Unfortunately everyone needs a sympathy card now and again and this first one was made using the set Everything Eleanor. The card base is River Rock and the image is stamped on Naturals Ivory Card using Early Espresso ink. The sentiment is from a retired set.

This card is based on Sharon's shoebox swap at our first ever Tartan Stampers mini convention. If you sign up with me you would be eligible to come along to all Tartan Stampers events (space permitting). Look up for more information on signing up online in the next day or two!

And the main floral image on this last card is from a stamp set that you will be able to get for FREE starting from Wednesday. Check back then for more details of this special offer.

As promised here are some more swaps from the Tartan Stampers mini convention.

This first card however was actually a class taught by the very talented and lovely Lorrain Harrison-Rogers. Lots of distressing and very vintage. Really loved this one.

This one was Tooty's card using the fabulous Everything Eleanor stamp set. I love the colour combination of concord crush, lucky limeade and crumbcake.

Fiona provided a canvas, instead of a card for her swap, that shows off some of the gorgeous cardstock colours in Stampin' Up!'s colour families. I've just noticed as well that I need to add some more Rhinestones to bling up the top half as well.

This was Carol's card and we got to try out the new Stampin' Up Simply Scored Scoring Tool.

I have not long acquired my own Simply Scored and I have to say that so far I am very impressed with it. Previously I used the Scor-Pal but the Simply Scored has many more grooves as you can score at every 1/8". This makes it much more versatile for 3d projects, mini-scrapbooks and for adding definition to cards.

 And you can also purchase a diagonal plate is well which is amazing for making matching envelopes from the Designer Series paper.

And this last one for today is a pretty card made using Vintage Vogue stamp set (one of my very favourite sets) and the Manhattan Flower embossing folder.

More swaps tomorrow!

Everyday Enchantment again!

This time I made a little mini-album using the Everyday Enchantment papers. It's a simple little mazebook album made from one 12"x12" sheet of Crumb Cake card stock and another smaller piece cut to 6 1/2" x 3" for the cover.

The inside pages were then decorated using some of the Everyday Enchantment DSP and co-ordinating card stock in Lucky Limeade, Peach Parfait, Baja Breeze and Poppy Parade.

This all the pages laid out before they were glued into the album:

I used stamps from Everything Eleanor and Apothecary Art for the journaling labels. Stamps from the Tiny Tags set have been used to decorate the card stock pages.

Some close ups of the various pages:

Check back tomorrow for some more swaps from the Tartan Stampers Mini Convention.