With Heartfelt Sympathy and Happy Birthday

Hello and happy Saturday.  I'm playing along with several challenges today with 2 different cards.

First up is a card inspired by the video at Make it Monday #312: Framing Sentiments and Images.

I used some new PTI stamps --Penned Elegance and Lilies of the Valley, as well as a die from several layers of Embroidered Borders.  Before stacking and adhering the border die cuts, I dry embossed just the top layer with a woodgrain embossing plate.  I am entering this card at Less is More #365, where the challenge is to use dry embossing for only a small area around your focal point.  I am also entering this card at Just Add Ink #397: Just add "H"  My "H" is 'heartfelt.

My next card is inspired by a new PTI challenge--Transformation Tuesday.  I chose to remake this card I have had in my stash forever.  I never use it because the entire front is clear, so no place to write a message.  I made this card years ago for a Make it Monday challenge to use clear card stock, but was not really thinking about how impractical it would be.

Here is my original card:

Original Card

To transform this card, I remade it without using any clear card stock.  I used the same stamp set, Asian Fusion--one of my oldest and most favorite sets, same sentiment and same color scheme. 

Here is my transformed card:

I am happy with how this card turned out.  I feel like it is a more practical and updated design, yet it is possible to see how it was inspired by the original card.  Rather than a vertical panel of kraft card stock, I substituted one of the stamped images in the set, stamped horizontally twice in kraft.  I stamped that on the base of the card, then stamped everything else on a separate panel, which I then attached with foam tape.

I am also entering this card at Seize the Birthday, without toppings.

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Happy Birthday and Peace on Earth

I used the colors at this week's Color Throwdown #413 to make a masculine themed birthday card using my new PTI Fancy Foliage dies and a sentiment from Hero Arts Chalkboard Birthday.

I am also entering this card at Just Us Girls #363: Leaves, The Male Room #45: Leaves and or Trees and Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes.

Make it Monday #263 is all about using die cut frames on a card.  I used die cuts from the Embroidered Borders frames, stamped with Fairy Dust ink on my holiday card.  I was so excited to pull out my new  Winter Village stamps and dies to create my little scene.  While I had my Misti set up for all the little stamps in this set, I stamped several extra bits that I hope to use on some more cards before long.

I am entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More #214: Clean and Simple and Christmas Card Challenges #43 (I am doing the anything goes part).

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