Another Rainbow

Quick share of another card I made for the CASology challenge. I'm LOVING the cue card RAINBOW, especially when it means rows of pretty colors of ink lined up on my desk.

I stamped a rainbow of circles from Sketched Shapes and used a sentiment from Reverse Confetti. 

Hoping this rainbow made you happy and maybe inspired you to make a card of your own. Thanks for stopping by!

Thank You Wednesday

Hi friends,

I'm trying to beef up my thank you stash so I'm sharing two cards I made last night.

First card uses a very OLD set in my collection - Trendy Tree Tops. Love this set but haven't used it in such a long time.  Thought it would be perfect for this week's Colors inspired by this week's ColourQ challenge. I adhered the sentiment banner and heart with foam tape for dimension and interest.

This week's CASology cue card is RAINBOW so for my second card I used repeated Thank You sentiment (from Thank You Kindly) in a rainbow of colors with the additional sentiment in black and a black card base to ground the colors. 

That's it for me today. Thanks for taking a peek! Enjoy your day.

Colour Me.....! #31

Wow, summer is flying by! Hard to believe its almost August already. Hope you are having a fabulous summer where you are.

This week marks the a special Colour Me! challenge since we have five weeks this month. For this challenge YOU get to choose which colors you want to create with.
You can either play along with ......

Option 1 - Strawberry Slush, So Saffron & Hello Honey 

(playing along with 'Team Hayley')

OR

Option 2 - Night of Navy, Soft Sky & Garden Green 

(playing along with 'Team Tara')

I'm playing on Team Tara this week. I LOVE this color combination.

I wanted to used the beautiful PTI butterflies because the cut out wings are perfect with some many   gorgeous color combinations. I layered a butterfly cut out of enchanted evening leaves patterned paper on top of aqua mist card stock.  I stamped green medallions from Snowflake Flurries to create the butterfly's path stamping a few twice to create lighter medallions. Sentiment from Wet Paint. 

I didn't adhere the top layer of the butterfly and folded the wings a bit to give the card more dimension. And of course, no card of mine seems complete without adding a few enamel dots. 

The Colour Me....!  team has made some amazing cards this week so head on over there to check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for July even create two cards this week.....
Anja Curvers

Hope you can play along with us this week. Can't wait to see you in the gallery!
Thanks for stopping by!

July 2014 PTI Blog Hop

The 25th means its Blog Hop Day! 

This month's theme is to draw inspiration from this photo. There's lots design inspiration in there but generally speaking I'm not drawn to it as a whole.  Maybe its too shabby chic for me? Birds, buttons, and sewing aren't really my thing so I don't have stamps along these lines in my stash (though I really wish I could sew on a button!)  And if you've read my blog before I'm not a bird person though I will admit that stuffed polka dotted one is quite cute. 

I can't wait to see what others create with these.  

I did find a few details to draw inspiration from. I liked the bit on the bottom right - the doily heart with the red flower.

My card uses a kraft doily I've had in my stash which I used as a background for my flower. My card bases is vintage cream instead of white. Haven't used vintage cream in a while. I cut the flower from Happy Hydrangeas and paper pieced the stem and bloom together. The hydrangea was cut from textured dotted paper from Bazzill. I liked the weathered wood background in the inspiration photo so I used woodgrain patterned paper for my sentiment banner.

I was inspired by the colors in the inspiration photo to make a second card. Love the cute little spools of thread in aqua mist, sweet blush, and pure poppy.  I used the dotted lines from Ombre Builders to create a background and used a die cut Wet Paint 'Happy' along with the birthday from another stamp. (UGH, can't find my 'birthday' Wet Paint sentiment!). 

That's it for me today. Can't wait to see what everyone made using this photo. It's always amazing to me how very different the Blog Hop cards look from the same starting point. Love that. Thanks so much for stopping by and see you around the Hop! 

Colour Me....Playful # 30

It's Wednesday and its time for a new Colour Me challenge. This week's playful colors include the fun colors of hot pink and gold.

These colors seemed perfect for the Wet Paint font so I stamped the sentiment repeatedly in the challenge colors. 

And of course, gold enamel dots finish off my card. LOL, I will probably have to replenish my enamel dot stash soon! 

The Colour Me team has made some fabulous and fun cards this week so head on over there to check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for July...!
Anja Curvers

Hope you can play along with us this week. Can't wait to see you in the gallery!
Thanks for stopping by!

Pinwheel Love

Know when you come upon something in your stash that you had TOTALLY forgotten you had? Such a great feeling because its almost like its new again! I dusted off the Lil Inkers Mini Pinwheel die for these two cards.

I did have to review the pinwheel die tutorial to remind myself how to make one but it was easy pretty easy to make. 

Colors and card design inspired by this week's FUSION challenge. 

Next card uses the pinwheel die again. I was inspired by the sketch at CASE this Sketch challenge this week. 

I used the brushstroke-like lines from Ombre Builders which I stamped in both Spring Rain and Limeade Ice. Pinwheel was die cut from paper from My Minds Eye and sentiment from Flipping Out. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week.

Another Rainbow Medallion

I wanted to share another card I made for the PTI Make It Monday challenge - Rainbow Medallion. I love this technique because it uses so many colors and is so simple to execute.

