AHSC663 Birthday for a Friend

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend! I am slowly getting back into the swing of things! It's time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I have a friend whose birthday is today, and she loves purple, so this one is for her!

I used some pretty (shiny!) papers from Gina K called Sending Love as well as the butterfly from Sketched Butterflies.  The horizontal panel is Granny Apple Green, diecut with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits die and accented with some white seam binding ribbon.  The butterfly was stamped with Gorgeous Grape ink on Highland Heather cardstock and diecut with the matching die.  Sentiment is from Everyday Greetings:

The inside sentiment is also from Everyday Greetings and Greetings of the Season:

I did add some Wink of Stella to the butterfly as well as some pretty pearls to my square piece!  I am hand-delivering this, so no worries about those big fat pearls, LOL!

I hope you'll play along with this fun sketch this week....lots of opportunities to use up some of your small scraps that I know you have in your stash!  Share it with us at the Atlantic Hearts blog!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings (ret), Greetings of the Season (ret), Sketched Butterflies (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Sending Love (Gina K)
Ink	Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Pearls, White Seam Binding (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Layering Squares Dies (ret), Sketched Butterflies Dies (ret), Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies (ret), Wink of Stella

SSC355 Happy Birthday Butterfly

Happy Monday, peeps!  After a very cold and windy weekend, it's a fairly nice Monday!  I had a little stamping time today to create a card using the Sunday Stamps sketch:

Ooh, I love all those layers!  I thought I'd play with some of the papers from the Serene Love DSP line, choosing some pretty Lost Lagoon patterns.  Here we go:

I layered the panels on Lost Lagoon cardstock; the center panel was a piece of Basic White I had floating around unused; it was embossed with the Distressed Tile embossing folder.  I added a butterfly from Sketched Butterflies and a sentiment from the new Spring Corners set.  The silver dots on the circle are from that set, too!

My inside sentiment is from Hugs for Love, and I messed it up, so I created some layers to hide my mistake:

I always need birthday cards, so this will go in my stash!  Thanks for popping in today!

Our church had a missions fundraiser on Saturday night and my nephew and his family attended.  Little Maven is now walking, although in this picture, her Pop Pop is giving her some giggles:

I noticed she had a couple little booboos on her forehead, nose and chin, and when I asked her mom about it, she told me Maven was walking in the yard and the wind was so strong, it knocked her over!!!  Wowza! She seemed no worse the wear, though!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sketched Butterfly, Spring Corners, Hugs for Love
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Serene Love DSP
Ink	Lost Lagoon, Silver Encore (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Pearls
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Distressed Tile Embossing Folder, Sketched Butterfly Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circle Dies (ret)

AHSC614 Perennial Lavender Birthday

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  The sketch from Atlantic Hearts this week is really sweet....it gave me a chance to use up some scraps from the Perennial Lavender DSP that I had!  Here's the sketch:

I did some layering of the DSP, then added a birthday sentiment from Sketched Butterflies along with a dotty circle from the retired Perfectly Wrapped.  Gorgeous Grape and Highland Heather cardstocks were used for the circular mats, and the same DSP was used to create some leaves using the Stippled Roses dies.

Those pretty sequins are a freebie from Sale-a-bration, gotta love that!

You can go to the AHSC blog page tomorrow to see ALL the designers' creations!  Get some inspiration and share yours with us too!  

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sketched Butterflies, Perfectly Wrapped (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, Perennial Lavender DSP
Ink	Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Dimensionals, Purple Sequins
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stippled Roses Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret)

AAA280 Butterfly Sympathy

Happy Tuesday, happy New Year's Eve!  Sadly, I needed sympathy card #3.....I notice that these things often happen in threes, so I was kind of waiting for it. While shopping yesterday, I saw one of my customers from several years ago and she shared her dad passed away, so this card is for her!  It uses the sketch from AAA Cards:

I pulled out a retired stencil and the Sketched Butterfly stamp set and this is what I came up with:

The stencil was blended with Fresh Freesia ink and the butterflies were stamped in Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape.  I added a sentiment from Unbounded Love and those pretty Purple sequins available through SAB when it starts:

And the inside:

Have a happy and safe New Year's Eve and thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Unbounded Love, Sketched Butterflies
Card stock & Papers	Basic White
Ink	Fresh Freesia, Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather
Accessories	Purple Adhesive Sequins, Butterflies & Flowers Masks (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Blending Brush, Sketched Butterflies Dies

Hello Fall with Iconic Imagery

Happy Tuesday, peeps! Hope you're having a good week so far!  It definitely does not feel like August here in SE PA, but that's fine with me!  Since it feels more fall-like, I decided to play with some fall images from the new Iconic Imagery bundle.  I used the colors from Hand-Stamped Sentiments (gulp, Wild Wheat is in there!) as well as the fun sketch from CAS Colour & Sketches:

So here we go:

I diecut three leaves from Very Vanilla cardstock and stamped them with the challenge colors, stamping off for the centers.  A few little sprigs from the same die set were cut with matching colors, tucked behind each leaf on a Spotlight on Nature circle...the one that looks like a paper plate! Not sure if I am happy with that look but it is what it is!  I also embossed another Vanilla panel with the Leaf Fall embossing folder to add to the fall feel:

The sentiment is from Choose Happy and it just happens to fit in the wee little banner die featured in Iconic Imagery as well! Serentipitous!  A few more leaves and a pretty sentiment from Sketched Butterflies went on the inside:

Off to the library to get some more books! I just read a great book and I must say that I LOVED it! It was called Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen....very cleverly done, intriguing story, twists and turns, and a happy ending!  I also read The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander! It was cute too!  

