Retro Sketches and Fusion Card Challenges

Good Morning...a quick post with a pretty in pink birthday card for both Retro Sketches and Fusion's current challenges.  I love these sweet flowers from Michael's, they add so much beautiful color. 

I was going to do a post with my favorite cards from 2014 but after looking at all the beautiful handmade cards that were sent me I decided to take a photo of them instead. I love getting these in the mail, thank you all so much. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your day!

Four cards for Sunday....

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mom's out there...hoping you are being spoiled and pampered! I will keep this short...I have 4 cards to share but really 2 are envelope wraps for this week's Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday #163 - Envelope Wraps and the first one is also for this week's Colourq #240. At first I was a bit stumped and then it hit me and they are just so much fun to make! You have to give this a try. My second 2 cards are for the current challenge at Fusion Card Challenge...gotta love the black, white and yellow theme, so fun! Thank you so much for stopping by and have a fabulous week!

I added some embossed some snowflakes but they are a bit hard to see, sorry. 

Ingredients

North Pole

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Pure Poppy and Michael's Silver

Die: PTI - Wine Bottle

Ink: VersaFine - Black and SU - Real Red

Stamps: Santa Stationary

Wish Big

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Die: PTI- Wine Bottle

Stamps: PTI - Birthday Style, Wish big, Background Basics - Birthday Fun and Birthday Bash Sentiments

Ink: SU Strawberry Slush and Pear Pizzazz and PTI - Aqua Mist and Sweet Blush

Thank You

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Black and White and MFT - Lemon Drop

Patterned Paper: Pebbles - Walnut Grove

Dies: PTI - Wonderful Words - Thank You

Ribbon and Button: MTF - Lemon Drop

Stamps: PTI - Guide Lines Two

Ink: VersaFine - Black and MFT - Lemon Drop

Bee

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Black and White

Stamps: Stamps of Life - Bee4me

Dies: PTI - Hexagon Coverplate

Ink: VersaFine - Black and Distress - Mustard Seed

Flowers: my stash

Two cards for Sunday...

Happy Sunday...hoping you are all having a wonderful weekend. Easter Break is now over so back to work tomorrow. I have had a fabulous weekend so far, I spent yesterday with 50 other crafty ladies, most scrapbookers at a 12 hour event. Needless to say I did not get much of anything done but I had a blast, spent most of my time visiting with friends and laughing, lots and lots of laughing.

My first card is for the current challenge at Fusion #8, love the look of chevrons and have been trying very hard to use the stamps I have on hand, so this set would qualify as a NBUS from MFT and was fun to use! It is always fun to go through what you have and find so many great stamps you forgot about. My second card is for this week's Papertrey Ink's MIM - Watercolor Splats.  My new daubers finally arrived and wow, they worked like a charm, so fun! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy your week!

Ingredients

Hello

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Black

Stamps: MFT - Mod Borders

Dies: SSS - Hello

Ink: PTI - Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz, New Leaf, Winter Wisteria and Hawaiian Shores and MFT Lemon Drop

Sequins: My Stash

Thank You

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Dies: PTI - Thank you

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

One card for Saturday....

Happy Saturday...hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.  I have one card to share today and it is for 2 challenges, ColourQ and Fusion plus I finally had the time to watch the first video from day 1 of Clean and Simple One Layer cards.  Although my card is not one layer, I loved this technique so much!  For this week's ColourQ card one of the ingredients is newsprint...some time back Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea gave me some pages from a book she picked up in Italy and I have been saving it for the perfect card and I finally got to pull it out today. 

Yesterday I took the day off and spent it with Darnell and Harriet at the Scrapbook Expo and then lunch. As always, we had a wonderful time...even though I have not known these lovely ladies very long whenever we get together it is like we are old friends and can sit and chat forever...so much fun! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy your weekend!

Harriet, Darnell and me

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White, Kraft, Limeade Ice and Black

Stamps: PTI - Harvest Berries

Die: SSS - Hello and Lawn Fawn - Speech Bubbles

Embossing Folder: Anna Griffin - Brocade

Ribbon: Britex

Enamel Dots: MME

Ink: PTI - Limeade Ice

4 cards for Friday

Happy Friday...I have 4 more cards to share with you today and each one is for different challenge.  Since I am still off for the Christmas break I wanted to make good use of my time and get as many cards made as possible.  I still have the weekend to go too...Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my cards...have a fabulous Friday!

ColourQ #222 and CASology #76

Fusion #1

Serendipity #27 Buttons

One-Layer Simplcity Challenge #1 Restocking the Shelves

Ingredients

ColourQ

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Black, Micheal's -Gold

Dies: Memory Box - Cityscape Nightline and Cityscape Silhouette

Stamps: WMS - USA - 1776 and A Muse - Party Time!

Ink: VersaMark

Embossing Powder: Ranger - Silver

Serendipity

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Simply Chartruese and White

Patterned Paper: Pebbles - Seen & Noted

Stamps: Serendipity - Three Dresses

Stamps: PS - A Little Lovin

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Fusion

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Patterned Paper: BoBunny - Hello Sunshine

Stamps: PTI - Think Big Favorites #24

Ink: VersaFine - Habanerno

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

CoverPlate: PTI - Hearts

One-Layer
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White
Stamps: PTI - City Scene and Think Big Favorites # 3
Ink: PTI - Lemon Tart, Harvest Gold, Dimply Chartruese and Smokey Shadow, SU - Smoky Slate and Baked Brown Sugar and Memento - Angel Pink

World Card Making Day 2013

Happy World Card Making Day 2013! I had a fabulous day today, spend the morning with my mom making cards and lunch out too.  I spent my time making birthday cards my little sweeties at school, I pulled out a bunch of old scrapbooking supplies that my sister gave to me some time back, finally found a fun use for them.  Thank you Robyn!

This was my side of the table, not too neat

My mom's side of the table...very neat and clean!

My mom 

When I got home I finished up the little details that my cards needed and made two more.....these cards are for a few different challenges, The Alley Ways Stamps, CAS(E) this sketch, ColourQ, Cut it Up and Fusion #19.  To top it all off I always cased Joyce's card from Cards-by-the-Sea, thank you for the inspiration! Hope you all had a fabulous day being crafty! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my cards...have a fun rest of your weekend!

Fusion Card Challenge - Hypothesis #1

Not sure if you have heard or seen this new challenge from the amazing Jackie Rockwell and Lesley Croghan, you can find all of the information right here...well it is amazing and by the number of cards that have been submitted so far it looks as if everyone knows about it! I finally found the time to play along and I have to admit it was a pretty quick and fun card to make. Actually it is kind of a sneak peek into our Four of a Kind post scheduled for the 16th...I just fell in love with the patterned paper and since so much of it was sprawled across my craft table, I just could not resist using it. Thank you so much for taking the time to take a peek at my card...have a wonderful day!

Ingredients - all PTI unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White and Harvest Gold

Patterned Paper: Pebbles - Family Ties

Stamps: Think Big Favorites #2

Pearls: Kaiser

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Dies: Chevron

Flowers: Michael's