colourQ challenge #140

As usual the color combination for this week's colourQ challenge was gorgeous. Colors totally say summer to me so I wanted to make a card that was bright and happy.



To bring some texture to the background of PTI Pure Poppy cardstock, I embossed it using the new PTI Simple Stripes impression plate. Its a bit hard to see in the photo. I stamped flowers from PTI Flower Fusion #12 in Pure Poppy and VersaMagic Ocean Depth with Momento Summer Sky for the centers. I used the PTI double ended banner die in Simply Chartreuse with the Happy Birthday sentiment from Heart-2-Heart #2. Finished off with a bit of twine. Perfect for my friend's birthday this month.



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Freshly Made Sketches #38

It's my niece's first birthday party this weekend and I wanted to make a fabulous card for her. Just look at those cheeks!



Here's the card I made for her using some of my favorite papers from My Mind's Eye. I created the dimensional bow with half of the Papertrey Ink Loopsie Daisy die and die cut the '1' and tied some twine around it. Basic layout of the card was inspired by this week's challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.





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Tuesday Trigger - Mantastic!

I was inspired by this Tuesday Trigger to make a Father's Day card for my husband. I love this color combination.

I used Papertrey Ink's Heart-2-Heart #3 set for the hearts stamped in Ranger Espresso, PTI Hawaiian Shores and Pure Poppy, and VersaMagic Aegean Blue. Sentiments from PTI, Cardstock is PTI Soft Stone.

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CAS-ual Fridays #55

This week's CAS-ual Friday challenge is to make a Clean and Simple card with a little bling. I wanted to use some of the silver glitter Recollections paper I've been hoarding in my stash for a rainy day.

For my first card, I cut a piece of PTI Smokey Shadow cardstock using their Half & Half die. I heat embossed the modern Celebrate sentiment (PTI Think Big Favorites #13) using American Crafts Zing powder along with the champagne glasses stamp from A Muse. I used Stickles for the bubbly champagne in the glasses and continued it on the floating bubbles. I used rhinestones to continue the floating bubbles beyond the stamped image.

On this card, I used all the same supplies except I used the balloon die from PTI Heart 2 Heart #2.

Just a little bit of bling and sparkle goes a long way......

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Retro Sketches #14

Great challenge prompt at Retrosketchesthis week....very versatile too.

I made two cards using this sketch:

For this first card, I used Papertrey Ink's Sweet as Can Be stamp and dies topping the ice cream cone with a pale pink rhinestone. I die cut the ice cream from patterned papers from Echo Park and My Mind's Eye, two of my favorite patterned paper companies. For the border strip down the card, I used the frame image from PTI Framed Out 2 set in Ranger Espresso, PTI Autumn Rose and Melon Berry to match the patterned papers.

This second card used my new Papertrey Chevron dies which I used with various Echo Park patterned papers. I colored the cupcake from PTI Tremendous Treats: Birthday with Copics and stamped the Inkadinkado sentiment in Ranger Espresso. I love the pop of color on the kraft cardstock.

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Play Date Cafe #134

Hello friends,

I'm loving the happy color combination over at Play Date Cafe this week.

For my card, I used the oval frame stamp from the new Papertrey Ink Happy Hydrangea set and overlapped the ovals in Harvest Gold, Sweet Blush, and Soft Stone PTI inks. I used Soft Stone cardstock as my base and stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from PTI Heart 2 Heart #2 in Versamagic Red Brick.

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colourQ challenge #139

The colour combination at colourQ this week seemed perfect for my new PTI set Happy Hydrangeas. For the hydrangeas I used Versamagic Chalk ink in Eggplant as well as Papertrey Ink Spring Rain. The leaves were stamped in Versamagic Night Sky and sentiment in Kraft to match the cardstock. I rounded opposite corners to give a softer look and added some Keisercraft light blue bling to the leaf stems.

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Make It Monday # 68 Pocket Cards

Being away from my craft area for almost two weeks was much harder than I thought. I was itching for my houseguests to vacate my spare bedroom/craft room so I could make a card or two, especially when I kept seeing such great challenges being posted in my blog reader.

Here is my take on Heather's Pocket Card tutorial:

I used beloved Kraft cardstock as my base, black as the mat, and Papertrey's School Time stamp set to make this teacher Thank You pocket card. Sentiment is from PTI Think Big Favorites and inks are PTI Pure Poppy, Momento Tuxedo Black, and Brilliance Sunflower Yellow. I also used my EK Success border punch to make the loose-leaf effect at the top of the pocket.

For the pocket cards, I stamped on two of the Becky Higgins Project Life cards which are like graph paper and goes well with my school theme. The back also has the graph design so she can continue writing her note on the reverse side (her handwriting not so tiny!). One card will be for my daughter to write a note to her teacher, the other for me to write one.

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