amazing birthday...

Hello friends!!  Popping in with a card for three different Verve challenges:  Diva Dare:  "Do the Polka", Viva La Verve March Sketch #1 & Verve Inspiration: Spring Has Sprung.  And here is my card:

When I think of spring I always think of all the sweet little birds I see flying about and cherping in the trees... not the starling, though!  They are so annoying, but the cute little chickadees.  So I got out my Memory Box Perched Reed Bird die and cut a little birdie from some BasicGrey Serenade papers.  I used two Verve sets, Poppy Birthday (sentiment) and Unto Us (label), for the card.  The label was die cut using the Verve Classy Label die and then stamped with the corresponding image from Unto Us in yellow ink.  The sentiment was stamp using dark brown ink.  The background paper and banners were cut from additional Serenade papers.  I distressed the edges for a slightly shabby look.

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft & rustic white; PP:  BasicGrey; Stamps: Verve; Ink:  Stampin Up!; Dies:  Memory Box, My Favorite Things & Verve

CCC #76... let's celebrate!

Hello friends!!    It is Tuesday (and Christmas Eve!) and that means time for a brand new CASology cue word.  This post is bittersweet for me because it is my last post as a design team member for CASology.  I still remember receiving the private message from Melissa asking me to join her new endeavor called "CASology".  I was surprised and honored that she wanted me to be on her design team!  The last 18 months (yes... it has been 18 months!) have been fill with lots of fun and fabulous cue words.  It has been a joy to work with Melissa and everyone on the CASology team and I will miss being a part of that amazingly talented group... sniff, sniff!  Thank you to everyone who left me lovely comments each week (even on my not so great cards... and there were quite a few!).  I appreciated receiving each and everyone of them!  So that was the bitter part, now on to the sweet... the new cue word!  This challenge will run for two weeks so you will have plenty of time to get your "party" on with this one!  Yep... the cue word is party!   All the details can be found here and we are joined this week by guest designer, Kara!

Months ago I purchase a party hat border die from MFT, but had never used it and so this week's cue was the perfect time to break it in.  I die cut some fun dotty paper from BasicGrey (Shine On) using the die.  A bit more of the paper was used underneath the sentiment to create a cohesive look.  The layout for the card is based on Mojo Monday sketch #324.  I think this is a sketch I may hang onto as it is perfect for clean and simple cards, as well as more complex cards.  The sentiment is from the MFT set Birthday Sentiments.

Thanks for stopping by...I cannot wait to see where this week's cue word "knit" takes you!  In the meantime make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Judy, Meghan, Ardyth, Gillian, Maureen, Kimberly, Tracey and guest designer, Kara.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft; white; PP:  BasicGrey; Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Ink:  Tuxedo Black; Die:  My Favorite Things; enamel dots:  Stampin Up!

two cards... two challenges

Hello friends!  I have a couple of cards to share.  I don't normally do posts where I have a card for one challenge and then a card for a second challenge, but I didn't really want to do two posts so I decided to combine them.

The first card is for the current CAS(E) this sketch.  I recently purchased a bundle of BasicGrey 25th & Pine products from Peachy Cheap (they have daily deals... check'em out!).  One of the items in the bundle was a pack of die cut numbers (large and small) so I decided to use them for my card.  I cut a strip of patterned paper from the 25th & Pine 6x6 pad and adhered it to my white cardstock panel.  The numbers 2 and 5 were adhered.  A piece of baker's twine was cut and attached to a chipboard sticker from the bundle and then adhered to the panel.  A little twine bow finished things off.  The sentiment is from the Penny Black set called "Christmas Treasurers".

My second card is for the current My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch challenge.  I haven't done one of their sketches in ages, but this one caught my fancy and so I made this little Valentine.  I used patterned paper from the PTI Simple Valentine paper pad and the MFT stamp set Homespun Hearts.  The "hello" was die cut using the MFT Happy Hellos Die-namics set.  I stamped the dots image from the MFT Distressed Background Blocks on white cardstock using light pink ink and then die cut the word.  The word was also die cut from pink cardstock and then the stamped word was inlaid into the pink cardstock.   A heart was die cut using the Rustic Hearts Die-namics and stamped with the corresponding heart image using dark pink ink.  I punched the scalloped edge with an EK Success punch.   A pink button and some red sequins finished off the card.

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Card #1:  Stamps:  Penny Black; Cardstock:  PTI; Patterned Paper and embellishments:  BasicGrey 25th & Pine;  Card #2:  Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Dies:  My Favorite Things; Cardstock: PTI, Stampin Up! & Bazzill Basics; Patterned Paper:  PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Button:  PTI; Sequins:  Lawn Fawn

ODBDSLC125... Fall is in the Air!

