Guesting at 12 Kits of Occasions!

Hey friends!  April has been a fun and exciting month for me and I'm ending it with a turn as the guest designer for the 12 Kits of Occasions!  I was so surprised and excited when Lisa (one of the 12 Kits design team members) contacted me about being her guest this month.   Obviously I said yes, lol!  Lisa's kit (called My Little Chickadee) is full of super sweet images of birds and flowers.  It was so fun working with it to create the cards that I'm sharing today.  One of the pieces that jumped out at me when I checked out the kit contents was the circular piece that had the sentiment "and I think to myself what a wonderful world" on it.  I paired the sentiment up with the die cut tag (PTI's Tag Sale 4).  Some little wood veneer birds were included in the kit and I adhered one to the tag and then adhered my tag to a piece of the paper Lisa included that I die cut with an A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot rectangle die.  I finished off the card with some cream paper twine.

The second card I made uses another circular sentiment from the kit.  This time I adhered the vellum circle to one of the stamped pieces that Lisa provided in the kit.  I trimmed it down and matted it with cardstock from the kit.  Some vellum from the kit was trimmed down and adhered to patterned paper that was die cut with the Stitched Dot rectangle die.  The sentiment piece was adhered and then I added a little wood veneer bird to the center and aqua buttons (from PTI) to the top and bottom of the vellum strip.  I used another sentiment from the kit that I die cut with an AJVD Polka Dot Circle die and matted with an AJVD Stitched Scalloped Circle die.  That was adhered to the inside of the card, but I wasn't able to get a good photo of it.

I want to thank Lisa, again, for asking me to be a guest designer this month! I thoroughly enjoyed her kit and have lots left over to make several more cards!

Have a wonderful day!

you are amazing...

Happy weekend everyone!  Popping in with a card that I made using supplies from the Simon Says Stamp Kind Heart card kit.   Love the fun puffy stickers from Pinkfresh Studio that are part of the kit.  I combined some of those stickers with the stamp sets that are also in the kit for my card.  I stamped the flowers and leaves using the two little ink cubes that are in the kit to stamp on some of the Pinkfresh Studio pattern paper and then added the sentiment (part of one of the sentiments from the small stamp set in the kit) and then added the puffy word amazing.  A few of the puffy hearts were added and then I adhered the panel to a cardstock base made from cardstock from the kit.  Super simple.  Adding this to the CAS(E) This Sketch link up and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge link up.

Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  All supplies are from the Simon Says Stamp Kind Heart card kit; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Inks:  Simon Says Stamp; Paper:  Pinkfresh Studio; Puffy Stickers:  Pinkfresh Studio; Cardstock:  Simon Says Stamp

friday with precious remembrance shop...

Hey there... happy Friday everyone!  I have a post up on the Precious Remembrance Shop blog today.  Here is a little peek:

Hope you will head over to the Precious Remembrance Shop blog to see the full project and to let me know what you think. 

April PTI Blog Hop

Hey there!  (If you want to see my AJVD post, please click here.)  Today is the 25th of the month and that means it is time for the PTI blog hop.  The photo boasts a stack of delicate tea cups and the first thing I thought of when I saw it was Pride and Prejudice which then led me to think of PTI's Simply Jane stamp set.  I combined that set with the Sweet Life stamp set to create my card.   I pulled colors from the tea cups (aqua, pink, dark pink, yellow, green) and stamped various die cuts from Simply Jane and Sweet Life using those colors.  I spotted some gold on the rims of the tea cups and so I stamped the frame from Simply Jane using Delicata Golden Glitz ink.   Once I had all my pieces completed it was time to arrange everything on a panel of white cardstock that I had die cut with an AJVD rectangle die and stamped with the sentiment from Simply Jane using VersaFine CLAIR ink in Morning Mist.  After everything was adhered I added some Pretty Pink Posh jewels in Buttercream and Aquamarine for a bit of sparkle.   Adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

Hope you have a wonderful day and happy hopping!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up white, PTI Aqua Mist; Stamps:  PaperTrey Ink; Dies:  PaperTrey Ink and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Stampin Up!, VersaFine CLAIR, Catherine Pooler; Jewels:  Pretty Pink Posh

wednesday with ajvd...

Hey there!!  It's Wednesday and that means I have a post up on the AJVD blog today.  Here is  a little peek of my card:

I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to see the whole card and to let me know what you think.  Have a wonderful day!

two very different cards...

Hey there!!  Hope your week is off to a good start!  I'm starting mine with a couple of cards that are very different.  First up is a card for the soon to be closing Color Throwdown challenge, as well as the MFT Birthday Project challenge... shakers.  I finally got my hands on the MFT Celebrate Speech Bubble Die-namics and I used that to create my shaker element.  I inked up some cardstock with Ranger Distress ink in Festive Berries.  I could have used red cardstock, but I wanted to create the look of a strawberry and so needed some variation in the color.  When that was done I die cut the piece with the die and adhered a piece of acetate to the back.  I put the letters B, R and A back into the die cut so I could make sure that I glued the little pieces from each letter into the right spot.  Once they were glued in a carefully removed the letters.  Then I built my shaker element and added green sequins.  I adhered a thin piece of white cardstock to the back and then adhered the shaker element to a die cut panel of white cardstock.  The sentiment is from All Smiles and was stamped in a green ink similar to the sequins, die cut with the MFT Slanted Sentiments Die-namics and then adhered.

My second card is very different from the first one which is pretty darn clean and simple!  This one has lots of patterned paper on it and was made for the current Verve Viva La Verve sketch challenge, as well as the Verve Diva Dare.  I was fortunate and won the beautiful Verve Risen Savior stamp set and I just had to use it for my card.  I recently purchased a couple more VersaFine CLAIR inks and used the one called Golden Meadown.  I stamped the cross in the Golden Meadow on some patterned paper from My Mind's Eye, over stamped the sentiment in VersaFine CLAIR Morning Mist and then die cut it with an AJVD Polka Dot circle die.  Coordinating paper was die cut with an AJVD plain circle die and the two were matted.  I used more paper from the same pad for the main rectangle, as well as the square element.  That was die cut with a Reverse Confetti die.  I wrapped a yellow twine around the main panel three times and secured it in back with tape and then layered on all the elements.  The flower and leaves are from the Verve set Bloom Brighter and were stamped in the Golden Meadow and Morning Mist inks.   The finished panel was adhered to a light kraft cardstock base.

Have a wonderful day!