Hand Penned Friend card

Hand Penned is a stamp set with coordinating dies from the current 2022-23 Stampin’Up! catalog. The DSP paper pack retired but the stamp set is still available and there are more and more pins with cards featuring it every day! I absolutely love this set and have used it many times. I recently found the set of card bases and matching envelopes so I created the following using some of my last pieces of the DSP pack:

The "friend" sentiment is from the "Happiness Abounds" stamp set, which is also another fave! (I can't believe I haven't posted any pics of cards made with this set or the beautiful paper pack...except that I haven't posted many cards at all period.)

The butterfly die is from my stash and creates a nice focal. Tiny pearls add a touch of elegance, but oh so subtly.  I’ll be adding these cards to my Etsy shop soon. Please visit at KikumiDesigns.Etsy.com if you’re curious. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have an amazing day! 

Fun with a barista name badge

A fun mini project: decorating a name badge for my favorite barista! I had done one for the holidays but now that the holidays are over,  a new one was in order. Since it rains a lot in winter here in western Oregon, I decided on an umbrella. But with Valentine’s Day coming up soon, I wanted to add some hearts. I found a cute paper with green hearts on it so I die cut the umbrella out. But somehow the light green hearts didn’t show up enough so I grabbed my markers and colored on top in pink. Then added a heart on the other side of the name tag. Here’s how it turned out:

Look for a barista with a tag like this at your local coffee shop. Tell them you saw the blog post❤️

PS Here's the holiday name tag I had made: 

Sending Good Wishes Paper Pumpkin Kit 2022-07

I somehow can’t seem to do the Paper Pumpkin kits when I first get them. It’s typically months later when I finally get around to making them, if at all! (The exception was last year’s HoHoHo Christmas kit). I don’t get them every month, only when the theme appeals to me. But I still have a backlog of Paper Pumpkin kits needing to be created. So hopefully this is the start to using the kits up: here are the cards made with the kit from last July:

 

I think part of the special finishing touch to a hand made card is adding something inside the card as well as on the envelope. You can see the envelopes in the photos and the same images were stamped inside as well. Such a fun kit!