The 12 Kits of Holidays - May 2013 Edition

It is just about the end of the month and that means it is time again for our 12 kits post. Our fabulous hostess this month is Marybeth, and what an amazing kit she sent...sequins, ribbon, die cuts, patterned paper and even a wonderful stamp set from Serendipity! So many wonderful ingredients and for so many different types of cards.  I now have a little stash of get well cards that I would never have made without this kit. I was lucky enough to receive the "self assembling" kit from Marybeth, thank you! Really my cards just seemed to fall into place, it is so nice when you have so many yummy goodies and that happens. Since this week's challenge over at SSS is Anything Goes, I will be entering a few of these cards there.

Kit Photo Courtesy of Kara

Be sure to stop by the rest of the 12 kits group and see all the amazing creations they made with Marybeth's wonderful kit.  For a list of the supplies used, be sure to check out Marybeth's blog. Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my cards....have a wonderful day!

Marybeth - This month's hostess

Jeanne

Christina

Amy

Kim (that's me)

Kara

Kelly

Jessica

Joyce

Renee

Tracey

Sharron 

Happy Birthday Ardyth!

Happy Birthday Ardyth! Surprise!!! 

Today we celebrating Ardyth's birthday in blogland.  Darnell was so sweet to organize this virtual birthday party so you will need to head over to her blog, djkardkreations to see all of the wonderful cards that have been made in honor of this incredibly talented lady, Ardyth.  Darnell asked that we CASE one of your incredible cards for you.  If you do not know Ardyth, you must go over to her blog to check out her amazing cards and you and find her blog here at MASKerade. I promise you will be amazed! Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by to peek at my card....have a fabulous day!

I think there are only 46 candles on this cake...

Ardyth's Card

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: New Leaf and White

Stamps: Stylish Birthday Sentiments and SSS - Flower Friend

Ink: Berry Sorbet, Summer Sunrise, Winter Wisteria and Orange Zest and SU - Real Red

Pearls: SU

Happy Memorial Day

I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day today. Our day was very quiet and Dwight did some BBQ'ing for dinner, so yummy!  I took some time to day to get a few more cards made, 2 of which I am posting here.  The first card is for this week's Muse Challenge #19.  Michelle's inspiration card is just beautiful so I decided to make one just like it.  I did not have any sweet bird stamps so I added a bit of bling in the centers of some of my flowers. 

Michelle's Inspiration Card

My second card is for this week's Merry Monday #64...I love getting a bit ahead in making my Christmas cards and this weekly challenge is wonderful for that.  I love using jingle bells on my cards too, it drives my daughter nuts because she worries how they will get mailed...too fuuny! Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my cards....have a fabulous week!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Muse

Solid Card Stock: White, New Leaf and Berry Sorbet

Stamps: Sentiments Signs and SSS - Flower Friends

Bling: my stash

Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays - Snowflake Greetings

Ink: New Leaf, Winter Wisteria, Berry Sorbet, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise and SU - Real Red

Merry Monday's

Solid Card Stock: White and Black and WP9 - Red

Dies: In The Meadow and Lil Inkers - Polaroid Frame

Baker's Twine: Pure Poppy

Patterned Paper and Jingle Bells: My Stash

Case Study #142

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend so far. Yesterday was a quiet day and I did get several cards made but those are for posting at the end of the month.  Today we spent the day at AT&T park and watched the San Francisco Giants kick some Colorado Rockies butt!!! So fun to watch my team win, 7-3, and so much fun to spend the day at the ballpark with my family.  Now for some crafting time and so far I have one card made and it is for this week's Case Study. The inspiration card is simply stunning!  Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my card....wishing you a wonderful and safe holiday tomorrow!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: Rustic White

Patterned Paper: Spring Moss and Sweet Blush

Stamps: WM - Camellia and SSS -  Flower Friend

Pearls: Kaiser

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop - May 2013

This month's blog hop theme is flowers and PTI gave us 7 beautiful "Bouquet Builder" color combination s to work with. Until just a few months ago I did not own any flower stamps, or very very few of them. With a bit of intervention from friends I finally saw the light. Now I own several sets and have even more on my wish list. I made 3 cards from this month's and really had so much fun.

My first card is a CASe of Lisa's card,  you can see here. I know there must me a secret to getting it come out perfect but I had no clue so I did what worked, made 3 before I got it right. 

My second card is a CASe of one the Tracey made and you can see her card here. I love the clean lines of it and DayDreamer is at the top of my favorite flowers. 

Thank you so much taking time to stop by to peek at my cards...have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Sending Birthday

Solid Card Stock: White

Ink: Terracotta Tile, Orange Zest, Harvest Gold and Simply Chartreuse

Dies: Picket Fence

Stamps: DayDreamer and Stylish Sentiments Birthday and The Alley Way Stamps - Awesome Blossom

Ribbon: Melon Berry

Happy Birthday

Solid Card Stock: White and Ripe Avocado

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise and Ripe Avocado

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments Birthday and Frilly Flowers

Dies: Edgers

Sequins: My Stash

Joy and Happiness

Solid Card Stock: White and Ripe Avocado

Patterned Paper: Melon Berry

Ink: Orange Zest, Ripe Avocado, Canyon Clay

Punch: SU - Edge Punch

Stamps: DayDreamers

CAS(E) this Sketch #29

Oh, I am so excited!!! This is my first time playing along with CAS(E) this Sketch and my card just seemed to fall into place. I used the remains of what was once my anniversary card from Joyce. Now I could just kick myself for not taking a picture of it when it was whole.  I took the lower portion of Joyce's card which was stamped wood grain in gray on ivory, such a beautiful pairing.  So I took that bottom portion for my slanted piece and for the 3 images I used the roses and leaves. Such a fun and fast card to make and I have to say it was a great way to recycle a card rather than put in the trash.  

