I am really not a fan of pink. Some of my friends, and both my daughters, are fans of pink – so I will craft with it.

This card started out a bit different – the pattern paper was a faux silk panel but I messed that up, so I ditched that piece and went with some Raspberry Fizz DSP. Since the card was originally for the PTI Blog Hop, I kept the “scene” sparse to help focus on the faux silk. Unfortunately I was not really paying enough attention when I decided to ditch that because now I think my scene needs a few more pieces. Since I adhered the couch with dimensionals, I can’t take it apart easily…so I’m just going with it!

It is PTI Blog Hop time! This month’s challenge was to use tissue paper. These tissue flowers have been around for (what feels like) forever, but I’ve never tried them myself, so I thought this would be a good time.

I recently purchased the Remember set – it has been on my list for a long time but each month PTI comes out with an awesome release so it has been hard to whittle down my wish list!

The flowers are made using white tissue paper. I punched out the shapes using the PTI flower dies. After I sponged on the color I stamped using the outline images. I kept the layers together with a black brad. Finally, some scrunching and artistic arranging. Easy peasy!

I created this card for the CAS challenge at SCS (cas62). The challenge was to create a card inspired by postcards of Mackinac Island, MI.

I’ve seen a lot of cards recently where folks have layered the scallop border punch (especially when using an owl image) and it looks really cool. I decided to try the same thing with this border punch to create a “wavy” effect.

Now if I could just figure out how to adhere my layers so they aren’t crooked!

I created this card for Becky’s latest Compose-A-Card challenge (#9). I was mostly inspired by the inspiration song title – Lucky. My hubby is going to be away alot over the next few months on business trips. I thought it would be good to get a stash of “miss you” type cards I can tuck in his suitcase.

I haven’t stamped much the past couple of weeks (I was caught up with my other favorite hobby – reading), but I have been keeping up on my blog reading. The past couple of days I’ve seen a few cards using the same sketch that really got my attention. I found the challenge over at Moxie Fab World (sketch). The sketch is from Paper Craft’s latest magazine: Go To Sketches (I *must* get this book!).

What really caught my eye was the use of a speech bubble. This card popped into my head immediately – well, at least the idea of using this specific cat image with a thought bubble that says “you”. The rest of the card took 3 hours to put together, lol.

I had to do the inside of this one to help bring the sentiment to fruition. I really wanted something that said “thinking of you makes me smile”, but I don’t have that specifically and I couldn’t make piecing one together from different stamps look right…so I went with this one – I think the idea still gets across.

Becky is hosting another Compose a Card challenge (#8). This was a harder challenge for me: black, white and green isn’t a color combo I would normally chose.

I started with the polka dot paper from the Black & White Basics pack. And added the satin green ribbon. I wanted to add a touch of black lace to the bottom similar to the little bit of tulle showing under the dress in the inspiration photo, but I don’t have any black lace. So I went with white tissue paper instead. I think that is better contrast against the black card base anyway.

I wasn’t sure what to do with the focal, but the other components to the card needed to be punches and buttons. I decided the greeting should be the focal. Of course the larger sentiments I have were too big for the area I wanted to cover or didn’t fit in an oval shape. I finally settled on a smaller sentiment and a felt flower accent.

I made this card for the Res-Q Challenge blog (resq39), which was a sketch. As with the previous circle focal, I decided to do a scene – this one a bit more inland.

I did a bit of paper piecing for the bird houses. The cloud was created by tracing one from an old Stampin Up die cut set.

I made this card for the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge (sssc63). I’ve always had a hard time with circles. For this one I decided to make create a scene.

When I decided on a beach theme, I wanted a shovel & pail (because my favorite beach memories are making sand castles with my family). Since the PTI set doesn’t have one, I pulled out this set from TAC that I’ve had forever. I did use the PTI set for the sentiment though.

Crazy 4 Challenges is hosting a “Use Kraft” challenge (c4c31), so I did – as my sand and card base.

I was going to make this card for the Embellishment Magazine’s pub call, but I could NOT figure out how to put a button on without it seeming like an afterthought. So I gave up on that idea and will just have to figure something else out (good thing I like working with bright colors!).

This past week’s Clean & Simple challenge on SCS was a sketch (cas60). One I found a bit intimidating! I finally came up with a card. I’m not one who normally puts stuff on a card for the heck of it, and at first, the squares felt like that – just filling in the box of the sketch. But I like it…maybe I can pretend they are windows

I also used the color scheme provided at the Color Dare (cd62). I love this color combo! I actually bought the Western Sky paper from SU because of the colors – but I think this is the first time I’ve used it!

I finally broke down and bought a new border punch. This is one I’ve seen loads on other folks’ cards and I love it.

I made this card for Becky’s latest Compose a Card challenge (#7). I deviated a bit from her photos – I tried to use yellow, but everything I came up with looked too much like cards that were already posted. So I flipped through my pattern paper and found that Lavender Moon looks really good with Spring Rain & Cream.

Yesterday I went to Ben Franklin with my PTI card swatches and found DMC thread for just about every color. So when I started working on this card I knew I would work in using the thread somehow! I started by using it to add detail to the felt butterfly. Then I added a couple stitches to the blue panel.

I cannot wait for more colors of PTI Felt. That stuff is dreamy! So thick and cuts wonderfully. I have an egg die just waiting for more felt options