Warm Holiday Wishes

Happy Thursday! I had some time to stamp yesterday and made this card based off of Renee's wonderful sketch!



All the lantern parts are from Bright Season by Waltzingmouse Stamps and the sentiment is from Mama Elephant. The papers come from a patterned paper by PTI.

Hope you have a great day!
Melissa

The Compliments of the Season to You

It's November!!!

Just a quick post to add my entry to this week's WMS Sketch Challenge. Here's the sketch:


And my card using Bright Season and the sentiment is from the set Compliments of the Season.



Have a great day!
Melissa

Happy Halloween

I'm playing along with the Waltzingmouse Stamps' Blog Party for October. This month is a color challenge: to use purple, orange and black.



I stamped the plaid background using Faux Fun and the sentiment is from Say it Loud Winter.

Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

Season's Greetings

A Christmas card!



It uses WMS's Festive Foliage and the sentiment comes from Compliments of the Season.

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Peace Love Joy

I got a Cameo!! I've been busy watching videos and playing around with all the possibilities!

Here's a card I made using it:



I cut out the white portion and then stamped the "peace" and "joy" using Waltzingmouse Stamps' Say it Loud- Winter set. It was then run through my cuttlebug with the PTI snowflake impression plate.

Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

Happy Birthday

So happy to be participating in the Waltzingmouse Stamp's August Blog Hop!



This month's theme is birthdays: and funnily enough today is my birthday!

We are actually on vacation so I may not be able to hop around to visit all the projects until our return next week.



I stamped the checkered portion using Off Beat Backgrounds onto kraft cardstock. The sentiment is from Say It Loud, and the flowers come from Asian Gardens.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

You bring me sunshine

I'm playing along with the Waltzingmouse Stamps July Blog Party ! This month's theme is the great outdoors, and I used My Island. So fun!



The background was impressed with PTI's Sunrise Impression Plate. I clear embossed with sentiment.

Thanks for coming by!
Melissa

"You bring me sunshine"
Stamps: My Island
Ink: Aqua Mist, Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest (PTI) , Rich Cocoa (Memento) and Versamark
Paper: Kraft, Orange Zest, Dark Chocolate and Soft Stone (PTI)
Other: Sunrise IP and Wine bottle tag die (PTI), foam tape

Thanks

Blog Hop time again! Here's my card based on the inspiration photo:



I used the checkered background strip from On the Farm, hydrangea from Happy Hydrangea, "Thanks" from On the Farm, and "for everything you do" from WMS' Say It Loud.

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Rosie Posie fun

Happy 2012! Life has been good and busy, so I haven't been able to post much here. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.

I've enjoyed playing around with my new set, Rosie Posie, and here are three cards that I made.


The first one was heat embossed onto Lavendar Moon cardstock, and I added the sentiment from Happy Day.



The second uses papers from October Afternoon, sentiment from Damask Designs, and Mat Stack 4 die.



Finally, a bold,one-layer card. The sentiment from this comes from WMS's Say It Loud.

Thanks for coming by!
Melissa

'Tis the Season

Another Christmas card!

This one uses Bells and Boughs from PTI for the focal image and sentiment. I created the embossed background by stamping an image from Waltzingmouse Stamp's Faux Fun and heat embossed it with gold glittery powder.



Have a great day!
Melissa

Wonderful Words cards

Today I have a trio of cards that were made using the Wonderful Word: Holiday dies and the Waltzingmouse Stamps set, Say it Loud: Holiday. A great combination!



I die cut each word onto the card fronts, and then lined the inside with patterned paper. I glued each little bit (i.e. the piece in the middle of "e")back into place after the paper was adhered down.



They are simple and easy to mail! I debated about stamping something more on each, like snowflakes, but then decided to leave them as is.



Slowly adding more cards to the stack! Thanks for coming by!

Melissa

Joy and Merry Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving eve to my friends in the US and good evening to the rest!
I hope everyone is having a great week.

I was able to finally play around with my new WMS sets, Nordic Winter and Say It Loud Holiday. I'm in love! I heat embossed the backgrounds with clear detail embossing powder onto Royal Velvet cardstock.



I also used Silver Shimmer cardstock, and cut the snowflake with PTI's Damask Snowflake die.

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This card also uses Smokey Shadow and Soft Stone cardstock.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Life and a challenge card

Hello readers!