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Iconic Imagery, Choose Happy, Sketched Butterflies
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Moody Mauve, Wild Wheat, Blackberry Bliss
Ink	Moody Mauve, Wild Wheat, Blackberry Bliss
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Iconic Imagery Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Leaf Fall Embossing Folder

JAI712 Countryside Thanks

Happy Friday, peeps! So glad the weekend is upon us! And the hot weather broke, so it's refreshingly cool here in SE PA!  I made a quick card today, using some scraps from the Countryside DSP line and a sketch from Just Add Ink:

This sketch is perfect for using up some of those little pieces of DSP we can't bear to throw away!  Here we go:

So easy peasy!  I stamped a thank you from Sketched Butterflies and colored in some flowers from Country Birdhouse to embellish my card; all the strips went on a mat of Boho Blue as well.  The final embellishment was a little Blooming Pearl:

I always need thank you cards for my customers, so this one will get popped in the mail today!  Thanks for visiting today!

A few more kids' vacation pix:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sketched Butterfly, Country Birdhouse
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Boho Blue, Night of Navy, Countryside DSP
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Boho Blue
Accessories	Blooming Pearl, Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Country Birdhouse Dies, 2 3/8" Circle Punch, Blender Pens

PP699 Joanne's CAS Birthday

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess with an awesome CAS theme for us today---a quick, easy, Clean-and-Simple birthday!

This challenge gave me a chance to play with some new goodies!  Here we go:

I used Wanted to Say dies with Berry Burst glimmer paper and Fresh Freesia cardstock, then added a sweet little watercolored butterfly from Sketched Butterflies and mounted it on an impressively-embossed background using the Dotted Circles embossing folder:

I placed the embossing folder so that the center circle would be where the butterfly sat!  On the inside, I added a sentiment from Country Birdhouse and a few more butterflies in Berry Burst:

I hope you can find some time to play along with our Clean-and-Simple challenge this week! We always need birthday cards, so get some stamps, ink and paper and show us your easy cards!  Can't wait to see them over at the Paper Players!  Thanks for visiting! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sketched Butterflies, Country Birdhouse
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Thick Basic White, Fresh Freesia, Adhesive Sheet, Berry Burst Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Berry Burst
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Wanted to Say Dies, Sketched Butterflies Dies, Dotted Circles Embossing Folder

FMS644 Sweet Friend

Happy Thursday, all!  The FMS sketch was super-duper fun, a great way to use up some new papers I got recently!  Here it is:

These papers are from Not 2 Shabby and they have a sweet little sheen and a bit of heft to them, very easy to work with!  Here we go: 

I stamped a sentiment from the retired Honey Bee set in Pecan Pie ink on a Stitched Labels diecut, then added a Sketched Butterflies butterfly, stamped in Calypso Coral:

I left the inside to use for whatever occasion might come up!  This was such an easy and fun sketch!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sketched Butterflies, Honey Bee (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Rustic Blooms (Not 2 Shabby)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Calypso Coral
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Sketched Butterflies Dies, Stitched Labels Dies (ret)

Sketched Butterfly Birthday

Happy Friday, peeps! BOY is it hot!  I wonder how I ever survived living in my house without A/C!!!  What a wimp I am!  Anyway, I stayed inside this morning, stamping and coloring and diecutting!  Here we go:

As You See It has a wonderful color challenge this week, and Tuesday Morning Sketches has an equally wonderful sketch:

When I first saw the colors, I had a totally different project in mind, but I also knew I wanted to play with my new Sketched Butterflies sets, so I decided to use the large butterfly as a focal point.  Now, I know there are probably NO butterflies that look like this, but that's the beauty of art--you can make anything any color you want! After watercoloring the different panels on the butterfly, I found some scraps of DSP to match the challenge colors and they formed my banners:

I didn't space my banners correctly, so my butterfly is hanging over the edge of my card, so I made a custom envelope with some retired DSP and the retired Envelope Punch Board to make sure it fit!  A pretty sentiment and some more butterflies went on the inside!

And since CAS on Sunday is looking for watercoloring, I'm entering it there as well!

Thanks so much for popping in today!  Stay cool, enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sketched Butterflies
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Watercolor Paper, DSP in Daffodil Delight, Blueberry Bushel and Granny Apple Green (all ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Daffodil Delight, Blueberry Bushed, Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Sketched Butterflies Dies, Aquapainter