bright flowers...

Hey there!  Hope you are having a lovely weekend!  This week has been a little crazy and I have not had much time to craft... boo hoo!  But it was all for several good things... celebrating my youngest's birthday and helping to put together (and take down) the 5th grade party for the aforementioned child and his classmates.  They had a fabulous time and are now officially middle schoolers!  Now that things I have calmed down (a little... it is summer after all, lol) I found some time to make a card for a two challenges:  Color Throwdown and CAS(e) this Sketch.   I purchased the sweet Altenew stamp set Folksy Florals quite sometime ago, but have not had the chance to use it so I pulled it out to make my card.  I stamped the flowers using coral, yellow and blue inks and the leaves in green.  Die cut everything with the matching dies and then arranged everything on a white cardstock panel that I die cut with the largest AJVD rectangle backdrop die.   The sentiment is from the Altenew Trigonometry stamp set and was embossed in white on the black cardstock, trimmed down and adhered.  I love the clean and simple look of the design!

Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up! white; Stamps:  Altenew; Dies:  Altenew and AJVD; Inks:  Stampin Up, Catherine Pooler, VersaMark; Embossing powder:  Hero Arts

Inspire Me Friday with PRS

Hey there!  Happy Friday!!  I have a post up on the PRS blog today sharing a card I made using the Little Things stamp set.  Here is a little peek:

Hope you will head over to the PRS blog to see the full project and to let me know what you think!  Have a wonderful day!

wednesday with ajvd...

Hey there... happy Wednesday!  I have a post up on the AJVD blog today and here is a little peek of my project:

I hope you will take the time to head over there to see the full project and to let me know what you think.  Have a wonderful day!

a happy hello

Hey there!  Hope your weekend has started off well.   My youngest spent part of the week at camp and thank goodness the rain held off until they were on their way home.  He had an awesome time and now is one tired 5th grader!   While he was away I did a little bit of crafting, but not as much as I wanted to do... oh well.  I did manage to make a card for a few challenges though:  Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Hello/Just; Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown.   There isn't a lot of stamping on this card... it is pretty much all die cuts.   I used the RC Tall Stripe Panel as the large central element of the FMS layout and die cut it from black cardstock.  The largest tag from the Tag Me set was die cut from white and the little reinforcer was die cut from aqua cardstock.  I tied some aqua twine through the whole and then added the tag to the Tall Striped Panel.  I then die cut the Wheat from black and aqua cardstock and adhere them together as shown.  The wheat was then adhere to the tag.  I die cut the banner (from the Tag Me set) from thick vellum cardstock and embossed the sentiment from the Tall Bloom stamp set in white.  That was adhered over the wheat and the entire piece adhere to a white cardstock base.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up! white and aqua, PTI black, MFT heavy weight vellum; Stamps and dies:  Reverse Confetti; Ink:  VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing powder:  Hero Arts; Baker's twine

wednesday with ajvd...

Hey there and happy Wednesday!  I have a post up on the AJVD blog today and here is a little peek of my card:

Hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to see the full project and to let me know what you think.  Have a wonderful day!

tiny big news...

Hey there!  If you didn't know the Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge is going on right now.  So over the last few days I have been coloring images from the super sweet MFT Hello, Little One stamp set and sharing what I colored on Instagram.  I have been trying my hand at no line coloring and have much to learn, but I'm enjoying the process.  Now I have made some of those images into a card that I will be sending to my niece who is expecting a little one at the beginning of November.  I'm so excited and can't wait to meet her little one!!  I used ZIG Clean Color Real Brush markers to color all the images and then die cut them with the matching dies.  I used this week's CTS layout so I will be posting my card to that challenge, as well as the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.  I backed the images with a circle die cut from woodgrain cardstock and a panel of SSS fog cardstock.  The sentiment was stamped using my favorite black ink... Nocturne VersaFine CLAIR.  Love how the card turned out and I hope that my niece loves it too!

Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up! white, Simon Says Stamp fog, Tim Holtz woodgrain; Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Dies:  My Favorite Things and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Ranger Old Paper Distress ink, VersaFine CLAIR; Watercolor medium:  ZIG Clean Color Real Brush markers