Getting Crafty With My New Stamps

 I have a few cards today--some for challenges, and one just to play around with my new stamps.

I am playing with Seize the Birthday for my very first time.  I really liked the sketch for this week, STB #9.  It seemed the right sketch to use for my very first card with my new Cutting Garden stamp set.  These flowers are just so pretty in person, and I scribbled all over them with a Sakura gel pen so they are very glittery.  Believe it or not, those flowers and the patterned paper are Berry Sorbet.  However, they are showing up on my screen as red.  I am also entering this card in this week's Simon Says Stamp 'Bit O ' Green challenge. 

Seize the Birthday

My next card is for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch CTS #18.  I turned the sketch upside down, and used the ragged edges of the water color streak to represent the scalloped border.  The splotches are from Grunge Me as well as Watercolor Wonder.

CAS(E) this Sketch

I made this card just to play more with my new Watercolor Wonder set.  I am also entering it into the Simon Says Stamp 'Bit O ' Green challenge.  I got my inspiration for the layout of this card from this card by Belinda.

Another card I made just to play around with Watercolor Wonder.  I used some stars from the centers of the star border die, and coated them with Glossy Accents.

My last project is actually an envelope, and it is for this week's Serendipity Challenge SSCB#7 to decorate an envelope.  I decorated an envelope to match the card I made for last week's challenge.  This is the back.

This is the front.  I stamped a label from PTI Label Basics, and then masked it off and stamped the Hero Arts Envelope pattern over the entire envelope front.

Here is the envelope with the matching card. I think this is my lucky card, since it won the $20 prize at Serendipity last week.

Supplies Used (PTI):

Seize the Birthday
Stamps:  Cutting Garden, Mega Gracious Vases, Crackle, Stylish Sentiments:  Birthday
Paper:  White, Berry Sorbet pattern, Kraft
Ink:  Berry Sorbet, Kraft, Simply Chartreuse, Versafine Onyx Black
Other:  Cutting Garden, Mega Gracious Vases Dies, Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangles, Striped Impression Plate

CAS(E) this Sketch
Stamps:  Watercolor Wonder, Grunge Me, Stylish Sentiments:  Birthday
Paper:  White, Kraft
Ink:  Spring Rain, Kraft, Blueberry Sky, Orange Zest, Versamark
Other:  Black Embossing Powder

Peace
Stamps:  Watercolor Wonder, Paper Smooches Pretty Phrases
Paper:  White
Ink:  Summer Sunrise, Simply Chartreuse, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus Burst, Versacolor Opera Pink, Brilliance Dragonfly Black

Yay!
Stamps:  Watercolor Wonder, Stylish Sentiments:  Birthday
Paper:  Rustic Cream, Kraft, True Black
Ink:  SU Real Red, Kraft, Versafine Onyx Black
Other:  Star Border Die

Envelope
Stamps:Serendipity Horned Owl, Hero Arts Envelope Background, Label Basics
Paper:  Turning a New Leaf
Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa
Other:  Kraft Envelope

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