That did the trick :) This set made my engine PURRRRR! The house and tree are colored with Copics and a white gel pen used for the trim. The card base is stamped with various sentiments from Boards and Beams in tea dye Distress Ink and text stamped in white.

Hope you all are enjoying your Independence Day Weekend!!! Happy 4th to all my American friends!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

TTFN,

I was having one of those days.

You're probably thinking I mean a bad day.

Not at all. Instead, it was a day where I experienced a bit of perspective. Those are good days :) Tend to lose that perspective once and a while.

I was walking my boy, Spencer this afternoon. It was drizzling a little the air was cool. I breathed deeply and smelled the honeysuckle - gosh I love that smell. Spencer was trotting around sniffing; he loves these little walks. And I reflected as we walked and realized how much I loved it too. I have so much to be thankful for and life is wonderful.

I need those kind of moments on occasion.

So I made a card to reflect my contemplative mood :)

It's for the latest Make It Monday Challenge (to make your own glimmer mist) and Play Date Cafe color challenge.


Here's my card.




LOL! It's faded a bit now but still pretty funny :) Anywho, I've gone on long enough! Have a great day. Don't forget to take a moment to look around and take in life :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

TTFN,

Are you singing yet?


I can't help myself. Even reading that line…the song comes a' belting out. It's just one of those tunes.

I've got a card to share for the next CAS-ual Fridays and Make it Mondays Challenges. The challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to use buttons and twine while the MIM challenge is selective inking.


So, on to my card.

































I die cut two clouds out of fun foam and inked them up with white pigment ink for the background (Thanks to Laurie for the inspiration!).  Then I cut a couple out of white cardstock for some dimension. For the MIM part of the card, I selectively inked "The sun will come out… Tomorrow" from Scattered Showers onto vellum.

Whadya think?!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
TTFN,

Hey, hey, hey!!!

Quickie post to share my Make It Monday card. The challenge this week is to use impression plates and dies in interesting ways. And it is fun - what a neat effect!


I used the diamond impression plate along with the angled labels die and stamps. Then I stamped the uber cute floral fusion #1. It's hard to tell from the pictures but the pink color is raspberry fizz (flower and card base).

Back again soon with another CR84FN color challenge!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
 TTFN,

Hello all!

Gotta a quick pre-Easter weekend post. This card utilizes the newest Make It Monday Challenge which is to emboss with dies. I've really only ever done this with Spellbinders dies so was intrigued with the possibility of using PTI dies to emboss.




For color inspiration, I used Heather's latest Totally Hues color palette - so FABULOUS!



TTFN,

Quick post folks! It's been a while since I had time to play along with a challenge apart from my DT obligations and tonight, I found a few extra moments :) YAY!
I made this card for PTI's Make It Monday (use color on colored cardstock) and the Totally Hues color challenge.




I embossed multiple Dahlias on raspberry fizz cardstock then outlined it with a RV19 Copic marker. The yellow dahlia was die cut from lemon tart cardstock and embossed in white. I used Y21 and Y26 markers to add shadows. The leaves were die cut from new leaf cardstock, embossed in white and shadowed with YG13 and YG17. I stamped my brand spankin' new gingham background in plum pudding onto white cardstock and die cut it with the Mat Stack 4 die. Oh how I love this new background stamp!!! To offset the mat stack and flower from the background, I used an embossed piece of vellum.

Gotta run! Thanks so much for stopping by!

TTFN,

Stopping in really quickly with a card for Papertrey Ink's new Make It Mondays challenge!

This week, we were challenged to use sentiments and make a Go-To Sentiment card. Fun!


I used a combo of ocean tides, aqua mist, and lemon tart. I stamped my various sentiments in aqua mist to create the background. The yellow and ocean tides sentiments are stamped on vellum and stitched to the bottom layer with aqua thread. Finish off with a few lemon tart buttons and Voila!

Have a happy start to the week! Thanks so much for stopping by!

 TTFN,