Sweet As a Peach Bundle

 The Sweet as a Peach Bundle (pages 61 and 161),

consisting of the Sweet as a Peach stamp set and the 

Peach dies, is another bundle that is retiring at the end

of the month.  I got this bundle because my mother loves

peaches.   My backyard peach tree gives me great joy,

from the beautiful blossoms, to the juicy fruit.  

This is a quick card, from the standpoint of being pretty

simple.  It does require some Big Shot effort, but

yields a happy card.

Pierced Blooms on Pattern Party DSP

 I will totally miss the Pierced Blooms dies on page 165,

after they retire.  The flowers are happy and easily layered.

In this example I used the retiring Pattern Party DSP (page 171)

as the background for the flowers.  The sentiment was cut out

with the Stitched Rectangles Dies

Windmill Field and Palms Dies

 This card makes use of two sets of dies from the Jan-June mini:  the Windmill Field dies (page 17) and the Palms Dies (page 25).  

I was trying to turn the windmill die into a little island hut,

by cutting the bottom off.  The background was made with

hand-made stamps.  The hut, tree and background strip came

from the In Good Taste DSP on page 132.