Hello, dear friends! What’s on your work desk this week?
Lately I’ve been in the mood to craft! Specifically, I’ve been in the mood to make cards – beautiful, inspirational cards. The kind that say you’re special and lift you up when you’re in a funk.
Creating beautiful cards begins with the right supplies. If you love pretty, unique paper, check out my latest find – Wholeport Origami Paper. These gorgeous papers are perfect for card-making! They come in a variety of colors and designs – they are the perfect weight and texture for layering – and the gold-lined flowers iridescently shimmer in the light!
I also love lace, and Wholeport offers luscious lace at great prices!
Something old, something new – that seems to be my favorite pairing these days. In the tried and true category, I turned to Close To My Heart for my inks and the sweet sentiment, which reminds me of Louis Armstrong’s classic song, What A Wonderful World. The sentiment comes from the timeless CTMH stamp set, D1153, Because Of You.
You can never go wrong with flowers and bling! You could do it the old fashion way – paper punch and hand set each rhinestone – or the easy way – Flora Doodles! I’ll let you guess which option I chose.
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Have a fabulous week!
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Such a pretty card. Happy crafting #5
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Thanks Regina. Have a wonderful week!
Your card is so gorgeous, love the black lace!
Debxx
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Thanks Deb! 🙂
Very pretty card Ramona, lovely sentiment. “What I’m making” is simplicity itself! I’ll reveal it next week along with the template to make it. WOYWW always gets my adrenaline going! I have a cold and have wanted to go to bed for over an hour, but Julia hadn’t posted and I simply couldn’t go until she had!! And now, here I am visiting people, lol!
Hugs
Brenda 1
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I hope you feel better Brenda! I think my husband passed on a cold to me too.
I am doing your number.
Waited to post – and now, that it’s time to go offline – can’t resist visiting the earlybirds! 🙂
Lovely kitty and sweet card. You can never have enough bling and flowers.
Sandra de @12
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Oh so true!
Yea we’re all hooked! Thanks Julia! Yep me too, wait for the link to go live then visit a few peeps and before I know it’s 1:00 am here! Love the card! And you’re right, those origami papers are delish! Oho, printer coughed up a hair ball I take it?! 🙂 off to check out wordless Wednesday. Happy WOYWW! Nan G #7
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LOL – never thought of it that way, but yes, I guess the printer DID cough up a hairball!
How funny is that?
Julia must be mighty proud of the cult status she has achieved!
Lovely colours on your card
Famfa 3
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Thanks! 🙂
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Hi ramona,
Sweet card! I wouldn’t have chosen black but it seems to have worked!
patsy
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HI Patsy!
I don’t know if you can tell from the photo but the branches in the paper are actually black (not brown) which is why I chose the black lace for this particular card.
Have a fabulous day! 🙂
I love your white blossoms on your navy lace! So perfect with this sweet sentiment!
Hope your Wednesday is absolutely wonderful!!
Lynn #20
Beautiful origami paper card, Ramona, and that certainly is an uplifting sentiment!! Happy WOYWW! Have a wonderful week! Darnell #22
Beautiful card thanks for sharing, happy WOYWW
Eliza & Yoda 30
Lovely card. Especially like the background paper. What manufacturer/range is it?
Thanks for sharing and have a great week.
Hugs Candace
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Hi Candace,
The Origami paper is from Wholeport. At the moment, they are out of this particular pattern so I could not find a link to it on the site (I contacted them because I wanted to order some more of this pattern!)
Hopefully they will have more in stock soon as it is so lovely – but, in the meantime, I encourage you to check out their other gorgeous papers!
Beautiful card who doesn’t love everything shiny hugs Nikki 37
Great card! Happy WOYWW Helen 14
OH the origami papers are just divine!! They are such gorgeous quality papers and so fun to tinker with – I’m sure you will have such fun! I love the pictures of your kitties 🙂
Blessings!
~Kelly #43
Very pretty card, I like origami paper as well – handy for posting overseas!
Have a good day!
Bishopsmate #45
khappy woyww and love your fab card…love the sweet florals and blue is my favourite colour thanks for sharing Andrea #42
Love the shades of blue, thank you for joining us over at LEJ Designs, good luck
Ah..real origami paper – such a pleasure to use and just stunning on a card front. Love these colours.
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Thanks Julia – I love this paper too! I am so bummed to learn that they are currently out of this pattern as I had hoped to order more of it!
Oh well, I put every inch of my paper to use. I have one more card I’ll be sharing in the weeks to come! 🙂
What a sweet sentiment to go with the lovely floral paper! Have a great day! Victoria no.64
So very pretty and love the papers..gorgeous.
Thanks for sharing with us at Make it Monday..
Luv CHRISSYxx
what a lovely card thanks for sharing with use it tuesday
Rachel DT
Gorgeous papers – aren’t they FAB !! Lovely card and super Kitty 😀
HAPPY WOYWW 225
IKE in Greece #75 xxxx
very pretty – an again you’ve made it work for so many challenges! Love the paper – all the origami paper I seem to have (most carried back by DH on trips to Japan) are red and gold. I love the blues.
Happy WOYWW!
Mary Anne (6)
Great work space & great cat xx Jan
Now that is a beautiful card. One that would really lift spirits! Love your cat. Wish we had a store that sold reasonable lace. I go to one every now and then to find offcuts at a good rate. #51
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I like this card you made. I wish I could get motivated to do a little crafting. BTW, I have a NEW Twitter account, can you please follow me now @ETNHome? I’ll do in like kind. Thanks & have a happy WW!
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What a beautiful card! The colour, embellishments and layout are all so uplifting! And what a gorgeous pussycat. This is such a heartwarming post! Julie Ann xx #35
Oh what a lovely card! And a lovely kitty! 🙂
Kate #85
visiting from CED – beautiful card! tfs!
Such a pretty card. Peg R #99
Beautiful lace
Laura 102
I love your gorgeous delicate card. Those origami papers are lovely and like you said make wonderful papers for cards, that is if you can bear to part with them.
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If you can bear to part with them… oh how those words resonate!
I am trying to be less of a paper hoarder and more of a paper user these days!
Such a pretty card.
Thank you for joining in the LEJ Designs challenge, good luck, we hope you will join in future challenges x
Your card is so pretty thank you for sharing it at The Memory Nest.
What a great card. Thank you for sharing it and your great outlook. I am often times reminded of songs and I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one. 🙂 April #21
Adorable your card. Lovely background.
Thanks for joining us at Craft your Passion.
xxx Michelle
Such a sweet card. Love the floral background and flowers. Nice sentiment too.
I love the mix of shades of blues and how you mixed different types of flowers too. Great job!
Thanks for joining us at Use It Tuesday this week.
Tammy DT
Very pretty card – I love how you layered the flowers on top of the lace! Thanks for linking up with The Memory Nest!
This is such a pretty card, love that you added a black lace. I would like to thank you for entering my ‘C… is for challenge’ blog and I wish you good luck in the draw.
Hugs,
Anna xxx
What a fabulous Card and lovely sentiment. Thank you for joining in over at LEJ Designs . I would love to see more of your projects in the future LEJ DT
Joy, pretty card. Love the colors. Thank you so much for linking up. Hope you will come share with us again!
Sweet card. I love your background paper and the lace too.
Beautiful card. I love the colors. Thanks for sharing at Craft Your Passion!
Love the lace and the sentiment on the card totally adorable.
Thank you for sharing with us at Vintage Stamping Challenges.
Crafty hugs from Shirl x x