golden sakura...

Hello!  Got some crafty time in and made a card for the two challenges that I pretty much always combine:  Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches!    The FMS sketch is a square one and generally I don't like to make square cards (not sure why), but I decided to go with the square on the finished card.  I stamped the Essentials by Ellen Mondo Sakura on smooth bristol with VersaMark watermark ink and then embossed using WOW embossing powder in Metallic Gold Rich Pale and then colored with ZIG markers.  I used Pink Flamingo and Orange to create my peachy color.   And then finished with little touches green.  I will admit that I had to start over because I added little touches of color to the stamens and then die cut the image.  The little bit of color wasn't dry and it smeared on to the image.   Another live and learn, lol!  With the second image I didn't add the color to the stamens until after I had done the die cutting!  I created a background piece by scribbling two shades of blue ZIGs (Blue Hazel and Persian Blue) on some bristol cardstock and then blended it out with water.  After it had dried I die cut it with a Spellbinders classic square die.  The piece was adhered to an off white cardstock base and then I added the flower image.  Finished off the card by stamping the sentiment with VersaMark on vellum and heat embossing with the same embossing powder used for the image.  Sometimes simple is the best.  With my floral image I think this will also work for the current Inspired By challenge so I shall post it there, as well.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

tree tag

Hello!!  Stopping in with another tag for Ellen's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist.  This tag is for day 4 where Jennifer and Clare showed us many fun ways to use felt on our tags.  I was inspired by the way Jennifer used several different colors of felt on her tags.   I used the December Sketch for You to Try layout for my tag so I will be posting it there, as well.  Several different Reverse Confetti products used for this tiny version of the sketch!  I started by die cutting the large tag from the RC Tag Me die set from white cardstock.  The polka dot paper is also Reverse Confetti (Very Merry)and was die cut using the bottom half of the same die and then adhered to the tag.  I used additional papers from the pad to die cut the RC wreath and the little banner (a Simon Says Stamp die).  The banner and wreath were then adhered to the tag.  The little RC tree and trunk were die cut from green and brown felt, adhered together and then adhered to the tag.  I finished my little tag off with some baker's twine that matched the polka dot paper.  I just love how my mini version of the sketch turned out!!   Going to add this to Lori's Visions of Sugarplums challenge.

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white; Patterned paper: Reverse Confetti Very Merry; Dies:  Reverse Confetti and Simon Says Stamp; Twinery baker's twine; green and light brown felt

i often...

Hello friends!!  Today is March 25th and that means time for a new PTI blog hop.  I had set a goal for myself to participate in the PTI blog hops on a more frequent basis, but one thing or another came up and I just didn't have the time.  But this month I made sure that I knew in advance what the challenge would be and I got my card done... YAY!  

Over the last few months I have noticed more and more cards that used sequins on them instead of rhinestones and pearls.  I was intrigued and started to look around to see who might sell them.  The first place I checked was Ellen Hutson and much to my delight I saw that she carries them.  So far I have purchased four different colors and will probably added to my collection in the near future!  For my blog hop card I used the PTI set Half & Half and a layout from Deconstructed Sketches.  I went with a green, black and white color combo and after I was done making the card realized that maybe I should have used a different sentiment as this isn't a real sunshiny kind of card!  Anywhoo... it is what it is.   I didn't use a ton of sequin (although I did have an idea that would have used lots, lol!), but sometimes you don't need a lot of something to make an impact. 

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Rustic White, SU! Pear Pizzazz; PP:  PTI Bitty Dot Basics - True Black;  Stamps:  PTI Half & Half; Ink:  SU! Pear Pizzazz & Memento Tuxedo Black; Dies:  PTI Half & Half and Fillable Frames #10; Verve Pennant Border die; Sequins:  Ellen Hutson - Dill; Ribbon: PTI True Black

you & me....

Hello friends!!    Have a card to share for a few challenges:  Less is More (make an anniversary card), Dynamic Duos (Gold & Black) and Ellen Hutson's Hero Arts "Make & Take" Cling  challenge.

As indicate the LIM challenge this week is to make an anniversary card... not something I do very often so I was a bit stumped.  But then I checked out the Dynamic Duos color combo and when I saw it was gold & black an idea began to form.  I have a fun clear set from Hero Arts called "You & Me" and I knew I wanted to use that set for the card.   I went back to Dynamic Duos spend a bit more time checking out what the design team created and noticed that they had a "dessert option" to incorporate music into your design.   That got me thinking further and I decided to through a couple of other Hero Arts stamps into the mix.  Both are cling stamps which is why this will be going into the Ellen Hutson challenge.   I stamped the large clef image from "Musical Clef" in Delicate Golden Glitz and then added the "you & me" in back.  The piece was then edged with additional Golden Glitz.   I finished things off by stamping the Hero Arts Music Background cling onto the card base using black ink and then adhering the main piece on top using foam dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Hero Arts: Musical Clef, Music Background & You & Me; Inks:  Memento Tuxedo Black & Delicata Golden Glitz

happy bee-lated birthday!

hello friends!  so october 6th is world cardmaking day and to celebrate lots of papercrafting/stamping blogs were having contests.  i decided to see if i could play along with a couple of them and was able to get this card made late last night for the trend watch challenge  (challenge #5) over at ellen hutson's classroom blog and the craft's meow world cardmaking challenge. 

i'm not a hugely trendy person when it comes to papercrafting.  i don't tend to be trendy because there are just too many to follow at any given time and when i do try some of them what i come up with looks well... decidedly untrendy!  but i do happen to like the current trend of hexagons and using hexagons has been made super easy by the fact that one of my favorite papercrafting companies, my mind's eye, has included them in many of their papercrafting lines.  for my card i used papers from the follow your heart be amazing line.  the stamps are from the craft's meow set thanks bee to thee.  most of the hexagons are found on the paper, but i did stamp one using two of the stamps from thanks bee to thee and then trimmed it out.  finished things off with some matching bakers twine and a small bee from the thanks bee to thee set.

thanks for stopping by....

supplies:  cardstock:  pti kraft; pp:  my mind's eye; twine:  my mind's eye; ink:  memento & stampin up!; stamps:  the craft's meow