happy foreverness...

hello friends!!  hope your weekend has been going well.  we have been experiencing some amazingly good weather here in western washington.  it has been all sunny blue skies and not a drop of rain... a bit unusual for western washington in the fall.  but... the grey skies will show up sooner or later.  anyway... finally got a chance this morning to get my card for the current less is more challenge done.  yesterday was a complete wash with too much to do and no time to craft! 

september had five saturdays and so that mean that this is "lucky dip" week.  chrissie and mandi are challenging us to make a clean and simple card with the theme "love and marriage".   i don't make too many wedding cards so i needed a bit of help and since i haven't done a waltzingmouse sketch challenge in over a year i decided to use the current sketch for help with my card.  i used the WMS sets holiday labels no. 14 and fancy phrases and went with a classic white on white design as that is always perfect for a wedding card.  the label was stamped using london fog ink and then die cut using the matching spellbinders labels 14 die.  the sentiment was stamped using tuxedo black.  a bit of white twine was tied at the top.  the flowers were die cut using a memory petal patch die.  finished things off with an embossed background and some rhinestones.

thanks for stopping by..

supplies:  cardstock:  pti white; stamps:  waltzingmouse; inks:  memento; rhinestones:  kaisercraft and queen & co; dies:  spellbinders

fall colors....

hello friends!!  fall is here and i have a little card that i made using some lovely fall colors found in the current colourQ challenge.  the layout for this card is based on the current sketchbook saturday sketch.  and since i have used fall colors and leaves i'm going to be entering this into the current timeless tuesday challenge, as well.

the stamps i used are from the wplus9 design stamp sets woodgrain silhouettes & woodgrain silhouettes additions.  both sets contain solid images of leaves in several sizes that fit perfectly with the idea i had in mind for my card.  the largest leave is actually part of a spray of two leaves, but i was able to ink up just one leaf and then stamp it using the pumpkin pie ink.  the other leaves were stamped using rich razzleberry ink and versamagic pumpkin spice chalk ink.  the sentiment from the flourishes zinnias set was stamped using latte chalk ink.  i added a rhinestone to each leaf for a little bit of shine.

thanks for stopping by....

supplies:  cardstock:  pti white; stamps: wplus9 design & flourishes; inks:  su! pumpkin pie & rich razzleberry; versamagic pumpkin spice chalk ink & hero arts latte chalk ink; rhinestones:  hero arts

CCC #12... If the Shoe Fits....

{for my Shining the Light post scroll down or click here}

Hello!!  Before I get to my card I just want to say how blown away I was by all the AMAZING projects that were submitted for last week's white challenge!  I think it is safe to say that white cards are a favorite with the CAS crowd!   This week the cue word is "shoe".  So many fun directions you can go with this one!   You can find all the details here.  This week our guest designer is the super talented Jenny!

As I was putting together my card I had only one stamp set in mind:  Hero Arts High Heels!   This set is full of super cute high heel shoes and what gal doesn't love some super cute shoes??  I know I do, hee hee!! I went with a light pink, dark pink with a touch of black color combo.  I even did some masking for this card!   One shoe was stamped on the white cardstock using Tuxedo Black ink.  A mask was made by stamping the shoe on Eclipse tape and trimming it out.  The mask was placed over the first shoe and the second one was stamped.  Once I had the stamping done I colored the shoes with my Copic markers.  I stamped the sentiment in dark pink ink and then added the bow. 

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, Jenny!   Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

ODBDSLC124... Sing!!

Hello friends!!  It's Tuesday and that means time for a brand new Shining the Light challenge (ODBDSLC124).  This week the challenge team is asking you to make a project that uses music (stamps, designer paper, words from a hymn, etc.).  This challenge is also going to run for two weeks so you will have plenty of time to play along.  Sadly this is the last week our September guest designer, Katherine, will be with us so make sure you head to her blog and leave her some love!

My card this week is pretty clean and simple.  I decided to use some sheet music paper from the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Christmas 6x6 pad and the ODBD stamp set Sing to the Lord.  I stamped the bird using a dark red ink and then die cut the image using a Spellbinders Labels 18 die.  The mat was created by taking the same die and tracing round the outside of the die on dark red cardstock and then trimming it out.  I cut the music paper into strips and arranged them as you see on dark red cardstock before mounting my image over the top.  Some Prima pearl flourishes were added to the piece to finish it off.  The verse was stamped on additional sheet music paper, die cut and adhered it inside the card. 

