Rooster Card

My dad is the year of the rooster and that's primarily why I bought this stamp set from Basic Grey. You don't usually see a rooster looking this fantastic! I used black embossing powder on the rooster, colored the tail in with colored pencils and then went over them with a Sakura glitter gel pen. The stars coming out of his mouth is a stamp from the set that I stamped twice to make it look swirled upward. The patterned paper is also Basic Grey. The ribbon is from the Michaels dollar bin. :)

Gift Card Holder

This is a gift card holder I made for a coworker. I used papers from Basic Grey and a stamp from the Inkadinkado sets I got at Costco. I didn't have the flower on it at first, but I felt like the main image on the red was too bold for the rest of the gift card holder. Adding the flower seemed to ground the whole card by softening the boldness of the top image.

Sew Glad

I like this card a lot even though it's fairly simple. It uses the SU! Puns From the Past stamp set. I love puns and I also love how there's nothing that needs coloring. It looks great on the distressed-looking green paper too. Both patterned papers are from a Basic Grey paper stack.

I originally meant to use buttons on this card, but I opted instead to add those three black dots, which are actually black "eyes" that I found at Michaels next to the googly eyes!