Raspberry Suite #12 + FTL #51

Happy Tuesday! I got a chance to play around with some challenges again today. I am combining a color challenge and a sketch challenge for this one. Dawn McVey always has some great color combinations that most of us wouldn't dare try outside of a challenge! This week, she asked use to use Cream, Moss, Dark Pink & Dark Red. Check out her inspiration photo here.

The sketch challenge is from a great blog called clean&simple. This week's sketch looked like fun, so I gave it a whirl. Here's a link to the original sketch.

For my card, I started with a piece of Spring Moss and stamped some flourishes on it in Spring Moss ink. I actually don't have the top note die yet, but I had a die cut from a swap so I traced the shape and cut it out by hand. It's hard to tell in the photo, but I used Fresh Snow ink to give the cream piece some pattern with tiny dots from Polka Dots 2. Next, I created another ribbon flower, similar to the one in this post, but with an added layer underneath. The leaves are pieces of Spring Moss dipped in Spring Moss ink and rumpled up. Here's a closer view of the flower and you can kind of see the pattern on the cream piece in this one if you squint real hard! LOL
Thanks for stopping by - I'd love to hear what you think of these ribbon flowers!

Supplies Used (all PTI):
Stamps: Fancy Flourishes, Scattered Showers, Polka Dots 2
Ink: Fresh Snow, Spring Moss, Scarlet Jewel, Chamomile
Paper: Vintage Cream, Scarlet Jewel, Spring Moss
Accessories: Vintage Cream button, twine, Raspberry Fizz satin ribbon, Scarlet Jewel satin ribbon

Fall To Layout #50 and Quick Monogram card

Howdy! I promised I'd be back with some cards tonight. I made a lot of cards tonight ... finally finishing that order of 40 assorted cards. I kept all of them pretty clean and simple. I thought I'd share a few of them with you tonight.

The first one follows the Fall to Layout #50 from the clean&simple blog. I really enjoy this sketch blog since the sketches are really easy to use and customize. Some sketch blogs just have too many layers and complicated shapes. If you are just starting out I would definitely suggest starting with these! :-)

I used the floral image from PTI's Everyday Classics and stamped it in Plum Pudding on Spring Rain card stock. I used the sentiment from Vintage Picnic and I like that I used it in the main panel instead of underneath - it just wasn't the right size to go underneath. The rest is pretty self-explanatory. Some punching and ribbon and that's all she wrote! :-)

For my next card, I used two letter die cuts that I have had sitting around. These are glitter letters from Making Memories. I used some for some other cards that I will show you later this week - but when you are looking for quick and easy, I highly suggest using stickers and/or die cuts for big sentiments or monograms.

I decided to pair this teal colored letter with Vintage Cream, Smokey Shadow, and Ocean Tides card stock. The colors look more white and black in the photo, but they are really cream and dark gray. If you look closely or zoom in you can see that I added 6 horizontal scored lines on the card to give it some added interest - again, better seen in real life! (Sorry!) I also distressed the panels too. I like these and think they would be fun and easy little "any time" gifts for a friend or coworker. The letter set I got had two of each letter in the set, so you could make pairs of cards.

Well, that is all for now. There are several other sketches I hope to get to this week and I have more of my assorted clean and simple cards to show you later this week. Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Thank You Card
Stamps: Everyday Classics, Vintage Picnic
Ink: Plum Pudding
Card stock: White, Spring Rain, Plum Pudding
Accessories/Tools: Plum Pudding Swiss Dot ribbon, SU! Scallop Edge punch, paper trimmer, Scor-Pal, Taylored Expressions sticky tape

J Monogram Card:
Card stock: Ocean Tides, Vintage Cream, Smokey Shadow
Accessories/Tools: Making Memories Alpha Bright Glitter die cuts, Socr-Pal, paper trimmer, Taylored Expressions sticky tape, edge distresser tool

Fall to Layout 45

Just a quick post today with a quick card from the Clean & Simple blog. I love their uncomplicated sketches! :-) This one is FTL #45. Happy Saturday!

Supplies Used:
Card stock: SU! Certainly Celery; PTI Lemon Tart, Hibiscus Burst
Designer Paper: My Minds Eye
Stamps: PTI Friends til the End
Ink: PTI Dark Chocolate
Accessories: PTI Melon Berry vintage button
Other: Fiskars edge punch, Heidi Swapp edge distresser tool, paper trimmer, Scor-Pal, twine, Scor-Tape, scissors

Clean & Simple Wedding Card

Hope you are all enjoying the holiday weekend thus far! I am headed to a wedding later today - one of my friends from college is tying the knot and I am so excited for her and her husband-to-be. They have a black and white and red theme going on in their invitations and I believe their kitchen, so I thought I would stick with that theme for this card. (We also went to NC State, so its a GREAT color scheme! :-) I used the Clean & Simple Fall To Layout again from yesterday's post. This layout is so easy peasy and I really like it. I will probably "fall to" it a few more times! I made another "paper quilt" as a gift to go along with this card - I will post that tomorrow.

Enjoy your Saturday!

Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Card stock: Stampers Select White, True Black
Stamps: Heart Prints, Everyday Classics
Ink: Pure Poppy, Palette Noir Black
Ribbon: Pure Poppy satin
Other: paper trimmer, Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape, Scotch foam tape

Challenge Card x 2

TGIF everybody! I do love Fridays! :-) Here's a card I made for my best friend, who recently graduated from ultrasound school. I decided to use the Clean&Simple blog's Fall to Layout #41 for the layout and Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #6 for this card. I really love how quick this went and classy it looks. :-)
Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Card stock: Aqua Mist, Dark Chocolate, Stampers Select White
Stamps: Everyday Classics
Ink: Berry Sorbet, Dark Chocolate
Ribbon: Berry Sorbet twill
Other: paper trimmer, scissors, Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape, foam dots

Recycled Paper ...

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great Easter and wonderful weekend. We did here in these parts. Church was awesome and we got to spend some time with the fam, so it was great. Sorry for the lack of posts in the past few days, I am pretty swamped with orders right now, so my posts may be a bit sporadic for the next week or so.

This card is for my PTI swap over at SCS. This round our hostess challenged us to use up some scraps for a "recycled" card in honor of Earth day next week. Well, once I got my scraps organized by color in an accordian file, I decided to take on the challenge so here's my card.
I really like how it turned out. It almost seems cartoonish with that big flower, but I think its cute. Its loosely based on the Fall to Layout #37 with a few minor changes. Hope my fellow swappers like my take on the use of scraps! :-)

Back to the sewing machine!

Supplies Used (all PTI unless noted):
Card stock: Kraft, Lemon Tart, New Leaf, Summer Sunrise, Berry Sorbet
Ink: Berry Sorbet
Stamps: Friends til the End
Accessories: Vintage Cream buttons, hemp twine
Tools/Supplies: Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape, scissors, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Nesting Flower dies, Scotch foam tape, paper trimmer