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Magical Birthday

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I love this pony image (I grew up in the 80’s, so yeah, it only makes sense, lol).

The card has lots of colors, so I kept everything else very limited…not a lot of textures/patterns or other accents.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Magical Birthday Wishes
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Pony Party;
Colors: Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, White;
Other: Tropical Party DSP; Lemon ribbon (PTI); markers (Copic);

Warm Cider

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My mom has a recipe for a warm cider that she used to make during the holidays. I love that stuff – it is warm and spicy.

I was thinking of the cider when I made this card. The focal accent is done using stamps/dies from Papertrey. The stick is meant to be a peppermint stick (at least that is what it is sold as), but I thought it could easily be a cinnamon stick (an ingredient in the cider).

The cinnamon stick was cut from Cajun Craze card stock and I used a bit of striped Cajun DSP too. The off stripes in the paper reminded me of Melon Berry (one of my favorite PTI colors). I wrapped it all up with Chocolate Chip.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Warm Wishes
Stamps: Candy Cane Christmas, Tiny Tags, Inside-Out: Birthday (PTI);
Colors: Chocolate Chip, Cajun Craze (SU); Melon Berry, Soft Stone, White (PTI);
Other: twine (PTI); border punch (SU); tag die, cup & stick dies (PTI);

WMS SOAP CASE

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Whew, an all acronym title – I feel like I’m either shouting or talking military, lol.

I created this card for Claire’s SOAP CASE challenge (read about it here).

I chose Tosh’s beautiful card (see). I really loved the simple design with bright colors and the white on white borders.

I tried to stick to the idea of her card without completely copying it. I did my borders top and bottom. I used Teeny Trees and added some ribbon.

I tried to emboss the stars, but I either used old pigment ink or old powder as it didn’t do as well as I hoped. No worries, I just went to plan B and added some cute silver jewels.

Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Greetings
Stamps: Teeny Trees (WMS);
Colors: White, Black (PTI); Limeade, Suede (SU);
Other: ornament border punch (MS); silver jewels (Hobby Lobby); Poppy Satin ribbon (PTI);

Celebrate

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Earlier today I was going through my blog reader posts and came across a great card by Agnieszka (the card).

I really liked the text background and the large focal images. I pinned the card thinking I’d get around to CASEing it one day. But since my mojo is wanning, I went ahead and created a card.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday
All supplies PTI unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Fillable Frames 6 (text in background), Communique Curves Sentiments, Star Prints, It’s a Celebration (little stars in background);
Colors: Hibiscus, Raspberry, White, Lemon Tart; Daffodil (SU);
Other: star dies; rhinestone brad (MM);

Simple Cupcake

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This card was created using a sketch from Clean & Simple blog (FTL164).

I really wanted to make this a one-layer card by doing selective embossing, but everything I tried did not work. I’ve done this in the past, but not with a Cuttlebug folder. I did find a video on YouTube, but even after following that it didn’t work 🙁 Oh well.

Since the cupcake image is so small, I only used two colors to keep the palette simple.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday
Stamps: Frame It (WMS);
Ink: markers (Copic); Brown (Memento);
Paper: White, Autumn Rose (PTI);
Other: Swirl embossing folder (CB); Stickles;

Rockin’ Collage

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I created this card for Papertrey’s Make-It-Monday Challenge (mim39). The challenge was to make your own background paper.

I love doing this technique, so I wanted to find a set I hadn’t already done before.

I started my paper with the layout in mind, so I made sure I had a guitar oriented the correct way and would be near where the sentiment strip would end. I worked from there filling in with a star and music notes.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Boy Basics: Rock On, Everyday Classics;
Colors: Raspberry Fizz, Black, White (PTI); Going Grey, Daffodil Delight (SU);
Other: pinking shears; Black rhinestones (Kaiser);

Peace and Plenty

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I created this card for the WaltzingMouse sketch challenge (wmsc71). As I was looking at the sketch, I was trying to see if I had anything that would work for the circle. I recently purchased the Peace & Plenty set which has a wreath in it.