Hello friends!!  It is Tuesday and that means time for a brand new ODBD Shining the Light challenge!!  This week the design team is welcoming the super talented Bridget Finlay as our guest designer for the month of October.   You are going to be wowed by her talent!!   And what is the challenge this week?  The design team is asking you to use a verse and fall colors for your creation.

I have had a pad of BasicGrey's Indian Summer patterned paper for ages and have never really been able to figure out what to do with it.   So, I decided to get it out and use it for this week's challenge project.  I found a piece paper from the pad that had a lot of fall colors in it and then used several different cardstocks that matched those colors.  Lots of die cutting and distressing on this one.  I used three different ODBD sets for the card:  Faithful Friend, Sweet Friendship and Scripture Series 3.  I stamped the wheat frame from Sweet Friendship on kraft cardstock using Ranger's Gathered Twigs, trimmed it out and distressed the edges.  The verse was stamped on some Indian Summer patterned paper and die cut using a SU!/Sizzix die and then matted using some peachy-orange Bazzill cardstock.  I also threw my trusty Fishtail Flag stax dies into the mix.  The dragonfly, from Faithful Friend, was stamped on patterned paper, trimmed out and then painted with Diamond Stickles.  The edges of all the papers were distressed as well.

As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15.00 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, October 14th at 8:00 pm EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Design images and sentiments on your projects, we would definitely love to see them if you have them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps we will be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, you must use ODBD stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, October 14th at 8:00 pm EST. If you upload to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword: ODBDSLC125. When creating your post on your blog, please include a direct link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, and this month's guest designer, Bridget! To join in the fun, please click here.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft; Bazzill peachy orange & mustard yellow; PP:  BasicGrey; Stamps:  ODBD; Inks:  Ranger & Memento Tuxedo Black; Dies:  Sizzix/SU! & My Favorite Things; Diamond Stickles

ice cream....

Hello friends!! Had a super busy weekend and wasn't able to get anything done for the new Less is More challenge.  So this morning I decided to get something done.  When I saw the new CAS challenge at Splitcoaststampers I decided to combine it with the Less is More challenge:  3-2-1.  As per Chrissie and Mandi's request to explain what you used 3 of, 2 of and 1 of, I used three stamps (ice cream scoop, cone & sentiment), two papers and one button.

The CAS challenge at Splitcoaststampers is "summer treats".  As I was thinking about what I had that I could use for the challenge I remembered that I had a set from the Stamps of Life called "scream4icecream" that would be perfect for that challenge.  Then I realized that it would also work for this week's LIM challenge and my idea was born.  I used some papers from two different BasciGrey pads:  Shine On and Serendipity.  I stamped the scoop using dark pink ink and the cone using brown ink and trimmed them out.  The come was adhered to the card front and then the scoop was adhered using foam dimensionals.  A bit of green bakers twine was tied through a button and adhered to the scoop to finish things off.  Not my most CAS card, but it will still work for the LIM challenge.

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies: PTI kraft & white; PP:  BasicGrey;  Stamps:  Stamps of Life; Button:  PTI; Twine:  Twinery; Ink:  Stampin Up!

You Make Me....Smile!

Hello friends!!   As another Saturday draws to a close I'm finally getting a chance to post my card for this week's Less is More challenge.  This week Chrissie and Mandi are asking us to tear our paper and/or cardstock... a technique that I haven't used in a very long time!!   Tearing cardstock or paper can make me crazy because it can be hard to tear some cardstock and make it look nice.  But I gave it a go for Chrissie and Mandi!!   I also combined the LIM challenge with this week's Dynamics Duo color combo of River Rock and Black.   

Today I got some happy mail in the form of two new stamp sets that I purchased from Ellen Hutson.  Ellen's business happens to be located about 30 miles from me so when I order things from her I get them right away... Yay!!!  I used one of the sets, Hero Arts/BasicGrey Special Lace, for my card.  I cut the white and black cardstock pieces and then tore the bottom of each piece.   After I stamped the sentiment I added the ribbon using a piece of River Rock ribbon (say that three times fast!!) a button and some twine.  Three small brads finished off the card. 

Thanks for stopping by.....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! River Rock & Bazzill Raven; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Ribbon:  SU! River Rock; Button:  DeNami Designs; Twine:  May Arts; Brads:  American Crafts

Super Duper.....