My Father's Day card uses the hammer from the PTI Happy Hardware set. I changed up the colors from my last card and replaced some of the lighter tones with some darker versions since this is a masculine card.

And a circle punch makes adding the center sentiment so easy! 

Thanks for visiting and have a great night.

Make It Monday Rainbow Medallions

Hello,

Quick share this morning before I head out for today. Wanted to share a card I made using Dawn McVey's rainbow medallion technique for PTI Make It Monday this week.

For my medallion I used the anchor from Out To Sea which I stamped in 8 colors. I added a simple sentiment from Thank You Kindly in the middle and mounted the panel on Limeade Ice.  Looks kinda cool right? 

What a simple technique to make a quick and happy card.

Hope you are having a great weekend! Thanks for visiting.

Colour Me....Subtle #29

Hello Friends!  Happy Wednesday! Been a little MIA here on the blog lately. I've hardly spent any time in my craft room this past week because my girls have been keeping me super busy with their swim team practices and meets. Who would have thought summer would be more busy that the school year? I'm hoping to get some time in pronto though!

Today brings a new Colour Me...! challenge. This week's subtle color combinations brings together my favorite colors of green and gray.

Kinda reminds me of the beach on a cloudy day but in a good way though!

I chose a graphic patterned paper from Pink Paislee (I think!) for my background. I used my new favorite floral  - PTI Friendly Flowers in the pretty green and blue and saved the gray for the leaves. The panel was adhered to a smokey shadow card base for contrast. Love the way the flowers looked on the subtle background. 

Head on over to the Colour Me blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire you today.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our featured designer for July... Anja Curvers

Hope you get a chance to play along this week! Can't wait to check out the gallery to see what you come up with.

Thanks for stopping by!

Colour Me....Striking #28

Happy Wednesday! Wednesday means that the new Colour Me challenge is here. This week's challenge features the contrasting colors of a pale blue and dark purple. I honestly would have never come up with this pretty color combination myself.

I stamped my favorite flowers from Mums the Word in royal velvet and used a chevron square from Bitty Background Blocks as the 'vase' for the mums. I layered the white panel on aqua mist and then on a card base of royal velvet. And of course, I had to finish the card off with a few enamel dots....my favorite embellishment lately. 

Head on over to the ColourMe blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire you today.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our featured designer for July.. Anja Curvers

Hope you get a chance to play along this week! Can't wait to check out the gallery to see what you come up with.

Happy Birthday Darnell!!

Another Happy Birthday card to share....this one is for the fabulous Darnell. Darnell keeps this crafty world we all belong to happy, fun, and supportive and is always the first to chime in with encouraging words and has some of the funniest (& real!) craft blog posts out there. Happy Birthday Darnell! Hope this birthday week has been great!

You can check out Darnell's virtual birthday celebration on Ardyth's blog.

My card uses the Wishes Come True set featuring four brightly colored candles. I added a stitched border around the card base. Card design inspired by this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge.

Hope you are enjoying this great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday America!

In our house, the 4th of July isn't just about having or going to a BBQ and celebrating summer. Don't get me wrong, its a day where we eat well, enjoy the weather, and hang out with friends. We usually participate in our town's holiday festivities but we also take a moment with our kids to discuss why America's birthday is so important. As the daughter of immigrants, I can appreciate why this country is so special and the sacrifices it took for my parents to get and raise their family here. There are freedoms and opportunities here that made my parents leave their native county. And now as the spouse of a US Coast Guardsman, I understand the hard work and sacrifice of our military each and every day to preserve those freedoms and opportunities.

So in honor of USA's birthday tomorrow, I created this birthday card.  Makes for a great masculine birthday card too!

I was inspired by this week's CASology cue word FLOAT. As soon as I heard this, I knew I wanted to graphically depict something floating from a word in a sentiment. I decided on stars floating since the toppings option at Seize the Birthday is 'Stars or Stripes). I stamped the sentiment on the bottom (HAPPY from PTI Headline Alphabet, Birthday from Year Round Happiness) and then masked off a triangle coming from the Happy. I stamped stars in the ColourQ challenge colors within the masked area starting at the tip using the generation stamping technique as the stars floated higher toward the top of the card. I added a strip of soft stone (my closest match to sahara sand) bitty dot to the bottom to anchor it and put the whole panel on soft stone card stock.  

Happy 4th to those celebrating this holiday as well and wonderful weekend wishes to you all! Thanks for stopping by! 

Colour Me...Monochromatic #27

Happy Wednesday!

As many of you know, color challenges are my favorite type of challenge. So when Katie and Tara asked me to join the Colour Me Design Team, I was so honored and excited.

This week's Colour Me....Monochromatic features a deep purple color. I knew I wanted to make a birthday card for my cousin whose favorite color is purple.

I embossed the blooms from PTI Meadow Greens in white on dark purple Bazzill card stock. I love the texture heat embossing gives. I cut the panel diagonally and stamped my sentiment from PTI Think Big Favorites in the middle. I added a few white enamel dots to the centers. Quick and simple. This would probably make a nice sympathy card too.

I hope you will join me at Colour Me each week. The Colour Me team has made some beautiful cards this week so head on over their blogs and  check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our featured designer for July...Anja Curvers

Hope you can play along with us this week. Can't wait to see you in the gallery!