happy birthday... to you

Hey friends!!  Another weekend has rolled around, again.  While the east coast is dealing with another "snow-magedon"  I think here in Western Washington we are dealing with "rain-magedon"!  It just keeps raining!!   The only good thing about all this rain is that generally it means it is snowing in the mountains and we need that snow!  Having said that... I do hope that everyone on the east coast will be able to stay safe and warm this weekend and that the snow will melt away quickly!!  I do have a card to share.  It seems like I haven't done anything in ages, but I have been busy making cards for the Altenew Academy Stunningly Simply Watercolor Techniques taught by the absolutely amazing Lydia Evens.  I have learned so much and will share what I made on another day.  Today's card is for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge as well as the new Time Out challenge.  I took my inspiration from the colors that Marika used and my twist is that I added a little strip of gold glitter paper.  When I saw the FMS layout I almost immediately thought of my PTI Garden Grace stamp set.  I pulled it out to create the corner element in the layout.  This card is simple, simple, simple.  I didn't even put my usual die cut panel on the card base.  I die cut my piece and then stamped everything using two shades of green ink and two shades of purple ink.  The strip of gold glitter paper was adhered and then I laid my corner piece on the cardstock and marked a spot to stamp the "happy", stamped it and then added the rest of the sentiment and the corner piece.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  White cardstock, Heidi Swapp gold glitter cardstock; Stamps and dies:  PTI; Stamps; Inks:  Stampin Up! Certainly Celery, Pear Pizzazz, Vintage Violet and Wisteria Wonder, Memento Tuxedo Black.

Create it Wednesday...

Hey friends!!  I'm popping in to let you know that I have a post up over on the Precious Remembrance Shop blog today, as well as the A Jillian Vance Design blog.   Here is a little peek of my PRS project. 

 

And here is a little peek of my AJVD project:

 





I hope that you will take the time to head over to both blogs, check out my projects and leave a little love!   Thanks for stopping by today...
 

Precious Remembrance Shop New Release Hop!!!

Hello friends!!!  Today is an exciting day... it is new release day at Precious Remembrance Shop and we have an absolutely gorgeous stamp set releasing today that was designed by Precious Remembrance Shop design team member, Lisa Elton!!  This set was created in honor of her granddaughter, Penelope who is known as "Sweet P".   You are going to love this exclusive new set!  It is full of sweet images of sweet pea flowers and little peas!!  All the sentiments are done in Lisa's handwriting!  Since this is a new release hop we will, of course, be giving away this stamp set to one lucky winner.  Simply comment on every stop on the hop for your chance to win!  You should have arrived here from Judy's blog.  If not, please head over to Lisa's blog where all the fun starts! Everyone on the design team also received some of the new Pretty Pink Posh Sweet Pea sequin mix (also created in honor of Penelope)!  And the lucky winner of the stamp set will also get a packet of the Sweet Pea mix!! As many of you know Lisa is a whiz at creating beautiful shaker cards and so in honor of her new stamp set I decided to make a shaker card.  Now... I'm not a whiz at shaker cards, but I think I managed to create a pretty nice one, lol!  I had to get a little creative when it came to creating my shaker as I didn't have any kind of adhesive that was thick enough so I simply die cut multiples of the frame and then stacked them to get the desired height.  The frame was actually created by using a die that is solid and then a companion die that cut out the interior.  I die cut the solid frame and stamped it with the largest sweet pea image and several masks to create a little posy of sweet peas.  I then used a pink Copic marker to do some simple coloring.  A little bow was die cut from white cardstock and adhered to the posy.  After I got everything put together I realized that I probably should have die cut one more frame, but live and learn, lol!   Your next stop on the hop is design team member Kim's blog... I know she will have something fabulous to share!!   Here is the new set... isn't just the sweet?!!



