When I first started this card it was for the Embellish Magazine color challenge (with stitching). I loved the soft colors and knew I would do a soft card. I don’t really need baby cards, so I wasn’t sure what to do. I found a Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger (dress) that was an adorable plaid dress with a giant butterfly on it. Then, another challenge (Caardvarks) was to use lace. Finally, I found a layout that I thought would work well – though at first it was very intimidating – from 2 Sketches 4 You (2s4y#48).

This card is not my typical style, but I’m so happy with how it turned out!

I figured a card so nice needed a nice inside too! Instead of lace (because I’m a stingy hoarder, lol) I used a border punch, but the rest mimics the outside pretty well I think.

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Tonight is PTI’s monthly blog hop. This month’s challenge is to use buttons. I don’t use a lot of buttons (they are hard to mail), so I spent the last week or so doing cards with buttons. Of course, then when it came time to do the card I had envisioned for tonight, it would *not* work. So, with a last minute complete change of direction, I bring you this card.

I love this new PTI color: Hawaiian Shores. It is an *awesome* shade of teal. And it goes with so many other colors. I knew I would use it somehow for the blog challenge. Using it as my base color, I added pops of color with the flowers.

The card layout is a sketch from Clean & Simple Stamping blog (ftl83). It was a perfect layout for using the new dies too 🙂

This was such a quick card to put together – the dies make cutting easy.

I created this card for Lisa’s Poppy Seed Challenge (#2) which called for light moss, buttons, and polka dots. I’ve been pondering the challenge for a couple days and did a card the other day that almost met the challenge (I forgot about the buttons until it was too late!). When I sat down today this card just came right to me. It took all of 15 minutes – and most of that was choosing the buttons. 🙂

This card was created for the Fall to Layout at the CAS blog (ftl82). I loved the sketch and as soon as I saw it I knew what I wanted to do. Well, I knew I wanted a flourish with stars, but it took a couple days to really figure out how to do it. Sad but true.

I chose upbeat colors because I wanted the card to say super star and I didn’t think that would go with pastels. I do like orange and blue together – the combo could be for a guy or a gal…of course I added too many embellishments for it to be masculine (at least what I consider masculine).

Did y’all notice that the star has the same dot pattern that the new Dot Spot set uses? Maybe you did…I know I’m slow to make connections. Makes me wonder how long ago they designed Dot Spot – Star Prints is almost a year old! I gotta figure out how to work the two sets into one card!

For anyone who cares, I’m wondering how you feel about the size of the images on my blog? If you click them you get a slightly larger version, but I know many folks don’t like to click. Would you rather see bigger images directly in the post?

This is spring break week for us, so I’m hoping to get in some good stamping time (though there are things I *should* do instead, lol).

I found this sketch at Karen Giron’s website (sssc60).

I recently got the PTI Dot Spot set and wanted to break it in. I don’t have any circle punches with me, but I did bring my Coluzzle, which is good because I had to hand-cut the smallest circle and if I had had to do the larger ones they wouldn’t have been as clean!

Becky Oehlers (PTI Design Team) started a weekly challenge on her blog. It is a pretty unique challenge – she provides quite a bit of rules for each challenge, but I have always been amazed at the variety of cards created.

I really loved the inspiration piece for this week’s challenge (Compose a Card #6), so when I found myself with time on my hands tonight (ok, I was procrastinating, but we won’t tell), I had to take the challenge.

I started out by wanting to replicate the tray ceiling in the inspiration photo. I created the frame with a ruler/exacto knife. I really had no plan for the rest of the card, so I’m very happy that it finished up so nicely 🙂