Guest Designer at Colour Me...! Subtle: CMCC#63

Hello and happy Wednesday.  I am here with my third post as a Guest Designer at Colour Me...! Our colors this week are very soft and soothing.  Not my normal thing, as I usually go for the bold, but I appreciate the challenge to get me out of my comfort zone.

The official colors are SU Marina Mist, Sahara Sand and So Saffron.  I used PTI Spring Rain in place of Marina Mist and Harvest Gold in place of So Saffron.  These colors said 'baby' to me, so I made a baby card.  The other thing I was thinking of doing with them was a get well card, and I will probably make another card later in the week if I have time.

The stamps and sentiment are from PTI Happy Hearts.

I hope you will play along with Colour Me...! this week.

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PTI January 2014 Blog Hop

I will be the first to admit that I went a little crazy with this month's PTI blog hop.  I love pink, and once I got started I just couldn't stop.  Everything looks better in pink....

First up is my favorite of all my cards.  I did some color blocking, similar to this card here, but all in pink.  I started with Raspberry Fizz in the middle, then Hibiscus Burst on either side, and then SU Pretty in Pink on either end.  The sentiment is from Happy Hearts. ETA:  CAS-ual Fridays color blocking challenge is still on, so I will enter this card over there.

This card uses the same pink papers, cut with the Rainbow Stripes dies and a sentiment from Stylish Sentiments Birthday.  I cased this from one of the DT release projects, but can't find the link at the moment.

My dear friend Kim was nice enough to send me some die cuts of the Love die (that I did not buy), and I just added a sentiment from Wonderful Words Love and a few die cut hearts from Love Lives Here.

I used this week's CAS(E) this Sketch for my next card.  The stamps are from Hearts Squared and I added a tiny little die cut grey heart from Love Lives Here.

One of the sentiments in Happy Hearts just screamed 'BABY' to me, so I made two baby girl cards.  I think I will use this sentiment either on the inside or outside of every baby card I make.  I just love it.  The first card uses hearts from Happy Hearts, stamped in Memento Angel Pink.  The second card uses Happy Hexagons stamps and dies and the Stars Impression Plate.

It can't be a pink-fest without a flower, right?  I used Friends 'Till the End and some grey washi tape on this next card.  I borrowed this layout from Deanna.

Finally, I have two cards using some pink washi tape.  I am trying to use some of my tapes, rather than just keep buying them.  The design is a modification from this post.  I added an additional strip of tape on the card base.  The sentiments on these cards are from Mini Blooms and Bigger Blooms.

That's it for me for now.  I'll be back later with a pink themed card set that I haven't yet had a chance to write up.

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Happy Valentine's Day

I finally decided to break out the Valentines supplies--spread them all out and started to see what I could make for the various challenges this week.

First up is a card for this week's CAS-ual Fridays CFC126 Color Blocks Challenge.  I was inspired by this card during the PTI release week.  I cut strips of paper--Pure Poppy, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Ripe Avocado and Ocean Tides and adhered them with foam tape underneath a panel cut with my new Cover Plate:  Hearts Die.  I love the fact that there is no pink on this card, meaning I could give it to either my husband or my daughter who is allergic to anything pink.

My next card is for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch CTS#60.  I used one of my favorite images from WPlus9 Love You More.  I stamped the speech bubble again on a piece of scrap, cut it out, adhered it with foam tape and then coated just the red part with Glossy Accents.  The patterned paper is from an American Crafts Valentine pad I picked up at Target.

My next two cards are for this month's One Layer Simplicity Challenge #1.  This is a revamp of the former One Layer Wednesday challenge.  Such fun creating some super simple one layer cards that will be easy to mail.  Those swirly hearts on the first card are from Verve, and the stamps on the second card are Happy Hearts from PTI.

I am also entering this card above at Addicted to CAS #30, where the code word is 'new', because I used my brand new Happy Hearts stamps.

Last up is a card for this week's Curtain Call Love Letter challenge.  I am hoping to come back to this one again later in the week with some other images I have in mind, but for today's card, I used a big stack of Wonderful Words Love die cuts and papers from American Crafts Valentine.  And, yes--I used those Tipped Tops dies again, but can you see I tilted one differently this time?

Simply Create Too has a Valentines challenge this week, so I will be entering all of these cards over there, too.

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