As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15.00 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, October 7th at 8:00 pm EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Design images and sentiments on your projects, we would definitely love to see them if you have them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps we will be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, you must use ODBD stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, October 7th at 8:00 pm EST. If you upload to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword: ODBDSLC124. When creating your post on your blog, please include a direct link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, and this month's guest designer, Kathrine! To join in the fun, please click here

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI cream; SU! Cherry Cobbler; Ink:  Cherry Cobbler; Stamps:  ODBD Sing to the Lord; Dies:  Spellbinders; Flourishes:  Pearl Flourishes; PP:  My Mind's Eye

dreams....

hello friends!!  sunday has arrived and i'm finally getting a chance to post a card i made yesterday for a couple of challenges:  less is more and dynamic duos.  the LIM challenge this week is to take three past LIM challenges and combine them on your card.  i went with week #6 - off the edge, week #44 - use green and week #50 birds.  these three challenges provided me with the opportunity to use the dynamic duos color combo of always artichoke and certain celery, as well as a new penny black stamp that i purchased recently called "winter ledge". 

for the off the edge portion of my card i cut 1/4" off the long side of my card base making it 4" x 5 1/2".  i then cut the piece i would be doing my stamping on 3" x 4 1/4" so that it would hang off the edge of the card base.  the image was also stamped slightly off edge using certain celery ink.  the sentiment, also from penny black, was stamped using always artichoke.  I added a thin piece of black card stock to provide a bit of contrast.  some custom colored pearls were added.  i decided to use a small paint brush and brush on some diamond stickles.  the effect is really pretty, but it was hard to see when i took the picture.

thanks for stopping by....

supplies:  cardstock:  pti white & black; stamps:  penny black - winter ledge & dreams come true; ink:  stampin up! always artichoke & certain celery; pearls: hero arts; ranger diamond stickles

no small miracles.....

hello friends!!  happy friday!! today is the bar-b-que at my little one's school and wouldn't you know it... we have lost our sunny weather!  oh well... that is western washington in the fall!!   anywhoo... i have a card to share.  this one is for the current CR84FN challenge, as well as the current Cater Crop challenge "Knot Now".   a few weeks ago i discovered that sweet linda, owner of catered crop, had pick my card as one of the winners of the "In the Pink" challenge and along with that honor comes the opportunity to participate in the quickfire challenge for the "Knot Know" challenge.  definitely wasn't going to pass up that opportunity!!

once, again, i used one of chupa's fabulous sketches for my card and some new goodies that i purchase recently from Verve.  i haven't bought anything from Verve in ages, but when i saw the new release and that amazingly cute little border die that creates a row of banners.... well i just had to get it!  i'm a sucker for banners right now... hee hee!  i also purchased a lovely set of Verve stamps call "wonderfully made".    the current CR84FN color combo is denim, tan and brown.  i used stampin up!'s marina mist and soft suede, along with pti's kraft and cream cardstocks.  the papers are from stampin up!   for the "knot" portion of the challenge i took some pti vintage cream saddle stitched ribbon and made a simple knot in it and then adhered as you see.  pretty simple!

thanks for stopping by... and don't forget to check out the current Catered Crop challenge! 

supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI cream and craft; Stamps:  Verve; Ink:  Stampin Up!; PP:  Stampin Up!; Dies:  My Favorite Things  & Verve; rhinestones:  Hero Arts; Ribbon:  PTI cream

CCC#11... White

{for my Shining the Light post please click here}

Hello... I'm back with my card for this week's CASology challenge.  This week the cue word is white.  All the details about the challenge can be found here.  

I love white on white cards and so decided to make a white on white card, but broke things up a little bit by adding in some velllum.  I used both dry and heat embossing on the vellum to add further interest.  The layout is based on the current sketch from The Craft's Meow.  I stamped the flower from the Craft's Meow set Beautiful Spring on the vellum using watermark ink, applied white embossing powder, heat set it and then trimmed it out.  The tag was die cut using my ODBD tag die.  The strip of vellum was embossed using the Stampin Up! Fancy Fan embossing folder.   The card was finished off with a white button, white twine and some white Venise lace.

