Buy 3 items and you’ll get a 4th one free!

As usual on this sort of thing – the lowest priced item is the free one.  Current Promotion sale items are not included.

Also, I was blown away by this gorgeous card that Holly Craft sent to me!   Holly is a fantastic watercolor artist.   Want to try your skills with this stamp?   It’s on sale for 50% off right now, so go ahead!  208H Pinecone in Basket.

The sugar snap peas in my garden finished up about a month ago.   They are one of my favorite vegetables to grow.   So easy to plant (nice big seeds you just plop into the dirt) and you can start picking them and eating them in aearly June!   Once it gets hot, they’re done, and then you don’t have to pay attention to them anymore!  I’ve gotten a couple of wonderful cards from the design team made with our two new “pea” images and thought I’d share them with you along with a picture of my garden peas. 

The cards below were all made using 1210QCL Peas Cling Set, or the individual stamps 1210F Pea Package, and 1211D We’re Like Two Peas.  The card below was made by Anya Schrier – first the outside of the card, then the inside. 

The card below was made by Kathie Bailey.

And last but not least is a card from Sue Eldred.

I love it when stampers get creative with our stamps.   Color a Coneflower yellow and it becomes a Sunflower.   Put a snowman in front of a summer porch, add some white gel pen to the bushes and you have a winter scene.   Kathie Bailey simply colored our new little Goldfinch blue instead of yellow and viola!   He’s an Indigo Bunting!   Kathie used our new Goldfinch 1219G and Quick Note Vertical 251D to create the outside of her note pad.

Our little piece of land sits on a 2-lane highway in western Missouri.  When we bought the place, I noticed some pretty pink and white flowers growing along the pasture fence up by the road.   I asked a neighbor and she told me that they were Sweet Peas.   Below is a notepad that Anya Schrier created for our DT Notepad Challenge.   Anya does a beautiful job of collage with several different word images plus the Sweet Pea 1215H and Earth Laughs 417D images that are both included in the 1215QCL Sweet Pea Cling Set. 

Here’s a close up of Anya’s project.  Watch for more posts this week showcasing our new Summer Stamps!

A few of the Iris have started blooming!    A few years ago, a woman in my town who raises a huge variety of Iris thinned her beds and gave me a garbage sack full of bulbs.  Well, I’ve been remis over the years and many of the colors have died away leaving me with mostly purple and white.   But even they are breath-taking and provided the inspiration for our Iris stamps – 546K and 547E.   Below the Iris is a beautiful card created by Pat Connelly.  On Pat’s card, you’ll also see the Spring Flower Background 578H and We Turn Not 573D.

This isn’t exactly a “spring” turkey card, but it is one of my favorite cards of all time.  It’s super easy and beautiful!   Sue Eldred used 800K Turkey Large to create this card.    You can also get a small version of the same image – 801E Turkey Small.

I don’t have an image of a Morel mushroom – and I need to remedy that.  But I do have a  Toadstool – 1012G that makes beautiful cards – just don’t eat anything like these that you find out in the woods.

Below is the view coming down my driveway this week.  And to think – this is not landscaping – just Mother Nature in all her glory!  Blooming redbuds only last a short time and the very best time to see them in on a cloudy day just after an April shower.

This view is just as pretty in January, though not as colorful.   But it was the inspiration for 1194H – Winter Fenceline, shown below.   All it takes is someone full of imagination, like DT member Anya Schrier, to turn January into April, as you can see in the card further down.