~Friends~

Happy Friday everyone and thanks for taking the time to visit the Great Impressions Stamps Blog.

This has been such a stormy week for weather wise here in the East. In the Pittsburgh area it has been raining since last Saturday. But nothing at all like the devastation in NY & NJ. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them.

As a reminder for some happenings here: This coming Sunday is a new monthly challenge. So drop by to see all the beautiful samples from the design team. And then starting Monday, there is a chance to win some prizes by playing "name that Christmas carol with the design team". Lots of fun.

For my card today, I went with a clean and simple design. I used the sentiment from the Great Impressions Stamps - nicest perks F189. I stamped it in a oval frame die cut.

I added some twine, a button and some butterflies. Finished my card edge with a scallop border punch. Well that's it for me for today. So until next time......

Mary Marsh

card recipe:
Stamps: nicest perks F189
Paper: pretty in pink, white
 Ink: choc chip
Accessories: spellbinders lacy oval, MS butterfly punch, silver pearls, Twinery blossom twine,  pink button, scallop edge punch

Fabulous Friday~Nicest Perks

Good morning everyone! As you are reading this I am actually in the car traveling up to Pa. to visit family and to go to my cousin-in-law/BFF's baby shower. It's a lovely 10+ hour drive from here in NC. that I do not look forward to EVER!!! I do love seeing my family and of course sharing this wonderful moment in time with my best friend (pregnancy was a real struggle for her) but man....being in that car that long....ugh! We will be home for 5 days....not long enough!!! :-(

This week our team was challenged to do something embossed. It could be any form of embossing you wanted to do so I did heat embossing again! I embossed the sentiment and I embossed around the distressed edges.
I used two images for this card...I used "Nicest Perks" and "Coffee Cup Border".
Again this is a fairly simple card...it wasn't meant to be but once I got the image on the card base I realized just how big it was and I wasn't sure what to fit around it so it became a CAS card!
I had to take this picture at night so one is with the flash and one is without...I really need to set up a little photo area for my stuff and actually learn how to take good pictures!!!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I'll be back next Friday!

Isn't it amazing what a difference a flash can make (above) without flash (below).

Products Used:
Images~Great Impressions Nicest Perks F189  Coffee Cup Border G449
CS~SU!
Ribbon~SU!
Button~SU!
Twine~SU!
I have no idea who makes the beautiful glittery brown paper but I bought it at Michaels...I love it!!! Then again I love anything that glitters!!!