Hello and happy Friday, friends!! Yesterday I took a little trip to my local Joann's to see if they had anything new and exciting and to get that papercrafting necessity.... adhesive.   As I cruised the aisles I noticed that they had restocked their supply of two lines of BasicGrey that are apparently exclusive to Joanns:  Serendipity and Shine On.  And to make it even better all the items were on sale for 30% off!  So... I scooped up a 6x6 pad from each line and a package of these cute little banners.  When I got home I used my new purchases to make this fun little card using a sketch from the BasicGrey blog.

The card base is PTI's kraft  and the stamp is from the Hero Art/BasicGrey set "Life is Fun".   I finished everything off with some PTI Summer Sunrise ribbon and Rustic Cream twine.  I'm going to pop this into the current CASE Study challenge as I have created a little grouping of items with the banners and bow and there is a teeny tiny bird on one of the banners.  I do admit that this is a very loose CASE of Kristii Lockhart's lovely card!  Oh... and this will be going into the "Sunday Share" at Frilly & Funkie because I purchased that fun little doily border is a recent purchase from Linda's Zibbets store.

Thanks for stopping by.....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft; PP:  BasicGrey Shine On; Banners:  BasicGrey; Ribbon & Twine:  PTI; Doily Border:  The Funkie Junkie

ODBDSLC107 - Let's Scrap!!

Hey there!!  Its Saturday and that means time for a new Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge!  Today is National Scrapbooking Day and in honor of that day the challenge this week is to create a scrapbook page.  Okay... now I will admit this was a bit of a challenge for me, too!   I have made plenty of scrapbook pages, but it has been quite sometime since I created the last one.  My biggest challenge was finding the mojo to create a page and for that I turned to PageMaps for help with layouts.  If you have never checked out PageMaps, you really should because not only does Becky Fleck create amazing scrapbook layouts she also creates fabulous sketches for cards.   And did you know that Our Daily Bread Designs has a scrapbook challenge?  Well, they do and it is called Let Your Light Shine.  If this week's challenge gets you excited to scrapbook, then you need to check out that challenge, too!

The first page I'm going to share is of my two boys, Levi and Gabriel, and was taken last summer on a little day trip we took to local tourist attraction, Snoqualmie Falls.  It was one of those moments when the two of them were actually getting along and behaving for the camera!  If you are wondering, there is a 7 1/2 year age difference between the two... makes for interesting times!!  The stamps I used for the layout come from the ODBD sets Never Give Up and Sweet Friendship.  I cannot take credit for coming up with the layout... for that I turned to PageMaps because Becky Fleck has some of the best scrapbook layouts to be found.   The papers are from a really, really old BasicGrey paper line called Archaic.  I was so thankful I had those papers because it made putting the layout together so much easier that I had needed to dig around for matching items.

The second page I'm sharing I actually made before I made the one of the boys and I was going to stop with just that page, but I just wasn't happy with it and so I decided to make the second one.  The layout for this page is also based on a PageMaps layout.  The subject is my kitty, Cleo, and I used the recently released Cat Sympathy set on the layout.   I think I'm mainly dissatisfied with this layout because I placed the two photos and the sentiment too far up on the page and I don't like where I ended up putting the journaling.  This page was also created using a older line of BasicGrey papers called Periphery.  The papers are really beautiful and I know I'm going to figure out another page to make with them.   I'm a bit rusty in the scrapbook department, but I this challenge has gotten me thinking that maybe I need to create some more scrapbook pages.   Now... on to the details of the challenge.


We will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, May 11th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced  next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries that are made without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on nor will they qualify for prizes. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, May 11th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC107. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Debi, Kathy, Chris and Sabrina! To join in the fun, please click here.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Bazzill; PP:  Basic Grey; Stamps:  ODBD; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black & VersaFine Vintage Sepia; Twine:  May Arts; Charm:  Ebay; Dies:  Spellbinders; Chipboard Alpha stickers

For the Love of ODBD Custom Dies!!

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's first Alumni Team bi-monthly For the Love of Blog Hop. This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designer's are featuring for the Love of ODBD Custom Dies! Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, head to the ODBD blog for a full link list. One of the post is a hot spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $15 ODBD store gift certificate. So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love! You have until February 1st at 6 pm. Winner will be announced February 2nd! So, get hopping and enjoy all the inspiration using for the Love of ODBD Custom Dies!    You should have come here from the fabulously talented Connie's blog.

