life is an adventure...

One of my favorite things to do is take an interesting print and re-create it using my stamps and ink....

I was inspired by this print (and the quote):

to create this card (and give some love to an older PTI set that hasn't seen ink for quite a while in the process...):

I started out by printing the Helen Keller quote on a sheet of white cardstock.  Then, I stamped the 2 hot-air balloons (masking the first one so it looks like it's in the foreground).  The second balloon was also masked, and I stamped the entire mat with yellow chevrons and a grey sunburst pattern.  (The grey "sunburst" is actually an image from the Wplus9 "super star" set, which I stamped 2x to make the full circle).

The hot air balloons were colored in with copics, and I glazed the larger balloon with a layer of glossy accents.  I wanted it to stand out from the other one, but didn't want to add bulk to the card with foam squares... sometimes, a little dimension goes a long way, no?

Thanks for peeking!

Rosie posie card set.

I'm a little late with my classroom homework *runs to the front of the class and throws card set on teacher's desk*

I stamped a chevron pattern (PTI) on all *16* of my card bases (I actually needed a very large number of cards, it's not that I got carried away and forgot how many I was making...).  Next, I stamped "merci" and the flower from "rosie posie" on my smaller white panel, and proceeded to CUT OUT 16 full flowers, and 16 smaller blooms.  You, know, because I had told myself I didn't need the die.  Haha.  Actually, they were very easy to cut out and I had them all ready to go by the end of a Criminal Minds episode...(if you've ever watched that show, I hope you understand when I give a little *shudder* right now... I really need to quit viewing it, especially right before bed...)

Thanks for peeking!

oh, and ps to anyone who commented yesterday on how great my hubs was to bring me random flowers:  he really is, and he thanks you with great big beaming eyes.

CAS-ual Fridays - tic, tac, toe

Hi there!  I hope your weekend was lovely :)  

Now that our family is on the mend, I spent a bit of the day getting re-acquainted with my crafting supplies... 

And my first stop was to the CAS-ual Fridays challenge, where I found a fun "tic, tac, toe" board of choice:

I went with a Pink-chevrons-aqua combination and came up with this card:

I used PTI's "background basics: chevron stripes" in SU's pool party ink to create my aqua pattern.  The sentiment is from a PTI floral fusion set, and the shape it was stamped on is from the "label basics" dies (stamped with a border from the coordinating stamp set.)

To finish off, everything was adhered to a dark brown card base - to match the brown and white twine threaded through the pink button.



Thanks for looking!

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!

ice cream, is anything more delectable than...

ice-cream... (anyone else remember that song from the Anne of Green Gables musical?  anyone?)  I'm probably all alone there, but I was alternatively humming that tune and *internally* yelling: "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM" while crafting last night... hee.

I think I've determined that all food-image stamps should have faces on them.  Remember those cute vegetables from Paper Smooches?  These ice-cream cones from Basic Grey are pretty awesome too.  And I think I made them even more adorable by adding some googly to their eyes...  but some of them turned out a little too googly *coughpinkonecough*.

I broke out my newest PTI set for the background (chevron stripes) - I seriously love it.  A little PTI sentiment on one of the ticket stubs finished it off for me.  I need more cards like this in my stash - all-purpose cards that I can use for whenever.  Thanks for looking!