Today's Achievement

My Dearest Jennie is an excellent cake decorator and was contracted by me to bake an Angelina Ballerina cake for Lauren's 4th birthday in November. The cake was absolutely FLAWLESS and beyond my wildest expectations. In exchange for making the cake, Jennie asked if I would make a set of blank cards to give to her cousin as a Christmas gift.

It seems like I've been procrastinating on getting these cards completed, but in reality, I find if I let a card idea come to me in sort of a vision I am more inspired and motivated to work on the project. The inspiration started to appear over the weekend when I made one card using a gorgeous stamp set I love called "Pretty Peony" and then stamped a quote on top of the flower. I wanted to try to use various flowers on all the cards but wasn't sure how I was going to tie them all together so that the set wasn't just a hodge podge of random cards. The finally "tah-dah!" moment came yesterday when I found myself staring off into space trying to envision the cards...

What if I use the same flower stamp over and over and only change the color scheme and quote...?

Today I whipped out all ten of them. I'm in love. Whattya think?