Graciellie Design

Hi! I'm so delighted to share with you a sweet new card I made for some of my favorite challenges. It's a 'welcome baby' card in Spanish. It is a shaped, peach, nicely embellished card that enjoyed making so very much. Materials Spellbinders: Fancy Lattiece, Rose Creations, Bitty Blossoms, Majestic Labels Twenty-Five, Diamond Effects, Parisian Motifs, Grand Calibur die cutting machine Stampendous: Spanish Invite Haj Design Papers: Absolute Floral Inks: Colorbox in Apricot, Ranger embossing ink Inkadinkado embossing powder in Starlight Silver Zap! heat tool Adhesives: Bazic two sided tape, UHU all purpose adhesive, Elmer's glue-all Other generic materials 1" satin ribbon in peach Cardstocks: 'Papyrus' in peach, 'Leather' in off white, Linen in white, Eggshell in white Embellishments: Vintage gold button, Pearl stamens in pink, Pearl and crystal charm, Fused string pearl beads I hope you like my card, it was fun to mak...

Hello my dear friends. I recently posted a floral card with Zinnias (here) and mentioned that I not only love to stamp and color flowers, but that I also have flowers at my house. So, I was asked by my sweet cyber friend Juanita Estrada, aka Blue Rose, to post pictures of my flowers. And I thought I would take a moment to share with you some of the plants I have. I have flower beds outside my gate and around the corner of my house and also on my front and back porch. And I wish I had even more space to plant.   Welcome to my small garden. I do hope you enjoy the little tour... Desert Rose   It is a little exotic to our region, but because of how much sunlight we have here, it adapts well. It's root looks like a potato, and this is because it absorbs all the water it has a chance to get and keeps it inside. A very clever plant, a survivor really. Doesn't need much care, so if it died, I would be a very, very bad gardener. It flowers with me around 4 times a year, and i...