Circles Thank You

I made a set of these simple thank you cards because I always need more thank you cards on hand.  I was able to mass produce these with the help of the MISTI.  I received that great tool for my birthday from my family and that was the push that got me back into stamping.

The inspiration for this card came from Laurie Willison's card.  I could CASE Laurie's cards all day:)

I'm entering this into Simon Says Stamp Clean And Simple challenge.

Stamps:  Papertrey -- Thanks All Ways, Circle Scribbles, Sketched Shapes
                Inque Boutique -- Circle It

Masked Butterfly

I saw this gorgeous card on Pinterest and wanted to try my hand at creating something similar.

• I began by die-cutting a butterfly on a post-it note and then used the negative of the die to do the sponging with distress inks.  
• With the mask still in place I stamped two silhouette images in London Fog ink.  
• Instead of turning that into a one layer card I die cut the sponged butterfly. 
• Stamped a Soft Stone card base with silhouette images in London Fog and mounted the butterfly on there.

With all the muted colors I decided that it should be a sympathy card, thus the beautiful sentiment from PTI's Beautiful Butterflies.  I'm definitely going to make a few one layer cards using this butterfly mask and silhouette images.

I'm entering this into the Simon Says Challenge:  Anything Goes

Hope you have a fantastic weekend!

 
Stamps:   Beautiful Butterflies (PTI), Silhouettes (Inque Boutique)
Paper:   Soft Stone (PTI)
Ink:   Broken China, Victorian Velvet (distress inks), Dandelion, London Fog, black (memento)
Other:  Beautiful Butterflies die (PTI)

Navy & Silver Wedding

I made this wedding card for my husband's co-worker.  Everyone at his work was chipping in for a gift, but he told them that we would contribute a handmade wedding card to go with the gift.  Naturally, this bit of information came to me at the last minute so I whipped something up quickly -- a bit of stamping and embossing, finished off with some ribbon did the trick.

The gorgeous medallion-like images are from "French Quarter" by Inque Boutiue, a stamp company that is no longer in business.  Does anyone remember Inque Bouttique stamps?  I have several of their stamps because a few months before they went out of business I won $100 worth of their stamps.  Even though they are not current I still love many of those stamps and try to remember to pull them out once in a while.

I'm entering this into the current Crazy for Challenges #131 -- to use blue and white with one other color.

Hope you all are having a wonderful week!






Stamps:   French Quarter (inque boutique), Giga Guidlines (PTI)
Paper:  watercolor paper
Ink:   Paris Dusk (memento), versamark
Other:  silver EP, silver ribbon, enchanted evening button (PTI)

For Your Inspiration #7

Welcome to the seventh For Your Inspiration challenge!!  You have until June 15th to play along.  Here is the gorgeous photo for this week:

Isn't it just beautiful?  I created my card based on the colors of the sky and water.  I simply sponged several ink colors on a quarter sheet of white cardstock, then die cut it with the largest Labels 18 die from Spellbinders.

• Once it was cut I stamped it in versamark with the largest stamp from Bird and Butterfly Labels by ODBD.
• I heat embossed it with clear EP then sponged more colors onto the butterflies, grass and wildflowers.
• Stamped the sentiment in the oval
• Used Labels 18 again to cut a leftover piece of blue mulberry paper
• Stamped a few wildflowers in the corner of the card base
• Used gold paint pen to trace around die to create a frame (to emulate the lights in the photo)
• Added three gold pearls for a final touch

Here's a close up of the embossing:

Hope you all are having a wonderful week.  Don't forget to check out the beautiful cards by the rest of the DT:

Debbie

Debby
Keva

Steph
Valerie

Wanda



Stamps:  Bird and Butterfly Labels (ODBD), Everyday Blessings (PTI), Silhouettes (Inque Boutique)
Ink:  variety, white (memories),  versamark
Paper:  True Black, white (PTI), Mulberry
Other:  Labels 18 (spellbinders), gold paint pen (marvy), gold pearls, clearstar glitter pen, clear EP

For the Graduate

Here's a quick CAS graduation card that I made for my niece.  Just perfect for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge.  I went with my favorite standby layout for a great CAS card -- using impressed images and scoring for detail.  You can see more cards that I made like this HERE and HERE.

I used her school colors and a strip of metallic paper that I trimmed off of her announcement.  The "memories" stamp is from Inque Boutique's Circle It set.  The red layer is a 1 1/2" circle punch stamped with an image from PTI's 2009 Autumn Tags set and the little sentiment is from PTI's Mixed Messages.

Here's a close up:

Thanks for visiting!





All Supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated

Stamps:  Mixed Messages, 2009 Autumn Tags, Circle It (inque boutique)
Paper:  Stampers select white
Ink:  Pure Poppy, Dutch Blue (CTMH)
Other:  Limitless Layer dies, Scor-Pal, 1 1/2" circle punch (ek success), rhinestones

Compose a Card Week 4

I'm finally getting a chance to play along with Becky Oehlers wonderful Compose a Card challenges.  You can find the challenge (week 4) here.  This is the recipe we were to follow:

Here's what I came up with:

I used my long neglected Inque Boutique Bella Flora stamp set.  I rarely reach for anything but Papertrey Ink stamps, so I forget what other options I have.  The sentiment is from Papertrey's Damask Designs.  Don't you just love the font?

I chose to add a splash of color with some Berry Sorbet satin ribbon.  I also stamped a few individual flowers in Berry Sorbet ink.  I decided to heat emboss the small flourish in the corners of my black card base to dress it up.  I love clear embossing on black! 

I decorated the corner of the envelope to match the card.  It's one of those things I always intend to do, but never actually get done.  It's so much easier to do while you have all your stamps and inks right out in front of you.  I need to remember to take a few extra moments and make the effort.



Stamps:  Bella Flora (inque boutique), Damask Designs (PTI)
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, berry sorbet & ripe avocado (PTI), versamark
Paper:  true black, ripe avocado, white (PTI)
Accessories:  berry sorbet satin ribbon, PTI vintage button, clear EP, pop dots