ColourQ #307

 

It's Tuesday....hope all of your here in the states had a safe and wonderful Labor Day. Mine was very quiet..spent most of the day sleeping. I know school has started because I had a bit of a bug over the weekend, sore throat, aches and pains, just feeling rather yucky. But happy that I had a long weekend to get this out of my system and back to school today. 

My card today is for the new challenge at ColourQ #307 and don't you just think the sneakers in the inspiration photo are as cute as can be??? I love wearing fun sneakers to work, plus they are always so comfortable too. I hope you will find the time to play along with us this week. The colors are fun and can't wait to see what you create!

I am also entering this card in the Retro Sketch Challenge #180

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your week!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White

Stamps: PTI - Frilly Flowers and Graceful Greetings

Ink: SU -Blackberry Bliss, PTI - Winter Wisteria, Scarlet Jewel and Limeade Ice and VersaFine - Black

Sequins: Pretty Pink Posh

ColourQ #282

Hello...it's Tuesday and time for more fabulous colors from ColourQ #282...as a rule I don't usually use much blue. but really love the look paired with Frilly Flowers stamps and dies from PTI. I was inspired by the beautiful flowers that Marybeth has been making, they are amazing. I bought a MISTI and am in love with how nice my stamped images fit on the dies, almost perfect. Hope you will find the time to play along with us this week. Several of you asked me to share the recipe to the coffee cake I made yesterday, here is the link to the King Arthur Flour site where I found the recipe, it is now a family favorite in my house.  thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your week!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White and PTI - Black

Patterned Paper: EP - Happy Days

Stamps: PTI - Frilly Flower

Dies: PTI - Frilly Flower and IO - Thanks

Ink: PTI - Spring Rain and Blueberry Sky

Papertrey Ink Anniversary - Day 3 Contest

Happy Friday!!!! Today's contest at PTI is a timed challenge, you have 7 minutes to grab 7 different card ingredients and make your card in 17 minutes.  I have a few cards to share with you tonight and I was so surprised at how difficult it was to limit my supplies to only 7 items!  No wonder I always have a huge mess on my craft table!  Anyway, I have to say it was a fun challenge and to watch the timer tick off the seconds and minutes on my phone, I finally had to turn my phone over so I could not see, that was really cutting into my card making time.

I did not record the time it took to make all of my cards...but I will say the more I made the quicker I got. I was taking close to the full 17 minutes on my first two cards and needed to speed things up just a bit to get in a few more cards. Have a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for stopping by!

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

Papertrey Ink March 2013 Blog Hop

It has been some time since I have even had time to make a card, so it was fun to actually sit down at my craft desk and be creative.  Last week I subbed every day and Saturday was our annual school auction and I was this years chairperson. So happy to say that it was a huge success and that it is over and my life can return to normal.
This month's theme for Papertrey Ink's Blog Hop is sequins. I have some coming in the mail but they have not arrived so I had to find something to use in place of them. I decided to use pinks for my card so that I would be able to use it for more than one challenge...this weeks colors for Dynamic Duos are two shades of pink.

This card is a thank you for all of you wonderful blog friends that attended my birthday blog hop, all of your cards were so sweet! Thank you Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea for taking the time to organize my surprise party, you are the best! I have also been behind on leaving blog comments and I am so sorry to all of  those that I visit on a regular basis but now I am back on track. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by and take a peek at my card...have a fabulous day!

Ingredients - all PTI unless noted

Solid Card Stock: White

Ink: Sweet Blush and Hibiscus Burst and VersaFine - Black

Stamps: Frilly Flowers and Think Big Favorites #2