two more cards...

Hmm... I seem to be doing a lot of posts with two cards lately.  Guess it just seems to make sense to me.  Anyway... the first card is for Color Throwdown.   The color combo is really pretty, but also one that I wouldn't even think of to use.  When that happens I fall back on what I like to refer to as collage stamp... one of my favorite ways to stamp.  Collage is the technique of taking various materials to create a design.  Obviously I don't use different materials, but different types of images.  For this card I went to some of my favorite Stampin Up! set for images to use.   I generally have a good idea how colors will work together so it is just a matter of determining what types of images that I will be using.   I actually figured out how I was going to stamp this card, changed my mind to try something different, didn't like it and went back to my original idea, lol!  Anyone else do that?  Once the stamping was done I die cut the panel with my trusty A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle die and then adhered it to a light gray cardstock base.  The inks used are from Stampin Up!, Close to My Heart, PTI and Imagine Krafts.

While the first card is all about stamping the second card is all about die cutting.  I recently received the Spellbinder's small die kit of the month and actually managed to make a card with it before the new kit has been revealed!  This card is for Freshly Made Sketches and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of dies only.   I turned to my large collection of patterned paper pads and pulled out an oldie, but goodie from My Mind's Eye Collectible Notable collection.  (I just checked and it is from 2013!)   I die cut the large die cut piece from some green paper from the pad and then the little flowers and butterflies from various coordinating papers.  Cut the piece of blue striped paper to fit the bottom portion of the card base, adhered the large die cut and then adhered the piece to my cardstock base.  I then added all the little flowers and the butterflies.  Because the large die cut is actually larger than the card front I trimmed off the overhang.  The sentiment was die cut from the same yellow patterned paper as the little flowers multiple times, adhered together and then adhered to the card front.  I did add little clear Pretty Pink Posh jewels to the center of the flowers.   Can't wait to use this beautiful die set again to create another spring themed card!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Card #1:  Cardstock:  PTI white, SU! Smoky Slate; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Inks:  Close to My Heart Pansy Purple, Stampin Up!, PaperTrey Ink and VersaFine CLAIR

Card #2:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Patterned paper:  My Mind's Eye; Dies:  Spellbinders; Embellishments:  Pretty Pink Posh jewels

thanks for everything..

Hello friends!!  Popping in on this wet, foggy and chilly day with a card that I made for the current Make It Monday challenge:  Colorful Corners.  When I saw this challenge I knew I had to play along.  Finally got the time this weekend.

Danielle's challenge is all about stamping and one of my favorite things to do is just stamp.  More specifically I like to collage stamp.  And when I collage stamp I often end up stamping in the corner of my cardstock piece.  So for my colorful corner I did some collage stamping using two PTI sets Polka Dot Basics II and Friendly Flowers (a set I have never used!!).  I used one of the filler images for my flower... love that starburst like look to the flowers!   I used three inks from Close to My Heart (Twilight, Outdoor Denim and New England Ivy) and did some generational stamping.   Finished things off with some clear sequins and the sentiment stamped in black ink (Memento Tuxedo Black.   Super happy with how this turned out.

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SSS fog; Stamps:  PTI, Inks:  Close to My Heart; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh
 

happy fall.....

hello friends!!  hope you are having a nice weekend.  i was hoping that the weather would cooperate so i could take my boys to an annual halloween event at our local zoo, but it is looking more and more like the rain will be making a comeback after disappearing this morning.  i'm kinda bummed.  (eta:  we were able to go to the zoo... it was cold and rained a tiny bit, but the kids had fun and that is all that matters!)  anyway... have a card that i made for several different challenges:  Less is More - autumn; CAS(e) this Sketch - sketch, CASE Study and ColourQ. 

the leaves are from a close to my heart set that i purchased several years ago.  the small leaf was inked using su!'s pear pizzazz ink, then the edges rolled in su! pumpkin pie, stamped and then trimmed out.  the large leaf was inked with memento tangelo, rolled in pear pizzazz, stamped and trimmed out as well.  the black card stock was run through my big shot in the su!/sizzix woodgrain embossing flower and then a circle die cut a plain spellbinders circle die.  the white cardstock piece was also embossed using the woodgrain ef.  the sentiment was stamped using pumpkin pie ink and die cut using my fishtail flag dies.  a bit of bakers twine in orange and green were added to the leaves for a little finishing touch.  i did beef up the sketch from CAS(e) this Sketch by adding the die cut circle... thus making it fit the current CASE Study challenge.  love how the card turned out!

