Happy Anniversary Card - PTI MIM #127

This week's Make it Monday technique was to create a double background with stamps. I love this look and decided to make an anniversary card for my upcoming parents' wedding anniversary.

Ingredients: PTI BB: Text Style II, Funky Florals, Happy Day, Turning a New Leaf, Fancy Flourishes

Summer Card Camp - Week 3, Day 5

Yeah for more color combos!!!!! I used the 3rd color combo but used red in place of a bright pink and tried out the Masked Embossing technique by Kristina (side note: she was one of the first card makers I found and was inspired by many years ago - I adore her work and that adorable kitty Mannie! end of side note LOL).

I had my son in mind when making this card - I think it's a great guy card if I do say so myself! I kinda used Sketch #3 and masked off the upper portion of the card and then stamped/embossed with white and silver embossing powders.

I cut the word "birthday" out of black card stock but I thought it was hard to see so I topped the letters with Pumice Stone Distress Stickles. 

Ingredients: CHF - Distressed Circles (Scrapblock); MFT Happy Birthday, License Plate dies

Summer Card Camp - Week 3, Day 4

I am mostly a CAS girl but I do love the vintage-y and distressed looks, so I was inspired by Debby's Loads of Shabby Chic Layers technique. My first go at this was not as "layer-y":

So I revamped it and came up with this:

3 layers plus a collage-like effect on the card base and a little distressing on the green middle layer.

Ingredients for both cards:  Skipping Stones Designs Love Song; PTI Tag Sale #3, Postmarks; Tim Holtz Bitty Grunge; Basic Grey Curio pattern papers

PTI July Blog Hop

It's time for the PTI Blog Hop - I didn't think I'd have time to make a card with Summer Card Camp taking up most of my creative time but I squeezed a card in at the 11th hour!!!

Ingredients: PTI Birthday Bash Sentiments, WW: Birthday, Fabulous Frames; Studio Calico Mr. Huey's Mists

Summer Card Camp - Week 3, Day 3 - Card #2

I made another Halloween card using the Stamp Paper Piecing technique Melissa Phillips showed us.

The Count's cape is paper pieced and his eyes and hair were colored in. I used Sketch #1.

Ingredients: Paper Smooches Spookalicious; Purple Onion Designs Halloween Border Tape; tiny spider stamp (unknown); Doodlebug die cut (frame)

Summer Card Camp - Week 3, Day 3 - Card #1

My first card uses the Colored Die Cuts technique and Sketch #3. I colored the stars in using my Bic Mark-It markers.

Ingredients: MFT Stacking Stars; PTI Star Prints; Simple Stories Snap!Life pattern paper (grid paper)

Summer Card Camp - Week 3, Day 2 - Card #3!

Well I got card #3 done for day 2 - I used the Background Die Cuts technique. I have very few dies that would have worked but I knew that the spider web one would be the one!

Ingredients: PTI Happy Haunting, Spider Web (trio), Tag-its #7 Mini; Paper Smooches Halloweenies (bat); Studio Calico Mr Huey's Calico Shine