Fusion # 9

Here is this weeks Hyposthesis...choose Jack ie's challenge on the left or Lesley's challenge on the right, or fuse them together and come up with your new card!  The choice is yours!!  I chose to use Jackie's Challenge and pulled out some Hero Arts banners that I had.  If you want to play along, go HERE to play along.

Papertrey Ink paper:  white and aqua mist pattern paper
stamps:  Hero Arts
twine from the twiner

CAS-ual Fridays # 103

I am on a roll people and I only have one grandson graduating from 8th grade!!  Ha...but I do have other people that want graduation cards for this class...so here is another one and it will be entered into the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge cue word "Congratulations"!

So glad I bought this stamp set from PTI...and just this month, too!!  I drew the two lines below the Congrat's word by hand.
                                                             

All products are Papertrey Ink
paper:  white
stamps and die:  For the Graduate, Think Big # 5
ink:  pure poppy, memento black

CAS (E) this Setch # 30

I am taking advantage of another sketch to make one more graduation card with red and white ~ the school colors.  If you want to access this challenge, then go HERE to play along. 
                                                                       
                                                                                                       
All products are Papertrey Ink
paper:  white, pure poppy, bitty stars pure poppy pattern paper
stamps and die:  For the Graduate, Think Big # 5, Super Stars
versamark, white embossing powder

Seize the Birthday # 18

There is a new sketch up over at Seize the Birthday blog, you know it is up for two weeks and you now have the choice to make either a male or female birthday card...or lots of them!  Here is the sketch:
                                                                  
Since this has poppies on it, I am saying this will go to a female!!  To play fair, I guess I better make a male card with this sketch now!

Paper is Papertrey Ink white and simply chartreuse pattern paper
stamps and dies are MFT Poppy, Beautiful Butterflies for sentiment
ink:  PTI pure poppy, ripe avocado
                                        

Freshly Made Sketches # 88

I like sketches like this...and since I was needing a graduation card from my oldest grandson who is graduating from 8th grade in just a couple of weeks, I decided to use this sketch and get the card made.  The school colors are  Red and White...that is pretty easy!!  and since I was anticipating this card, I just purchased the stamp set "For the Graduate" from Papertrey Ink.  If you would like to play along, then go HERE to the Freshly Made Sketches blog and check it out and all the other inspiration from the design team!
                                                                                 
All products are Papertrey Ink
paper:  pure poppy, white, bitty star basics red
dies:  for the graduate, small scallop border die
stamps:  For the Graduate 
   
      

Muse # 19

                                             
Here is the Muse card for this week...what I really liked about it was the stamp set...one which I have only used a few times...so perfect opportunity to use it again. I liked how she framed the sentiment, so I did likewise by putting the wreath in the four corners.  I liked her one layer card, but decided to add some interest by stamping it on some pattern paper.  Would you like to play along?  Go HERE to link up to this weeks Muse card...join in the fun, then don't forget to vote for your top three favorites!

Papertrey Ink products:

paper:  white, sweet blush bitty dot
stamps:  Birds and Blooms, Birthday Sentiments

Merry Monday # 64 ~ a sketch

Want to get a jump start on your Christmas cards?  I love the Festive Friday posted just before this one and also Merry Monday, which can be accessed HERE , so join in the fun and eliminate the December stress!

This week's challenge is a sketch: 

                                                  
                                                    
All products are Papertrey Ink
stamp and die:  In the Meadow
paper:  white and Christmas prints pattern pack                                                         

Festive Friday ~ Color Challenge # 09

Back to traditional Christmas colors of red and green and some shiny gold.  I pulled out PTI Holiday Lights and embossed those little shiny light bulbs.  If you want to play along, go HERE to the Festive Friday blog and join in the fun.

All products are Papertrey...Holiday Lights, red zing, leaf zing and gold embossing powder (yeah, the one that looks like it is ripe avocado!  ha...in real life it is shiny and pretty just like gold)  I bordered the piece with some of the Papertrey shiny metallic paper.

Freshly Made Sketches # 87

I'm back from a wonderful trip to Disneyland!  I missed the stamping and challenges, so it feels good to be inky again!! I am starting off with the new sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  I brought my cards to bible study today and sold quite a few, so I need to play catch up.  I think a lot of the ladies liked the cards with bible verses on them and also sympathy cards were a big request...

I don't think it is showing up so well, but I did use the linen impression plate on the face of the card to give it some texture.  I stamped onto pattern paper the sentiment...then I pulled from my stash some butterflies and added some pearl blings to the center of them. 

Papertrey Ink paper: white, black, pattern paper
stamps:  Beautiful Blessings, Boutique Borders:  Baby
ink:  momento black
distress ink 

Make It Monday # 117 ~ Paper Piecing and Cas-UAL Friday # 101

Melissa Phillips demonstrated her technique of paper piecing...her favorite technique of all time...So I tried my hand at it and if you would like to do so go HERE to Nicholes blog and watch the video and get inspired!