thanks for stopping by....

cardstock:  pti white & black; stamps: close to my heart; ink:  stampin up! and memento; dies:  spellbinders & my favorite things; embossing folder:  stampin up!/sizzix.

the earth laughs....

hello friends!!  hope your week is going well.  my little guy is half way through his first week of all day kindergarten and things are going amazingly well.   this morning he told me, again, that he loves school!!  that makes this mommy's heart happy!! 

have a card for this week's dynamic duo combo of cajun craze and alway artichoke.  i don't have cajun craze so i used really rust and some autumn terracotta cardstock from close to my heart.  the layout is courtesy of the very talented chupa and her sketchbook saturday sketch challenge.  all the stamps used are from stampin up! (fast and fabulous).  the dies are also from stampin up!  the other day i decided to take a look at the rules over at dynamic duos and saw that i can use several different neutral colors on my card in addition to the weekly duo.  so for this card i added some kraft cardstock into the mix along with white.    when i finished the card a few days ago i wasn't to sure about it, but it has grown on me and i'm quite happy with it!

supplies:  cardstock:  pti white & kraft; close to my heart autumn terracotta; ink:  su! really rust and always artichoke; stamps:  stampin up!; dies:  stampin up!; swiss dots embossing folder

CCC#9 - Welcome, Baby

{for my Shining the Light post please click here or scroll down}

Hello... I'm back with my post for this week's CASology challenge.  The cue word this week is "family".   All the information regarding the challenge can be found right here.  Once, again, we had some fabulous entries for last week's challenge!  I just love looking at all the entries and seeing each person's take on the cue word. 

When I saw the cue word what immediately came to my was a couple bringing home new baby and so I decided to make a baby card using the current ISpy sketch.  I wanted the card to be a gender neutral card and since I had used green the last two weeks in a row I went with yellow.  I used some cardstock from Close to My Heart and stamps from Stampin Up! (the onesie) and PTI (sentiment).   I don't have alot of CTMH products, but I do like their cardstock because it has a white core (perfect for sanding) and it is essentially double sided.   The reverse side of the cardstock is a softer color version of the main color which makes it perfect for what I wanted to do.  The large color block piece is the reverse of the yellow that was used for the onesie.   I ran the light yellow piece through my Big Shot in the Swiss Dot embossing folder to soften up the design a bit so that the cardstock piece didn't look quite so stark.  The onesie was stamped using black ink, trimmed out and mounted on the white die cut.  The sentiemnt was also stamped using black ink.  

Thanks for stopping by....make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team:
Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, Debbie! Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Close to My Heart yellow; Stamps:  PTI Bundle of Love & Stampin Up! A Slice of Life; Ink:  Tuxedo Black; Swiss Dot EF

To Distress or Not to Distress....

That might be the question.... and for me it was to distress, my card that is!  Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  The sun is shining, the temperature is perfect and Mt. Rainier is out in all its stunning glory!  I just love days like these.  Anywhoo... on to my card.

A few weeks ago I entered a little card I made in a couple of challenge.  One of them being the "white pages" challenge at Catered Crop and low and behold that little card was picked by the super talented Linda owner of Catered Crop as one of the "winning recipe" cards!!   As my British bloggy friends would say I was "completely chuffed" or very happy!  And because of that win I got the opportunity to participate in this week's "Quickfire" round for the new Catered Crop challenge No Stress to Distress.  How fun is that???  Super fun in my book!  So what to do, what to do.... I know!  Use the current Deconstructed Sketch.

I have had a 6x6 pad of Cosmo Cricket's Odds & Ends papers for ages, but had never used it so I decided to remedy that situation and use it for my card.  I made the card a 5" square as the Sizzix Doily die I wanted to use creates a rather large doily and needed a big space. I used two types of distressing for the card, ink distressing using Ranger's Old Paper distress ink and paper distressing using my handy distressing tool from Close to My Heart.   The banner was die cut using a My Favorite Things Fishtail Flag Stax die and the sentiment was stamped using Stampin Up! Cherry Cobbler.  The fishtail flag was then inked with Old Paper which for some reason causes the SU! ink to smear, but not to worry because I really like how it looks.  A Prima rose and some loops of twine finished off the card.

