Here's the inside!!! I just freehanded the sentiment because of the limiting of stamping on that particular challenge. Hope you find this useful.

This is a gift card holder that I made for Jen's limited supply challenge on Splitcoaststamper's. It was to involve NO stamping. These are SU's rub ons with pearl centers. I'll include a picture of the inside so you can see the way I punched it with the designer label punch and the small oval punch. I used my Scor-Pal to score the paper (a 5 1/2 inch by 11 inch panel). I scored at the 3 inch mark and then changed the other edge over and did it again, then I turned the panel over and scored at the 5 1/2 inch marking. It makes a W looking fold. I use the red double stick tape to attach the two folded edges together. That leaves a folded page in the middle of your card. This is where I punched the edge of the fold to make the pocket for the gift card. It's fun to be creative and see what shapes the different punches can make. Thought this would be useful with Mother's Day, Father's Day, and graduations all taking place around this time of year.

For those of you who find it hard to just play with your creativity, here's a perfect little way to try out new color combinations, try out a new stamp set, and make use of ever-growing scrap piles!!

These are little 3 inch square cards to use for gift enclosure cards. These are nice to have on hand to pop onto a gift quickly.

Give it a try, but first and foremost, HAVE FUN!

Last weekend I had such fun on splitcoaststampers. com's virtual stamping night event. This was the last card I created for the event and I did about 10 or so during the course of the weekend. This one was selected by the hostess for the honor gallery. It was a very pleasant surprise for me. I loved this set that was offered in one of SU's mini catalogs a while back. Unfortunately, it was never selected to be a part of their bigger catalog, but I have always enjoyed using it any time I get it out of the box!! This was done using paper piecing as the techinque to use for this particular challenge. A great big thanks to all the fine ladies who coordinated this month's event. I don't always have a free weekend, but I sure was glad I had last weekend free to just have fun and be creative. It is so good for my soul!!! KWIM?

My wisteria.

Here are some of the signs of spring around my house. I'm a gardener by no means, but nature takes very good care of these plants in my yard. God is good and delights me with these lovelies inspite of my careless gardening habits.

Groovy guava and the new afternoon tea design paper in Stampin' Up's current mini catalog.

We just got back this afternoon from visiting grandkids and taking in a great outdoor rodeo. We saw wonderful evidence of spring in the blubonnets, azaleas, wisteria, and dogwood we saw blooming everywhere. I can't think of anything prettier than spring.

This card was so much fun to make for the inspiration challenge on Saturday. I had a week off for Spring break, and guess what I got to do???I stamped and took part in almost every challenge offered last week on Splitcoaststampers.com. A charm bracelet was the inspiration picture and this is what I created. I used the new negative embossing technique that I learned from SCS last week as well, and stamped the shells from seaside, which is a great Stampin' Up set that I haven't used very much yet. I did a take on dangling the shells like charms. Love these great colors that are also found in the striped paper in the afternoon tea design paper also offered from Stampin' Up.