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Autumn Birthday

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I created this card for a friend’s birthday this week. I used a sketch from SCS (cas138).

I recently received the Autumn Abundance set (won it during a countdown). It isn’t a set I thought I would want, but I love it. It is sorta small for coloring (at least for me), but I gave it a go 🙂

To do the sentiment, I started by stamping a line from Faux Ribbon. Then I inked up the top part of the sentiment, stamped it; cleaned the stamp and stamped the bottom part.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Celebrate
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Autumn Abundance, Faux Ribbon;
Colors: Spring Moss, White; Suede (SU);
Other: Wood Grain impression plate, twine; markers (Copics);

Fall Anniversary

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My brother and his wife will be celebrating 5 years together next week. She loves fall colors and I recently purchased the Spice Cake paper from Stampin Up so I used that as my starting point. I thought today’s sketch by Iwona (ssc32) was a perfect fit.

It is hard to see in the photo, but the flower petals have glitter on the edges.

Oh, and the little swirlys on the tag are a perfect fit for this die, even though they are a PTI stamp (Boxes Bags & Tags).

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Happy Anniversary
Stamps: Fabulous Florets (SU); Fillable Frames 4 (PTI);
Colors: Suede, Pool Party, More Mustard, Pear (SU);
Other: doily die (PTI); label die (SU); rhinestones (Kaiser);

Yuletide Blessings

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I created this card for the Waltzingmouse sketch challenge (wmsc68). This was a fun sketch to figure out.

I did some layering (paper tole I think it is called) on the pine cones to help them pop a bit.

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Yuletide Blessings
Stamps: Festive Foliage, Compliments of the Season, Gingham & Co (WMS);
Colors: Espresso, Cherry, Hunter, Vanilla (SU);
Other: tag die (SU);

PTI Blog Hop

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It is the 25th of the month – which means a PTI Blog Hop! I love this inspiration photo – which should be obvious seeing as I haven’t managed to stamp for a blog hop in months…but this one I couldn’t pass up!

I started by deciding how I would lay out the lines. I liked the intersecting lines in the photo, so I decided I would use 4 colors and stamp them in the corners offset from the center point. Next, when I chose the colors, I started with a PTI color combo I liked and then tried to find some ink that would match as best as I could.

Finally I needed to add a sentiment. I knew I would be covering up the center point so I wanted something that could ‘compete’ with all the lines. I think I read once that, in design, lines love curves, so I thought this Fillable Frame would be a great compliment to the linear feel of the base. I chose a melon color for the die cut, again to stand out.

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Happy Birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Faux Ribbon, Fillable Frames #1, Fillable Frames #5;
Colors: White, Black; Cool Carribean, Groovy Guava, Daffodil Delight, Morning Marigold (SU);
Other: Fillable Frames #5 die;

Blue Cameo

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I created this card to mail to a friend who likes blue: (Lydia @ UnderstandBlue).

To create the cameo, I used lots of white embossing powder; I did about 3 layers, restamping with craft ink for each layer – I LOVE clear stamps!!. Once that was done, I used my embossing buddy again and this time stamped the frame and gold embossed.

For the rest of the card, knowing I wanted lots of blue, I used some old SU DSP for the background. To break up the blue a bit I added a layer of pink (light so it wasn’t overpowering).

I used WM Sketch #61 for the layout.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Birthday Wishes
Stamps: Cameo Maker, Labels 4, Fancy Phrases Scallops & Dots (WMS);
Colors: Brocade Blue, Pink Pirouette, Gold (SU);
Other: Gold & White embossing powders; Dainty Lace border die (MFT); Labels 4 die & Oval dies (Spellbinders);

New Driver

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A couple months ago we had another family member receive her driver’s license – the day before she and her family moved. So I waited to (create and) mail this card until they were “settled”. (The quotes are due to the fact that they are still in temporary housing and as they will be for a couple more months, I decided not wait any longer.)

Other than the car stamp, I had no idea what I would do. So, I did what I normally do and started flipping through my sketch book (which is not a book of sketches that I’ve made, rather, sketches from others that I’ve collected – if I could make my own sketches, I wouldn’t need to collect everyone else’s, lol). Anywho – I decided that a recent Fall-to-Layout (ftl153) would work great.