Thanks for stopping by... make sure to check out the Catered Crop challenge!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft and cream; PP:  Cosmo Cricket; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Ink:  Ranger Old Paper & SU! Cherry Cobbler; Rose:  Prima; Twine:  May Arts

Just Sharin...

Hey there!! A very dreary day today in the Pacific Northwest!  The rains have come and fall is here!   Thought I would share some cards that I have made over the last month for the Splitcoaststampers color challenge.  At the end of August I got an email from the super talented Betty Wright asking me if I wanted to be a guest designer for the weekly color challenge and I immediately said "yes"!   It has been a lot of fun and I'm a bit sad that my time as a guest designer has come to an end. 

The first color combo I had to work with was rust, dark sage green and yellow.  For my card I decided to use a new Sizzix/BasicGrey die and embossing folder set that I picked up at Joann's one day.  The cardstock is from Close to My Heart.  I'm not a fan of CTMH's smooth cardstock, but I do like their textured cardstock as it is perfect to distress because it has a white core and the opposite side of the cardstock is a paler shade of the main color. 

The second combo was a peach, aqua and red one and a bit tricky for me.  I decided to keep the red to a minimum and focus more on the peach and aqua colros.  I used my Spellbinders Rose Creation dies to make a flower.    The leafy branches were made using a die from Taylored Expressions. 

The third combo was a orange, turquoise and olive green combo.   The card I made using this combo is my favorite of the bunch.  I decided to do some coloring with my Copic markers.   I used one of my most favorite Flourishes set:  Gerbera Daisies.... oh wait... all my Flourishes sets are favorites!! 

Last but not least is this week's color combo of aqua, cherry red and dark brown.  For this card I decided to use on of my favorite embossing techniques:  stamping on cardstock using VersaMark ink, applying clear embossing powder and heat setting.  This brings out the color of the cardstock beautifully.  I used a new background stamp from Stampin Up! called Hello, Doily.  The sentiment is from Penny Black.   I finished the card off with some little flowers I made using a Stampin Up! punch called Boho Blossoms. 

ODBD + Sentimental Sundays

Posting a card for two challenges:  ODBD Shining the Light (a sketch) and Sentimental Sundays (a color challenge).   The colors we were asked to use are:  Summer Sun, Handsome Hunter, Poppy Parade & Old Olive.  For me, not a group of colors that I found easy to combine.  I thought using the sketch would make it easier, but to be honest it actually made it harder for me.  Oh well... another case of live and learn.  However, in the end I do think that the card turned out rather nice.

I used one of the daffodil images from the Heartfelt Creations set Daffy Daffodils.  The verse is from the ODBD set I am the Way.  I stamped the daffodil on the white cardstock using PTI's Summer Sunrise ink and then stamped the verse over that using SU!'s Old Olive.  In order to make things not look quite so color-blocked I embossed the white cardstock with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and stamped the Poppy Parade strip with CHF backgrounder Climbing Leaves using Versamark ink.    The ribbon is Summer Sunrise, as well.

Thanks for taking a peek....  Finally... I just have to say that I'm still pinching myself over winning the Moxie Fab Grey is the New Black challenge and I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the lovely comments people have been leaving me!  It definitely made my day!

Supplies:  cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Handsome Hunter, Poppy Parade & Old Olive; Ink:  SU! Old Olive, PTI Summer Sunrise, VersaMark; Cuttlebug; Birds & Vines ef; Spellbinders plain oval dies; scalloped square dies; PTI Summer Sunrise grosgrain ribbon; Stamps:  ODBD, Heartfelt Creations & Cornish Hertiage Farms

Deconstructing Color

Two cards today, again, for two color challenges:  ColourQ and Curtain Call.  For both of these challenges I took the cards down to the basics of each color challenge.  There is almost no cardstock and/or patterned paper used for either card other than the white cardstock used to make the cards.  I tried to rely solely on my inks and thankfully I have inks in  pretty much all the colors used.  I did use a bit of patterned paper for my ColourQ card.

First up is my card for ColourQ:  Cherry Cobbler, Poppy Parade, So Saffron & Always Artichoke plus white.  I originally made this particular card for the Splitcoaststampers color challenge and because I liked how well it turned out I decided to make it again, using the ColourQ colors.  Everything used for the card is from Stampin Up!, except the white cardstock which is PTI.  I added a bit of scoring for interest.

