where flowers bloom...

Hello friends!!  Another soggy day here in the northwest. Have a card that I made last night for a couple of challenges:  CAS-ual Fridays: Good Egg (use ovals) and CAS(E) this Sketch.

 
This card started with a different image in mind, but that wasn't working so I went with this tulip image from the SU! set Backyard Basics.  I realize that I'm stretching the whole oval thing a bit with the tulips, but I also added a little oval charm.   I used my PTI notebook die to cut the Rustic White cardstock and then stamped the images using Memento Rich Cocoa ink.  The tulips were colored with my Copic markers.  I roughed up the edges of the piece and then wrapped it with some purple twine and tied on the little charm.  The sentiment is from a Flourishes set "Botanical Bookplates 2".  After roughing up the edges of the card base I adhered the image and then added a few clear sequins

Dots and Stripes...

Hello!!   Enjoying a beautiful sunny day here in Western Washington... still a bit cold, but I will take it just the same!!  Hope all is well in your part of the world!!  Have two cards that I made for the new Less is More challenge, as well as the new Dynamic Duos challenge.   When I first saw the LIM challenge I thought "oh... make something with spots or stripes", but then I re-read the post and saw it was use both spots and stripes and it has to be one layer!!  Yikes!!! That threw a wrinkle into things for me.  Had to do some out of the box thinking for this one, but I came up with two cards that I really like!

The first card came about as I was playing with several PTI sets (Polka Dot Basics 2, Distressed Stripes and Bitty Background Blocks) to see what I could come up with.   Several attempts using Polka Dot Basics and Distressed Stripes came to nothing.  But then I decided to stamp the little background block that has tiny dots in it and add the two stripes... loved it!!   I think this card will also work for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge (color blocking) so I'm going to pop it into that challenge as well.   The sentiment is from another PTI set Signature Greetings.  The Dynamic Duo colors this week are Pool Party and Lucky Limeade.  I don't have Lucky Limeade so I used Pear Pizzazz instead.

The second card happened because I took a look through my PTI mini sets and saw the Bits & Buttons set.  The buttons are... well... dots and some of them have stripes and dots in the buttons!!  For this card I created a border using two different sized dots and the two Dynamic Duo colors.  The sentiment is also from Signature Greetings.   I haven't used this many PTI sets ever!  Of the two card, the first one is my favorite.

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up!, Memento Tuxedo Black Sequins:  Ellen Hutson

CCC #16 - Go Hog Wild!!

{for my Shining the Light post, please scroll down.}

Hello!!!  Back with my post for this week's CASology challenge.   Lots of fabulous cards for last week's challenge!  It was so fun to see how everyone interpreted the cue word "night".  This week the cue word is "wild"... so many different options for that one!!   Our fabulous guest designer this week is Vicky!  All the details for this week can be found here.

I'm going to admit that this week's cue word was a bit tough for me.  I don't have a ton of stamps that lend themselves to the word "wild".   Then I remembered that I had a super cute My Favorite Things Pure Innocense set called Piggy Bank and in that set is the sentiment "go hog wild".  Perfect for the challenge.   I used a striped down version of Chupa's Sketchbook Saturday sketch for the layout.   I recently purchased the My Favorite Things Jumbo Fishtail Flag Stax dies and have been wanting to use the largest one to make a card... which is what I did here.  I stamped the little PI using Tuxedo Black ink, then did a combination of Copic coloring and paper piecing and trimmed her out.   She was then mounted on the second fishtail flag and that was adhered to the card base as shown.   A couple of tiny fishtail flags and a button were added to the top.  I'm going to drop this card into the current CAS-ual Friday "off the edge" challenge.

Thanks for stopping by....make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, Vicky! Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

Supplies:   Cardstock:  SU! kraft; PTI white; PP:  My Mind's Eye Breeze; Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Dies:  My Favorite Things; Twine:  PTI; Button:  DeNami Designs; Ink:  Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers

Golden Flower....

Hello friends!!  Hope your weekend is going well.  Feels like I haven't posted in ages even though it has only been a few days!   Anywhoo... got my card for this week's Less is More challenge finished this morning.  The challenge this week is a color challenge and Chrissie and Mandi have requested that we use gold.  So... gold isn't a color I use that often.  I don't really like gold embossing powder and I have no gold cardstock.  It is just one of those things... I love the look when others use gold on their projects, but when I try it I'm always a bit disappointed with the results.  However, that changed when I picked up a pad of Tsukineko's Delicata GoldenGlitz ink.  It is the first gold ink that I truly like.  The color is so rich and well... golden!

