just popping in...

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Hello, hello!!  Wanted to let you know that I have a card up over at the Precious Remembrance Shop blog today.   Here is a little peek... I hope you will check it out!

 

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CMCC #18... thanks a latte

Hello, hello!!  Wednesday is here and that means time for a brand new Colour Me...! challenge and since April has 5 Wednesdays that also means that it is your chance to use up to five colors of YOUR choice!!  How fun is that???   Unfortunately, the end of the month also means that this is the last Wednesday for our sweet and super talented guest designer, Anita.  She has done an amazing job this month and I, for one, have enjoyed having her design with us!  All the details regarding the challenge can be found on the Colour Me...! blog. 

 

I decided to go with only three colors and used the Viva la Verve week #3 layout, as well as the VLV inspiration photo.  I pulled my three colors from that photo: navy, turquoise and bright green.  All the stamps are from Verve (Holiday Treats).  The dies are from Verve (Tagged Rectangle die & Cup of Cheer dies; Reverse Confetti and PTI).  I embossed the background using the PTI chevron cover plate.  The tag was die cut and stamped with the image from Holiday Treats.  Some twine in turquoise and green was adhered to the white cardstock piece before the tag was added.  The banner was die cut, stamped with the sentiment and layered on the tag.  Finished with the little die cut coffee cups that I stamped in turquoise and green.  I'm also going to pop this into this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge:  Anything Goes.

Thanks for stopping by...please check out the projects created by my fellow teamies Tara, Hayley, Sam, Katie, Brenda and April guest designer, Anita!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Night of Navy; Stamps:  Verve; Dies:  Verve, Reverse Confetti & PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up!; Hemp Twine:  Hemptique

be YOU tiful...

Hello, hello!! Beautiful day here in the PacNW!  The sun is shining and the birds are singing... makes me smile!   Can't believe I have posted every single day this week... I really try to not do that, but sometimes it happens!  And the fun just continues because... yep... I have a card to post!

This one started out as a card for just two different challenges:  Sketchbook Saturday and Reverse Confetti color challenge.   But when I saw my sweet (and super talented) bloggy friend Anita's post for Addicted to CAS (she is guest designing... YAY Anita!) I just had to add my card to that challenge, as well.  I also had to laugh when I read Anita's post because I share her desire to have things be well... neat and grunge (the ATCAS challenge) just isn't neat!  But I have been giving it a try... first with stamps and now actually trying splattering on my projects.  The randomness and messiness of splattering kinda unnerves me, but I'm starting to enjoy it more.   I used SU! reinkers in the following colors:  Certain Celery, Wisteria Wonder & Marina Mist.  I mixed each one with water and splattered away.  I would like to say it was liberating, but seriously... it wasn't, lol!   The arrows were die cut using my Reverse Confetti arrow die and then adhered.  I stamped the sentiment and image from the RC set Peacock Pretties, punches them out and adhered to the arrows.  Some pale lavendar baker's twine was tied to one arrow and the piece was adhered to the card base. 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps & dies:  Reverse Confetti; Inks:  Stamping Up!; Baker's Twine:  Stampin Up!

 

PTI April Blog Hop... stitched hello

Hello, hello!!  Wow... it is April 25th and that means time for the PTI monthly blog hop.  This month the challenge is to take inspiration from embroidery.  To be honest when I first started reading Nichole's write up I wasn't exactly sure where she was going with the challenge and thought we would have to put together projects with embroidery on it.  Thankfully as I read along further I saw she wanted us to be inspired by embroidery.  Because I'm not on Pinterest and kinda lazy I took my inspiration from one of the photos in the graphic that Nichole provided.

As I thought about what I would do I thought I would use the Fancy Folkart set, but as I started to work on my card (on Thursday afternoon) I decided to go with Rosie Posie because the flowers from that set more closely resembled the flowers in the photo.  I stayed with the bold colors, as well:  deep red, green and yellow.  I stamped the border image using the red, green and yellow.  I then used the "hello" from the Quick Stitch Sentiments die set and die cut the word.  I went through my extensive collection of embroidery floss and found a yellow that was a good match for the yellow ink and added the stitching.   Die cut and stamped the flowers and leaves and then layered everything up.  Finished by adding the word "friend" from the Wet Paint set.  Mounted the piece on a bright green cardstock base.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stampin Up! Gumball Green; Stamps & Dies:  PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up! & Memento; DMC yellow embroidery floss

dream...explore...discover...

Hello, hello!!   Hope everyone is having a wonderful week!  We have had lots of rain, but that means lots of time to make cards, ha!   The last few days I have been showing you cards made with the new stamps and dies from Clearly Whimsy Stamps (there is still time to comment to win one of three prizes!).  Today I have a card for a couple of challenges (Unscripted Sketches and ColourQ) that uses one of the new CWS stamp sets (Travel 2).  ETA:  popping this into this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: clean and simple.

This card is super clean and super simple, although it did take me awhile to make it, lol!  I started by stamping each of the signs in the road sign image using yellow, green and purple inks.  The entire image was stamped on kraft cardstock, everything was trimmed out and layered up using various heights of foam dimensionals.  I cut a strip of white cardstock and then did some second generation stamping using the same yellow, green and purple inks and the earth image from the set.  I adhered the strip and the sign to a kraft card base and then added the black baker's twine.  I wasn't sure I was going to like the second generation stamping, but I think it turned out pretty well.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & kraft; Stamps:  Clearly Whimsy Stamps; Inks:  Memento and Stampin Up!; black baker's twine

CMCC #17... great friend

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Hello, hello!!  Happy Wednesday... we have a fun new color challenge up at Colour Me..! that I know you are going to love!!   All the details can be found on the Colour Me...! blog.

 

 

Back in February during the PTI anniversary celebration I made a card for one of their many contests using a sketch and color combo that PTI provided.  I really loved how the card turned out (sadly it wasn't one of the winning projects, though!) and wanted to recreate it using a different color combo.  Today's card is the end result.  I used the same image from the PTI set Distressed Stripes, stamping the stripes from lightest to darkest color to create an ombre effect.  I changed things up a bit from the original (found here) by not distressing the edges, changing the twine from kraft colored to white, leaving off the wood veneer stars and adding the die cut word (a little gift from my sweet friend, Lisa).  The sentiment is from the PTI mini set Wonderful Words:  Teacher.

Thanks for stopping by...please check out the projects created by my fellow teamies Tara, Hayley, Sam, Katie, Brenda and April guest designer, Anita!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections; Stamps: PTI; Ink:  Stampin Up! & Hero Arts; Die cut:  PTI Wonderful Words friend; paper doily - Wilton; Twine:  Pretty Pink Posh