It's WPlus9's 4th Birthday!

Happy 4th Birthday WPlus9!!!! 

To kick off the celebration, WPlus9 is having a Comfort Zone Challenge. 

My comfort zone is definetely a CAS/Clean-and-Graphic card style. 

Here's my card:

Almost every card I make utilizes die cutting along with stamping.  Here I die cut the patter paper to create a frame for my sentiment.  I ran out of foam tape (my other go-to comfort zone item) so the pattern paper is flat on the card. The silvery hearts were cut from shimmer card stock and adhered to add some pizzaz to one of my favorite sentiments by WPlus9.

Ingredients: WPlus9 Love You More; PTI Spiral Notebook Page Die; MFT Blueprints 11 (mini hearts); Doodlebug Sweetheart pattern paper

Ornament Christmas card for Merry Monday

This week's Merry Monday Christmas Challenge is to use Ornaments on a card (Challenge #93)!

Here's what I came up with:

Ingredients: MFT Christmas Ornaments, Party Balloons ("string" stamp); Paper Smooches Christmas Words; Doodlebug North Pole and Home for the Holidays pattern papers

Reverse Confetti V-Day Card

It's time for the February Sketch for You to Try over at the Reverse Confetti Blog.  Here is the sketch:

I just got my order from Reverse Confetti so I could not wait to try out my goodies so the timing was perfect!

I am also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes with Twine or String.

Here's my card:

Ingredients: Reverse Confetti Tag Me, Crushin'; PTI Heart Border; MS Twine; Doodlebug Sweetheart pattern paper

Happy Valentine's Day Card

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so when I got my new Winnie & Walter stamps I could not wait to get them inky and today was the day -- we are having a snow day because of the storm that hit us yesterday!!! 

Winnie & Walter just opened their doors and wow do they have some great stamp sets!!!  Here is my clean and simple v-day card:

The heart border and the small solid heart are popped up on foam tape. 

And this is the inside of the card:

Ingredients: W&W The Big, the Bold and the Happy; MFT Staggered Hearts Border Die-namics, Steel Blue ink; PTI grid card stock

Festive Snowman card for Merry Monday

Even though Christmas is over I love making holiday cards throughout the year! This week I am participating in the Merry Monday Challenge #91:

I ADORE snowmen!!! My card is inspired not only by the challenge and the colors in pic but by this card found here.

I paper pieced the scarf and added enamel dots for the holly berries on his hat. Cute and simple!

Ingredients: Hero Arts Snow Much Joy; Doodlebug North Pole pattern papers; misc enamel dots

Love U card for MFT Color Palette Challenge

Hiya! My Favorite Things is starting a new monthly color challenge (found here).

I made a valentine card for my niece using the colors black, white and pink along with a sentiment/image from MFT's Lovey-Dovey Sentiments stamp set. I love the graphic nature of this set!

Ingredients: MFT Lovey-Dovey Sentiments; Paper Smooches Nine Lives; PTI Tipped Tops, LL: Hearts; Doodlebug Lovebirds pattern paper

PTI MIM #147 - Sending Birthday Wishes Card

I'm kicking off 2014 with PTI's latest Make it Monday Challenge.  This week's challenge is to create multi-later images from a single stamp brought to you courtesy of the amazing Betsy Veldman.

I decided to use the Birthday Tags set since I need to build up my b-day card stash. I also just got an order from PTI and could not wait to use those Tipped Tops dies!! You will be seeing those dies a lot here!

Anyway -- here's my card:

My background was inspired by a card Dawn McVey did here.

Ingredients: PTI Tipped Tops dies, LL: Ovals 2.25"; 2012 Birthday Tags