Happy Birthday

I've been dying to use this branch I got from SSS and I finally got the chance! I used a free digital stamp from Avery Elle. I love these lanterns! Too cute!

First I scored a piece of cardstock from PTI. I then took a piece of SSS water color paper and with distress inks, watercolored the back. I dried it with my heat tool.  I then stamped Happy Birthday from SSS in Versamark, covered it in white embossing powder and finally heat embossed it. For the lanterns, I colored them with Copics and covered them with Glossy Accents. I drew black lines with my Copic mutli-liner for the strings. I adhered them with pop up dots. I then added dash lines around the outside with my uniball pen. Loved the final result! :) 

This will be entered into Avery Elle's April Challenge. It's also being entered in the CAS challenge! Thanks for stopping by!

Cloud 9 Challenge

When I saw the inspiration picture over at Cloud 9's April Challenge, I knew I had to participate. I thought it would be easy. Needless to say, I had a lot of mess ups. Nothing I wanted to use seemed to go together well and I would have silly stamping or embossing mistakes. It was honestly a disaster. So I decided to give it a day and come back to it. So glad I did because I love the final results.

First I took a piece of red cardstock from PTI and scored it. I took another piece of PTI cardstock and stamped it with PTI's Irristably Ikat stamp in Lucky Limeade from Stampin' Up. Next I took a pice of PTI cardstock and heat embossed it with an image from W9Plus. I love those little sayings. Too cute! I adhered it to the bottom of the card. 

Then I took one of the recent release stamps from PTI, Wonderful Words: Hello mini stamp and stamped it in Versa Mark ink. I took Stampin' Ups Gold embossing power and covered it then heat embossed it. I am just in LOVE with this powder. I took some clear foam adhesive from SSS and popped it up for some added dimension.

To finish it off, I added some gold sequins that I bought off Etsy! Love me some Etsy :) Well I hope everyone enjoys the card as much as I do! Now who to send it to? 

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I'm joining a challenge over at Paper Smooches. We have to follow this cute little layout and this is what I came up with. I used a paper smooch stamp. I heat embossed the flower. After I was finished, I blended different ranger inks to create the colorful background. I wrapped some twine around and then adhered the flower. I heat embossed a simple greeting to the bottom. To finish it off, I added a few sequins I actually just got in the mail today! Just in time! ;)

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I decided to join wplus9's challenge this week. I loved their inspiration photo. I really just copied it with mostly wplus9 stamps and some PTI stamps for the fill ins. I think it's adorable! :) For the inks, I used Stampin' Up and Hero Arts Shadow Inks. 

This is also being entered into a new challenge blog. Sister Act Card Challenge. We'll see how it goes! :)

Happy Birthday!

Here's another card I made for SSS's 4 year Birthday Challenge. I took a piece of Bazzell cardstock and  scored it. I then took a piece of stone paper from PTI and heat embossed it with a background stamp. A piece of cardstock from SSS was added. I then took one of PTI's new stamp sets, Cutting Garden and used Hero Arts Shadow Ink to ink it up. The leaves were inked with Stampin' Up ink. With ranger ink, I inked up a scrap of paper after heat embossing Happy Birthday. 

Happy Birthday SSS! You're such a fabulous company :)

Birthday Wishes

Here's a simple card. I made it for the challenge over at SimonSaysStamp. It's their 4 year Birthday. I absolutely love SSS. They have wonderful products and their customer service is amazing! The challenge was to create a birthday card. Here's what I came up with!

I embossed the bottom of a piece of Bazzell white cardstock with a polka dot plate from Stampin' Up. I then added a strip of striped cardstock. The stamp Birthday Wishes is from PTI. I love that set! I then took the flower from SimonSaysStamp's February kit and heat embossed it. I then went over top with a couple of different Ranger inks. It was popped up with dimensionals. I added a flower to the inside of the card as well!

This card will also be entered into a challenge over at Sister Act Card Challenge! :)

Hello There

Why, Hello There! ;) Glad you've came to visit my blog! I hope you like what you see. So, I'm in love with pink and gold. They're just a wonderful color combination. First I took Sweet Blush paper from PTI. This color is amazing. I then took W9Plus white paper and stamped it with Stampin' Ups Pink Pirouette ink and also Brilliance Gold ink. I die cut 2 different sized circles made by Sizzix. I then stamped these dies with VersaMark, then the gold ink, and covered it with clear embossing powder. I then heat embossed it and I think it turned out wonderful. I love the dimension it adds. Before I placed the sentiment down with dimensional stickers, I added two strips of glue tape. I covered them in Martha Stewart's Gold glitter. I'll be entering these into some different challenges. The first will be Simonsays Challenge found here. The next challenge will be entered into W9Plus' challenge found here. This will also be entered into PTI's Make it Monday Challenge.

I'm sure I'll be adding cards throughout the week considering I'm jobless. (Not by choice--had to quit due to us moving to California in a couple of weeks!!) So be on the lookout! Thank you for stopping by. :)