The second card is for Curtain Call:  Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi & Pacific Point plus white.  I have the PTI set Dot Spot and immediately thought of it for the card.  I stamped two of the smaller circle/dot images in Real Red & Pumpkin Pie.  I hand cut them out and then roughed up the edges.  I used a Pacific Point cord button to put the two together.  The stem, leaves and sentiment is from a Close to My Heart set With Love.  

Thanks for taking a peek....

Supplies:  ColourQ card:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Always Artichoke pp; Stamps:  SU! Vintage Vogue & Punch Potpourri; Inks:  Hero Arts Punch; SU! Cherry Cobbler; So Saffron; Punches:  SU! Full Heart, Two Step Bird; PTI button

Curtain Call card:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  PTI Dot Spot; CTMH With Love; Inks:  Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie; Buttons:  SU! Pacific Point cord button; PTI red button; DeNami Design orange buttons

Pairing up w/Latrice + City Crafters

A card today for a fun challenge that started over at the Hero Arts Flickr group.  Joy of Less is More and Jennifer McGuire spent a week in August challenging each other to create a card using a different Hero Arts stamp each day.  After some prompting from another member of the group, Joy started a thread where those of us who want to do a similar challenge could sign up and then be paired up with another Flickr member. 

My partner for the challenge is sweet Latrice and today we are using the Hero Arts set A Kiss from the Sun for our cards.  I also decided to use the sketch from the current City Crafters Challenge Blog (CCCB23) for my card.  I just adore A Kiss from the Sun, especially the cute little sun dress.   For my card I used some really cute Cosmo Cricket Material Girl papers.   After stamping the dress on a piece of the patterned paper I trimmed it out and added a bit of Hero Arts lace ribbon to the bottom of the dress.  To tone the colors down a bit I did some distressing using Close to My Heart's Parchment ink.  It provides a lovely softness to the edges of your patterned paper and cardstock. 

Thanks for taking a peek and don't forget to take a look at Latrice's wonderful project!  Have a fabulous day!  I will be back on Wednesday with another Hero Arts card for the challenge.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream; SU! Pure Poppy & So Saffron; PP:  Cosmo Cricket - Material Girl; Stamps:  Hero Arts - A Kiss from the Sun; Ink:  SU! So Saffron; VersaMagic Brick Red; CTMH Parchment;  Hero Arts Ribbon Lace; Bakers Twine - Impress; KaiserCraft Pearls

Egads.....My 2nd Post of the Day!

Yikes...!  That's a little too much posting, ya know??  Probably accounts for the reason why after only four months of blogging I have over 100 posts!! Crazy, crazy, crazy...

But, on to my card... this time for One Layer Wednesday.    The challenge this week is to stamp three images and then a sentiment.  Lately my favorite way to stamp three of something is to do some 2nd and 3rd generation stamping.  I just love the look.  And my favorite stamps to accomplish this type of stamping?? Stampin Up!'s Echoes of Kindness set.  I absolutely adore the line drawn images in the set.  All three of the floral images are just beautiful and the sentiment is lovely, as well.  One of these days I have to try coloring them!  I didn't use the sentiment for the card, though.  Instead I used a sentiment from the There She Goes set, Bloom.  Inks are from Close to My Heart, Autumn Terracotta and New England Ivy for an autumnal feel.  Cardstock is PTI's Vintage Cream.  I added a few rhinestones for a bit of bling.

Thanks for taking a peek...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream; Ink:  Close to My Heart Autumn Terracotta & New England Ivy; Stamps:  SU! Echoes of Kindness; Rhinestones:  Hero Arts

More Simplicity....

During one of my wanderings around the papercrafting world I came across a blog called "Simplicity" and was immediately struck by not only the blog owner, Susan Raihala's, command of the CAS style of papercrafting, but also the absolute elegance of her cards.  She also happens to have a great way with words and her posts are fun to read.  Susan dispenses tips on creating simple cards with a lot of impact and has a weekly challenge (One Layer Wednesday #17).  I finally decided to play along this week, which is kind of funny because she wants us to use border images on our cards.  Border images are not something I have alot of and I discovered yesterday that at least three border images I do have at too long to fit on my longest acrylic block!  Anywhoo... on to the card.  I used this really neat Hero Arts border image that I do own called Large Artsy Circle and a sentiment from the Hero Arts set Thoughtful Messages.   I stamped the Large Artsy Circle image on kraft cardstock with black ink, added a few clear rhinestones and then stamped the "thanks" in Close to My Heart Vineyard Berry for a little bit of color. 