I pulled out my set and sure enough, I thought it would work. My card isn’t quite the same as the sketch, but I think it is close enough to count, and the sketch is certainly where I started.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Peace & Plenty
Stamps: Peace & Plenty (WMS); Houndstooth (PTI);
Ink: Brown (Memento); markers (Copic); Brown (Palette); Crumb (SU);
Paper: Dark Chocolate, Kraft, Cream, Avocado (PTI);
Other: Fancy Flourish die (MFT); Circle die (Spelbinders);

Happy Halloween

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I neglected to send Halloween cards last year, so I didn’t need to make any this year. But as I was checking my list I realized I needed one more – quick and flat. I checked out SplitCoast and found this lovely by Dawn using Haunted Forest. CASE!

I changed just a bit (like removing the bling since I wanted easy mailing) and one less layer. I also used Brushed Silver for my layer behind the Haunted Forest. I really like the shine that gave it.

Oh, and her main image is stamped on grey, but I wanted to use vellum. So I needed to get creative when adhering the vellum. The image has a few tiny black spots (the animals), so I used those to my advantage and applied tiny dots of liquid glue to those spots. I got lucky and they didn’t even mush out 🙂

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Halloween
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Haunted Forest;
Ink: Stazon;
Paper: Black, Brushed Silver, White, Vellum, old retired DSP;
Other: circle punch;

Birthday Cards

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My step-mother is quite the bridge player – traveling for tournaments and such. Her birthday was a couple weeks ago. I created this card to celebrate her day.

The playing cards were created using different PTI stamp sets: School Time (the frame), Simple Little Things (ornament), and Trajan Monogram (letters).

The card base is embossed with PTI’s Giga Guidelines Impression Plate. I had to piece together the sentiment using different sets, but I’ve forgotten which. I did use an alphabet set to spell “slam” (that set was CTMH Sans Alpha, which is just a bit larger than PTI’s Simple Alpha – see).

Once I adhered the cards to the base, I decide to add the white border with a gel pen. I didn’t think it out too well or I would have placed the sentiment before drawing so that I could “leave space” in the line as I did for the card. They both needed to be treated the same – either gap-ed or solid. Next time 🙂

Thanks for taking a peek!

Birthday Slam
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: School Time, Simple Little Things, Trajan Mono Alpha, Fillable Frames 4 (from Additions); Game Night (mft); Sans Alpha (CTMH);
Colors: Going Grey, Baja Breeze (SU); White, Black, Poppy (PTI);
Other: Giga Guidelines impression plate, Fillable Frames 4 die; white gel pen(?);

Acorns & Patterns

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It is the 25th of the month and that means PTI Blog Hop! This month I completely forgot – but thanks to my trusty blog reader I saw the post and had time to whip up a card (thankfully they allow submissions until 11:30pm ET, lol).

The inspiration photo for this month’s hop is quite adorable. What caught my eye were all the different patterns and textures so that is where I started.

While I was flipping through my pattern paper I realized that one of the recent PTI packs had a pattern very similiar to what is in the photo (the “floor” piece). I added more patterns using the Woodgrain impression plate to my card base, and Houndstooth stamping to my Mat Stack. I do want to say that lining up the Houndstooth was much easier than other background images – I think that extra space they added to the acrylic around the image definitely helps.

As for texture, the inspiration showed felt leaves and acorns…and that is what I used too. I had to use Chartreuse for the green because they haven’t introduced the Avocado felt yet 🙁 I do hope now that ink is settled (other than getting in the rest of the colors) that PTI finishes issuing felt (I really want some of those older colors!).

Happy Thanksgiving
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Gobble Gobble (sentiment), Background Basics: Houndstooth;
Paper: Kraft, Rustic White, Fall Prints & Patterns DSP;
Ink: Pumpkin (SU); Dark Chocolate (Palette);
Other: Chartreuse, Fine Linen, Chocolate felt, Mat Stack 3 die, Autumn Acorns die, Woodgrain Impression plate;