I'm also linking this up to Chupa's current Sketchbook Saturday sketch as it was perfect for the LIM challenge.  I stamped the Classic Tea Flower stamp using GoldenGlitz ink on Rustic Cream cardstock and then trimmed it out.  The two little butterflies are from the Hero Arts/Sizzix set Antique Flowers & Butterflies and they were also stamped using GoldenGlitz and then die cut using the matching die.   The text strip is from the PTI set Background Basics Text Style and it was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  After adhering the images to the cardstock piece I inked the edges with additional GoldenGlitz ink and then adhered the piece to the card base.  As I also added the bit of text I will link this up to CAS-ual Fridays.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget the first challenge for CASology will be this Tuesday, July 10th.  I hope you will join us!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Rustic Cream; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Inks:  Tsukineko; Dies:  Sizzix

Dots n' Spots....

Hello friends!!  A quick post with a card for a couple of challenges:  ColourQ and CAS-ual Fridays.   ColourQ is one of my favorite challenges, but lately I have just not been doing a very good job of creating cards using the color combos.   So, I took a bit of a break and I think the break has helped because I really like the card I made using this week's color combo of Real Red, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Tempting Turquoise & white.  Instead of Lucky Limeade and Island Indigo I used Pacific Point and Kiwi Kiss.  

The challenge this week at CAS-ual Fridays is to create a card using dots or spots, depending on what you want to call them. This worked perfectly with the ColourQ challenge because the inspiration photo is of a cool towel covered in dots!  So naturally the first stamp set that came to mind was my PTI set Dot Spot.  Then I thought of one of my most recent PTI purchases, Background Basics Dots & Spots.  But in the end, Dots & Spots just didn't have the look I was going for so I went with Dot Spot.  I stamped the largest circle using the Tempting Turquoise ink and then added the smaller circles using the Kiwi Kiss and Pacific Point colors.  The sentiment, from Signature Greetings, was stamped using Real Red.   I really, really like how the card turned out.... clean and simple a good amount of white space.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up!

Button, Button...

Another weekend is gone and so is our good weather!  Back to yucky rain... oh well!  That's western Washington for you!   I have a card that is nice and bright to share.  I haven't done a Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge in along time, but was really struck by the bright colors in the trigger photo and so decided to play along.  I'm also going to be putting this into the current CAS-ual Fridays challenge to use punches or dies.

Inside

My card is a take on a card I made that was published in the March 2012 issue of CardMaker magazine. Instead of using one color for the buttons as I did with the baby card, I used rows of buttons in the same colors as the cookies.  I then die cut the flower from white cardstock and added the rhinestone to the center to bring in the hint of sparkle you can see on the cookies.   I backed the white square with the dark grey cardstock to bring out the color of the buttons a bit more.    I decided to not put a sentiment on the front of the card, but instead finished off the interior with the sentiment.  I decided to stamp it using the new Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink making it a bit hard to see!  The sentiment says "Live in the sunshine" which I thought was very appropriate for the card.

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & Smoky Shadow; Stamps:  Stampin Up! Pursuit of Happiness; Ink:  Ranger Squeeze Lemonade DI; Buttons:  DeNami Designs Tutti Frutti mix; Die:  PTI flower die; Rhinestone:  Want2Scrap

Mellow Yellow...

Hey there... Hope your weekend has been going well.   Spent part of the day helping my oldest write a report for his Social Studies class on the Crusades.   And I have to say I learned a thing or two along the way!  Anywhoo... have a card that works for several different challenges:  Less is More (color challenge:  yellow); Retro Sketches, Flourishes (use a butterfly) and Catered Crop (use something starting with the letter B - butterfly).   This also works for CAS-ual Fridays... so maybe I will pop it into that challenge, as well.

