WooHoo!!!!

I just found out that I won the April Diva Dare Challenge over on the Verve Blog with my Father's Day card titled Best Dad Ever!  It's four posts down. WooHoo!

You can read about it on this post.

Blue Birthday Card

Hello out there! Wanted to share another quick and simple and cheap card using dollar bin finds at Michaels.

The designer paper is from Treasures by Shabby Chic and I'm assuming that the stamp and paper roses are as well.The dollar items were the dp, stamp and the paper roses.

I colored directly on the stamp with Copic markers, spritzed with alcohol ink and stamped it onto white cardstock. Birthday wishes sentiment is from PTI. I also used the same blue Copic marker with my air brush and colored the white roses blue. Punched out a few leaves from the MS craft punch and glued them behind the roses.

The Swiss dot embossing folder is used on the white cardstock and the card base is enchanted evening from PTI. Labels 4 used to cut out the main rose image and the blue layer behind.

I distressed the designer paper with a sponge dauber and Navy ink from A*Muse Studio.

A little different, but still a clean and simple card. What do you think?

May Flowers

Hi everyone! There is a challenge going on over at Victorine Originals called May flowers. Here is my take on it.

Flower stamp is from VO and I stamped it onto cream cardstock using the marker and huff method.  I added gold tiny self adhesive pearls that I got from M's to the center of each flower.

Vintage cream and linen cardstock is from Papertrey, Ink. The pinks and green are from Hot off the press.

Dies used:
Mat stack from PTI
Sentiment stamp is from PTI and the die used is from Verve
Tessatina border is from Memory box

The design team over at VO would love to see you participate in this bi-weekly challenge. You could be randomly drawn to win free stamps!! Who doesn't like free stamps?

Thanks for stopping by!

Best Dad Ever

Hello all! I completed this Father's Day card for the Diva Dare challenge going on at Verve. I just got some of the new April release stamps in the mail and just had to play around a bit! The challenge is to use chipboard, corrugated cardboard, or kraft on your creation. I chose to use kraft cardstock.

 I used Ranger Archival Ink to ink up the stamps from the Super Dad set. Loving the new ribbon banner die that goes with it!!!  I cut up some smaller banners using the same die and then ran them through an embossing folder to give them a bit of manly plaid texture. 


Designer paper is from my stash that I colored red using the fired brick distress stain. Button is from American crafts and the self adhesive black pearls are from Kaisercraft.

 Thanks for stopping by!

  
   

Inspired vases

Hi everyone! I played around with the inspiration challenge over at splitcoast on Saturday. Here is what inspired me at this site and what I did with it.

Vase stamp is from Papertrey, Ink and stamped in versamark then heat embossed with glacier white embossing powder. Stems are stamped in Palette Jardin Moss. I used black cardstock to cut the layer out and make the light green main image really pop.

All cardstock is from Bazzill, except for the white and black which is from PTI. The big scallops were cut from the Quikutz cookie cutter die. Two white self adhesive pearls added for dimension. Sentiment stamp is from PTI as well and stamped in Archival ink.

I had just used the white lace on the card but it looked really blah to me so I colored some white satin using the G24 Copic Marker that went so well with all the rest of the card and inserted it on top of the lace. Main image is popped up using foam tape.

Thanks for stopping in. I'd love to hear what you think of my inspiration card!

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

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.

Red Velvet

Hi everyone! Playing around with the latest cake image from PTI's set called Tremendous Treats - Birthday.

The frosting on this is done using stickles. Designer paper is from My Minds Eye and the cornice punch from MS Crafts used on the dark red cardstock. The grosgrain ribbon did not photograph very well - but it's a really close match to the yellows that are in the dp.

Keeping things CAS for a few birthday cards to replenish my stash! Thanks for dropping by!