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, Bev! Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; PTI Vellum; Stamps:  The Craft's Meow; Ink:  watermark ink; Embossing powder:  Filigree white; Twine:  Montana Misfits; Venise Lace:  The Funkie Junkie; Button:  PTI; Die:  ODBD; Embossing Folder:  Stampin Up!

ODBDSLC123... Make Your Own Background

Hello friends!!  Its  Tuesday and that means time for a brand new Shining the Light challenge!! This week the challenge team is asking you to get out your stamps and create your own background.  You can use single stamps or background stamps for this challenge.

For my card I used one of my most favorite ODBD sets:  Faith.  I just love the butterfly branch image, as well as the verses and sentiments that are found in the set.  I used a subtle color combination that was pulled from the My Mind's Eye 6x6 Bluebell pad that I used.  I found a piece of paper from the pad that had a subtle grid pattern on it and then stamped the butterfly branch image using Stampin Up!'s River Rock.   Two pieces were cut from this piece.  The larger piece, as well as a strip.  Both pieces were matted using River Rock cardstock.  The verse, Psalm 36:5, was stamped using Hero Arts Splash chalk ink and then die cut using a Spellbinders plain circle die.  That piece was matted using River Rock, as well.  The layout for the card is based on the current Deconstructed Sketch.  I finished off the card with some twine, Prima roses and a little punched butterfly.
As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15.00 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, September 23rd at 8:00 pm EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Design images and sentiments on your projects, we would definitely love to see them if you have them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps we will be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, you must use ODBD stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, September 23rd at 8:00 pm EST. If you upload to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword: ODBDSLC123. When creating your post on your blog, please include a direct link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, and this month's guest designer, Kathrine! To join in the fun, please click here

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! River Rock; Stamps:  ODBD Faith; Inks:  River Rock & Splash chalk ink; Twine:  May Arts; Flowers:  Prima; Dies:  Spellbinders

spooky halloween....

hello friends!!  here with a card for three challenges:  dynamic duos, cardabilities and less is more.  this week at less is more chrissie and mandi have challenged us to use an oval on our card.   as i was pondering what to do i saw that the new sketch challenge had been posted at cardabilities.  i checked out the sketch and saw that it would work perfectly with the less is more challenge.  then i checked out the dynamic duos color combo and saw that they also had a "dessert option" to make a halloween card.  at that point everything came together when i realized that i had the perfect stamp set that would help me bring the card together... the hero arts set, spooky halloween.

the dynamic duo color combo this week is lucky limeade and black.   lucky limeade is a stampin up! color that i do not own so i tried to find a ink that i did own that was fairly close to lucky limeade.  thankfully i had a colorbox cat's eye ink pad in moss green that is a really good match.  i inked up the label image with the moss green and trimmed it out.  then i inked it up again with black ink and trimmed out only the oval portion of the label.  the sentiment was stamped using the moss green ink.  i adhered a couple of short strips of black polka dot washi tape on the white cardstock piece and then adhered the label.   super simple, super clean.

thanks for stopping by.... 

supplies:  cardstock: pti white; bazzill black & su! lucky limeade; stamps:  hero arts; inks:  memento tuxedo black, colorbox moss green; washi tape:  queen & co trendy tape; clean rhinestones

the earth laughs....

hello friends!!  hope your week is going well.  my little guy is half way through his first week of all day kindergarten and things are going amazingly well.   this morning he told me, again, that he loves school!!  that makes this mommy's heart happy!! 

have a card for this week's dynamic duo combo of cajun craze and alway artichoke.  i don't have cajun craze so i used really rust and some autumn terracotta cardstock from close to my heart.  the layout is courtesy of the very talented chupa and her sketchbook saturday sketch challenge.  all the stamps used are from stampin up! (fast and fabulous).  the dies are also from stampin up!  the other day i decided to take a look at the rules over at dynamic duos and saw that i can use several different neutral colors on my card in addition to the weekly duo.  so for this card i added some kraft cardstock into the mix along with white.    when i finished the card a few days ago i wasn't to sure about it, but it has grown on me and i'm quite happy with it!

