45th Anniversary Card

My last card for today is an anniversary card for my parents (45 years - wow!). My parents are big nature lovers so I knew these Trendy Birds would be perfect! I am submitting this card to the STAMPlorations Anything Goes Challenge.

Here's my card:

Since this is a big anniversary - I went with vellum for my card base. I went bold with the color of the birds - I love the pattern of these images!

Detail shot:

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Ingredients: STAMPlorations Trendy Birds; MFT Clearly Sentimental About Anniversaries; PTI Songbirds (Banner die); PTI Mat Stack 4; PTI Turning a New Leaf

Mondo Magnolia Birthday Card

I was thrilled to get my hands on Ellen Hutson's Mondo Magnolia stamp and dies - I love this large flower!!!!! I made a birthday card for a co-worker featuring this gorgeous image and have some fun techniques going on here.  I'm submitting this card to the Essentials by Ellen September Pin-Sights Challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Die Crazy.

Here is the inspiration Ellen provided:

And my card:

I was inspired by the pinks and greens and those gold stars! The flower is die cut from vellum, stamped with Versamark and heat embossed in gold! Gorgeous! I water colored the flower to give it color. The sentiment is also gold embossed.  The background is ink applied through a stencil on a panel.

Detail pic:

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Ingredients: Essentials by Ellen Mondao Magnolia; Heidi Swapp Wide Stripe Stencil

Cute Koala Card for SSS Monday Challenge

After an extended blog break, I'm back with some new creations! To start off I have a cute card I made for my niece's birthday that I'm submitting to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Love this Technique. My card features coloring (with markers) - a fun technique that I love to do with cute images like these koalas (and their hats)! 

Here are some up close shots - there is glossy accents on those balloons and wink of stella on those hats (and noses).

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Ingredients: Sweet Stamp Shop Koala; PTI Birthday Style; Avery Elle Balloons; Lawn Fawn Hats Off to You

Easter cards and treat sacks

This week I made my Easter cards and some very simple little treats sacks.  I'm submitting these to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes. Warning photo heavy post!

I decided the made 3 cards using the same design - I don't do that often but coming up with several designs for Easter cards are hard for me for some reason. I might just be in a slump!

Here they are:

Here is what the card inside looks like:

I did do one unique card - for my niece - I like to do something fun for her.

Here is a side view of that card:

And here are my super simple Easter treat sacks:

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Ingredients: Reverse Confetti Carton Cuties; Lil Inker Cover Up Die - Center Point Chevron; PTI Scrambled Eggs (sentiments), Egg Hunt; Lawn Fawn Gnome Sweet Gnome (grass); A Muse Peep bunny trio (large die used for shape card, medium die used for treat box); MFT Paper Bag Treat Box; Doodlebug Hello Spring pattern papers

Sympathy card for SSS Monday Challenge

My card today is for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: B if for…..

 For my card "B" is for Bird!

I love these Songbird dies - I have used them a lot! I used watercolor pencils to create my background - in 2 ways. One by pulling the color from the pencil with a wet brush and two by flicking the wet brush on the tip of the pencil. It created those cool flecks!

Detail pic:

I don't use my watercolor pencils very often but this flecking technique is so fun I will have to break out the pencils more!

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Ingredients: PTI Songbirds; Reverse Confetti Lots to Say

Koala Valentine Card

I have one more valentine card to post - I'll also be submitting this to Simon Says Stamp's Monday Challenge Blog - the Red + Pink Challenge.

I love this little koala stamp by the Sweet Stamp Shop! I colored him in with color pencils and cut out his hands to hold the heart.

Detail pic:

Here is the inside:

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Ingredients: Sweet Stamp Shop Koala; Paper Smooches We Connect; PTI Limitless Layers: Hearts, Heart Prints; Reverse Confetti Arrow Confetti Cuts; Lil' Inker Designs Smooches; Doodlebug pattern papers

Day 8 (whew) of PTI's 8th Birthday Celebration!

Whew I made it to Day 8 of PTI's birthday challenges! Today was all about "blue" and we were challenged to create a blue ombre card.  I am not great at ombre - love the look but my execution is off. Since my blue card stock supply is pretty sparse, I decided to do some ink blending to create my colors and then die cut from the inked card stock.

I made another masculine birthday card! I used PTI's Aqua Mist and Hawaiian Shores along with Ranger's Salty Ocean to create my blue palette. I really love these Circle Scribbles dies and must get the stamps set too - I love these for masculine or graphic cards!!!

Detail pic:

Well I'm all challenged out!!! I have a very healthy stash of cards now and it's not even March!

Thanks for visiting! HAPPY BIRTHDAY PTI!

Ingredients: PTI Circle Scribbles, Topped Tops, Birthday Bash Sentiments, grid card stock