MIM #175

Hi there,
It's been far too long since I've done any stamping, but I was intrigued by this week's Make it Monday challenge at PTI and had to give it a whirl.

The challenge was to create a border using non-border dies by partial cutting.



I decided to turn this into a birthday card for a friend, so I dressed up the inside accordingly.

 I also decided I needed to jazz up the front a bit with some rhinestones on the butterfly bodies, and some smooch for the wings.

Thanks for stopping by!
T

MIM #168

Hey there,
Long time, no stamp! I'm drowning in yard work and renovation planning, but I had a birthday dinner to attend this evening, so I needed a quick idea for a birthday card last night. I had watched Melissa's Make it Monday video yesterday at Papertrey Ink, so her chalk and stamping on textured cardstock technique was the first thing to pop into my head. I decided to give it a try with the linen and canvass impression plate, and a variety of solid stamps. I set out to do purples because that is the birthday gal's favourite color, and greens for the leaves, but decided as I was chalking the background to add a dash of turquoise. I was glad I had when I was trying to figure out what to do for the greeting. I think the turquoise really makes the "Happy" pop, which is a necessity with all that's going on in the background!

Here's a closer look at the texture, and the label I cut from vellum to attach the greeting. I embossed "birthday" in silver to tie in with the silver in the ribbon. I think I could have done the chalking a bit darker. It's hardly noticeable with all the stamped images on top. Maybe next time?! I did impress a few more backgrounds in case my first attempt failed miserably, so maybe I will give this technique another run?

Thanks for stopping by,
T

Muse #68

Hi there,
I was hoping to do some yardwork today, but it was a lazy, rainy day, so I thought I would take the opportunity to do a bit of crafting instead. This card was inspired by Marion Vagg at the Muse challenge. Here is her lovely card.

Thanks for stopping by,

T

CC9

Hi there,

With Mothers' Day just around the corner, I decided to use the monochromatic purple color scheme from the Card Concept challenge today to make a clean layered card for my Mom.

I love white embossing on a simple color blocked card. I hope you can tell the center color block is an eggplant color, though it looks really dark here.

After embossing the field flowers, there wasn't much real estate left to add a sentiment, so I die cut a tiny tag in the lightest purple, and stamped the greeting in eggplant.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

T



Fusion #8

Hi there,

I've kind of fallen off the stamping band wagon lately, but the gorgeous pastel roses on the latest Fusion challenge were the perfect inspiration to ink up these PTI roses for the first time. The colors are perfect for spring, and I thought would be well suited to a wedding or shower card. Maybe I'll need to make a few more of these in other color combos? These stamps are so easy to work with.

Here's the inspiration behind this card.

Thanks for stopping by,

T

Muse #60

Hi there,

 

Just making a quick late night post for the Muse challenge. I had hoped to spend a bunch of time stamping this weekend, but ended up shopping for appliances instead. Oh, well. At least I have that item checked off my to do list. 4 shiny new appliance bought and paid for. Now I just have renovate the kitchen so I can have them delivered. Should be simple, right?

 

I loved the colors Lyndal used on her card, which gave me the itch to do a little blue and yellow sponging. I was planning to emboss an image in clear first, but I didn't find anything in my stash as bold as the birch tree image, so I decided to change it up and use a new coverplate for white horizontal stripes instead. A greeting and a button, and I am ready for bed!

Thanks for stopping by,
T

FFC27

Hi there,
I was glad to realize today that I hadn't yet missed the deadline for Festive Friday, so I squeezed in some crafting time tonight. Crafting has kind of been taking a back burner to work lately, and to my obsession with house renovations, but I just received my latest PTI order today and plan to place a Simon Says Stamp order soon, so I'd better get stamping if I was to justify my purchases!

This blingy snowflake was inspired by this photo:



Who can resist a gorgeous snowflake? Not me! I'm not generally one to collect things (other than stamp supplies, that doesn't count) but I do seem to have an excessive number of snowflakes in my stash of Christmas decorations. I actually have some that are fairly similar to this photo, but in blue, but for the card, I kept pretty true to the photo colors; silver, white and a dash of green, with a smattering of rhinestones on the focal point.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

T