CAS-ual fridays: long cards

The CAS-ual Fridays challenge this week is to create a 4x9 card... clean-and-simple-style!  And their words of instruction: you must resist the urge to fill it.

I kept it to one side with my bitty party birds... the birthday boy wears the hat!



stamps: little bitty bird+simple sentiments (both PTI)
paper: pear pizazz, blushing bride, marine mist, concord crush (all SU!), grid lines+kraft (PTI)
ink: versamark, chocolate chip (SU!)
misc: taffeta ribbon

Card camp - week 2!

New colors, new card!

I honestly didn't know what to do with this batch when I started.  I mean - 2 different greens?  Yellow, orange AND red?  Huh.  Florals would work, but then...

these little sweeties were just lying around... begging me to ink them up again... I stamped them on different scraps of scrapbook papers in the red, orange and yellow colors and used 2 different green-colored markers to color the leaves.  I knew I wanted to cram as many birdies as I could on the branches, so some of them got longer legs - cute, huh? hee hee.

Then I went a little crazy on the sewing machine and made a whimsical border for the notebook page.  The rest of the card I kept pretty simple - an xl embossed scallop border, and a musical background for my base layer - to bring back the sunshine-y yellow that I love so much!

Thanks for looking!

supplies
stamps: little bitty bird (PTI), music wheel (SU!)
ink: memento black, daffodil delight (SU!), pear pizzazz marker, garden green marker (both SU!)
paper: whisper white, real red, crumb cake (all SU!)
other: scallop border, notebook page die (both PTI), embossing folder (SU!)

Flowers.

It's PTI blog-hop time!  I'm so excited to see what everyone's come up with - there are so many ways to use flowers in our work.  Since I'm desperately longing for a real spring (the kind that comes with sunshine and some warmth) I decided to go all "birds and blooms" with this one.

For each flower, I cut 6 flower-fusion #1 shapes.  Each layer was folded, folded again and then stitched in place.  I love the frayed edges, and that each flower looks a bit different.  I also die-cut the banners from an old t-shirt and stamped on them with text-style II.  I did the same thing on the leaf die-cut after stamping it with vintage cream.

I think I'm a little obsessed with banners lately.  Love making them, love looking at them.  There are a few that haven't been taken down in the house from the kids' parties...I even whipped up a cute banner for my kids to hold up during our family photoshoot this morning.  Speaking of which - time to put on some makeup and get everyone going!  I can't wait to sit down with a tea later this afternoon and make my blog-rounds!  Have a great day and thanks for looking.