Sending Good Thoughts

I have to say, one of my favourite sets for greetings is the Perfect Pennants set. It has this "sending good thought your way", which works for any occasion cards perfectly and it also has the "life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful".

I used the first one on my card which also features the World Map background stamp and designer series paper from Moonlight paper stack behind the Lost Lagoon banner.

I also used some birch bark on this card. I was working on some birch bark baskets at the cottage and had these little pieces lying around so I figured they would make perfect accents for my cards. 
And it kind of gives this card a "driftwood" feel *LIKE*

I also used some of the thicker bakers twine behind the banner and around it.

Worldly thoughts your way

I wanted to do a card with this world map stamp set for the longest time. I just didn't have with me any stamp sets that would work nicely with the map as a background. Finally I did the map, coloured it various inks and blendabilities and then sponged some crumb cake ink all over to tone down the colour changes.

Then I just could not come up with anything to layer on top of it. 

One day I was working with another card and used my "hip hip hooray" card kit. This sticker with the "note book top" caught my eye and I decided to stick that on top of the map. Then it needed a greeting and some accents. I used an arrow from the same kit and stamped some dots on the side.

Then I used one striped banner from the kit (cut in half) and tucked that under the greeting (hint: do the banners first - the glue behind the stickers is pretty sticky). and punched couple of banners with my banner punch to create more interest to the front.

So a lot of thought went to this card but really the card was pretty easy to make - once I figured out what I wanted :-)