Pearls of Beauty

You Are What You Eat

May 9, 2026 · Leave a Comment

Welcome stampers!

We are a group of stampers who get together weekly in blog form to create with a theme each week. This is our weekly Create with Stamping Friends Saturday blog hop!

Weekly, we share various themes to inspire your creativity. This week, we are creating cards with foods!

Honey is a food, right?

I hand cut these cute little honey bears from the Homemade Sweetness Designer Series Paper. Then I started pulling card stock to see what matched the bears.

Calypso Coral was listed on the paper pack. And I thought the new Crisp Cantaloupe and Golden Glow matched too!

To add some interest, I stamped the Golden Glow with honey combs. For the Crisp Cantaloupe, I ’embossed’ it with the Eyelet Blooms Die* using the Impressions Plate. *The Eyelet Blooms Die is a specially priced Product of the Month that can be yours with a minimum purchase.

The sentiment is from the Bee My Valentine stamp set. Couldn’t be more perfect for this card!

Be sure to go around and check us all out to see how we used the theme this week! We also love to read comments too. Take a few minutes to say HI, or why you liked our project for the week.

Next up is Melissa Davies, back is Cindy Elam. Keep going to see all of us.

See you next week with more great inspirations!

Shop any of the products for this fabulous card by clicking on any of the icons below.

I appreciate your support of my home based business. Orders like yours help keep me craftin’ with my senior volunteer work and keep my Card Buffets going. Thank you in advance!

Product List

Basic Card Making Supplies

[103579]

[152392]

[122334]

[102300]

Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

Stampin’ Seal

[152813]

Fine-Tip Glue Pen

[138309]

Stampin’ Dimensionals

[104430]

Lovely Day

April 2, 2026 · 2 Comments

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

Here is this week’s new color challenge to spark your creativity –

Great spring colors!

These are some new products that were recently released : Paradise Garden Bundle and the Garden Poetry Designer Series Paper.

They are quite lovely I must say!

The coordinating dies have this inner hexagon shape. After I stamped and die cut it, I placed it on Calypso Coral card stock and simply trimmed around it for the layered piece. Looks die cut too!

I felt the card was a little plain when I finished. I didn’t have any white ribbon, so I looped a strip of vellum behind the sentiment. Done! It worked perfectly!

Check out the other Design Team’s use of these colors this week on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

Shop any of the products for this fabulous card by clicking on any of the icons below.

I appreciate your support of my home based business. Orders like yours help keep me craftin’ with my senior volunteer work and keep my Card Buffets going. Thank you in advance!

Product List

Basic Card Making Supplies

[103579]

[152392]

[122334]

[102300]

Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

Stampin’ Seal

[152813]

Fine-Tip Glue Pen

[138309]

Stampin’ Dimensionals

[104430]

You’re A Great Friend

March 26, 2026 · Leave a Comment

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

Here is this week’s new layout challenge to spark your creativity –

Awesome layout this week!

This is how I used it –

A fancy card from my usual style!

This is the Brushed With Beauty Suite of products. They are all soo pretty!

For my flower, I die cut several of these flowers and adhered them together. I love the way that turned out!

Check out the other Design Team’s use of these colors this week on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

Shop any of the products for this fabulous card by clicking on any of the icons below.

I appreciate your support of my home based business. Orders like yours help keep me craftin’ with my senior volunteer work and keep my Card Buffets going. Thank you in advance!

Product List

Basic Card Making Supplies

[103579]

[152392]

[122334]

[102300]

Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

Stampin’ Seal

[152813]

Fine-Tip Glue Pen

[138309]

Stampin’ Dimensionals

[104430]

CASing Lori de Groot 2026

February 14, 2026 · Leave a Comment

ew˙3Welcome stampers!

We are a group of stampers who get together weekly in blog form to create with a theme each week. This is our weekly Create with Stamping Friends Saturday blog hop!

We are bringing back our much loved, CASing (Copy And Share), our own designers series for a few weeks. We pick a card from the previous year, use the same layout and colors, and recreate the card with current stamps and dies.

This week, we are CASing Lori de Groot of loritamarie crafts.

I really was drawn to this cute little box she created –

So I created a card like her design –

I used the cute Easter Basket Bundle for the bunny and basket. I modified the handle of the basket making it shorter to fit proportion of the card.

I used the coordinating pattern paper, Easter Joy Specialty Designer Series Paper.

I added three of the white Pearls of Beauty embellishments that I colored with Pretty In Pink Stampin’ Blends.

Be sure to go around and check us all out to see how we all CASed the same designer! We also love to read comments too. Take a few minutes to say HI, or why you liked our project for the week.

Next up is Melissa Davies, back is Cindy Elam. Keep going to see all of us.

See you next week with more great inspirations!

Shop any of the products for this fabulous card by clicking on any of the icons below.

I appreciate your support of my home based business. Orders like yours help keep me craftin’ with my senior volunteer work and keep my Card Buffets going. Thank you in advance!

Product List