Happy Birthday

I've had several stamped panels with Concord & 9ths' Tree Ring waiting to be transformed into cards. This week's CASology cue word is "Squiggle" and I was ready.

Stamps: Concord & 9th - Tree Ring; PTI - Stemmed Statements & Swoosh

 Die: PTI Stemmed Statements

Also linking this to SSS Wednesday Challenge: Use More than One Stamp
SSS Monday Challenge: Masculine

Best Wishes

Better late than never to enter the PTI MIM, right? Lizzie shared her favorite technique, Above & Below. Busy month with travel, wedding, two grandsons' birthdays and card challenges! 

PTI Stamps, Paper & Dies:

Stitching Garden & Stemmed Statements 

Keep It Simple Frames & Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical

Bitty Big Lilac Grace, Soft Stone & Weathervane

Hero Arts Shadow Inks, Yellow Stickles & lots of winking Stella

Jim & I enjoyed our first Viking river cruise from

St. Petersburg-Moscow this month. I shared photos on

Instagram/Facebook and below are a few from St.P.

Malachite Room- Hermitage

Catherine the Great's - Summer Palace

Peterhof

Interior of Christ the Savior of the Spilled Blood

exterior of the above named church

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Yay! It's Your Day

Papertrey May Blog Hop

It's time to enjoy the monthly PTI blog hop!

Inspiration source: this summer campsite.

Don't you wish you owned this darling camp trailer? I do!
My goal was to create a masculine graduation card. 

The following elements inspired my card:

Adorable retro camper

Gingham tablecloth

Round paper lanterns

Green grass

                  All stamps and dies used are from Papertrey Ink.

I rounded the corners of the A2 white card adding score lines to mimic the camper. A grassy green frame was created from the Mix & Mat: Herringbone die minus the interior die. The frame was textured with the linen impression plate and each corner highlighted with copper die cuts. The larger die from Tag #12 was cut from Chicken Scratch Gingham paper and the inner white circle stamped with sentiments from two different sets, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday and Zappy Birthday. To hide the hole in the gingham tag, a Zappy Birthday copper thunderbolt die cut was added. I used a striped paper die cut from the Envelope Envy kit to dress up the inside of the envelope. This card is on its way to Colorado for my cousin's high school graduation.

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hakuna matata

How could I pass up this challenge from CASology
and Time Out?

Last June I purchased Hero Arts' MMH kit. We have friends who have spent many years in Malawi and other African nations doing relief work in health and education. We were headed to Kenya in July 2017 with a church group to construct a school and now I could recreate those African safari scenes with this kit! 

I photographed the card on top of a South African 
copper telephone wire basket.

Below is a photo of the campus where we constructed two buildings (dark brown roofs). The older campus buildings are at the bottom. Two more groups followed ours and completed the campus  of five buildings and a large restroom. My husband and another dentist ran a dental clinic treating over 100 patients in five days.

Spring time in my yard

Sunrise

Driveway bouquets

Tulip glory

afternoon stroll in the back yard

fresh bark mulch freshens our space

blessed with my garden of eden

Love

Make it Monday #320
Spot Color Word Diecuts

This week's challenge from Betsy Veldman on the PTI blog

is a new technique for me. I noticed that it makes a difference seeing the diecut word when it is "fatter" and the ink stamping lighter. I used the rose image from Botanical Blocks and the die from Wonderful Words: Love. It's a fun effect!

Card Supplies:

  Stamp: PTI Botanical Blocks

  Dies: PTI Mix & Mat: Postal, Wonderful Words: Love

  PTI Green Parakeet card stock, Ranger Water color paper

  Copic markers and SSS rhinestones 

Love You

Papertrey April Blog Hop

It's April 25 and time for another PTI Blog Hop!

Our inspiration is below.

I was drawn to the floral bouquet on the bottom tea cup, the curvy gold edges of the china and the subtle pattern of the background. My paternal grandmother who was not the least bit domestic had a set of china like this. My mom was totally into homemaking but used very modern, graphic patterned dishes, not one floral in her cupboards. Me, I'm a happy-in-between gal with my favorite set of Portmerion Botanic Garden dish ware!

Card Parts - all PTI: 
  Butterfly Blooms (sentiment)

  Stitching Garden stamps & dies

  Mix & Mat: Flourishes die (outer frame only)

  Aqua Mist Bitty Big & vellum card stock

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