Back in April I was super lucky and won the entire April Flourishes release... three beautiful stamp sets and a gorgeous background stamp!  For my card I decided to use the background stamp, Antique Lace, along with stamps from two other Flourishes sets:  Clematis & Butterflies & Botanical Bookplates.   I stamped the Antique Lace on white cardstock using SU!'s So Saffron, trimmed it to fit the card front and adhered using foam dimensionals.  I cut another piece of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment in bottom corner and then the butterflies were stamped using So Saffron ink.  A piece of So Saffron grosgrain ribbon was then tied around the piece.  This piece was then adhered using more foam dimensionals.  I stamped the another butterfly using Tuxedo Black ink, colored it with Copic markers and trimmed it out.  A light coating of Diamond Stickles was applied and then the butterfly was adhered to the card as shown.  I seem to be in a white on white with a pop of color mood right now as this is the third one I have made in the last several days.  IThe is just something about a crisp white card that makes me happy!

Thanks for stopping by....

Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Flourishes; Inks:  Memento & Stampin Up!; Ribbon:  Stampin Up!; Rhinestones:  Stampin Up!

Lovely as a Tree....

Hey there... I back with one more post before Saturday turns into Sunday in my part of the world.  I have not one, but two cards for this week's Less is More challenge.  Chrissie and Mandi provided us with a sketch that featured either a square or a circular main image.  I decided I would make a card using each idea.

Today I got some happy mail... a large package of cardstock, stamps, dies and ribbon from PaperTrey Ink.  One of the stamp sets in my package is the newly released Trendy Treetops.  And lucky for me... because when I was looking at the Trendy Treetops gallery I noticed that the set is now sold out!    So, first up is the card I made using Trendy Treetops.  I admit to not sticking strictly to the sketch, but the main idea is still there.  I stamped the trunk using Hero Arts Latte chalk ink and then one of the tree top images using Hero Arts Grass chalk ink.  If you have never had the opportunity to try the Hero Arts Chalk inks you really should.  Stamping with them is pure pleasure as they result in rich, vibrant images.   I added a few little buttons and the word "thanks" that is also in the set to finish off the card.

The second card uses a Hero Arts set called Trees for All Seasons and a sentiment from a Stamps of Life set Trees2Build.   For this card I used another Hero Arts chalk ink called Iris.  After stamping the tree image and trimming it out I noticed that the color of the ink is an almost exact match to the recently release PTI Autumn Rose double stitch ribbon!!   I'm pretty darn excited about that because the fewer inks I have to buy, the better!  Anywhoo... I backed the image with a little square of black cardstock and then added a piece of the Autumn Rose ribbon.  Super, super simple, but perfect for the Less is More challenge.   Both cards work for the current CAS-ual Fridays challenge, as well.

One final thing I have to share.  As I was editing my photos just a short time ago, my wee one, Gabriel, came up to see what I was doing.  He stopped and said "You make beautiful cards, mom!"  Now I ask you, how sweet is that?   Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & black; Stamps:  PTI, The Stamps of Life & Hero Arts; Inks:  Hero Arts & Memento; Buttons:  PTI; Ribbon:  PTI

for you....

{For my Shining the Light post click here}

Hey.... I'm back with a card that works for three challenges:  Less is More (use a charm), ColourQ and CAS-ual Fridays (sketch).

I did not make a card for last week's LIM challenge (hangs head in shame).  Unfortunately, the challenge was to doodle on your one layer card and I am not very good at doodling (that's the reason I stamp!).  I struggled to come up with an idea, but unfortunately once I did decided on what I would do, a set of circumstances conspired to leave me mojo-less for the majority of the week!  I'm hoping to redeem myself with this week's card.  

I haven't done a CAS-ual Fridays challenge in a long time, but the simplicity of their sketch challenge this week drew me in.   I do admit that this is a very loose interpretation of the sketch.   The arrangement of the charm, sentiment and bird image is meant to approximate the second square in the sketch.   Initially I was going to use some Hero Arts stamps, but instead decided to use a set from Stampin  Up! called Clearly for You.  The ColourQ combo this week is a hard one for me as I don't really care too much for rusty orange (the dusty durango color), but decided that in small doses everything worked.   After the trouble I had with last week's LIM challenge I was thankful that Chrissie & Mandi gave us some thing easy... just add a charm to your card.  The little rose charm is one that my sweet bloggy friend & ODBD teamie, Sabrina sent me.  If it weren't for her sending me a packet of charms, I wouldn't have been able to do this week's LIM challenge because charms are just something I don't generally buy.

Anywhoo... thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Bazzill rust; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black & London Fog; Charm:  Ebay; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Twine:   May Arts

You Must Allow Me....

