I was asked to make a custom sympathy card this week. The only requests were that it be plantable and have something robin's egg/Tiffany blue. I decided to pull out my hydrangeas from The Greetery that I had yet to play with! 

I was asked to make a custom Paris-themed 40th anniversary card. The recipients were supposed to be celebrating their milestone anniversary this month in the City of Love, but of course like many things this year it was cancelled. This is a fully plantable card adhered together with a water-based adhesive from Studio Katia. I kept my colours mostly around the blue, white, and red of the France flag.

I was asked to make a custom baby card for some Green Bay Packers fans. Luckily, this happens to be my husband's favourite team so I know a little bit about them! I used my Cricut to cut out a football and a piece of cheese and then had a random baby onesie die in my collection. I was able to cut out all of these from paper scraps in my collection.

I got a fun request to make up some "will you...be my bridesmaid" cards for someone I connected with through Instagram. She gave me a colour palette from Pinterest and asked that two be the same and one be a little more special to ask the maid of honour.

A nature-inspired modern rustic mountain baby card for a custom set I am putting together! I have had visions of stitched elements, mountains, and this beautiful baby quote (definitely one of my favourites!) floating around in my head the last couple of weeks so I was pretty happy to find some time to put it all together. I kept going back and forth over one or two trees on this card but I think I have finally decided to just keep it at one. I made a few more of this version and decided I preferred the one tree on the other side! And after all this time, I finally realized this summer that the mountain views I look at actually have darker mountains closer up and lighter in behind. I could easily achieve this look with our two-tone paper at Close To My Heart by using each side to diecut my mountains!

I am SO EXCITED to show off some plantable invitations! Someone in the family asked me to make some wedding shower invitations for their daughter and I couldn't wait to try them out using this paper and my Cricut. I found some awesome calligraphy pens to use in the Cricut and set to work creating a simple design with these beautiful plumeria flowers from an older Hawaiian Close To My Heart set. I am loving this plantable paper! You can see video of my planting experience with this paper on my Instagram highlights. This picture shows the wildflower seedlings that have popped up from me planting a Mother's Day card embedded with wildflower seeds! I am linking up to the Heart2Heart challenge to "get your craft on" because I certainly felt that way with this project!

Here are some cards I designed especially for Lane and Meadow to sell in their shoppe! The simple clean lines and airy feel of the white on white with a touch of gold coordinates with the feel of this store that specializes in "beautifully inspired living". I also designed a set of thank you cards in this style, too.

I am linking up with the Heart2Heart challenge about tools. The tool I couldn't live without for these invitations definitely has to be my Cuttlebug - along with all of these Close To My Heart thin cuts! For these invitations I used our Basic Hearts + Stitched Hearts + Stitched Rectangle Frames. I love how they came together with this lilac organza ribbon I found at FabricLand.

I am so pleased that these beautiful custom wedding invitations are finally complete! I have been designing and working on them for the past few months. Don't you love finishing a project? It feels so satisfying! I hand painted 70 of these floral bundles using distress oxide inks. I really like the soft and chalky look they give the image. The bride had an idea on how she wanted the wording and we came up with a template using Google Docs so that we could easily work on it together without sending it back and forth. I was able to print these off onto heavyweight Lawn Fawn cardstock and then heat emboss the image from Simon Says Stamp Floral Bliss stamp set before colouring them up with the inks. I was so pleased to be ready to photograph these invitations that I went down to our local floral shoppe, MJs Floral Boutique, where they helped me pick out just the right sprigs to include :).

I got into my craft room this week to make a card for one of my friends, Nadine, to give her husband on his birthday! I set out to create an orange card with a thyme pun sentiment, and decided to put a tea cup on it because I had heard he was a tea fan too. I went through my paper stash and was thrilled to stumble upon some oldies that seemed perfect for what I was wanting to create. I also finally tried out my embossing pen so that I could personalize the sentiment the way I wanted. I used Freshly Made Sketches to create the design.

A family member recently got engaged and requested a card for her best friend to ask her to be the maid of honour. I was inspired by the bride-to-be's engagement ring of rose and white gold so I tried to incorporate that into the card. She also requested the following sentiment, so I printed it off on a laser printer and ran it through my Minc machine in silver.