My 2nd card is a little less simple and has nothing to do with the first as I didn't use a border stamp, but it still is pretty simple.  After seeing my blogging friend, Heather Maria's, crackled butterflies I had to get my hands on some Ranger Crackle Accents.  I had the chance to play around with the Crackle Accents yesterday.  My butterflies did get the crackle effect, but unfortunately in the picture it looks like I coated it with Glossy Accents, instead.  Again, all the stamps are Hero Arts:  Heart Winged Butterfly and Outline Bold Flourish.  The butterfly was stamped using Stampin Up! More Mustard and the flourish with Close to My Heart's black ink.  Rhinestones were added to the flourish, as well. 

Thanks for taking a peek.... hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Artsy Circles:  Cardstock:  PTI Kraft; Ink:  Close to My Heart black & Vineyard Berry; Stamps Large Artsy Circle & Thoughtful Messages; Kaiser Rhinestones

Crackle Butterfly:  Cardstock:  PTI White & Smoky Shadow; Ink:  SU! More Mustard; CTMH Black; Stamps:  Outline Bold Flourish & Heart Winged Butterfly; Rhinestones:  Kaiser Craft & Memory Box

Stampin' (and stampin', again) with ODBDSLC...

My card for ODBDSLC25.  The challenge this time is to stamp your image more than once.  I stamped the swirly dragonfly image from ODBD's Friendship set in Bravo Burgundy on Vintage Cream cardstock.  The middle image was 2nd generation stamped because I was going to overstamp the verse, but it didn't look right on the test image, so I stamped the verse on Vintage Cream and diecut it with a Spellbinders ribbon tag die.  

Thanks for taking a peek.... have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream & Scarlet Jewel; PP:  PTI Scarlet Jewel Bitty Dots Basic;  Ink:  SU! Bravo Burgundy; Stamps:  ODBD Friendship; SU! Top Note die; Cuttlebug; Spellbinders ribbon tag die; Close to My Heart tiny rhinestones; SU! Bravo Burgundy grosgrain ribbon

A Hero Arts Card.....

I made this card for the current Hero Arts challenge using Mojo Monday sketch #151 and the super fun Thrift Shop papers from October Afternoon.  

Thanks for taking a peek... hope you have a wonderful day! 

Supplies:  PTI kraft; October Afternoon Thrift Shop pp; Buttons:  Close to my Heart; Stamps:  Hero Arts:  Make Your Own, PTI:  On My Couch;  Ink:  SU! Close to Cocoa;

FTTC79 & ODBDSLC24

My card today is for ODBD's Shining the Light challenge and the current Flourishes challenge.   The requirements for ODBD's challenge were to use three of something.  I ended up using three designer papers and three different stamps.  The Flourishes challenge this week is a sketch challenge which was most helpful. I must acknowledge in my post that the lovely ladies over at ODBD's Shining the Light challenge have been so very sweet to me and picked my card TWO WEEKS in a row for the Shining the Light award!   Thanks, ladies!  You don't know how much that meant to me!   

For my card I used the following stamps:  Hero Arts Hydrangea (love it!!); Flourishes Gerbera Daisies (butterfly) and ODBD's Grow in Grace (verse).  The designer papers are from the DCWV mat stack Linen Closet.   Ink is courtesy of Close to My Heart (Bamboo) and Hero Arts (Soft Pool).  I did a bit of distressing of the edges just to soften things up.   I took the picture outside since today was a nice sunny day.  I think it turned out pretty nice.... it isn't so washed out as the indoor shots.