Hey there!!   I'm back with my card for this week's Less is More challenge, as well as this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge.   This week Less is More is officially one year old!!!  Congrats Chrissie and Mandi for bring us amazing challenges week after week, as well as providing us with fabulous inspiration!!  Ladies you ROCK!!   The Less is More challenge take us back to where it all started, a color challenge, and the color this time is aqua.   Now, the challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays is to make a card inspired by your favorite movie.  Well... my all time favorite movie is the A&E version of Pride & Prejudice.  Absolutely love, love, love that movie!!    And thanks to PaperTrey Ink I now have the perfect stamp set to make my Pride & Prejudice inspired card.

In January, PTI release a set called Simply Jane, as well as matching dies. This set was inspired by Jane Austen.  For my card I used the Quatrefoil die (as it was intended to be used) and die cut a piece of Aqua Mist cardstock.  This was adhered to the front of a white cardstock base.  I then die cut the oval using the Simply Jane oval die and stamped the beautiful filigree-like frame on it using SU!'s Pool Party (an almost dead ringer for Aqua Mist).  I then stamped the sentiment on a piece of white cardstock using black ink, trimmed the ends as you see and then folded it.  The little bouquet image was die cut and then stamped with the corresponding stamps.  I love how ease it is to stamp  the PTI images on the die cut piece.  Every thing was layered up as you see it.  To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I like the little bouquet where I placed it, but that's okay.    Once, again, I have created a card that doesn't have a lot of white space, but hopefully Chrissie and Mandi will give me a pass!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & aqua mist; Stamps:  PTI Simply Jane; Ink:  SU! Pool Party, Memento Tuxedo Black; PTI Simply Jane dies & Quatrefoil die; Diamond Stickles

Oh... Cut It Out!!!

Hey there!!  Back with my card for this week's Less is More challenge, as well as CAS-ual Fridays.  The challenge this week at LIM is to incorporate an opening or aperture as the British LIMettes would say in our clean and simple design.    Thus the reason for my post title.  The challenge at CAS-ual Friday is to make a black & white card in honor of penguin awareness day.  Who knew there was a penguin awareness day? Both ideas seem pretty simple, but boy oh boy did the LIM challenge give me problems!!  I had several fantastic ideas... unfortunately I could not make any of them work.  I even went to the craft store in hopes of finding the tool I needed to make my dream a reality, but alas... it was not to be.   So, I settled on a much simpler and more do-able idea.

I had a piece of black cardstock and a white cardbase ready to go, so I cut the black cardstock down a bit and trimmed a 1/4" off the card base on the long side.  The 2nd smallest Spellbindes plain heart die was placed on the cardstock and then run through my Big Shot.  After that I placed the diecut piece in my PTI quatrefoil die, placed a tan embossing mat on top and ran it through the Big Shot again to emboss the quatrefoil image onto the cardstock.  Some thin white ribbon was tied around the piece and then I added the button and bakers twine.  I adhered the piece to the card base and then stamped the sentiment from the Hero Arts set Year Round Sentiment inside the heart.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & true black; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Ink:  VersaFine Black Onyx; Dies:  Spellbinders & PTI; Ribbon:  Stampin Up!; Twine:  The Twinery

An Orange Flower....

Hey there!!   Here with a card for this week's Less is More challenge, as well as this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge.   This week at LIM the challenge is a color one and in honor of Guy Fawkes Day Chrissie (who is holding down the LIM fort by herself this as Mandi is away) has asked us to use the colors of red and orange on our cards (two of the colors in fireworks).  The challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to go "Over the Edge". 

My card base is 5.5" by 4" and the stamped piece is 2" x 4.25".  By trimming that quarter inch off the width of the card base, but leaving the stamped piece 4.25" you still end up with a card that will still fit inside a standard A2 envelope even though part of the piece is "over the edge".  The stamps are from Penny Black.  I did have to use one other color since my flower has a stem, but hopefully that is okay with Chrissie!  The image was colored with Copic markers, trimmed out and adhered using foam dimensionals.  A few orange pearls were added to bring in more orange.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Cherry Cobbler; Stamps:  Penny Black; Ink:  SU! Cherry Cobbler; Memento Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers (YR02, YR04, YR07 & YG21); Hero Arts orange pearls 

Gettin' Thankful....