I hope some of you are still around...I know I haven't been posting much at all lately. I have been making some projects here and there like birthday invites for a customer, some Christmas cards, but life has gotten very busy since school started again for my kids. I joined a gym in September and have been faithfully working out as much as possible. I even ran my first 5K last Sunday and loved it! I've lost 22 pounds in the last 8 weeks and plan to keep going. Hopefully, I'll be able to find some more time for crafting and writing blog posts.


I do have a card today, though, for the latest Card Caravan challenge which is birthdays.




I used some gorgeous digital papers and frame from a collab kit called My Digital Obsession . The stamps come from Waltzingmouse Stamps' Say it Loud and Say it Loud Holiday.

Check out the challenge here .

Hope you're having a great weekend!
Melissa

A Merry Christmas to You

Hope you're having a great weekend!



This card using several WMS sets: Musical Backgrounds, Labels 18, and Compliments of the Season. The bell and holly are PTI.

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Christmas Tree

Hi! Well, the sun finally made an apperance this week! Thank goodness!

I'm happy to report that I finished my self-imposed mission to make cards using each of my Christmas sets. This card features an oldie-but-goodie, Believe, by PTI.



The background (Musical Backgrounds, WMS) was stamped onto Ripe Avocado cardstock, using Versamark ink. I also stamped the tree with versamark, and heat embossed it using Gold Zing embossing powder. In real life, it's sparkly!



I colored the tree with Copic markers, and stamped the label (Label Basics, PTI) with Creamy Brown ink (Colorbox).

Hope you have a great start to your weekend!
Melissa

A Merry Christmas to You

Good morning!

I've started working on my Christmas cards and will have a few to share over the next days.



For this card, I stamped the triangle wreath image from Tranquility Triology as a background. I then colored the small berries with a Copic marker. The sentiment comes from the Waltzingmouse Stamps set, The Compliments of the Season. I also used Mat Stack 1 Collection for the frame, and Mat Stack 1 die and the Layerz die.

Have a great day!
Melissa

Happy Birthday

I've really been enjoying smy new WMS stamps and this is the lastest card I made:



I stamped the background using Faux Fun, with Lulu Lavendar ink (Memento) onto a Vintage Cream sheet, while masking off the frame area. The cameo, from Cameo Creations, was heat-embossed with black powder. The sentiment comes from PTI, as well as the die for the frame and the ribbon.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Happy Birthday

I'm a little late to the waltz....but I was so excited to stamp something last night when my new stamps arrived!



I stamped the oval frames and cameos with Fresh Snow (PTI) ink onto kraft cardstock. I went back and added a small flower from Eat Cake with Grape Jelly ink (Memento). For the center of each flower, I used my Sakura Souffle pen.

The sentiment, from Say it Loud, was heat embossed with clear ep (Filigree) onto a die cut (Mat Stack 4, PTI) in Vintage Cream cs (PTI). The card base is Lavendar Moon, as well as the satin ribbon (PTI).

Thanks for waltzing by!
Melissa

Forever...

Happy Thursday! Here's my card with this week's summer card camp colors, as well as the pocket technique from PTI's Make It Mondays video.



I used my Edger #2 die to create a pocket with Kraft cardstock. Then, I sewed up the sides with my sewing machine. I should have swiped the edges with Fresh Snow ink before sewing though! You can't see very well in the photo, but I stamped the rose from Year of Flowers: Collection onto the pocket with Antique Linen Distress ink (Ranger)



I cut "forever" with the Wonderful Word die into Pure Poppy cardstock which I had backed with scor-tape in order to adhere it easily. It wasn't so easy to get the cut word out, though. The rest of the sentiment was stamped onto the pocket with Rich Cocoa (Memento) ink.

The background of the card was stamped using WMS' Faux Fun, and heat embossed with clear Filigree embossing powder. The cardbase is Fine Linen cardstock, as well as Fine Linen satin ribbon. The tag was cut with Tag Sale #1.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Happy Birthday

Hope you're having a great weekend!

I made this card a few night sgo...it turned out so different than I had orginially envisioned! I wanted to use the flowers from the Daydreamer set (PTI) and stamp them in these colors to have them match with the pretty Emma's Shoppe paper (Crate Paper), but in the end the focal image was too busy for me to also use the paper.



The focal image was cut with a Label 18 die (Nestabilities). The background is stamped using the polka dot background from WMS's Off-Beat Backgrounds. The sentiment is from WMS's Say it with Style.



Thanks for looking!
Melissa