supplies:  cardstock:  pti white & kraft; close to my heart autumn terracotta; ink:  su! really rust and always artichoke; stamps:  stampin up!; dies:  stampin up!; swiss dots embossing folder

A Little Birdie

{for my Shining the Light post scroll down or click here}

Hello... I'm back with my card for this week's CASology challenge and guess what??? It features a bird!!   The cue word this week at CASology is sky.   So many things can be found in the sky.... birds, planes, etc.   All the information can be found here.  Let your imagination fly!!!

I have had this Memory Box die Perched Reed Bird for a few weeks now and had been looking for a project to use it on.   This week's CASology challenge was the perfect chance.   I went with a kinda bold autumnal color combo for my card... dark yellow and dark red.  I punched a partial circle out of the dark yellow card stock piece.  The bird was die cut from dark red cardstock and then adhered to the dark yellow slightly overlapping into the open space.  Then I stamped the sentiment (from a Taylored Expressions set Make it Amazing).  The entire piece was then adhered to the card base.  I used a tiny black rhinestone for the bird's eye.  I love the graphic look to the card and it also highlights the fact that "white space" doesn't need to actually be white, lol!

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, Meghan! Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI & Stampin Up!; Ink:  Memento; Die:  Memory Box; Punch:  Stampin Up!

ODBDSLC122.... Look a Bird!

Hello friends!!  Its Tuesday and that means time for another Shining the Light challenge (ODBDSLC122).   And as indicated in the title of my post the challenge is to use a bird or birds somewhere on your project.   In my case the bird I went with is a chicken!

For my card this week I decided to go kinda French Country and used some really pretty designer papers from Stampin Up! called Beau Chateau.  Soft pink, soft brown, light blue and cream make up the color palette used for the papers.  I focused on the soft pink, soft brown and cream.  The layout is based on this month's Sketch for You To Try.  The verse is from the ODBD Scripture Collection 7 and is one of my favorites.   It was die cut using a Spellbinders Labels One die and a brand new Spellbinders die set Decorative Labels One.  The edges of all the papers and card stock were inked with Rangers Old Paper distress ink.  Originally I did not have the flowers and rhinestones on the card, but decided to add them as I felt the card was just a little too plain.  I'm also going to pop this into the current Catered Crop challenge "In the Pink".

As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15.00 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, September 16th at 8:00 pm EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Design images and sentiments on your projects, we would definitely love to see them if you have them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps we will be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, you must use ODBD stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, September 16th at 8:00 pm EST. If you upload to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword: ODBDSLC122. When creating your post on your blog, please include a direct link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, and this month's guest designer, Kathrine! To join in the fun, please click here

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI cream; SU! Soft Suede & Pink Piroutte; PP:  Stampin Up!; Ink:  Hero Arts Latte chalk ink; Ranger Old Paper; Dies:  Spellbinders; Rhinestones Flourishes:  Recollections; Flowers:  Prima; Swiss Dot Embossing Folder

thankful for you...

Hello friends!!  Hope you are having a lovely weekend!  I'm popping in with a card for this week's Less is More challenge, as well as One Layer Wednesday.   I haven't done a OLW challenge in ages!!  But the LIM challenge (to make a one layer card and use foliage) and the OLW challenge (to make a card expressing gratitude) dovetailed perfectly!!  YAY!!  I love the idea behind this week's OLW because Susan (of Simplicity and founder of OLW) is so right that Thanksgiving has become a sort of "lost holiday" here in the US.  So much focus is put on Halloween and then once Halloween is done the rush is on to get to Christmas and in the process Thanksgiving gets sort of "lost in the shuffle".   I'm going to try to make sure that this year I'm more thankful at Thanksgiving and to let friends and family know how thankful I am to have them in my life!

I rooted around in my stamp stash rejecting various sets until I remembered that I had never, no never, inked up any of the stamps in the super cute Taylored Expressions set Love Grows Here.  The set is full of sweet little images of trees for various seasons of the year.  I used the image with the picket fence because it made me think of fall.  I colored the image with Copic markers and then added the sentiment (from the MFT ALM set Sweetest Pumpkin in the Patch) using Real Rust ink.  Sweet and simple!

