Hi there! Today for my first post I am participating in Merry Monday. I couldn't pass up the monochromatic blue challenge since blue is my favorite color.

For this card, I brought out my clear embossing powder to make a fun snowflake background. The first thing I did was stamp my sentiment. Then I stamped the snowflakes with versamark and heat embossed the powder. Using my blending tool I added a couple shades of blue around the snowflakes. I really like the effect of the blended ink with the embossed background. 

My Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Snowfall & Snowfall Additions

Ink: PTI Spring Rain, PTI Blueberry Sky, PTI Enchanted Evening

Paper: Recollections white, PTI Stamper's Select White

CCCB - Washi Tape

Hi there! Today I made a card for the City Crafter Challenge Blog. It's my first time participating in this challenge and it's also the first time I am using washi tape on a card. I don't have very much washi tape. It's not something I really got into because I wasn't sure how to use it so I had limited supplies for this card but I thought it would be fun to try something new.

For my card, I began with making a washi background with two rolls I thought would look pretty together. I experimented with stamping the butterflies and eventually decided that I didn't have any ink colors that went with the bright green washi tape. After deciding that wasn't going to work, I thought about doing a vellum overlay. I found some card stock that matched the green and adhered the butterfly together. I added my sentiment at the bottom of my card. Thank you for coming by!

My Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Beautiful Butterflies

Dies: Beautiful Butterflies

Ink: PTI True Black

CASology Week 135: Mini

Hi there! After taking a break from blogging to sell a house, move, and get a new craft room set up (yay!!!!) and organized I am finally getting back into the swing of things. I decided to start out simple so I went to see what CASology's challenge was this week and got inspired.

I love the mini glades of grass stamp in Papertrey Ink's new anniversary set Petite Pots. I started from there and chose one of the flowers and a sentiment. I trimmed the piece I did my stamping on to the size I wanted it and then cut a piece of Blueberry Sky card stock to make a border around it. I really like it but I kept wanting to add things to it. I had remind myself to keep it clean and simple.

My Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Petite Pots Anniversary Stamp Set

Paper: Recollections white card stock, PTI Blueberry Sky 

Ink: Memento Dew Drops Tuxedo Black, PTI New Leaf, PTI Blueberry Sky, PTI Enchanted Evening

Merry Monday #133 {Rustic Christmas!}

Hi there! Today I am participating in this week's Merry Monday challenge: Rustic Christmas.

I started out with a cream card base and picked a few other colors of card stock and went from there. I cut the card stock down to varying sizes and layered them. I recently bought a wood grain embossing folder at Hobby Lobby so I used it to dry emboss the chocolate brown paper. I die cut a frame and a snowflake. On the frame I stamped my sentiment. I thought it went perfectly with the theme of being in the mountains in a cabin. I imagined being cuddled up in front of a warm fire watching the snow falling outside. On the snowflake I used chestnut embossing powder. Thank you for visiting my blog! Have a great day!

My Supplies:

Stamps: Hampton art snowflake and Christmas frame stamp/die sets

Dies: Hampton art snowflake and Christmas frame stamp/die sets

Paper: PTI Kraft, Fine Linen,  & Dark Chocolate, Recollections cream card stock

Ink: Memento Dew Drops Rich Cocoa