CAS-ual Fridays #100 and Muse #16

I have a few new dies cuts from my friend Joyce (Cards-by-the-Sea) sent me an envelope full of wonderful goodies. My favorite of the bunch is this Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco is my favorite place to be! As soon as I held that die in my hand I knew what I would do with it, so happy to say that I have one more to play with. I have not played along with CAS-ual Fridays challenges for sometime and I had to make my card work. This is their 2nd birthday and 100th challenge, so it is party time! You still have some time to play along and I love that this challenge is a tic-tac-toe, so much fun.  My tic-tac-toe is diagonal, upper right corner to the bottom left corner. The inside reads - May This Year be Your Best Ever - Happy Birthday.

My second card is for this week's Muse challenge and Laurie from Soapbox Creations made a fabulous card for inspiration this week and her timing is just perfect, the school year will be coming to an end soon and a card like this will come in handy. I had this "ruler" ribbon for some time now, Joyce was so sweet and sent it to me. She was up in my neck of the woods a while back and made her way to my favorite place for ribbon, Britex Fabrics. I was saving this ribbon for the perfect card and I think I finally found it. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by to peek at my cards....have a wonderful day!

Laurie's Inspiration Card

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Golden Gate Bridge

Solid Card Stock: White, Spring Rain and Orange Zest

Stamps: PS - Sentiment Sampler and MFT - Birthday Sentiments

Dies: MB - Bridge and TE - Clouds (thanks Joyce for both)

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Bling: Kaiser

Teacher

Solid Card Stock: Pure Poppy and White

Stamps: School Time and Fruit Fusion - Apple

Dies: Spiral Notebook Page and Fruit Fusion - Apple

Ink: New Leaf and Harvest Gold,  SU - Real Red, VersaMark and VersaFine - Black

Ribbon: Britex Fabrics - (thanks Joyce)

Embossing Powder: Ranger - Clear

Back to School...

It's that time of the year again, back to school and back to work. I won't complain too much with having most of the summer off (taught summer school the month of July, but no stress, just lots of fun).  I love making goodies and treats for my coworkers, so here's a card that I made to hand out to a few of my favorite buddies.  I cased this card from one of the PTI blogs, but for the life of me can't remember who so that I can give them credit. What I love most about this card is the use of the VersaMark ink with the alphabet background stamp.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used - All PTI unless otherwise stated
Solid Paper: Kraft, White, New Leaf and True Black
Ink: VersaMark, VersaFine-Onyx Black, SU-Real Red and SU-Green Galore
Ribbon: Saddle Stitch-Pure Poppy
Die: Spiral Notebook Page, Circle Punch
Stamps: School Time and It's Offical