Now I don't normally share personal photos, but I just had to share one or two of my little guy as he headed into school on Friday.  He is one of the things that I am so very thankful for!!  He looks so serious in the photo on the left!   He was so cute on Thursday as I drove him down to school exclaiming to me "I love school, mom"!  Hopefully he will always feel that way about school!!

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI vintage cream; Stamps: Taylored Expressions and My Favorite Things; Copic Markers; Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa and Stampin Up! Real Rust

i love you...

Hello friends!  Popping in with a card for a couple of challenges.  One is an old favorite (ColourQ) and one is a brand new challenge that I discovered through the blog of ColourQ design team member, LeAnne, called Fab Friday.  Their first challenge is going on right now and it is a super clean and simple sketch ... right up my alley!

 

I pulled out some favorite Stampin Up! sets, Bliss and Artistic Etchings, and did a little bit of collage stamping using Soft Sky, So Saffron and Calypso Coral.   Because I wasn't completely sure how a comibination of the colors would turn out I did a test run to make sure I liked the look.   I wanted to use some pretty Venise lace I got from the Funkie Junkie on the card.  Since it is pure white I was able to color it with a Copic marker to get a color as close to Soft Sky as I could.  I used my well loved and well used My Favorite Things Fishtail Flag Stax dies to cut the little banner.  I'm so excited because MFT is coming out with a jumbo set of Fishtail Flags!  I will definitely be getting a set as soon as I can!  The sentiment I used is from the Hero Arts set Year Round Sentiments.  I tried to keep the card as "unlumpy" as possible since it is going into my box(es) of cards I will be sending to Operation Write Home.  A button and some My Mind's Eye bakers twine that is a dead ringer for Calypso Coral finished things off.  Overall I like the card, but I think I should have used some brown ribbon instead of the piece of cardstock... another live and learn experience!

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & brown; Stamps:  Stampin Up! & Hero Arts; Inks:  Stamping Up!; Dies:  My Favorite Things; Twine:  My Mind's Eye; Button:  PTI; Lace:  Funkie Junkie

beautiful.... inside and out

Hello friends!!  Well I made it through the first day of school with my little guy!  He has only half days this week and because of that I thought I didn't have to pack him a lunch... unfortunately I did!  So after I got him all settled at school off I went to cobble together a lunch for him and get it down to the school in time!  I did not take any pictures of him (I know... bad mommy!), but maybe I will tomorrow.   At one point I did wish I had a camera, though.  His teacher told the kids to get a buddy and hold hands.  To my delight I saw him holding hands with sweet little Ella... one of his friends from preschool! It was too cute!! Ella's mom did get a picture of them!!  Anyway... enough of that!  I do have a card to share.

Once, again, I combined this week's Dynamic Duo color challenge with Chupa's Sketchbook Saturday sketch.  I really kept this one clean and simple... I'm in that kinda mood right now.  (You wouldn't know it from my Shining the Light card, though...ha!)   I used a lovely set of stamps from The Craft's Meow, Celebrating You.  I stamped the fuschia once using Hero Arts Punch chalk ink and trimmed out the flower portion.  The fuschia was stamped a second time using SU!'s Pear Pizzazz (I don't have Lucky Limeade) and the leaves trimmed out.  The flower was then assembled on the white strip and the sentiment stamped using Pear Pizzazz.  The red cardstock was embossed using a new SU! embossing folder Fancy Fans.  The pattern is sort of designed to look better on the horizontal rather than the vertical and I thought that it would bother me having it vertical, but I actually like it that way, too! 

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Poppy Parade; Stamps:  The Craft's Meow; Inks:  Stampin Up! & Hero Arts; Embossing Folder:  Stamping Up!

CCC#9 - Welcome, Baby

{for my Shining the Light post please click here or scroll down}

Hello... I'm back with my post for this week's CASology challenge.  The cue word this week is "family".   All the information regarding the challenge can be found right here.  Once, again, we had some fabulous entries for last week's challenge!  I just love looking at all the entries and seeing each person's take on the cue word. 