I paper pieced a lot of purple shades of pattern paper.  I stamped the 'violet' on all the colors of paper and then hand cut out the petals and glued them down.  I adhered the violet with dots from HERE  (Deanna Dean's blog Kloset Kreations) to a cardstock that I also cut out (haven't ordered the die for this set yet!).

I am going to enter this in the Cas-UAL Friday's Challenge also which is stamping on Designer Paper...you can access it HERE .
 

The stamps used are all from Year of Flowers:  Violet
The paper is all Papertrey
The card is fine linen

Freshly Made Sketches # 86 and Color Throwdown

This card is for my daughter...I can't believe she is going to be 34 on Friday...we are taking her family to Disneyland...well, it is for the kiddos; the youngest is 4 and the next older will be 6 in July and the older one is almost 14!  Yikes, where do the years go?  The younger two have not been to Disneyland, we decided it was time for them to experience the thrill and magic of Disneyland before they are too old and don't believe in Princess's or pirates...!

This card has all the colors for the Color Throwdown Challenge which you can access HERE.  And also for the Freshly Made Sketches which can be accessed HERE .

All products Papertrey Ink,
  paper: white, blueberry sky, summer sunrise, pure poppy pattern paper
  ink:  pure poppy, summer sunrise, ripe avocado, memento bahama blue
  stamps:  Birthday Style, Headline Alphabet
  die:  heart border die.

ColourQ Challenge # 189

There is a little story behind this "Joy" card...last Saturday I was at a Mother's Day luncheon at my church...the two hosts of the event talked about 'serving with love' and when you serve with love you are filled with joy and you spread that joy to others.  They then each held up a jar of JOY liquid detergent and told us they were passing the "Joy" to a random lady in the room, and throughout the luncheon, that person could then pass it on to someone else!  And the other thing they mentioned about the word "JOY" is that it could be an acronym for Jesus Over You!  Do you love it?  The Joy certainly comes from the love of Our Lord, and He would definitely want us to pass that love or joy on...so I made this card to give to the two hostesses!  They are two very special ladies!  The inspiration from this card came from Betsy Veldman HERE .  Now I really liked how she did her card, but when I tried it, it just didn't look quite right to me, so I just stamped the same joy flower all over the page...I did emboss the die though onto various parts of the card.

This is going to the ColourQ Challenge which you can access HERE .

Papertrey Ink products:
 paper:  white, black
 ink:  berry sorbet, pure poppy, limeade ice, memento black
 stamps:  Signature Series:  Flower, Hello Sunshine
 die: Signature Series:  flower die

Muse Challenge # 17

Another great challenge and the muse card is from Therese Calvird, you can go HERE to check out the rules and link up your card...!
So I think you can guess what I am pulling from this card!  Ha ha...I loved her stacked elephants and all of them cut out from different pattern paper!  I also loved how she has the pattern paper down both sides of the main focus...So I stamped the cute little cuddly bear from PTI's Baby Button Bits onto the three shades of pink bitty dot paper...sweet blush, hibiscus burst and raspberry fizz, then I fussy cut them out.  I attached them to the white paper with Dots from Deanna Deans blog...go check them out...!! I also used the Sew Simple around the white paper with memento angel pink ink.  The striped paper on each side is part of the raspberry fizz pattern paper pack.

Less is More...One Layer on Colored Paper!

Over at Less is MORE they are asking us to make a card using a colored card stock...something other than white or a neutral...so I pulled out my never before used "shimmer cardstock" from Papertrey, Ink and inked up a Hero Arts Butterfly with memento black ink.  Then I pulled out my not used much "LuminArte" and painted in the 'hearts' of the butterfly...talk about a lot of shimmer!  wow, it looks really fab in real life!  The sentiment is from PTI's Sending You!  I love the simplicity of this card and I love the shimmer paper!  Thanks for taking a look!

Merry Monday # 62 and Dynamic Duos Anniversary Challenges

This card is going into two challenges...First up is the Merry Monday with a sketch which you can access HERE .
And the BIG Anniversary Celebration HERE 
 At Dynamic Duos you can choose the color combo you like the best...go check out the web, they have all the combos pared up and ready for you...