So for my card today I used the following ODBD sets and custom dies:  Faith, Single Butterfly and Serve the Lord stamps and coordinating Single Butterfly die and Crocheted Circle die.    I took my color scheme from the BasicGrey 6x6 Little Black Dress pad.  I stamped the circle image from Serve the Lord using kraft colored ink and then die cut it using the Crocheted Circle die.  The image was then overstamped with the verse using Tuxedo Black ink.  The circle image was backed with a scalloped circle circle cut from Little Black Dress paper.   The butterfly was stamped using London Fog ink, colored with Copic markers and then die cut using the coordinating die.  The card was finished off with some rhinestone flourishes and light grey ribbon.   The layout comes from this week's Sketchbook Saturday sketch.

Thanks for stopping by... your next stop on the hop is the amazingly talented Lori!  She is going to knock your socks off with her gorgeous project!!


Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream & True Black; PP:  BasicGrey Little Black Dress; Stamps & Dies:  Our Daily Bread Designs; Ribbon:  PaperTrey Ink; Copic Markers; EK Success Scalloped Edge Punch; Rhinestone Flourishe:  Recollections

Christmas in July

Hi Ya!  A card for the current Paper Players challenge to make a Christmas card.  And you know, it is never too early to start making those Christmas cards.  I combined the Paper Players challenge with the current Taylored Expressions sketch (TESC141) and used the Taylored Expression set Christmas Blessings for the card.  The patterned papers are from the BasicGrey Jovial 6x6 pad.   Cardstock is PTI Vintage Cream and Stampin Up! Cherry Cobbler.   No sentiment on the card because I put the three buttons where I think I would have put the sentiment... but I think the image says it all. 

Thanks for taking a peek....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream, SU! Cherry Cobbler; PP:  BasicGrey Jovial; Ink:  Ranger Forest Moss and Old Paper Distress Inks; Buttons:  PTI; Twine:  May Arts

Just Another Day in Paradise...

I wish I was in paradise, but I'm not... However, it is finally nice and sunny here in the Pacific Northwest and the last weather report I heard said that our warm, sunny weather is going to hang around for awhile... YIPEEE!!!   Not exactly paradise, but I will take it!   My card is for a couple of challenges:  JUGs and Wee Memories.  The Wee Memories challenge is to make a summertime card and when I saw the JUGs sketch, I thought two would be a good match.   Didn't take me long to decide to use the Hero Arts/BasicGrey cling set Lauderdale along with some Stampin Up designer paper I got a couple of years ago.   The sentiment is from Hero Arts as well.   Some sand colored Flower Soft was used to make the little beach.  The "coconut" is a corduroy button from Stampin Up!   I don't live in paradise... but I can create a bit of it on a card!

Thanks for taking a peek....  hope everyone in the US had a wonderful 4th of July!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI White; SU! Orange; SU! designer paper; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Ink:  SU! Tempting Turquoise, Kiwi Kiss & Close to Cocoa, Memento Tangelo; Buttons:  SU! cord buttons; Spellbinders dies

Summer Fun with One Layer Wednesday

So this week the incredibly talent Susan is hosting One Layer Wednesday and she gave us the challenge of creating a one layer card using these summertime colors:  yellow, orange & aqua.   When I first read the challenge I groaned... because I don't really do alot of creating with orange.  Nothing against orange, but it just isn't a color I pick that often unless it is forced upon me!    But I rose to the occasion because this is after all a challenge!  I started thinking and remember a super fun summertime card I made last week using the Hero Arts/BasicGrey Lauderdale cling set.  The set includes a really fun palm tree image.  So I got that set out, along with the Hero Arts set "A Kiss from the Sun" and came up with this little number:

And yes... I realize my aqua will probably be considered by some to be more of a bright blue, but to be honest aqua can encompass a range of colors.  After stamping the trees I just had to adds a couple of bright blue cord buttons because they just looked so darn cute!!  Anywho... I'm also going to be putting this in to the current Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger because well... the bright colors in the photo just make me think of summer!

Thanks for taking a peek....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Inks:  Memento - Bahama Blue, Tangelo & Dandelion; Buttons:  DeNami Design & SU!

Very Vintage Christmas

Another short post today.  My 2nd for the day, actually.   I got some really exciting stamp related news this morning and it really got me in the mood to make something...  So I decided to complete a card for the Waltzingmouse sketch challenge before the challenge ended!  Yippeee!!   I love the vintage look and feel of alot of the sets from Waltzingmouse.  One of my favorites being the Very Vintage Christmas set.  I paired the stamps from the set with BasicGrey's Wassail 6x6 papers and several different inks.   As you can see, I chose to turn the sketch on it's side for my card.  My card is also not the traditional 5.5 x 4.25".  

If you haven't ever taken a peek at Waltzingmouse stamps, you really should.  Claire just released 5 new sets and they are fantastic!  I especially like the Nutcraker Sweet set and I'm scheming on how I'm going to add it to my collection!