When I saw the cue word what immediately came to my was a couple bringing home new baby and so I decided to make a baby card using the current ISpy sketch.  I wanted the card to be a gender neutral card and since I had used green the last two weeks in a row I went with yellow.  I used some cardstock from Close to My Heart and stamps from Stampin Up! (the onesie) and PTI (sentiment).   I don't have alot of CTMH products, but I do like their cardstock because it has a white core (perfect for sanding) and it is essentially double sided.   The reverse side of the cardstock is a softer color version of the main color which makes it perfect for what I wanted to do.  The large color block piece is the reverse of the yellow that was used for the onesie.   I ran the light yellow piece through my Big Shot in the Swiss Dot embossing folder to soften up the design a bit so that the cardstock piece didn't look quite so stark.  The onesie was stamped using black ink, trimmed out and mounted on the white die cut.  The sentiemnt was also stamped using black ink.  

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, Debbie! Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Close to My Heart yellow; Stamps:  PTI Bundle of Love & Stampin Up! A Slice of Life; Ink:  Tuxedo Black; Swiss Dot EF

ODBDSLC.... Week 2 - Still in Stitches

Hello friends!!  Happy Tuesday!  Here with a post for ODBDSLC121.  This challenge is a two week challenge so there is still plenty of time to get your project done and posted!  All the information regarding the challenge can be found here.  And since this is the beginning of a new month we have a new guest designer to introduce... the super talented Kathrine!  Make sure you stop by her blog and leave her some love!!

detail shot

This week I'm really kinda stretching the challenge to use stitching, real or faux, on your card.  My stitching can be found on the ribbon I used for my card.  The layout comes from the current Deconstructed Sketch.  I used some papers from one of the new My Mind's Eye collections:  Bluebell.  I kept everything very soft by distrssing all the edges of my card with Rangers Old Paper distress ink.  Old Paper is my favorite because it provides that aged look without coming on too strong like Tea Dye or Vintage Photo can.  I die cut some of the patterned paper using the ODBD tag die and then stamped the image and sentiment from Grow in Grace using Scattered Straw and Peacock Feathers distress ink.  Because the stamping is so soft I decided to take a detail shot of the tag so that you can see the stamping better. The fishtail flags were cut using my favorite dies from My Favorite Things.   The die cut behind the tag was cut using a Spellbinders Labels 25 die.  I finished things off with the stitched ribbon, a Prima rose and some cream twine.  

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, and this month's guest designer, Kathrine! To join in the fun, please click here

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI cream; PP:  My Mind's Eye Bluebell; Stamps:  ODBD Grow in Grace; Ink:  Ranger Old Paper, Scattered Straw & Peacock Feathers; Ribbon:  PTI Vintage Cream; Twiine:  PTI Rustic Cream; Rose:  Prima

Thanks... x 2

Hello friends... summer is winding to a close!  Friday evening I took my little guy down to school to meet his kindergarten teacher... I can't believe he is going to start in just a few days!!  And then later that night as he was getting ready for bed he came running into my room all excited to show me that he had a loose tooth!!  His very first one... I think he is more excited about the loose tooth than he is about starting school, lol!   Anyway... got sometime today to make a few cards.  I"m going to share two today and the other is for the next CASology challenge so you will just have to wait until this Tuesday to see it! 

The challenge this week at Less is More is a color challenge.  Chrissie and Mandi are asking us to use pink and brown on our cards.  Seemed simple enough until I started trying to make a card.   I think I need a break from cardmaking or something because I feel like I'm totally out of ideas!  Have you ever felt that way?   The first idea didn't even make it to a finished card and parts of it ended up in the garbage.  For my second try at a card I decided to use a tried and true formula and ended up with two cards.  The first card was made using a Hero Arts wood mounted stamp and a sentiment from a Hero Arts/BasicGrey cling set.  For the second card I decided to give the card a bit of a shabby look by using some patterned paper from the My Mind's Eye Lavendar 6x6 pad, punching one edge with my SU! spiral notebook punch and distressing the edges with Rangers Old Paper distress ink and a distressing tool.  The stamps used for the second card are from Penny Black.  Pink rhinestones were added to both cards to give them just a little something extra. 

Thanks for stopping by...