Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday! Hope you are all having a great weekend! I've been playing with some new stuff so excited to share with you. I know how precious your weekend time is so I'll get right to it....

First card uses the PTI Beautiful Brushstrokes additions set. I wanted to mimic falling feathers along the side of the card. Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Wishing set. Colors inspired by the challenge at The Heart Desires.

Next card is inspired by the CAS on Sunday challenge: HEARTS.  They celebrate their #100th challenge and this is the first time I'm playing. Actually only discovered this challenge this week. It uses a strip of hearts that was included in the Simon Says Stamp Wishing set. I stamped the heart rows in different lengths and nestled the sentiment from Clearly Besotted Stamps. 

And since it was still out on my desk, I used the brushed circles from PTI Beautiful Brushstrokes for my last card. Sentiment from MFT. Entering this into Darnell's NBUS challenge for these brushed circles. 

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Two for Thursday

Hello friends -

I was very intrigued by the new Pinterest Inspired Challenge this month. Love the colors and graphic feel of this inspiration photo:

I used the awesome 'Do You See What I See' stamp from Winnie and Walter and heat embossed it in black on white card stock. I applied several Tim Holtz distress inks (Weathered Wood, Squeezed Lemonade, Peacock Feathers, Crushed Olive, & Salty Ocean) to the embossed panel. Looks really cool in real life but I wasn't sure what to do with it as a whole piece. 

So I die cut several vases out of it to make this:

I clustered the three vases (PTI Mega Vases) on one side and heat embossed a simple sentiment from the PTI Keep It Simple line. I adhered one flat and then the other two with different thickness foam tape for dimension. 

Second card I'm sharing today uses the supercool Balloon Strings stamp from My Favorite Things which I stamped on half of the card. I scattered various hearts cut out of Bazzill card stock on the strings. Sentiment from Mama Elephant.  Colors inspired by the ColourQ challenge this week. Hardest part of this challenge was using the two different red tones. Think it worked out well here. 

Hope you are having a great week! Snow is almost all melted here and temps now in the 50s. But guess what's expected tonight....more snow! 

Thanks for popping in! 

Lots of Color

I was in a very colorful mood yesterday when I made these two cards. First card is for the fun Colour Me....Playful! challenge this week.

I chose a sentiment from PTI Choose Joy and used PTI Building Blocks to support the sentiment's message. I matted the top panel in black before mounting on the green card stock to enhance the colorful stack.

Second card is another colorful one that I created for the CASology challenge. I embossed the Lil Inkers Stitched rectangle die on the front panel. Then I used the PTI heart border die with various brightly colored PTI card stock and arranged them in within the stitched rectangle. Sentiment is a simple one from Clearly Besotted stamps. 

I kept it clean and simple by keeping lots of white space around the colorful center. 

Enjoy your weekend and Halloween if you're celebrating today! Thanks for stopping by! 

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day friends! Popping in to share a few cards with you before I head out tonight. DH and I are going out without the kids tonight - dinner and comedy show - for the first time alone in ages (except for work events). YAY! 

First card is for the Papertrey Anniversary Day 8: Blue Ombre Challenge. Love blues....

I heat embossed a background of medallions from Fancy That on white card stock. I applied Enchanted Evening with an ink blending tool, darker in the middle of each medallion and blending lighter outward. I think Laura Bassen created a gorgeous card with this technique but she used wonderful rainbow colors. I heat embossed the sentiment on vellum and wrapped it around the medallion patterned panel. I mounted it on white card stock for some contrast against the Enchanted Evening card panel. 

Next card is for the Day 7: Heavy Metal Challenge where we were challenged to use only metallic gold and silver with neutral colors. I masked off part of a black panel diagonally and heat embossed some images from Mehndi Medallion on the bottom portion. I stamped the sentiment from Thank You Kindly along the invisible diagonal line. The finished panel was adhered with foam tape on top of black card base. The black on black popped up looks really cool. 

 This next card is for the CASology cue card LOVE. I adhered a small envelope from my scrapbooking stash and stamped it with a sentiment from Clearly Besotted stamps. I die cut a bunch of small hearts in a rainbow of colors and added them floating out of the envelope.

This last card uses a new Hero Arts stencil I recently got. LOVE it! I blended Pure Poppy on one floral image in the corner and Sweet Blush in the bottom flower. Sentiment from Keep It Simple is heat embossed in black and whole panel is mounted on Pure Poppy card stock. Color inspiration is from Colour Me Striking challenge this week. 

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Thanks so much for taking a peek!

Cutting Edge Challenge #6

I made another card for this week's Cutting Edge challenge. This time I found inspiration in the card design of the inspiration photo. 

I used some pretty small heart patterned paper from Pink Paislee to anchor the die cut hearts which I adhered in different heights with foam tape to enhance the layered effect. 

I stamped the sentiment from Clearly Besotted directly on the card base but the ink smudged. UGH! So I added a coordinating sentiment banner on top of the smudged sentiment. I would have preferred to put the notched end on the right side but the smudge was still visible so I had to do it the other way. 

I don't LOVE the notched end on that side but don't think its bad enough to be trash can worthy. 

Hope you'll check out the fun new Cutting Edge challenge. Its definitely different to focus on die cuts vs just stamps. Thanks for stopping by!