Sundays Are for Sketches: Jan.-April '25 Mini Catalog Sketch #4 of 10

For the fourth installment of the Mini Catalog sketches, I have two cards for you today.

The first card uses Wildflower Birthdays with the Labeled with Love stamp set.  I stamped the three presents in Peach Pie ink, stamping off and then rolling the edges in the ink again before stamping on scrap cardstock.  I quickly fussy cut them and the Pool Party sentiment.  I popped up the sentiment on top of the pretty pink twine from my stash and added some Party Dots.  I absolutely love the pretty flowers and gold foil in this collection!

For the second card, I used three 1" squares from the Totally Toadstools DSP adhered to a band of 1 3/4" DSP.  After stamping the January 2025 Paper Pumpkin stamp set sentiment in Granny Apple Green, I trimmed it down with my trimmer and fussy cut around the top of the L.  I thought it was a little too plain so I stamped the small heart in Melon Mambo, fussy cut, and added to the center panel and also stamped the large heart in Granny Apple Green with the smaller Melon Mambo heart inside.  

I'll be mailing this card to our older daughter this week for her Valentine card after I added it to a card base and create something pretty on the inside.

Simple Stamping & Note Cards, Part 2

Happy February!  This set of note cards uses more cardstock & DSP, but I would still consider them to be simple stamping.  It was fun to try the "stack, cut, and shuffle" technique.  You literally stack three sheets of paper together and use your paper trimmer to cut them on the diagonals. 

The entire set uses the Basic White Note Cards & Envelopes, the With You in Mind stamp set, Melom Mambo cardstock & ink, Pretty in Pink cardstock, and Totally Toadstools DSP (available for free through a qualifying Sale-A-Bration purchase).

For the first card, I random stamped the flower icon in Melon Mambo on all of the pieces and then stamped Thinking of You in Granny Apple Green on a scrap that I then fussy cut.

For the other two cards, I random stamped the heart icon on the card front, and then on a scrap rectangle, I stamped the heart in Melon Mambo followed by You in Granny Apple Green.

My original card had the heart stamped in green, so I fussy cut a Melon Mambo heart and glued it over the top.  (The green heart was a little Grinchy.)

Which card do you prefer?