Thanks for taking a peek... hope you have a wonderful day (or evening whichever the case!)

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Bazzill red; PTI kraft & vintage cream; BasicGrey Wassail; Ink:  Stampin Up! Riding Hood Red; Ranger Forest Moss & Bundled Sage Distress inks; SU! Riding Hood Red wide ribbon; Stamps:  WM Very Vintage Christmas; punch:  EK Success Bracket punch

An EtsyInspired Paper Play....

The EtsyInspired challenge blog is celebrating it's 100th challenge this week and they have some really super cool prizes to give away.   The Etsy shop that we were to get our inspiration from is Cathy Walter's shop.  Her shop is full of neat little pendants.   For my inspiration I chose this little pendant.  For further inspiration I turned to the current Paper Play challenge recipe of three flowers, two designer papers, one ribbon and one charm.   I have been trying to make a card using all those items for the last week.   The first card had the three flowers, charm & ribbon, but no designer paper.   The 2nd card had the designer paper, ribbon and charm, but no flowers!  Finally I got it right!

I used BasicGrey Origins papers for my card, which is kinda funny because I did my first EtsyInspired challenge last week and used the Origins papers for that card, too.   But they are pretty sweets papers and so fun to use.  The sunflower image is from a new to me stamp company called Repeat Impressions.  On July 28th, the same day I won "Win a Day" from Hero Arts, I won a $25.00 gift certificate from Repeat Impressions!  How cool is that???!!!  I stamped the flower three times and colored it with my Copic markers.  The card layout is loosely based on a sketch from Clean & Simple.

Thanks for taking a peek.... enjoy your day and check out the 100th EtsyInspired challenge... you could win a fabulous prize!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white, SU! Old Olive; PP:  BasicGrey Origins; Ribbon:  PTI Dark Choc. twill; Charm:  Lost & Found; corner rounder; Twine; Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa; Copic Markers

EtsyInspired Challenge #99

I am always surprised at the number of challenges that I come across as I wander around the papercrafting world on the internet.  Everyday it seems a new one is popping up.   A new to me challenge blog that I came across recently is the EstyInspired challenge blog.   I found it to be very intriguing and thought I would give it a try.  The Etsy shop that we are to seek our inspiration from is Becky Kazana's shop... full of all kinds of whimsical cake toppers, banners and cards.  For my inspiration I chose her cute little bee hive cake topper. Of course when I saw the bee hive topper I immediately thought of the completely cute Hero Arts set Be Happy.   And to provide some furtehr inspiration I decided to use the current Mojo Monday sketch.  Add some PTI cardstock, BasicGrey Origins pp, a few punches and I was done.  

The Etsy Inspired challenge blog will be celebrating their 100th challenge on August 7th and have a some lovely prizes... If you haven't given them a try yet, this might be a good time to do so.   I know I will be.

Thanks for taking a peek... have a lovely day.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI:  Dark Chocolate; Lemon Tart & Kraft; PP:  BasicGrey Origins; Ink:  SU! Choc. Chip; Stamps:  Hero Arts Be Happy; Punches:  SU! Scallop Edges; EK Success Scalloped Circle punch (2") & SU! Circle punch; CTMH tiny rhinestones 

Christmas in July...

Just squeaking in with a card for the current Flourishes challenge, FTTC74, Christmas in July.  I used the Flourishes set Poinsettia & Boxwood, along with the current sketch from WMS sketch challenge #5.  I stamped the small poinsettia from the set on PTI's Vintage Cream with Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink and then colored with a Prisma pencil and the blending pencil.   Since I used the WMS sketch, I incorporated a stamp from the WMS set Very Vintage Labels 3 stamped in VersaMagic Sage on PTI's Vintage Cream cs and the die cut with my Cuttlebug and corresponding die.  I'm so excited because this week I will be getting four new sets of stamps from WMS!!!  

This is one of those times I wish I had a sewing machine so I could do a bit of stitching on the card, but alas I have no space for even a tiny machine!   I used some lovely crocheted ribbon I got from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. 

Thanks for taking a peek.   Flourishes is having a 12 days of Christmas sale now through the 18th of July.  All Christmas stamps are 25% off.  Go check it out!  Hope you have a lovely day!

Supplies:  Stamps:  Flourishes Poinsettia & Boxwood; WMS Very Vintage Labels 3;  CHF - Christmas Expressions; Ink:  Memento Rhubarb Stalk; VersaMagic Sage; CS:  PTI Vintage Cream; SU! Mellow Moss; PP:  BasicGrey Wassill; Ribbon:  May Arts crochet ribbon; May Arts gold satin.