Hello there! I love this week's sketch over at CAS(E) this Sketch. So simple, but fun!

I love having cards on hand to send to friends, whatever the occasion may be, or just to say hello. I kept this card really simple and got out PTI's Southwestern Style stamp set. I stamped three of the long designs in different colors and then stamped my sentiment above them. 

My Supplies: 

Stamps: PTI Southwestern Style

Ink: PTI True Black, PTI Lavender Moon, PTI Plum Pudding, PTI Winter Wisteria

Paper: PTI Stamper's Select White

Thanks so much for coming by!

MAKE IT MONDAY #223: CAMOUFLAGED POCKET INSERTS

Hi there! After watching Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday video this week I was inspired to make my own card with a camouflaged pocked insert. I though it was such a fun idea! I skipped right over autumn with this card and jumped into Christmas. I thought Painted Poinsettias would be awesome to use for this technique and the season is quickly sneaking up on me. 

To start off I die cut all of the pieces and then stamped the poinsettias and their leaves. I dry embossed a background panel to adhere the pocket to. I wasn't able to pop the pocket up with foam tape because I didn't have enough room on the sides so I used 1/8 inch scor-tape. I was afraid it would be difficult to get the tag in and out of the pocket but I didn't have any trouble with it. 

After I decided the placement of the flowers and leaves, I stamped the sentiment on the tag and adhered the flowers and leaves. The smaller leaf is adhered to the pocket itself because I wanted to give dimension to the flowers and not the leaves. 

My Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Painted Poinsettias

Dies: PTI Painted Poinsettias, PTI Basic Bookmark 1, Sizzix Squares

Ink: PTI Pure Poppy, PTI Sweet Blush, PTI Scarlet Jewel, PTI Spring Moss, PTI Ripe Avocado, PTI Pinefeather

Paper: PTI Stamper's Select White, PTI Pure Poppy, PTI Sweet Blush

Thank you so much for coming by! I hope you had a great weekend!

PTI SAF 2015: Bridal Challenge

Hi there! This is my first year participating in Papertrey Ink's Stamp-a-faire and I am really enjoying it! The first challenge is the Bridal Challenge in which we were to only use white except for a neutral color for the sentiment.

I began by die cutting all the pieces and adhering the background layers together. You can't tell it in the picture but the vellum behind the cover plate die has little polka dots on it. I stamped the sentiment in Versamark and heat embossed it in silver. I used the Keep It Simple die cut to adhere the vellum leaves and I also tucked a couple of the leaves under the cover plate die to keep it from bending. 

My Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Sentiment Splits

Dies: PTI Cover Plate: Stripes Diagonal, PTI Branching Out, PTI Keep It Simple

Ink: Versamark 

Paper: PTI Stamper's Select White, PTI Sheer Basics Vellum, Avery Vellum

Thank you for coming by! I hope you're having an awesome weekend!

Dragonfly Birthday

Hi there! Today I am participating in this week's CASology challenge.

With the cue word being "wings" usually I would have chosen butterflies and that is the first thing that came to mind. Instead of just going ahead with butterflies I decided to look through my stamps. I found a dragonfly stamp I hadn't used yet and thought it would be perfect for this challenge.

I die cut the stitched frame and did my stamping on the inlaid rectangle. Then I adhered both pieces to the center of my card front. It was super simple and I love how it turned out!

My Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Masculine Motifs

Dies: MFT Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Frames

Ink: PTI True Black, PTI Tropical Teal, PTI Simply Chartreuse, PTI Ripe Avocado

Paper: PTI Stamper's Select White

Thank you for coming by!