fresh smorgasbord

The weekend always escapes too quickly!  But I did get a start on a tri-fold card that I think I'm going to send off to my mother-in-law in Hawaii.  The goal was to use up a bunch of extras I had cluttering up my craft space.  So it's a bit of a smorgasbord.  I love making these crepe paper flowers now so they'll be popping up on everything I send out.  And I had some extra Basic Grey letters that happened to be the right color.  I've been putting little white accents on them lately as a little something extra.

On the inside, I used a new Hero Arts flourish stamp and colored in the bird with my Copic markers (love them!).  Also added some felt flowers and a little gem in the middle.  I'm planning to include a picture on the middle pane, and a note on the right one.  I also wanted to try out the Amuse beehive stamp that I just picked up to go along with the Memory Box bee stamp I have been using for years.

And yesterday when I went to go see some family, my aunt had just finished making this pin cushion when I walked in the door.  She is always showing off her quilting projects (which are amazing) so I told her how much I loved the little pink flowers.  And she gave it to me!  Now I'm off to fix some loose buttons on a new dress before work tomorrow.