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: Ivory

Patterned Paper: Ocean Tides

Stamps: Script Sentiments

Pearls: SU

Muse #18

Happy Wednesday! It seems like forever since I have made a card to post...long week so far but only 10 more school days until summer vacation, so excited. Then a full month off until I start teaching summer school, again, so excited and I am really looking forward to having so much time to just play! I have 2 cards to share tonight, one for this weeks Muse...Marion Vagg made an incredible card, so full of vibrant color. Just so beautiful, and her coloring, off the charts. So perfect for an inspiration card. 

My second card is one that I recycled goodies from a card that I received in the mail. Joyce was so sweet and sent me an anniversary card and it was so beautiful I hated to just put in the recycle pile in the garage, so I pulled all the fabulous little goodies off the card and made this one. Joyce made these beautiful roses and there was no way I could not use them! I still have enough to make 2 more cards!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Muse 

Solid Card Stock: White and Summer Sunrise

Patterned Paper: Summer Sunrise

Stamps: DayDreamer and Beautiful Butterflies

Ink: New Leaf, Raspberry Fizz and Winter Wisteria, Memento - Danube Blue and Tangelo, Color Box - Lemon Drop and VersaFine - Black

Pearls: SU

Recycled Thank You 

Solid Card Stock: Soft Stone

Patterned Paper: Ocean Tides and Spring Moss

Stamps: Think Big Favorites #2

Dies: Filigree Border

Moxie Fab, CASology #44 and SSS Flower Power

It is always so much fun to be able to have a few cards fit so many different challenges and thanks to my sweet friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea for both helping me see the light when it comes to stamping flowers and always knowing when and where the next challenge is!  We all need a friend like her.  In fact this card set is in honor of Miss Joyce, not only does she keep me posted on the challenges but she is a pretty awesome personal shopper too! She will also share anything she has with you and each one of my cards is using dies that she sent to me.  So the theme for my set of cards is flowers, sharing and birthdays and is for challenges at Moxie Fab World, Simon Says Stamp and CASology. Thank you so for stopping by to peek at my cards...have a wonderful weekend!

Waltzingmouse Blog Party - School's Out

It is the 17th of the month and that means it is time once again for Waltzingmouse Blog Party and this month's theme is "school's out".  I was not quite sure what to make for this theme so I thought of a fun little teacher gift. My daughter is in college now and there is no way on earth she would ever think of taking a teacher gift to one of her teachers but I thought I could use it as a gift for one my co-workers.  I love these little notepads from Papertrey Ink and they really make fun little gifts.  I went through my patterned paper looking for something school like and found this piece from Doodlebugs, Take Note.  I also found a few school theme brads and a charm floating around too to give it more of a school look. I also had to short pieces of the ruler ribbon that Joyce sent me from Britex and I had to use it for this. I need to make a run to San Francisco to restock soon.  You have 24 hours to play along with the festive mouse party, you can find the link here.  Thank you so much for taking time to stop by and peek at my project...have a fabulous day!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White

Patterned Paper: Doodlebug - Take Note

Ribbon: Britex - thanks Joyce

Brads and Charm: My Stash

Stamps: WMS - Compact Sentiments

Ink: SU - Real Red

Sequins

Colourq #189 and Muse #17 Challenges

I have two cards to share today that I made last night. I fell in love with the colors for this week's Colourq challenge colors, they all went together so well. In fact I had a dream about this card so it was easy to make. I really struggled on the size of the rooster and was sharing this dilemma with a sweet friend of mine and it became a PG-13 or R rated conversation and had me on the floor laughing! I will not share the story but will say it still has me giggling.  It was so excited to see that I actually had the right color ink too, Coral Calypso from SU, so fun to match.  

My second card is for Muse and the inspiration card by Therese Calvird, it is just too sweet with her adorable elephants standing on top of one another. When I saw her card it reminded me of these cute little elephant stickers that have been floating around my craft room for many years. I was not sure what to do with them but they were too cute to toss. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by and peek at my cards...have a wonderful day!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless noted

 Colourq

Solid Card Stock: White and Black, SU - Coral Calypso

Patterned Paper: Stash

Die: In the Meadow and MB - Grand Madison Window 

Stamps: WMS - French Country and Neat and Tangled - Sunburst

Pearls: Kaiser

Ink: SU - Coral Calypso and VeraFine - black

Muse

Solid Card Stock: White and New Leaf

Patterned Paper: Lawn Fawn - Pink Lemonade

Stamps: PS - Salutations

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Die: Loopy Die

Pearls and Bling: Kaiser