MIM: stamping on patterned paper

I just wanted to say a heartfelt thank you for all of your encouragement as I start my design-team journey.  I'm crafting quite a bit these days, and it's a totally new thing to have to keep my projects under wraps.  I'm not usually this good at keeping secrets :)

I found a few minutes to create a quick one for this week's MIM: stamping on patterned paper.

I grabbed these 3 patterned papers from my scrap drawer and stamped the bee image (from PTI's "baby button bits") onto them.  I nestled the sentiment into the swirl, cut out the wings from a 4th patterned paper scrap, added a button and called it a night.  It is such a simple card, but stamping the images onto patterned paper gives it a bit more flair....


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MIM, part 2.

Hi, all!

ETA: if you were hoping for the recipes from Maia's cookie party, I added it into that post.  Click here, and scroll down to the bottom to access the PDF with our 5 amazing cookie recipes :)

I have another one to throw into the mix of PTI's "MIM" challenge, and also into the CAS-ual Fridays birthday challenge:

 Sorry that the pictures are a bit less than inspired... I couldn't stop coughing long enough to grab many non-shaky pictures :)

I loved Dawn's little sentiment tab at the top, so I grabbed an old SU punch and transferred the look to my card :)  The cupcake is from "baby button bits."

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from the scrap pile

Do you keep a little scrap pile of stuff that didn't work on other cards?  I do!  I made the embossed-woodgrain-brayered background for last week's MIM challenge, but never got around to creating a card with it before we left for Henderson Harbor.

The cupcake image (from PTI's baby button bits) was stamped onto a bookprint and colored in with copics.  And then I never used it.

A blank mat stack shape was also in that pile.

And a strip of leftover brown cardstock, stamped with lawn fawn's "schoolhouse backdrops".

Put it all together, and I have my entry for this week's CAS-ual Fridays.  In about 10 minutes.  'Cuz sometimes, that's all the time you've got.

MIM #31

Hi peeps!  I'm just warning you ahead of time... I went a little crazy on the sewing machine.

This weeks' PTI Make-it-Monday challenge was to create a background using non-background stamps.  I took the triangle banners from "banner builder" and created a baby quilt:

I haven't decided yet if the crazy machine stitching works or not.  You can be the judge :)

The sweetie-pie cupcake image is from PTI's "baby button bits".  I paper-pieced the leaves, cupcake, and cupcake liner using different colors of cardstock that were stamped with subtle patterns.

Since the background is so crazy (or cozy... not sure yet, right?) I kept the focal panel super simple.

Hope you like it!

sweet birthday...

I needed a quick birthday card, and the sketch over at CAS-ual Fridays was just the jumping off point that I needed to make it happen.

I'm really excited to have another sketch to work with - I love seeing how many different directions a single sketch can go...  I took mine to a sweet spot:

Is there anything more synonymous than birthdays and cupcakes?  We're still dealing with the "under 6" club, and they are convinced that no major celebration can pass by without being sealed with cupcakes.  I wholeheartedly agree.

For this card, I paper-pieced the cute little cake out of scraps of SU papers and set it aside.  I created a mask  and stamped PTI's chevron stripes inside, using SU's blushing bride ink.  The sentiment (from PTI's simple sentiments) was curved around the chevron semi-circle.  I love being able to do that with clear stamps - and it really helped to define the area a bit better.  Here's a bit of a closer peek:

Thanks for letting me play along at CAS-ual Fridays!