Hey there!!! Wow... October is gone and November is here!! Time is flying by... in just over a month I'm going to be one year older, too!!! (Yikes... not tellin' how many years it is, though. teee heee!)

Anyway... I have two cards that I'm sharing today.  Both cards use the same layout from CAS-ual Fridays, but each uses a slightly different color combo.   The first card will also be entered into the following challenges:  The Paper Players - Anything Goes Fall and Stampin Sisters in Christ - use fall colors (crimson, orange & gold).   The stamps are from Heartfelt Creations (Open Falling Leaves) and PTI (Autumn Elegance).  I stamped the leaf using the new Distress Ink Bundled Twigs and then applied Wild Honey and Fired Brick distress inks.  The leaf was trimmed out and some Art Glitter in Inca Gold was added.  The ribbon is Stampin Up! Cherry Cobbler seam binding.  The sentiment was stamped using Golden Gitz and Cherry Cobbler inks.   Some small brads from BasicGrey were added at the bottom.

The second card is for this week's color challenge at Splitcoaststampers (Alway Artichoke, More Mustard & Bravo Burgundy) was made in the same matter I just used Scattered Straw and Aged Mahogany distress inks on the leaf.  The sentiment was stamped in a different spot using Stampin Up! Bravo Burgundy and then a row of gems that I colored using a Copic marker (Y17) was added.  The ribbon is Stampin Up! Always Artichoke seam binding.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up! Cherry Cobbler; PTI:  Kraft; Vintage Cream & White; Stamps:  Heartfelt Creations & PaperTrey Ink; Inks:  Distress Inks; SU! Bravo Burgundy & Cherry Cobbler; Ribbon:  SU! Seam Binding; Gems; Brads

A Simple Flower....

Hey There!  Here with a quick post for a card I made for two challenges:  ColourQ and CAS-ual Fridays.  I'm really squeakin' this one in for ColourQ as their collection link closes in mere hours!! 

Yesterday I got a new stamp set from Stampin Up! called "Every Moment".  When I saw the set I fell in love with the simple, but elegant line drawn images.  For my card I used the single flower, butterfly and sentiment from the set.  The challenge this week at CAS-ual Fridays is to color your project so I got out my Copics and figured out marker equivalents for the ColourQ colors of lime green, pumpkin orange and raspberry.  The other two colors are dark, dark brown and white.  I love the complete simplicity of the card and all that yummy white space!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, SU! Early Espresso; Copic markers

For You....

Hey there... Saturday is upon us again.  Time for another Less is More challenge and this week I'm combining the LIM challenge with the current CAS-ual Fridays challenge.   That Chrissie and Mandi (the LIMettes-in-chief) sure know how to picks some hard challenges.  This week is a color challenge and they want us to base our entry on the color of our eyes!!   And the other part of the challenge... that color has to be the main focus!   Ugh... my eyes are brown!!   I don't often make brown the focus of anything, either.  But this is Chrissie and Mandi so I rose to the challenge!     The CAS-ual Fridays challenge is "Feeling Loopy"... meaning we need to use loops of ribbon, etc. on our project. 

I used a favorite Stampin Up! set called Echoes of Kindess and colored the image with Copic Markers.  The cardstock is from Gina K. Designs (brown) and PTI (cream).  The patterned paper is from Stampin Up!  I kept the "loopy" portion of the challenge pretty simple, as you can see.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI, Gina K. Designs & Stampin Up!; Ink:  Rich Cocoa; Copic Markers; Ribbon:  PTI; Stamps:  Stampin Up!

Just a Note....

Hey there!! Its Saturday morning (and sadly a very dreary one here in the Pacific Northwest... fall is definitely on it's way) and time for a new Less is More challenge.   Less is More now has 1000 followers and to celebrate Chrissie and Mandi came up with the idea to try to reach 1000 entries for this weeks challenge and to make it easy on us the challenge this week is "anything goes".   When they announced this challenge earlier in the week my wheels got turning, but when I saw the new CAS-ual Fridays challenge that was posted I knew I had found the perfect companion to Less is More.  The challenge this week at CAS-ual Friday is to make a small card and then to let them know the size of your card.

For my card I finally inked up the super simple, but super elegant Gracious Vases set from PTI.  The minute I saw that set I knew I had to have it.  I stamped the vase and orchid image on PTI white cardstock with Tuxedo Black ink, colored them with my Copic markers and then added the sentiment.  The main piece was matted using PTI Royal Velvet cardstock and the card base is the new SU! "in color" Wisteria Wonder (just a side note... I always wonder how SU! comes up with the names for their colors because some of them are just way too funny!).   Finished card size is 4 x 4 square.  

