Just a Few Cards

 

Hello and happy Friday.  I managed to make a few things over the course of the week.  First up--it's starting to get close to Halloween, and that gave me a good excuse to pull out some older PTI dies and stamps (various Petite Places stamps and dies) to make this Halloween card.  I had planned to enter this card at a few different Halloween challenges, but I missed them all.  Oh well.  I am entering this card at PTI The Great Cover Up (Halloween card), Addicted to Stamps and More #415: Die Cuts, Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies, and WWC326: Occasions (Halloween).

I really could not wait to dive into some older MFT stamps that I just finally got around to buying, and ended up making two cards.  The first card is inspired by the sketch at MFT Sketch Challenge #562.  I really love this sentiment, and I think this will be a fun card to send out.

This next card took a bit of fiddling around, but I finally got it how I wanted it.  I was late to figure out that the stand alone dog face went with the dog that was shown only from the rear.  Duh...

I used the colors from the MFT Color Challenge #174 to make my card.  First I cut down the front panel of the card and covered it with die cut shiplap to make a fence.  Then I gave my dog a house to stand on to see what was on the other side of the fence...

Here we see the dog peeking over the fence to say hello.  Of course, this happens on a sunny day in San Diego.  I am thinking of all sorts of fun ways to use this dog, so stay tuned.

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Happy Halloween

I am quickly popping in to post a Happy Halloween card I made for the challenge at Ink to Paper this week.  I used the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches #385 and rotated it 90 degrees.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes and WWC #286.  

I used a die cut Stitched Fishtail Flag to create my scene.  I sponged a sunset using Distress Oxide inks, and then created my fun scene using mostly dies from PTI Petite Places Spook Manor.  I will stamp a sentiment inside, because I could not find a good place to put one on this card.

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Destination Summer

Hello and happy Friday.  I recently got the new Destination Summer stamps from The Greetery, and spent most of the week stamping and cutting until I had a pile of fun little bits to combine into some cards.  I must admit that the stamping and cutting part was pretty tedious--most of the stamps were little bitty ones that required precise lining up for multi layer stamping ....but once that was done, I was able to make quite a few cards pretty quickly.

First up is a card inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #445.  I am also entering this card at AAA Birthday #15: 3D, Use Your Stuff #401: Summer Fun, Fusion: Summer, Inspired by...#134, The Paper Players #500: Celebrate and Seize the Birthday #195: No Toppings.

Here is another card using many of the same elements.  I have added a beach to this card, as well as a few bits from the PTI Petite Places stamps.  I am entering this card at many of the same challenges as the card above, as well as Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: A Day at the Beach and CAS on Friday #185:  Summer.

Here is another card--many of the same elements, just arranged a bit differently.  How about some s'mores around that little campfire (courtesy of PTI)?  All of these cards rely on 1 or 2 stencils from The Greetery Destination, and they are such a quick and easy way to define the space where I could then just place my cut out images.

This scene I like to think of as more of a little village in the summer.  Perhaps it is my own town, Cardiff by the Sea on a warm summer day.  Note the Candy Store front and center...those buildings are from PTI Petite Places.

Last up is a caravan of campers and surfers.  I think those campers are really so sweet and cute, but you could not get me to go camping no matter how close to glamping it is.  I'll just stick to the camping stamps, please.

Here they all are together.  Quite a fun collection, although now I have a new appreciation of the ease of coloring bitty stamps versus trying to line them all up to stamp!

That's it for me today.  I think I'll head to the beach now.

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PTI Blog Hop May 2018

I am playing along at the May PTI Blog Hop today, where we have this picnic scene to inspire us.  I took my inspiration from the camper and the black gingham, and pulled out Petite Places Happy Camper, a couple of trees from the Scene it dies, and created a black gingham frame for my scene.

I am also linking this up at Simon Says Wednesday challenge to use more than one stamp.

Short and sweet for me today.  I'm off to enjoy the hop.

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CASology Week #207: Rough

This is my second post today.  If you are looking for my ColourQ post, please click here.

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is Rough.

Do you like to rough it when you travel?  I most certainly do NOT!  But, I could not resist these really cute Petite Places camping stamps and dies from PTI.

I suppose a cute camper is better than a tent, but still not as good as The Four Seasons Hotel.

I am also linking this card up at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Create a Scene.

Now, it's your turn.  How does ROUGH inspire you?  I hope you play along this week. Please remember to keep it Clean and Simple.

Please head on over to the CASology blog and gather some inspiration from the design team.

Ardyth

Diedre

Hannelie

Hazel

Jacquie

Jen

Joyce (that's me)

Judy

Kymona 

Melissa

Sherrie

Tracey

Guest Designer: Anna

We are sponsored this week by: Stamplorations

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Guest Designer: Addicted to CAS #76....Spooky

I am so happy today to be joining in on the fun as a Guest Designer at Addicted to CAS.  We have a very fun challenge this week, and one that is so very fitting as we near the end of October and get closer to Halloween.

I used Petite Places stamps and dies to create a spooky little CAS scene on my card.

What do you think?  I hope you will play along with me at Addicted to CAS and create something spooky.

Please head over to the Addicted to CAS blog to see more spooky inspiration and to play along with our challenge.

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Adventure Awaits and Happy Birthday

Hello.  I have two cards for today.  My first card uses the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #136 and the colors from ColourQ #303.  I stamped some of the fun camping images from PTI Petite Places: Happy Camper in a row across the top of my card.  Yes, that is all I did.

I was inspired by this card by Lizzie during the PTI August release festivities.  I used Wow Silver Pearl embossing powder to repeatedly emboss the word happy from Stylish Sentiments: Birthday on to a Soft Stone card base.  I think this card will go into my masculine birthday stash.  I am entering this card at the PTI Create Along With Us challenge.

Lizzie's Card

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