Thanks for stopping by today... I hope you enjoy the hop!  Here are a few details regarding your chance to win the Sweet Pea stamp set:

           One lucky winner of the Sweet Pea Stamp Set + Sweet Pea sequins mix will be chosen randomly. 
            To keep updated with our projects, join us on our Facebook , Pinterest , Instagram if you haven't.
            Giveaway will end on January 21, 2016

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white and PTI Sweet Blush; Stamps:  Precious Remembrance Shop; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Dies:  Reverse Confetti and A Jillian Vance Design; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh Sweet Pea mix; Copic maker

 

PTI's Create Along With Us

Hey friends!  Dropping in with a card for the January PTI Create Along With Us challenge.  I'm also adding this to the current Color Throwdown and the current Time Out challenge.  My card is a pretty much a copy of a lovely card that Dawn McVey created with the newly released Bold Blossoms stamp and die set.  I watercolored the background using Stampin Up! Smoky Slate reinker and once it was mostly dry I stamped the sentiment from Happiness in Bloom using grey and black inks.  The flowers were die cut from watercolor paper and stamped Memento Tangelo, Dandelion and London Fog inks.  I spritzed them with water so they would curl up a bit for some added dimension.  The leaves were also die cut from watercolor paper and then stamped using Memento Bamboo Leaves.  The main panel was die cut and then everything was layered on.  Adhered the panel to a light grey cardstock base.  Here is a photo of Dawn's beautiful card:

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, Ranger watercolor paper; Stamps:  PTI Happiness in Bloom; Dies:  PTI Beautiful Blooms and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Memento Bamboo Leaves, London Fog, Tangelo, and Dandelion, Stampin Up! Smoky Slate

 

mingle - jingle...

Hey friends!!  The weekend is here, again!!  Popping in with a card for the current Merry Monday Christmas challenge (I'm determined to have a nice stock of Christmas cards this year!!) and the current Freshly Made Sketches layout.   The Merry Monday challenge is to use plaid on your card.  After hunting around through all my 6x6 pads of Christmas papers I found a plaid that I liked.  I used some fun A Jillian Vance Design stamps and dies to create my card.  The stag was die cut from the plaid paper and then I die cut some little jingle bells from matte silver cardstock to hang on his antlers.  The other papers used coordinate with the plaid paper. I tried to make sure that I didn't use patterns that were too busy so that they didn't interfere with the plaid.  The stamp set I used is called Jingle All the Way.  All the panels were die cut using my AJVD Polka Dot Backdrop dies.  After stamping my sentiment on a kraft panel using dark red ink I started layering up everything.  The card looked a bit plain so before I adhered down the top panel I added some hunter green hemp twine.   I really like how the stag head looks done up in plaid... what do you think??

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft, Matte silver; Stamps:  A Jillian Vance Design; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design; Ink:  Stampin Up! Cherry Cobbler; Patterned paper:  My Mind's Eye Mistletoe Magic; Twine:  unknown
 

you are a gem...

Hey friends!!  Stopping in with a card for a couple of challenge, CAS(E) this Sketch... haven't played there is ages... and ColourQ.   I'm also adding this to the current AAA Cards challenge:  glitter.  When I started this card on Monday night I hadn't planned on using it for either challenge, but when I saw the ColourQ combo I had a change of heart.  The reason for the change of heart is the inclusion of silver in the ColourQ palette.   When I started my card on Monday I had decided to use the newly released A Jillian Vance Design set call Diamond in the Rough and the newly released Dazzling Diamond die.  So I created a watercolor background using Delicata Silver Shimmer ink.   All I had to do on Tuesday was add some splatters using the other ink colors and then add the die cut diamond and it fit both challenges!!  The diamond was die cut from a beautiful sparkly silver/
white glitter cardstock and then several more times from white cardstock.  Everything was then adhered together.  The stamping of the sentiment and the placement of the diamond play into the CTS layout.   For an additional touch of silver I added the stitching using the PTI Stitching Lines die and some DMC silver metallic thread.   A second panel was die cut from plain white cardstock, adhered at an angle and then the main panel adhered on top of that.  Even though I always tape down my watercolor paper to decrease warping I still end up with some and so decided to incorporate that into my card by only attaching the top panel to the card front at the top and letting the rest of it remain lifted up.  I kinda like it!    Here is a little bit better look at it:

 

 

Thanks for stopping by...

 

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, white, Ranger watercolor paper; Stamps:  A Jillian Vance Design; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design and PTI; Inks:  Stampin Up! Coastal Cabana, Certainly Celery, Gumball Green, Memento Tuxedo Black and Delicata Silver Shimmer;  DMC silver metallic thread