Thanks for taking a peek... have a blessed day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream; PP DCWV Linen Closet mat stack; Stamps:  Flourishes Gerbera Daisies; ODBD Grow in Grace; Hero Arts Hydrangea; Ink: CTMH Bamboo; Hero Arts Soft Pool; Rhinestones:  CTMH tiny rhinestones; Kaiser blue rhinestones; SU! Modern Label punch

Stamping In Time #15

I really enjoy taking part in certain challenges like the ones at Our Daily Bread Designs because it gives me the opportunity to make cards that are a little more elegant.   I have been participating in ODBD's Shining the Light challenge and have added their Stamping in Time On Assignment (SNTODBD15) challenge to my growing list.  This week's challenge was to use a "go to" sketch for your card.  I don't have a particular sketch that I return to over and over again, but I do have a sketch blog that I return to over and over again:  Clean & Simple.  Lately I have used one Clean & Simple sketch (which I have posted) for several cards and I'm using it again for this card.   The stamps I used are from the ODBD set Grow in Grace, which I just love.  The dogwood image is gorgeous and the sentiments/verses are beautiful. 

I punched the bottom edge of the cream cardstock piece and then stamped the dogwood image on the cream cardstock with River Rock and then on a scrap of cream in Pretty in Pink.  The three flowers were trimmed out and popped up on the main image.  I slightly overstamped the verse over the main image as well.  I added a few little rhinestones and some yummy cream organdy ribbon to finish it off.  

Thanks for taking a peek... have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream; SU! Pink Pirouette; Ink:  SU! River Rock; Close to Cocoa & Pretty in Pink; Stamps:  ODBD Grow in Grace; Ribbon Midori Cream organdy; rhinestones:  Close to My Heart; Punch EKSuccess

Color Cue #6 - I {heart} U

A little card I put together using the current colors put forth by the very talented Dawn of WPlus9Design fame, Color Cue #6.  She always picks some of the loveliest color combos for her challenges.   If you haven't checked out Dawn's stamp sets yet, you really need to get yourself over to the WPlus9Design Studio website and take a look.  Dawn is releasing four new stamp sets this weekend.  Her projects are out of this world!

Thanks for taking a peek.... have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; kraft & dark chocolate; ink:  CTMH White Daisy; SU! Cameo Coral & Choc. Chip; Stamps:  WPlus9Design Woodgrain Silhoutes; {Stamps}of Life - Luv2Hug

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 

A Charming Challenge - ODBDSLC23

The current ODBD Shining the Light challenge is to use ribbon, a charm and one other embellishment on your card, but that embellishment cannot be a flower.  Easy enough since I don't often use flowers on my card, but the charm part was going to be hard since I don't have a lot of charms.   In fact, I had exactly two charms both purses, that I got with a scrapbook kit I bought several years ago.  Because the charms were purses, I made my card a girlfriend/friendship card using ODBD's set "Friendship".  I love the swirly dragonfly image, as well as all the sentiments/verses in the set.   In an effort to use up some of my older supplies I pulled out PTI's 6x6 pad of Everyday Blessings pp and used the coordinating PTI cardstock of Aqua Mist and PTI ribbon of Spring Moss for the card.  Added a bit of distressing using CTMH's Parchment ink to tone things down a bit.

Thanks for taking a peek... have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Stamps:  ODBD Friendship; Cardstock:  PTI Aqua Mist & white; PP:  Everyday Blessings; Ribbon:  PTI Spring Moss; Ink:  Spring Moss & Memento Rich Cocoa; charm - unknown; Cuttlebug; Spellbinders Labels #9; Kaiser light blue rhinestones

Gettin' Sketchy with Polka Dots

I have always found the sketches from Get Sketchy to be very creative and intriguing, but I rarely get a chance to make a card for their challenges...not sure why other than I have too many other things going on.  The sketch this week is no exception and when I saw it I was determined to make a card for the challenge.  When I saw the CAS challenge at Splitcoaststampers to use polka dots my idea started to take shape.  So, I got up this morning, pulled out my PTI Dotti Biscotti pad, picked out the Raspberry Fizz dots and got to work.  I used this fun little pleating detail that Nichole shared on her blog during a PTI release last year.  It is super simple, but packs a punch.  For my card I added the extra detail of punching one edge with my SU! Scalloped Edge punch.  Finished it off with some PTI's Raspberry Fizz double stitched ribbon, CTMH's White Daisy ink and some Kaiser pink rhinestones.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts - Thoughtful Messages.

Thanks for taking a peek.... enjoy your day!

Supplies:  PTI Kraft cardstock; Dotti Biscotti pp; PTI Raspberry Fizz ribbon; Ink:  CTMH White Daisy; Kaiser Rhinestones; SU! Scalloped Edge punch