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & royal velvet; SU! Wisteria Wonder; Stamps:  PTI Gracious Vases; Ink:  Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers

What's Black and White....

and read all over???  The new challenge at CAS-ual Fridays, that's what!  This week the challenge is to make a card that is black, white and red and based on a favorite book in honor of National Literacy Day (Sept. 8th).    I had a hard time deciding if I was going to do the challenge because my favorite genre of book is science fiction/fantasy and well most of the books I thought of just wouldn't have translated well into a card.    But then I started thinking about what kinds of stamps I had and then it hit me... the palm trees in the Hero Arts Lauderdale set look an awful lot like the truffula trees from the Dr. Seuss book The Lorax.  The Lorax is one of my favorite books to read to a child.  The story is basically about how natural resources (truffula trees) can be misused and ultimately destroyed, but there is a ray of hope at the end (see below).  Like most Dr. Seuss stories the way the story is written makes it an absolute joy to read out loud.

For the card I stamped the trees using dark red ink and then trimmed them out.  I cut a small rectangle of white cardstock and stamped the Hero Arts Friends Definition background on the piece with black ink.  This piece was matted with black cardstock.  I hunted around for the right sentiment and finally settled on the sentiment "its the little things" because at the end of the story the other main character in the story, the "Once-ler" gives a young boy the last seed (a little thing) from the last truffula tree in hopes that he will plant the seed and the truffula trees will regrow.  

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Gina K black; Ink:  PTI True Black, Stampin Up! Cherry Cobbler; Stamps:  Hero Arts

Many Thanks....

Hey everyone!!  Happy Saturday!!  Time, again, for another fabby challenge from Less is More.  This week Chrissie and Mandi are challenging us to take 3 different LIM challenges and put them into one card.   While this might sound a bit, well, challenging, in fact I found this one quite easy.  For my three challenges I chose the following:  Week #1:  pink, black & white; Week #13:  congrats or thank you and Week #25:  buttons or ribbon.  

I decided to use the challenge from Week #1 because that is the ONLY LIM challenge I did not get to participate in.  I found the challenge on the last day of the challenge and didn't have time to make something (insert frowny face).   I chose the other two because who doesn't need thank you or congrats cards and quite frankly I just LOVE ribbon!   I also going to be putting this card into this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge to use stickers or rubons.   The sentiment is a sticker from SRM.   To be honest I have never much cared for stickers.  I always ended up getting them in the wrong spot or they just didn't really go with what I was making.  But... that has all changed now that I have tried SRM stickers.  They are fantastic and so easy to use!  If you haven't tried them, you really should!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! pink; Gina K. black; Stamp:  Hero Arts Rose Background; Sticker:  SRM - Fancy Sticker Sentiments - Thanks; Ink:  SU! Pretty in Pink; Pearls Hero Arts; Ribbon:  PTI

Some things....

Hi there!! Saturday is finally here and time for a new Less is More challenge!  This week Chrissie and Mandi are challenging us to make a card that has something that moves on it.  That could mean something on your card actually moves (a spinner, pop up, etc) or the image of something that moves.   I'm not exactly sure where my card falls... probably somewhere inbetween... because the only stamping on my card is the sentiment.  The butterfly... the thing that moves... is a diecut that I attached with a rolled up glue dot so the wings actually do move. 

This card all came about because yesterday I got my club order from my SU! dealer... err... umm... demo, Jenna.  One of the things in my order was the new embossing folder Flower Garden.  When I pulled it out of the package I was a bit surprised that the image is upside down, but Jenna assures me that it is supposed to be that way. Okay... on to the card!   Many of you know that I like kraft cardstock almost as much as white cardstock so for this card I did kraft on kraft with the pop of yellow in the butterfly.   This card also works for this week's CAS-ual Friday challenge to use embossing (heat or dry) so I will be popping it into that challenge as well.

Thanks for taking a peek...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU! Crumb Cake; PTI Lemon Tart; Ink:  PTI True Black; Stamps:  SU! Just Believe; SU! Beautiful Wings Embosslit; SU! Flower Garden EF; Hero Arts gems