrive and tomorrow morning I have a tech support tutorial at my house to teach me what I'm doing. As I'm not yet up to snuff this one was done the old fashion way....with stamps!
This card is for Mary Jane who has suffered a stroke and the theme was gardening and flowers.
I used elements from 2 stamp sets: "Garden Girls" and "Fairyland". The images were stamped, coloured, and cut out. The yellow flowers each have a rhinestone in the centre.
Date: Monday, July 1, 2013 GMT Views: 1034
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Registered: December 4, 2009 Location: Southern Utah's Dixie Posts: 20558
Mon, Jul 01, 2013 @ 9:24 PM
Congratulations, Elizabeth!! I know you will do well with this opportunity! This card for Mary Jane is beautiful! I love this beautiful garden scene, especially how the little bluebirds look to be talking of your exciting news!
Registered: January 8, 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 40391
Tue, Jul 02, 2013 @ 12:30 AM
Oh wow, this is just so gorgeous and pretty!!! What a lovely setting!! Good luck, too, in your new venture with Crafty Secrets - your cards are all beautiful so I'm not surprised to see this at all!!
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Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Tue, Jul 02, 2013 @ 12:36 AM
Hey congrats on being a new designer with crafty secrets...I am excited for you and feel your pain...so to speak...;0)...I am so teck challenged...just getting these cards up makes me happy....keep joking thats why I had kids so they can help me with this stuff...I know YOU can do it tho...cause you rock...good luck..:0).
You wont need it for the designer part tho...yoru work is beautiful as here...what a pretty little spring-summer scene here...especially the 2 cutel littel birds...awe...and super sky behind them with alll the pretty flowers...awesome...TFS..:0)
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.
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Registered: April 18, 2011 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 51844
Tue, Jul 02, 2013 @ 2:32 AM
CONGRATULATIONS ELIZABETH!!!! Your gallery is a sight for saw eyes, I can't wait to see what you do with Crafty Secrets. Postage to Australia is so expensive, so recently I have gone down the "digi" road, and I am loving it. Now about this card.... perfect as always, I love it!!!
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Registered: September 19, 2006 Location: Akron, Ohio Posts: 10480
Tue, Jul 02, 2013 @ 4:31 AM
This is BEAUTIFUL and sure to make Mary Jane smile! I want to extend a HUGE WELCOME to our wonderful Crafty Secrets team and I look forward to seeing more of your beautiful works-of-art. I have taken a peek through your gallery and WOW! Awesome designs! Can't wait to see more! Good luck with becoming more tech savy ... it will be overwhelming at first but just take one step at a time (take lots of notes) and you'll do just fine!! Again ... WELCOME!!
Darlene
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Registered: March 11, 2007 Location: In my Garden in West Jefferson, Ohio Posts: 4278
Tue, Jul 02, 2013 @ 4:43 AM
I'm sure Mary Jane will want to take a nice cup of tea and sit out in THIS garden !! Your creation will give her such pleasure. Congrats on your achievement!
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GardenDiva AKA Tina DeLong
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Thyme began in a Garden. Jeremiah 29:11
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28929
Tue, Jul 02, 2013 @ 7:49 AM
I absolutely love this -- so bright and cheerful and Mary Jane will feel so blessed to receive this! Thank you so much for doing this for her!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
Registered: April 6, 2009 Location: Weyers Cave, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley Posts: 31197
Tue, Jul 02, 2013 @ 9:25 AM
How exciting for you to be a member of the design team of your favorite stamps! Congrats! Oh, and I don't know anything about digital stamps either, so don't feel bad. Love the trellis of flowers which takes the eye right to those 2 cute little in love birdies! Such a beautiful summertime card~
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