Three on Thursday

Hello -

I've got three cards to share with you today...all created last night during three episodes of Gilmore Girls (LOVE that show!).

First card is inspired by the Create Along With Us challenge at PTI. I was completely inspired by THIS card by Ashley Cannon Newell. It was simple and pretty and gave me a chance to open up my new patterned vellum pack. For my birthday card, I used similar colors as Ashley's as well as the challenge colors at Colour Me....! this week. Sentiment is from Tucked In:Birthday and flowers from PTI Birds and Blooms. I used Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangles for around the sentiment panel.

My second card is inspired by the CASology cue card:Aquatic. To me Aquatic is nautical....maybe being a Coast Guard wife all these years has really influenced how I see things! :) I used PTI Out to Sea since I don't have any fish or sea themed stamps. I stamped the Crackled background in Soft Stone using my MISTI to ground the compass stamped in Enchanted Evening. Kept a good amount of white space around the light background to keep it CAS. 

My last card is for this month's One-Layer Simplicity Challenge - Striped Down. I masked off a large strip along the bottom of the white cardstock base. I embossed the birthday from PTI Swoosh in white and blended a rainbow of inks over the embossed sentiment. Still getting the hang of the ink blending technique. Hard a hard time with the middle colors like the green looking smooth. But Iove the crisp clean edge masking gives on white cardstock.  

Off to MD for my annual visit to my sister's! Wishing you all a wonderful weekend! Thanks for stopping by!