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

Cards from the Sea

My cards today were prompted by the August Twofer Card Challenge: Nautical. At first I thought it meant boats, lighthouses and the beach but later realized it included sea life. I have a couple PTI sets teeming with turtles, fish, sea horses and reef flora found on the ocean floor. In my stack of hoarded papers I found an ombre piece which looks like expert ink blending and perfect for a CAS ocean background. 

Card #1 

PTI Salt Air: Fauna and Sentiments, Reef Builder dies

Top folding A2 white card base

pattern paper has DI Antique Linen blended sandy bottom

Card #2

PTI Salt Air: Fauna and Sentiments, Shape Shifters: Circle 1 die

The Greetery: Sentiment Suite Basics die

Spellbinders: Circles Nestabilities

As long as the sea creatures and reef dies were 

out I made a third card similar to the first.

Card #3

PTI Salt Air: Fauna and Sentiments, Reef Builder dies, Pierced Feature Frames die

Side folding A2 aqua mist card base

Linking first two cards - Twofer Card Challenge: Nautical,

All three cards - SS Monday/SS Wednesday - both Midsummer Blues. 

           

 

See you around the blogs and instagram

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Happy Birthday

Yesterday I shared three cards made with my recent PTI purchase of Grand Botanicals dies. Today I have a birthday card using the large bloom die cuts as the feature with leaves (PTI Songbirds) and striped pattern paper cut framing it. An older wood stamp from Impress provided the wispy birthday greeting.  The bloom shimmers with a clear Wink of Stella covering and yellows stickles for the center. I finished the envelope with a stenciled "hello" from PTI's Envelope Envy and included a sticker from Just Add Sunshine with the card.

Linking this to Seize the Birthday #171 Flowers, 

SSS Monday: Bright and Cheerful,

SSS Wednesday: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and maybe I'll see you on Instagram too.

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