The green strip and clouds are both embossed with the canvas impression plate (I was going to say the pieces were impressed with the impression plate, but that just raised weird images of cardstock engaging in intelligent conversation).

Before stamping the pink solid image of the car, I kissed it with a tight polka dot background image. Oh – and see the license plate – the tiny sentiments from the original Mixed Messages fits so well (which, if PTI had included a “celebrate” in the car set I wouldn’t have had to know!).

Well, that was quite wordy for me, so I’ll beg off now. Thanks for stopping by!

You Did It
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Enjoy the Ride, Mixed Messages, Polka Dots Basics 2;
Colors: Spring Rain, Lemon Tart, Simply Chartreuse, Hibiscus Burst, White, Black;
Other: Canvas impression plate, car die; Stickles (on the headlights);

Index Cards

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These cards are all ones that started their lives as index cards for the SCS gallery. It was fun to try to create an index card that I could “finish” as a real card.

The first card is actually the index card. I thought it could stand on its own fairly well. Since the image is the sentiment I didn’t need to add anything else. I kept the theme of stars and stripes when picking the pattern paper and ribbon.

The machine stitching was originally just on the layers, but it got lost in the patterns, so I extended it to the full horizontal. I probably will eventually add a couple vertical stitch lines on the edges, but the back is so horribly done with all the starts and stops I’m not even sure the needle would make it through, lol.



 
This next card is what I had in mind when I created the index. For the index, I could only use the ball and the “Home Run” sentiment since that is all that is part of the stamp set.

After taking the photo for the index, I went back and added the rest of the sentiment. Of course I had to do it word by word so I could squeeze it all in, and so it isn’t as straight as I would have liked.

The ball is hand-cut to have that “crack” graphic (comic-book) look.



 
This final one is another a la carte image, so the index card is sans the greeting, but also without the leaf die cut – mostly because I didn’t want to obscure the image.

The bird image is watercolored. The background is embossed with the Elegant Bouquet folder from SU. The ribbon, I’m not sure about the ribbon, but I think it is an old retired SU color – Cranberry (one of the first InColors).

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Freestyle Coloring

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I created this card for the PTI Make-it-Monday Freestyle Coloring challenge (MIM29).

After perusing my index, I decide the bingo card would be a great image to freestyle color. That was the easy part. I then spent a couple hours figuring out the rest of the card.

My sewing machine is a bit messed up. The problem is that the last time I wound the bobbin it was an utter mess and I was too lazy to unwind it and do it again. I’m sure I could compensate with changing the tension, but that requires digging out my manual – and I’m lazy, remember? lol Anyway, we’ll just go with the idea that I like the result because the messy “outside the lines” thing is sorta the idea of the challenge. Yeah, that’s what I’m going with.

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You Made My Day
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: It’s Official, Simple Little Things, Background Basics: Text;
Colors: White, Chartreuse, Berry Sorbet;
Other: It’s Official DSP, Star dies, buttons; machine stitching; Copic marker;

First Day of School

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Today is the first day of school. My girls are very nervous this year (not sure why) and so I wanted to make today a little more special. I wrote positive notes inside the cards – trying to encourage them.

I created this card late last night (I’m an expert procrastinator). I chose Teal because that is a school color. I don’t really have any “school” stamps, so I got out Wise Owls and added the graduation cap to convey the school theme. I added the Diamond impression to the card base because, to me, it mimics the owl’s belly.

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Hoot of a Day
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Wise Owl, For the Graduate, Its Official;
Colors: Hawaiian Shores, Black, White;
Other: Diamond impression plate; Copics;

Glittered Home

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I did another glittered die border card (PTI mim28). This one uses the house die from Love Lives Here. I used pattern paper to make a quilt and stitched the pieces together with my sewing machine.

I’m really happy with how this turned out – I normally don’t do well with using lots of colors.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy for You
Stamps: Mat Stack 1, Simple Little Things (PTI);
Colors: NQN, Wasabi, Bride (SU); White (PTI); Black (Brilliance);
Other: Love Lives Here house die, Mat Stack 1 die (PTI); Two Scoops DSP (BG); Vellum (PTI); dimensionals, glue, glitter (SU); sewing machine;