Papertrey Products
paper:  pure poppy, stampers select white
ink:  pure poppy, simply chartreuse, versarmark
stamps:  Bells & Boughs, Stylish Sentiment:  Holiday
misc.  white filgree embossing powder, pearls       

Festive Friday Challenge # 8 "Sweet" & Retro Sketches

I am playing along with the sketch from Retro Sketches # 63, which you can access HERE and also the Festive Friday Challenge which can be accessed HERE.  The trigger word for Festive Friday is "sweet"...so I pulled out this sweet little gingerbread (yummy!) and stamped him on kraft paper...I added the sweet little candy and put some rock candy stickles on the ends of the 'wrapper'...do you see the bit of smear?  Yes before it was dry and I was taking the picture, it fell face forward...darn...I am always too impatient to wait!


paper:  PTI pure poppy, PTI sugar plum pattern paper, kraft, white
ink:  pure poppy, dark chocolate, royal velvet
stamps:  Tremendous Treats:  Christmas, Sweet Baby, Wonderful Words:  Birthday, Background Basics: Christmas, MFT Right this Way
copics 

Another Sympathy card for the stash

The vase is cut with vellum paper and then I sponged on some Autumn rose ink.  The flowers are from a Hero Arts Quatros "real wildflowers" rubber stamp set that I have had for many years.  I hand drew the stems with a memento marker.  The sentiment is from PTI Beautiful Butterflies.  The card base is Sweet blush paper and the layer on top of the card was run through the cuttlebug with the swiss dot embossing folder.

Sweet Roses

This is just a random card made for my sympathy stash...I used the Sweet Roses from MFT,  I white embossed the outline and then colored in with my copics.

CAS(E) this Sketch! # 27

I am still making some sympathy cards to bring to a sale...they were requested...so I used the sketch from HERE and made my card.  Here is the sketch:
I decided to keep it pretty much all one layer, except I did add some dimensionals before adhering it to the card base.

All products are Papertrey, Ink
paper:  white stampers select
ink:  aqua mist, hawaiian shores, ripe avocado, memento tuxedo black
stamps:  Turning a New Leaf, Beautiful Butterflies, Beautiful Blessings, Crackle stamp set

Seize the Birthday # 16

My grand daughter Lily will be turning 10 next month and she is an animal lover...all kinds but she especially likes horses!  She has an aunt who has a horse and she goes over on Sundays and grooms him and rides him.  I think she will like this card!  I made this card for the Seize the Birthday Challenge which you can access by clicking on this....go check it out!


Papertrey Paper:  white, pure poppy, gingham pattern paper
Stamps:  MFT: Howdy
limitless layers die, hole punch 

Retro Sketches # 62

You can go HERE to access the Retro Sketches blog for this sketch:

I was asked to bring some sympathy type cards to bible study for some friends, so I am making a few of them...thought I would use this sketch to make one.

Papertrey white paper
twinery orange twine
MFT Pretty Poppies stamp, sentiment from Beautiful Blessings PTI
black glossy accents 

Case study ~ too late

Well, my computer wouldn't let me me download the picture I took, so I was too late to enter it into this challenge...oh well, at least I have a nice card that I really like.

I do love me some poppies!!  Especially the really BIG ones...they look like they are made out of tissue paper.!  The stamps are from My Favorite things...I added some black enamel accents to the center of the poppy.  I stamped the poppy on a full sheet, then used my paper trimmer to cut a straight line, then hand cut around the leaf and flower...
this was the card we were to CASE...another great one by Maile...

Less is More # 9

The great thing about challenges like LESS is MORE is you don't have the urge to fill up every white space with more "things" be it bling, pattern paper or stamping more of something...it is all about keeping it really clean.

Here is the sketch for this week's challenge:

 

I die cut a netabilities die and used the negative part of the die to mask off the shape and sponge on some yellow color for the background, then I stamped my flower and colored it in.

Paper:  PTI white

ink:  harvest gold, memento markers blues and greens, staz-on

vellum, gems

stamps:  Year of Flower Collection (PTI)

Dynamic Duos # 50, Freshly Made Skteches and CASology: Care

Wow, can you believe I am going to try three challenges with one card?  I love it when it comes together like this!!

First up is Dynamic Duos  with the colors berry sorbet and angel pink, the sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches, and finally I am including this in the CASology: CARE Challenge.  Phew, I think that is it...

 I took creative license with the sketch and just added a ribbon for the banner look.  I first stamped my sentiment and ribbon, then I added the hand drawn lines above and below.  After that I masked it off and starting stamping with an assortment of flowers in the colors for dynamic duos challenge.  I placed it all on a berry sorbet card.

Dynamic Duos # 50 pairs up with CASology: care

HERE is the link for Dynamic Duos, go check out the DT and their cool projects.  HERE at CASology it is all about "care"... care for you; I am here for you...you get the idea...

I combined the two and used a sentiment from Verve.

Paper:  Papertrey white, sweet blush pp
ink:  berry sorbet, memento angel pink, fine linen
stamps:  Happiness in Bloom, Verve

And I want to share with you that my daughter Dina had her PET scan and it came back NEGATIVE!!  NO sign of cancer anywhere!!  We put our trust and care in His hands, and HE answered our prayers.  We are all on cloud nine, my daughter is just beaming...all the time!  And she is hatless/scarfless!!  Here is a pic of her and her 9 year old daughter who also shaved her head last October:

Thank you to the many many blogging friends ~ around the world ~  especially in the Netherlands who have continued to pray for her!