Using this week's Inspired By picture as inspiration I set out with The Greetery's mason jar to create a card for an upcoming wedding shower. I distressed my patterned wood paper a bit and set my mason jar on top with some pretty blossoms. I just squeezed my sentiment onto a little tag and tucked it under the string that goes around the mason jar. I look forward to playing around with these sets more!

Using Inspired By's time to garden theme and the want to create some thank you's in a Hawaiian theme, I pulled out this older Close To My Heart stamp set and created a simple design. I saw so many of these beautiful hibiscus flowers in Maui and it made me look forward to planting my own flowers soon back at home. I was able to create several of these cards fairly quickly, which was great!

I was itching to make a card tonight with the beautiful new Chelsea Gardens paper collection from Close To My Heart. The picture over at Inspired By... made me think of these papers and I wanted to try the shadowed sentiments technique from Make It Monday. I am also linking up to the Heart2Heart "winter blues" challenge.

I cut the 'you' die out several times and glued them all together to make it stand out more and decided to do second generation stamping with Charcoal to achieve my shadowed sentiment.

Here is a birthday card I put together inspired tonight inspired by the Inspired By challenge picture (I'm so stoked to see this challenge back on!). I decided to try something new by layering the snowflake dies and using the confetti embossing folder as snow falling to link up with the "something new" challenge over at Heart2Heart.