Pink Card Take 2

My next pink card with white embossed resist ink blending was a mixed blessing to create. I have a young 39 year-old Australian friend battling ovarian cancer, a mom of three boys, 12 and under. Her family have been medical missionaries for the past 11+ years in Malawi and immediately returned to a southern California medical school for treatment after her July diagnosis. Her husband's family live in the area and work in healthcare. She's a gem and my hero!

PTI: Doodlie-Do, Fresh Bouquet-sentiment, 

Noted: Scalloped A2 die

Distress Oxide inks and Wow EP

Even though Shar does not have breast cancer, I am

linking this card to time out Challenges, SSSW Challenge

                       

Pink Cards Take 1

Last spring I made several cards from the January 2019 My Monthly Hero Arts Kit but never used the easel die. Jessica Frost-Ballas shared this project during the January countdown. Recently I needed a baby card and thought a pink easel would be fun to try. Jessica's instructions were easy to follow for non-mechanical me.

 Hero Arts MMH Jan 2019 stamps/dies; HA MMH June 2017 (elephant) 

   PTI Forget-Me-Not stamps/dies; PTI Penned Elegance II sentiment

While everything was out I made a second pink easel for a friend's birthday. This die would also make cute table decorations for many occasions with an appropriate sentiment.

 Hero Arts MMH Jan. 2019 stamps/dies; PTI Penned Elegance II stamp; 

Altenew Beautiful Day stamp/die (top spray of flowers)

Glossy Accents and Wink 'O Stella on balloons

These cards are linked to A Blog Named Hero: Inspired by Another Crafter, SSSW Challenge

                       

Happy Birthdays, "Leaves/Trees" and "Geometric Shapes"

 So many beautiful stamp sets, dies and other goodies lead to fun cards!

I've been having a lot of fun with die cuts, scattering them over a textured background instead of layering them. I was inspired to try this after seeing and later ordering the PinkFresh STAMPtember SSS floral frame stamp set. While waiting for their arrival I created two cards using stamps and dies from my stash. 

Card #1

 A mix of Altenew's Rennie Rose embossed in gold surround a Penned Elegance II sentiment popped up on an Altenew Dotted Swirls Debossing cover panel. I fussy cut a green shadow for the sentiment so it would show up better. The geometric shapes forming the florals and leaves should qualify for the Seize the Birthday topping, add a geometric shape. 

Card #2

 Stamped die cuts from The Greetery's Lemon Blossom and Sentiment Suite: Birthday are glued directly on an Altenew Pegboard Canvas panel. The panel was adhered to a lemon yellow card front. I figure the citrus slices are geometric shapes, circle & half circle and the lime/lemon look oval. ;-)

Linking these two to Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes + topping;

 Allsorts Challenge -Trees and Leaves; Simon Says-Anything Goes

Thanks for your visit.

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PinkFresh Studio STAMPtember cards

I'm dropping two cards on the blog tonight after a month of creating many cards but not posting any! Such a lazy woman, right?

I don't often buy SSS STAMPtember stamp sets but after seeing a project by Nina-Marie using the 2019 collaboration PinkFresh stamp set I made my order with a couple more items.

Nina-Marie's inspiration

The frame was stamped on watercolor paper and gold embossed before loosely watercoloring the images with my Altenew pan set. I finished the panel with a sentiment from The Greetery and die cut the panel with a SSS stitched rectangle. But remembering Nina-Marie's fussy cutting, I bravely fussy cut my panel staying inside of the stitching. It was attached to a green card front which was modified with a PTI linen impression plate for texture. A light rubbing of Delicata Golden Glitz ink around the card edges finished the card with a few clear droplets.

My version

 A second version was stamped in black ink, clear embossed and colored with Altenew watercolors. A SSS sentiment was stamped in gold but clear embossing unfortunately altered the golden sheen. Then I risked the entire project by stamping a PTI grid in light ink with some masking over the sentiment and finished with clear sequins.

Thanks for the visit.

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Happy 46th, Jim~

I noticed a couple blogging friends' cards this week entered in 

Laurie's Fabulous Favorites | Vellum. I made a card for my 46th

wedding anniversary in August which fits this theme and forgot 

to post it on my blog until now. 

I am the luckiest woman to have Jim as my partner for 46 years! 

He is kind, loving, tender-hearted, generous, and hard-working.

He enjoys ethnic foods, pastries and new restaurants. And lastly, 

he's an avid bird watcher who always has his binoculars nearby. 

His birding hobby with its world-wide trips permits me to invest 

in card crafting~if you get my drift.

 PTI: Choose Joy (heart), Frame It Out: Many Blessings die, Scripted stamp/die

PTI Weathervane card stock and vellum