Playdate Cafe #131

LOVE the colors at Play Date Cafe this week. Made two cards using Papertrey Ink's Super Stars set and their Ocean Tides, Aqua Mist, and Orange Zest inks with a little Momento black as the accent.

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CR84FN54

This week's color challenge at CR84FN uses these pretty colors:

Here are my two cards:

I used Papertrey Ink's Heart-2-Heart#3 set with Enchanted Evening, Aqua Mist, and Kraft inks. Sentiment is from Think Big Favorites.

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Teacher Appreciation Week

Just wanted to share some of the cards & wrappings I made for our Teacher Appreciation week gifts....

For our Sunday school end of year cards, I made these cards which were a lift of a card from the amazing Danielle Flanders.

For the school teachers, I got them personalized wood-mounted stamps from my new favorite crafty daily deal site Pick Your Plum.

And for one of their teachers, a box of her favorite tea:

I get to take a break from teacher gifts for at least a couple of weeks and then it'll be time to make end of the year gifts.

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Moxie Fab Damask & Brocade Challenge

I celebrated my 40th birthday this weekend (along with Mother's Day) and need some fabulous thank you cards for some of my friends who gave me lovely gifts when we went out for margaritas one night to celebrate.

I made this card using some A Muse damask cardstock that I've been hoarding. I split it into pieces and heat embossed the PTI Think Big Favorites sentiment with American Crafts Zing Silver embossing powder.

For the second I did made the same card except I popped up alternating strips to give some dimension. Looks better in real life as I couldn't quite capture the dimension.

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Card Patterns Sketch 164

I found a new site with a great card sketch challenge every week - Card Patterns. A sketch is always helpful to me when I need to make a quick card but don't have an idea where to begin.

I paired this sketch with this Papertrey Ink color palette:

to create this:

My brother is newly engaged so wanted to make a card for the happily engaged couple using hearts. I stamped the Penny Black All Over Pattern background in Versamark and embossed it with American Crafts Zing powder in Frost. The hearts were die cut in PTI Pure Poppy and Raspberry Fizz and added a few Keisercraft rhinestones along the end of the PTI double ended banner die. The sentiment is A Muse stamped with Adirondack Espresso.

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colourQ challenge #136

I am still on a high after being selected as a ColourQueen Courtier last week. Its always fun to play along but even more fun when your card is recognized among all the wonderful entries.

Here's my take on this week's colour palette #136:

All supplies from Papertrey Ink. I used the Heart-2-Heart #2 balloons in Spring Moss, Orange Zest, Harvest Gold inks with Ripe Avocado balloon tails. Love how cheery and bright the card is. Made 8 balloons so my daughter can use it for her best friend's 8th birthday.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Mother's Day.

A World of Gingham

Here's a bright and cheery card I made for the Gingham Challenge in the Moxie Fab World blog using the new Trendy Tree Tops stamp and die set from Papertrey Ink which is fast becoming a favorite along the all the gingham loveliness in the Lily Bee Double Dutch paper line. I used foam adhesive to bring dimension to the red gingham heart and the kraft gingham landscape.

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MIM #65 - Patterned Paper Scrap Backgrounds

Well, if there's one thing I had a TON of, its patterned paper scraps. I have a weakness for patterned paper so I had plenty to draw from for this week's Make It Monday challenge.

I made this background using various scraps from different lines...and since they were scraps from long ago, I'm not entirely sure who made them. I do know the striped is from Chatterbox (yes, THAT old!) and I think the blue is My Mind's Eye. I'm a coordinated kit type of girl so matching different colors across different lines was a little bit of a challenge but I think it turned out great. I used the Papertrey Tie die as well as the block alphabet dies for the DAD and even busted out my Fresh Alphabet stamp set (never used before!) to spell out BEST on the diecuts.

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