mother's day blessings...

Hello friends!!  Stopping in with a card for... yep... a couple of challenges, lol!  What else do I post on this blog but cards for challenges!   This time is it for the current Paper Players challenge (a sketch) and the new color combo from Color Throwdown.  The Color Throwdown combo is a lovely spring one of aqua, pink and green.   When I saw the Paper Players sketch I knew I wanted to use the medium sized butterfly from my SU! Butterflies Thinlets set.  I die cut the butterfly from Aqua cardstock (I think it is SU!'s Pool Party) and then die cut the small butterfly from white cardstock and stamped it with the corresponding butterfly from the SU! set Butterfly Basics.  I adhered the two together and added an aqua sequin.  The banners were die cut from pink cardstock using the MFT fishtail flag stax die.  I used another stamp from Butterfly Basics to create the top portion of the card.  Layered everything up, added a few more sequins and the sentiment (from Verve) and I was done.  This will be going to my mother in law for Mother's Day.  Now I just need to make something for my mom!  Also posting this to the new Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

 

 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; SU! Pool Party, PTI Sweet Blush; Stamps:  Stampin Up! and Verve; Dies:  Stampin Up! and My Favorite Things; Inks:  Stampin Up! Pear Pizzazz, VersaFine Onyx Black; Sequins:  Teresa Collins and Lawn Fawn

A Jillian Vance Wednesday...

Hey friends!!  Popping in to let you know that I have a post up over on the A Jillian Vance Design blog.  I hope that you will take the time to pop over there, take a look and leave a little love!   Here is a little peek of my card:

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i'm stuck on you...

Hello friends!!  Hope your week is off to a good start!  Popping in today with a card for a few challenges.   The new challenge at AAA Cards is "there's a hole in my card" which worked perfectly with the new sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch.  So glad that I discovered that Sweet Sunday Sketch now has it's own blog.  I'm also going to post this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - CAS, as well as the new Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - anything goes.  I bought this fun Lawn Fawn set "Stuck on You" about a month ago and finally got the chance to ink it up.  This is a set that I wouldn't have normally purchased, but it was just too cute to resist!   I cut my kraft cardstock to size, embossed it with a woodgrain embossing folder and then die cut the circle using a Spellbinders plain circle die.  The cactus and pot were die cut, stamped and then arranged inside the circle after I stamped the sun (from a Hero Arts set) and the "grass" (from the Stampin Up! set Sheltering Tree.  A little strip of cardstock was cut, stamped with the sentiment and then adhered using foam dimensionals.   Finished things off with the three little hearts.   I really like how the pot didn't stamp fully... gives it a bit of a weathered look. 

 

 

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PTI April Blog Hop...

Hello friends!!  Popping in with a card for this month's PTI blog hop.  Wasn't sure if I was going to play along this month, but the inspiration photo was just so beautiful I decided to give it a go.  I should have taken the dog for a walk this morning, but instead I got my card done.  When I saw the inspiration photo I only thought of one PTI stamp set... The Sweet Life.  Pulled out three different pink inks and two different greens and got to work.  I'm also posting this to the new Less is More challenge:  use a tag.  The tag was made using my Stampin Up! Tag Topper Scalloped punch.  I wanted to have my sentiment on the tag so I embossed it in gold so that it would stand out on the navy tag.  After die cutting and stamping all my pieces I layered everything up and attached it to the tag.  It has been so long since I actually embossed a piece of cardstock using my Big Shot I had to stop and think about how to put together the sandwich!!  I added a bit of pink ribbon tied with navy twine to the tag, adhered everything and I was done.  Love how it turned out.  Hopefully this is clean and simple enough for the LIM gals, lol!!

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white, Stampin Up! navy; Stamps and dies:  PTI; Punch:  Stampin Up!; Inks:  Stampin Up! Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose and Pear Pizzazz; Memento New Sprout; lattice embossing folder; VersaMark watermark ink; Ranger Gold Embossing powder

just for you...

Hello friends!!!  Hope you had an excellent week and have some fun stuff planned for the weekend!  Me?  The usual... swim lessons for my little, grocery shopping, church, maybe a bit of crafting!  Ah... good times, good times, lol!  Anywhoo... popping in with a little card to share.  I made it using the current ColourQ combo and the layout from CAS(E) this Sketch.   Yesterday the US Postal Service delivered some happy mail in the form of the Lovely Laurels Make It Market mini kit!  I have been waiting FOREVER for that little kit to come back it stock!!  It is just too adorable!  So... I used it for my card today.  I'm in one of those little creative funks where I can't seem to make anything that I like.  Last night I tried and tried to make a card, but came up empty handed so... I cleaned the frig!  Seems to have helped because I was able to make something today that turned out rather nice (I will be sharing that card next week), as well as my card for ColourQ and CTS.   This card is very, very simple, but when I'm in a creative funk keeping it simple seems to work best for me!  After doing all the stamping I did some partial embossing with my favorite embossing folder, Decorative Dots and I was done.  I was tempted to use the little wreath die that comes with the Lovely Laurels kit, but I am feeling rather lazy and did not want to take the time to pull out my die cutter and accessories just to make one little die cut. Times like these make me wish I actually had my own little crafty space where I can keep stuff out!  A girl can dream, right??  Well... that's enough rambling from me for one day!  Adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge:  clean and simple.

 

 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft, Recollections white; Stamps:  PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up! Kiwi Kiss, Crumb Cake and Tempting Turquoise; VersaFine Onyx Black; Stampin Up! Decorative Dots embossing folder.

 

you are amazing...

Hello friends!  Popping in with a card that is a little bit out of the box for me.  When I saw this week's Color Throwdown challenge I initially thought I would sit that one out.  I'm not a huge fan of black, white and yellow... together.   But then I thought that this would be a good way to challenge myself.  So I gave it a go and this is what I came up with...

I used my favorite SU! set Kinda Eclectic along with a sentiment from the SU! set Painted Petals.  Initially I was going to use a white piece of cardstock to stamp the sunburst image and then spied the piece of patterned paper (from the BasicGrey Highline pad) and decided to go a little outside the box and use that for my panel.  After stamping all the images using VersaFine Onyx Black and SU! Hello Honey I decided to add a thin line of black cardstock on the patterned paper panel.  The main panel was matted with additional black cardstock to break things up a little more.  I am being kind towards my own creation by saying it is interesting, lol!!  The layout is from Freshly Made Sketches so I will add it to their gallery.   Who knows... maybe it will grow on me, lol!!

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; PTI black; Patterned Paper:  BasicGrey; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Inks:  Stampin Up! and VersaFine