Stripes

Hi everyone! I hope this finds you doing well. My husband and I spent our 26th wedding anniversary down at the beach and had a blast with the dogs.

Here is a card I created using one of the Viva La Verve sketches for August off of SCS.

All cardstock is from Papertrey, Ink. The stripes on the navy cardstock is created using a ruler and the picket fence distress marker from Ranger. That marker is a must have!!!

Sentiment die is done using one of the dies from MFT. I added some ivory pearls onto the corners for interest. Cream DMC floss used on the stitching.

Supplies:
Kraft, Vintage Cream and Enchanted Evening carstock from PTI
Enchanted Evening grosgrain ribbon from PTI
Pearls from Kasiercraft
Sentiment stamp- PTI

Here are a few pictures of the dogs and I at the beach!

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CAS blue balloon

Hi everyone! Replenishing my birthday card stash with some clean and simple designs. Here's one that I really like...

Balloon stamp is from PTI and the sentiment is from Hero Arts. The green swiss dot paper is from Bazzill, and the blue and white cardstock from PTI.

Button is from American crafts an tied on with some thin twine. I used Navy ink from A*Muse to stamp the balloon.

Dies used on this card are from Spellbinders and Papertrey Ink.

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Here's a recent picture of Chloe!

After it finally stopped raining on Friday morning, I decided that she'd been cooped up enough. She proceeded to run like a wild women all over the back yard, which was a muddy mess. This is her saying "Hi" - wanna play? Thank goodness she is still small enough to hold and clean off at the same time.

Moochas Gracias and pictures of Chloe!

Hi all! It's been a very trying weekend. First of all we brought Chloe home, then I came down with the flu late Saturday. Just now getting my energy back and it's Tuesday afternoon. This one hit me hard!

Here's a card that I made a while ago for a "anything goes challenge" over at Victorine Originals, but it appears that we have lost our DT leader. So, not sure if this challenge will go up or not over on the blog.


Just a quick, clean and simple card made with gray cardstock, some Copic markers and the half and half die from Papertrey, Ink. Designer paper is from my stash and unknown who made it. All stamps are from Victorine Originals.


As promised, here are a few shots of Chloe.

Noah and her have gotten off to a great start of being playmates! If they could play 24/7, I'm sure they would! A tired puppy is a happy puppy!

Birthday flower

Hey everyone! It's been snowing here in the Pacific Northwest for the last day and a half. Which means that I've had time to play in the studio!

This was inspired by a picture in my bathroom that had a shadow behind the main flower. So, I decided to see if I could create a very subtle shadow effect for this one. Stamp is from Paper Inspirations and stamped in Studio G light yellow chalk ink. Flower is from Memory Box and the sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink.

Added some tiny pearls for the center of the flowers. The little leaves were painstaking colored with a Copic marker. The yellow ribbon was a lucky find in my ribbon stash that worked really good with the ink I used for the shadow. Green designer paper is from Hot Off The Press.

I thought I'd also share with you a picture of Noah playing in the snow this morning. He's a year old today!
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Poppies

Happy weekend! It's raining outside and a great day to stay inside and stamp! Here's another clean and simple card using the PTI Anniversary set Botanical Silhouettes.

I inked up the stamp with palette pure poppy and jardin moss. The sentiment is stamped in noir. The red pearls are from Kaisercraft.

I cut and embossed the main image with a rectangle nestie and then layered it with a piece of black cardstock.

Someone recently ask for a picture of Noah to see how big he's gotten. So, I decided to add one in today.

He's 6 1/2 months old now and weighs in at over 50 pounds. He's wearing his new back pack so that we can get him used to is. We plan on taking him out hiking and want him to carry his own water and food. :)

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Noah

Here are a few pictures of Noah from yesterday. He's a talker!

Chewing on a fir limb.


In his crate with some of his toys.

At the top of the stairs singing because he wants to come down! No problem going up, but coming down is another story.


Hiding under the wing back chair. This has become his favorite sleeping place.

Last night was an adventure sleeping with him being so vocal about missing his brothers and sisters. Poor little guy!