FF15, STR160 & MIM

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I swooned when I saw the challenge at the Shabby Tea Room this week:

Gorgeous!  I do love my blues!  I needed a couple of cards, so I used the Fab Friday sketch to make two similar cards:

SU’s April 25th Anniversary stamp set features butterflies, including the beautiful one from Strength & Hope.  I saved that set because I loved it and was so happy I did:

I used Midnight Muse as my base, randomly stamping the butterfly and  images from Creative Elements on the card front.  The Crumb Cake piece was stamped with Distressed Dots in craft white and the swirl in Crumb Cake.  I cut the butterfly out by hand and adhered it to the front.  The embossed and diecut scallops at the bottom are embellished with MM stitched ribbon.  Here’s the inside:

The second card is basically the same, I just used a different sentiment from Curly Cute and left off the second banner:

This is also for the Make it Monday challenge from The Kraft Journal, which is “Anything Goes”!  Thanks for visiting today!

Paper Players Sketch 57

Happy Sunday!  Can you believe it is the last day of July!  Wow, the summer is flying by!  Nance is our hostess today and she has brought us a lovely sketch:

My niece’s birthday is tomorrow and as I was looking through her FB pages, I noticed she wears a lot of deep dark blue…she’s a blondie with blue eyes, so it’s a good color on her!  So I chose Pacific Point and Bashful Blue as my colors for her birthday card:

I stamped the butterfly from Strength & Hope three times---once on the main panel in PP, once on a layer of vellum cardstock in white, and again on Whisper White cardstock in PP, and cut the last two out.  I covered the top layer with Versamark ink and Iridescent Ice embossing powder and heated it up for a lovely glimmer:

I layered them with some rhinestones on my Bashful Blue panel, which was reverse embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots  folder and stamped in a collage fashion with various images from Style Beautiful, You’re A Gem and Nature Walk.  The entire piece was mounted on a piece of Pacific Point Patterns designer paper that was cut using the Top Note die, and a little taffeta ribbon and tag finished it off.  I also stamped the words from Nature Walk randomly on my textured white card in Versamark ink and lightly colored it with chalks.

We hope that this sketch inspires you to pick out your favorite stamps and inks and create something to share with us!  You’ll find all the details on the Paper Players blog!  Thanks for visiting today!

Look ma!  No hands!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Style Beautifiul, Strength & Hope, You’re A Gem, Nature Walk, Oval All
• Paper:  Textured White, Bashful Blue, Pacific Point Patterns DP, Vellum Cardstock
• Ink:  Bashful Blue, Pacific Point, Versamark
• Acc:  Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Taffeta Ribbon, Word Window Punch, Pacific Point Marker, Rhinestones, Top Note Die, Pastel Chalks