Sunday Crafty Round Up

 

Hello hello.  I love this new Hero Arts Flower Shop stamp, but I had no idea how long it would take to color!  I am pleased with the results, however, and will do it again someday when I have lots of free time.  This card makes me happy, and also feels to me like a spring day.  I am linking this card up at A Blog Named Hero: Floral, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Beautiful Blossoms, and The Paper Players #531: Spring.

Aren't these frogs cute?  I wanted to pull out some frogs to play along with Festive Friday #79: World Frog Day....who knew that was even a thing?  I have frogs, green and insects for this challenge.  It was actually hard to choose which frogs to use for my card, so I may be back another day with some other frogs.  I am also entering this card at Seize the Birthday #209: 3 Shades of Green, and Fusion: Green challenge.

Is it birthday time or cocktail time now?  How about both?  I was inspired by the sketch at MFT Sketch Challenge #531, which I rotated, and the colors at MFT Color Challenge #161, and I am also entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More #400: Die Cuts/Stencil.

I pulled out some PTI favorites, Cutting Garden, for my next card, inspired by the challenge at Ink to Paper to Create a Floral Card.  I used a design that I haven't used for some time, adding a strip of patterned paper to the left edge of my card, and popped up the right panel.  I am also entering this card at AAA Birthday #23: Patterned Paper, Addicted to Stamps and More #400: Die Cuts/Stencil, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Beautiful Blossoms, and The Paper Players #531: Spring.

Last up is a card using PTI Bitty Bouquets, which follows the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #475.  I am also entering this card at Ink to Paper Melissa's Fab Friday challenge to make a Love card, Addicted to Stamps and More #400: Die Cuts/Stencil, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Beautiful Blossoms, The Paper Players #531: Spring, and Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge: Three of a Kind.

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My Crafty Weekend

Hello and happy Sunday.  I had so much fun playing with some adorable stamped images sent to me by Kim. I fell in love with these two puppies sharing an ice cream soda, and knew I had to make a card right away.  Aren't they an adorable pair?

I was inspired by the sketch at Fusion, the bricks and pop of yellow from Inspired By #140, and the theme at SOSS #168: F is for Friendship. 

Next up is a birthday card, using the colors at Inky Paws #131.  I was inspired by the sketch at AAA Cards #173, the theme at CAS on Friday #188: Party Time, and Seize the Birthday #198: No Topping.

I am a total sucker for stamps with books or reading, so this cutie from MFT caught my eye.  I used this week's MFT Sketch #505, making all of my card panels white to keep the card from looking too busy.  I am also entering this card at Seize the Birthday #198: No Topping.

My next card uses the colors at MFT Color #148 and the same sketch above.  My challenge to myself was to make something other than a Halloween card, so I pulled out MFT Fall Florals and made a get well card.

My next card had me reaching for some old favorite floral stamps from PTI, Cutting Garden.  I was inspired by the colors at Color Throwdown #609 and the challenge at Ink to Paper to make a Thanks project.  I am also entering this card at WWC287.

I am entering all five of my cards today at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Stamp It.

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PTI Feb 2016 Blog Hop Plus a Birthday Card

A quick post today to share two cards.  My first card takes inspiration from this pretty photo for this month's Papertrey February 2016 Blog Hop.

I was inspired by the pink flower on the right and the green ferns in the center of the photo.

I stamped a random background of flowers from Cutting Garden in Sweet Blush, and then softened them with a piece of vellum.  I adhered two stamped die cut fern leaves from Meadow Greens and added a sentiment from Wet Paint.

I am also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

Next up is a card using this week's technique from Make it Monday #240: Watercolor Resist.  I was lucky enough to receive a little pot of masking fluid from Nancy as part of the kit I will reveal here in a few days, so I was able to participate in this week's technique.

I used colors suggested by Just us Girls #331: Teal, Aqua and Navy Ziggie markers and then cut my water colored piece with the Heart to Heart Balloon die.  

I am also entering this card at Paper Players #283: Up Up and Away and Addicted to Stamps and More #182: Make Your Mark.

Enjoy the rest of the PTI blog hop.  I am eager to see what everyone else did.

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