A Kept Life

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Love Is When We're Together

Have you seen the newest paper collection from Pretty Little Studio? It's called Love is Kind! You'll find lots of beautiful in this collection with fun prints, bold colors and messages of love.

I'm smitten with the new papers that have a mixed media look. They take all the guess work out of mixing and matching prints because it's already been done for you.

There's lots of embellishments too! For this card I stacked a 3x4 journaling card that had a preprinted sentiment, with a frame and then added die cut clouds with adhesive foam tape. I wanted them to rain hearts and shower love on the recipient.

A tab and mini sticker sentiment are added to the top of the journaling card, and to add a little more interest I tucked a die cut scallop border along the left edge.

Everything comes together beautifully because it's all color coordinated to match. The hardest part is deciding what to make first!

Monday, May 26, 2025

You & Me

Today I'm playing at Word Power where words should be the focus of your design. It's almost June and that's got me thinking of June weddings and LOVE!

My card starts with a background of fun Sweet Daisy die cuts. They always remind me of daisy chain crowns and picking the petals one at a time always hoping I land on "he loves me".

The Sweet Daisy die set includes two different size daisies, their centers, and two size leaves. I cut the leaves in lots of different shades of green to try to add some dimension tot he design.

I topped the florals with a great big you and me handwritten font sentiment in gold and white.

The background is cut with the A6 Lacy Layers. The largest layer is a stitched rectangle, the next largest size is a Pierced Scallop edge rectangle, and that repeats for all the layers of the nested set.

I hope you have time to smell the flowers and day dream about your love.

Finished Size: 6.25 x 4.5"
Dies | Waffle Flower You & Me, Layered Daisy, A6 Lacy Layers

733-64935, 733-65262,

WFL = Waffle Flower
SCB = Scrapbook.com
SSS = Simon Says Stamp

COT = A Cherry On Top

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You & Me
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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Postage Collage The Pond

Today I'm playing along at Just Us Girls Challenge where its anything goes with a stencil! I love the Postage Collage series from Waffle Flower and they always have something new and fun they're adding to the collection.

This stencil is called The Pond. It's GORGEOUS! I love the swans, frogs, flowers and Koi fish! It was lots of fun coloring the designs and watching them come to life.

I always hate stamping them because I'm so worried about messing up the stencil work, but I'm getting better at having more confidence, and I haven't had many mishaps in the past. I used two postage series stamp sets - the "Love" one for the heartfelt messages, and the Postal Collage original set for the watermark, "forever" and amounts.

I used the Postal Collage Coloring stencil set to create the striped background. I used blue and green to coordinate with the inked designs.

I hope you're smiling and that you find some time to play!

Finished Size: 4.25 x 5.5”
Stamps | Waffle Flower Postage Collage, Postage Collage Love
Dies | Waffle Flower Postage Collage A2
Stencil | Waffle Flower Postage Collage The Pond, Postage Collage Coloring

WFL = Waffle Flower
SCB = Scrapbook.com
SSS = Simon Says Stamp
COT = A Cherry On Top

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