little things mean a lot

"The best things in life come in small packages." I never cease to be delighted by spying a beautiful little flower and when stepping in for closer look finding an even smaller little treasure, a little ruby ladybug!

The sunflowers and bugs are all from "A Year of Flowers". Although I didn't take a pic of the stamp on the block, to get your ladybug to crawl along your greeting, align the bottom of its legs with a line on your block, then flip it over and stamp so that the line goes across the top of your lower case letters, the midline of the greeting, KWIM? I wanted to keep this card clean and simple, with a focus on the colors and the images, so I only did the little dotted line, made with the piercing grid and black pen. (I always try to incorporate a spot or dot element on ladybug cards)

After coloring the flowerd and bugs with Copics, I trimmed them out and popped them up on a rolled up glue dot, they are too small for a regular dimensional but this worked perfectly! I added my Crystal Lacquer to each after adhering. (My little boy was totally faked out by the ladybugs when he saw this card on my desk, thought they were real!) :)

Today's card I actually made for Allison Fillo whom many of you know had a baby (Avery) last month, who has had some surgeries. She was only slightly premature, born at a nice healthy baby weight and is doing very well, praise the Lord! I decided to make something that wasn't so obviously "baby", but inspired by a quote I saw on a preemie's wall I once babysat for, "Some of God's miracles are born small." I thought tiny ladybugs on these happy flowers would be perfect with this quote I put together with words from "The Best Things in Life". (and I was completely tickled when I saw this post after I made the card, think she's going to really like it! Enjoy that little baby of yours, Allison! :)

Have a happy day, everyone! take time to enjoy "the little things"!