With Love

Hello!!  I'm so happy that Blogger is back, aren't you?! :)  I have another pretty quick card to share with you today.  Have you seen the most recent challenge over the Moxie Fab World?  Following-up on the Moxie Fab column in the May/June issue of Paper Crafts Magazine, Cath has challenged us all to use chevrons - you know, a zig zag stripe!   Well, I just happen to have the perfect stamp so I couldn't resist!

Beyond Borders from Mint Motif at i {heart} papers has a great chevron stamp included and I love it because, like all the stamps in that set, it is long enough to stamp the entire front of a card.  I stamped the chevron using Fresh Snow ink and then used a little heart from Sweet Hearts.  I bet you have a lot of little stamps that would look great stamped in those "valleys" of a chevron! :)

The card measures 5" x 3.5".  The red circle, die cut with Circle Nestabilities, was stamped using one of the images in Very Square and I wanted to have a little doily behind it but I only have a bigger size doily die.  However, I discovered that I could cut it with a big scalloped Nestie and it still shows some of the pretty doily detail!  The sentiment is from Very Square Sentiments.

Pop over and give the challenge a try, chevrons are fun and Fab!! :)

Cardstock: (Kraft) Papertrey Ink, (White) Gina K Designs, Stamps:  (Very Square, Beyond Borders, Very Square Sentiments, Sweet Hearts) Mint Motif, Ink: (Fresh Snow) Papertrey Ink, (L'Amour Red) Palette, (Black) Versafine, Tools: (Doily die) Cherry Lynn, (Big Scalloped Nestabilities) Spellbinders, (Corner Rounder) We R Memory Keepers

Full of Beauty

This week's Tuesday Trigger on the Moxie Fab World blog is this gorgeous photo:

Pleasing Palette from Country Home

I just got some brand new stampy goodness from Unity (thank you Angela!!) and thought that this set, Moments in Bloom would work well for the challenge.  I love the colors in the photo so I used those and the "nature" theme as my inspiration. 

I started with a piece of Naturals cardstock and stamped it with Distressed Dots from Unity using Marigold Morning ink.  I started at the bottom laying the ink on very heavy and lightened it as I went up the card, stamping off at the very top part.  I stamped the ledger image on Aqua Mist cardstock using Aqua Mist ink and then stamped the fern image several times (stamping off for the lighter ones) using New Leaf ink. 

The flowers are those fun, layered and crumpled flowers seen all over stampland these days.  They could be roses, right? *wink*   I inked the edges of the darker one with white ink and the smaller one with Berry Sorbet ink and added Blush pearls to the center of both.  I hand cut the leaves and crumpled them up before adding them behind the flowers.

It may look black, but the dark layer beneath the main image as well as the sentiment are both Smoky Shadow - a nice charcoal gray.   I probably would not have found this color combo on my own but I love how this one feels! 

Thanks for checking in today friends!  Have a great weekend!

Cardstock: Naturals White, Garden Green (SU!), Aqua Mist, Smoky Shadow, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush) (Papertrey Ink), Stamps: Moments in Bloom, Distressed Dots (Unity Stamp Co.), Ink: Berry Sorbet, Fresh Snow, Aqua Mist, New Leaf, Smoky Shadow (Papertrey Ink), Marigold Morning (SU!), Accessories:  Pearls (Kaiser), Tools: Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Finished Cards Size: 5" square

Sunshine

Here's another little card I didn't have time to blog last week. I made this for the Fun with Floss Challenge over on the Moxie Fab World blog. There were some amazing entries and the winners - wow!! I'm always floored by how creative people are!

I just adore this dp from October Afternoon, the line is called Ducks in a Row - cute!  And how fabulous that they have matching stamps?!  Those duckies are the cutest!   For my stitched element I simply stamped the sun/cloud image in very light gray. I then punched holes around the entire image using my paper piercer and then stitched the image with a running stitch.  For the sunrays, I used a satin stitch.  

The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and of course I had to add a bit of bling to spice it up!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Cardstock: White (Gina K Designs) Lemon Tart (Papertrey Ink), Patterned Paper: (Ducks in a Row) October Afternoon, Stamps: Ducks Clear Stamps (October Afternoon), Ink: Memento, Accessories: DMC Floss, Nestabilities, Swarovski crystals, ribbon (Papertrey Ink)

Pink Party Continued

Hello again!  I purposely didn't show you one photo from the Pink Party (see the post below) because I sent it in to Cath (Moxie Fab blog) as a possible Tuesday Trigger.  Today I found out she picked it!!  How exciting!! Please head over and check out Tuesday Trigger: You've Been Pinked!  I cannot wait to see all your cards with this week's Trigger!!

Oh, and one more thing . . . check out Becky's Compose a Card Challenge.  So much fun!  :)

Tuesday Trigger

Good evening!! I had a bit of time this afternoon and thought I'd play along with the Tuesday Trigger on Cath's Moxie Fab blog. I actually had an idea when I saw this gorgeous picture from Pottery Barn that Maren Benedict sent in and it came out pretty much as I envisioned. I went with a bird theme from the inspiration piece as well as the colors white & kraft.

I used the Birds of a Feather set from Papertrey Ink and added the Aqua Mist cardstock.  The embossing folder is a Quickcutz folder that I picked up last week - I love the larger sized polka dots! Such a fun change!   And just because the ribbon looked a bit plain I tied it up with some natural twine - I love the way it mimics the natural twigs in the inspiration piece.

Wouldn't this be a super sweet baby announcement?? Hhhmmm, I still haven't done them for Baby O . . . maybe I should use this! :)  Thanks for peeking! See you  back here tomorrow morning!! :)

All Supplies from Papertrey Ink unless noted:

Cardstock: White. Kraft, Aqua Mist, Stamps: Birds of a Feather, Ink: Aqua Mist, Fresh Snow, Dark Chocolate, Accessories: Twine, Aqua Mist Ribbon, Nestabilities (Spellbinders), foam adhesive, Quickcutz embossing folder