bloom and grow...

Wow!  I posted two days in a row!  Got a little crafting time in today and made a card for a few challenges:  Pinkfresh Studios monthly challenge, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (use stitching... mine is faux), the Paper Players (clean and simple w/plants) and Fab Friday (sketch).   I used papers and puffy stickers from the Pinkfresh Studios let your heart decide line and a sentiment from the Pinkfresh Studios Bloom & Grow stamp set.   The papers and stickers were part of a Simon Says Stamp monthly card kit and I won the stamp set and matching dies from a Pinkfresh Studios Instagram contest last December.   I used A Jillian Vance Design and My Favorite Things dies for all the stitched elements in the card.   I originally had a different piece of patterned paper die cut for the rectangle element, but it was too busy and the stickers got lost so I switched it out for another pattern that worked better.   Per the Paper Players challenge of clean and simple I layered everything on a plain white cardstock base.

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Supplies:  Cardstock: PTI white; Stamps:  Pinkfresh Studios; Dies:  AJVD and MFT; Ink:  VersaFine CLAIR; Embellishments:  Pinkfresh Studios puffy sticker; Patterned paper:  Pinkfresh Studios

25...

Hey friends!  Are you curious about my blog post title?  Doesn't have to do with my age, lol, but with this week's CASology cue:  number.  Many directions you can go in... just check out the fun cards posted by the CASology design team.   Me... I went with a Christmas card.  A little over a year ago I got caught up in the excitement of getting a good online deal and purchased a bundle of BasicGrey 25th & Pine products from Peachy Cheap.  I mainly wanted the 6x6 pad of paper (which has not been used AT ALL!) and not necessarily all the little do-dads that came along with it.  Some of the do-dads have been used, but I still have many, many more patiently waiting to be put to some kind of purpose.  And now the wait is finally over for a few more... three in fact, lol!   As I used two shades of green (light and dark) and red I will be posting this to the current Merry Monday challenge, as well.  I didn't like the look of the pieces placed against the white cardstock panel so I die cut a label from red cardstock for the pieces to be layered on.  After those were attached I decided to add a little bow/clothes pin detail to the piece.  I should have taken the clothes pin apart and made it look like I used the whole thing instead of using the whole pin.  It would have resulted in a far less "lumpy" card.  Oh well... live and learn.  Not a lick of stamping on this card, either... but I love how it turned out!  I'm also adding this to Addicted to Stamps & More:  holiday. 

 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white, Stampin Up! Real Red; BasicGrey 25th & Pine do-dads; Dies:  Stampin Up! label die, Avery Elle Dotted Elements; mini clothes pin, off white and red thin hemp twine
 

one die... two cards

Hello friends!!   Hope your week has gone well.  Can't believe October is almost over.  We are experiencing our usual drippy wet weather for Halloween!  Oh well... that is how it goes in Western Washington!  The current Make it Monday technique is a really fun (and super simple... my kind of technique, lol!) one courtesy of Laurie Willison... partially stamped die cuts.  After viewing her video I just had to make something and in the end I made two cards!  The colors are based on the current Color Throwdown combo.

I thought about using one of the word dies I have, but as I flipped through my way too huge collection of PTI dies (any one with me on that one, lol???!!) I spotted the Phrase Play #2 die that I had not used yet and decided to go with that.  I stamped flower flowers from the PTI mini set Ruby Reprise using yellow, orange and bright blue inks along one side of white cardstock and then die cut the piece with the Phrase Play die.  The main piece was used to create the first card and then I used the left over pieces for the second.  I did die cut two more of the word "always" from scraps and then adhered them to the stamped to give the word more depth.   Both cards were finished with some orange, yellow and blue sequins.  

Of the two I think the second is my favorite.  I really like the simplicity of it and the fact that you can really see the word "always" so clearly.  I think on the first one I should have used a colored cardstock for the back piece instead of white... live and learn!  Think I will post this second card to the current Addicted to Stamps challenge:  CAS.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate; Stamps and dies:  PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up! (So Saffron & Pumpkin Pie) and Memento (Danube Blue & Tuxedo Black); Sequins:  Ellen Hutson

java a great day...

Hello!!  Squeezed in some time today to make a card for this week's CASology challenge, as well as the current (and last... boo hoo!) Seize the Sketch challenge.   When I saw this week's cue word I just had to play along.  I'm not a coffee drink (my elixir of choice is a tall soy Chai from Starbucks), but I do happen to have some cute coffee inspired stamps (and dies) from Clearly Whimsy Stamps. 

I happen to still have out my BasicGrey Highline 6x6 pad and some I used some papers from that pad to make my little "to go" coffee cups.  After die cutting all the pieces I adhered them together.  Adding the heart to one cup and the sentiment to the other.  I stamped a little heart up in one corner and then adhered the cups to my cardstock piece that I die cut with my brand spanking new Dotted Dies set from Avery Elle.  I absolutely love the look of this perfectly cut panel!!  Since this is a pretty clean and simple design I'm going to also post this card to the current Addicted to Stamps and More challenge:  CAS.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Clearly Whimsy Stamps Coffee Break; Dies:  Clearly Whimsy Stamps and Avery Elle; Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa & Tangelo; Patterned Paper:  BG Highline