Button Flowers & Butterfly

I've got two cards to share today.  First up is for Inspired by All the Little Things.  I was doing some tidying in my craft room and found these ancient Sassafrass flower stickers.  I put them together with some die cut Paper Smooches stems and an Essentials by Ellen sentiment.  Quick and easy but colorful and fun.      

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Wild Wasabi, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Sentiment from 12 Days Companion Greetings) Essentials by Ellen

Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Dies:  (Stems from Dainty Flowers & Dainty Flowers 2) Paper Smooches

Stickers:  Sassafrass

Gems:  Recollections

Next up is for the Just Us Girls black and white stripes challenge.  I initially tried making white stripes on black cardstock using embossing paste but it all went horribly wrong so I went back to the drawing board.  I wanted broad stripes but only found skinny stripes in my patterned paper collection.  I finally just trimmed pieces of black and white cardstock and die cut them with a stitched square to create the little panel.  The PTI butterfly is cut from hot pink DCWV glitter paper.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Basic Grey, Basic Black) Stampin' Up, (Pink glitter) DCWV

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Think Big Favourites 5)) Papertrey Ink

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Butterfly) Papertrey Ink, (Stitched square) Lil' Inker Designs

Gems:  (Large gem) Doodlebug, (Small gems) Recollections

Inspired By All The Little Things Guest Designer

I was absolutely thrilled to bits when the lovely and talented Karren of Stamping Stuff invited me to be her guest for this week's Inspired by All the Little Things challenge!  If you've never visited Karren's blog you are missing out.  Her creations are gorgeous and I'm in awe of her colouring skills.  

Here is this week's inspiration photo.  I was inspired by the pink behind the placard and the white sentiment framed by the flowers.  I wish I could say that I inked up the coloured panel on my card but alas, I am not that talented.  Instead it's a gorgeous piece of Cosmo Cricket paper.  The sentiment is stacked multiple times for dimension.  For the flowers I embossed them on vellum, keeping them simple so they wouldn't compete with the coloured panel.

I hope you'll join us and play along this week.  It's wedding season after all so it wouldn't hurt to have a wedding card in your stash!  Also if you have a moment I'd love it if you popped over to the Inspired By... blog and checked out my little interview.  :)

Have a great weekend!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Vellum), (Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  (Hey Sugar 12x12) Cosmo Cricket

Stamps:  (Flowers & leaves from Doodled Dasies) Lil' Inker

Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukeniko

Embossing Powder:  (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Die:  (Mr & Mrs) Paper Smooches, (Stitched Rectangle Scallop Edge Frame) My Favourite Things

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Other:  (Nuvo Oyster Grey Crystal Drops) Tonic

Ferris Wheels

Hi there!  I've got a card to share today for the Inspired by the Little Things challenge.  This Lawn Fawn ferris wheel is an oldie but goodie.  I embossed it in red, inked up the background with Distress Inks and cut it with a WPlus9 scalloped rectangle die.  What looks like water droplets around the top are actually stars from a Mama Elephant cover plate.  I cut them but left them in place and then covered them with clear Wink of Stella.  Finally I added an Altenew sentiment and some gems.  I'm also going to add this to the Simons Says Wednesday Anything Goes challenge.   

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink

Stamps:  (Ferris wheel from Admit One) Lawn Fawn, (Sentiment from Bejeweled) Altenew

Inks:  (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Fossilized Amber, Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio, Mermaid Lagoon, Blueprint Sketch) Ranger

Embossing Powder:  (Rouge) Zing

Dies:  (Stars coverplate) Mama Elephant, (Scalloped rectangle) WPlus9

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Gems:  Recollections

Since I had this stamp set out I decided to use it for a second card.  This time I used the design from CAS(E) This Sketch and the colours from Just Us Girls.  While the first card is pretty dreamy this one is definitely more masculine.  This time I used a sentiment from the LF set and a speech bubble from Neat & Tangled.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Kraft) Papertrey Ink, (Real Red, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Ferris wheel & sentiment from Admit One) Lawn Fawn, (Speech bubble) from A Lot to Say) Neat & Tangled

Inks:  (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Other:  (Nuvo Ebony Black Crystal Drops) Tonic

Gems:  Recollections

Inspired By All The Trees

Hi there!  I'm playing along today with the photo inspiration at Inspired by All the Little Things.  I love those fun coloured trees especially the one that looks a little tipsy.  :)  I know C9 and PTI have some fun bottle brush tree stamps but they haven't made it into my inventory yet so I used these Altenew tree silhouettes for my card.  I used my MISTI to get a nice smooth image although the colours ended up a little richer than I had planned.  I still like how it came out though. 

Hope you are all having a lovely day and Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White, Textured White) Bazzill, (Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Tree & sentiment from Festive Silhouettes) Altenew

Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko, (Strawberry Slush, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Island Indigo) Stampin' Up

Embossing Powder:  (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Gems:  Recollection

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Christmas Duo

Hi there!  I've got two cards to share this evening for three challenges.  First up is for the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge.  I've had this Technique Tuesday sentiment for ages and today it finally got it's moment to shine (or twinkle even)!  I have lots of American Crafts glitter tape kicking around and thought it would compliment the sentiment well.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Twinkle On) Technique Tuesday

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Tape:  American Crafts

Gems:  Recollections

This card is for two challenges.  Lawnscaping is having a CAS challenge and I took inspiration from the photo at Inspired By All The Little Things for my design.  These Lawn Fawn stamps are all NBUS too.  I ordered them last year but they arrived too late for the holidays.  Saves me from having to order Christmas stamps for this year.  

Ha ha ha ha ha!  

Yeah right...  

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Textured White) Bazzill, (Real Red, Always Artichoke) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  (Wood Designer Cardstock Paper 6x6) My Mind's Eye

Stamps:  (Holly & sentiment from Deck the Halls, Bow from Ornate Ornaments) Lawn Fawn

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Real Red, Always Artichoke, Soft Suede) Stampin' Up

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Gems:  Recollections

Let Your Dreams Take Flight

Hello there!  I've got a card for 2 challenges today - CAS(E) This Sketch and Inspired By All The Little Things.  I flipped the CTS sketch 180 degrees and was very literally inspired by the Little Things photo.  I thought this could be a good alternative graduation card - I'm tired of making cards with hats and books at this point!       

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Textured White) Bazzill, (White, Black) Papertrey Ink, (Bashful Blue) Stampin' up

Stamps:  (Plane & sentiment from Plane Awesome) Taylored Expressions

Inks:  (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Dies:  (Clouds) WPlus9, (Stitched rectangle) Lil' Inker Designs

Markers:  (R27, R29, R59, C-1, C-3, C-5) Copic

Gems:  Recollections