More of the Simple Life

In keeping with my simple cards series I've made several from the Lili of the Valley stamps that I got in the mail a few weeks ago. I love these stamps, and really wanted almost all that they had, but I limited myself to only 7. Of the 7 I've used 6 in my simple Christmas cards. I'll show 1 or 2 here, but the rest will be in my Etsy card shop for viewing or purchasing.

It seems when I buy stamps I tend towards bears and snow people, so much so that sometimes I tell myself, "no, don't get another ________, get something different." But of course, what is most appealing is what I already know that I like!

So here's a bunch of bears and 1 rabbit.

Love's Healing Hands

Here's a super sweet image by Sassy Cheryl called Love's Healing Hands. This comes in both a boy and girl version and both are equally adorable. Challenge 24 at Sassy Cheryl's this week is a color combo of Black, White and Pink with embellishments. I've colored my image with Promarkers and left the bear to be white. The flourish is by Penny Duncan Creations and has been stickled and pearled. MS heart border punch, roses from Crafta.com, and the sentiment is computer generated and framed with an oval bookplate(on clearance for .50/6 at Joann's! go get some), heart shaped brads to hold it down. Ribbon is Offray and the DP is Recollections.

This card also fits the requirements of challenge #29 Bear & Me at Just Cute Bears so I shall enter it there as well.

Some Day My Prince will Come...

At least that's the song that goes through my head when I need to associate this card with a song for the Simon Says Stamp Sing It Baby! challenge.

The card shape is the castle from Cricut's Once Upon a Princess cartridge. I used two castles with a little rectangle to weld them for the card shape.
The bears, Kiki and Cuthbert are from Pollycraft. Their challenge right now is Fit for a Princess, so this should fit right in with that.
The dragon is from Dustin Pike. He had a fabulous sale about a month ago, 233 images for $10! This dragon was one of the 233.

The images are colored with Promarkers with a little bit of stickles. The paper is Core'dinations and Fresh Paint glitter paper.

I'm also entering this card in:
Creative Card Crew: Get Cute and Girly.
By the Cute & Girly's August challenge, which is Animals.

Pollycraft Challenge #54 Love & Marriage

This cute couple, Cuthbert and Kiki is a free digital stamp from Pollycraft. The challenge this week at Pollycraft challenge blog is Love & Marriage, so this freebie fits right in! I have colored the stamp with the Promarkers and went a little crazy with my white ink pen. The gate fold card template that I cut with my Cricut is from Monica's Creative Room. There are a lot of useful svg files for free on her site. The inside sentiment is from Cricut Tie the Knot. DP is from Sandylion.