sending you Sunshine!

Hi there, I do want to send you some sunshine! It's much needed in our state. Can you imagine there were snow flurries in our state today? Snow on April 2 in NC is a bizarre twist since our dogwoods and azaleas have just started blooming. 

Bringing some flowers your way today so that I can play along with Laurie's Favorites challenge on the PTI blog before it ends tomorrow. 

We were to choose any past Make It Monday technique to use for our card. I chose to use  MIM #312  featuring a framed sentiment. I also was highly influenced by THIS card of Laurie's because I just love her color choices. 

I began by using the stencil and inking it lightly with Midnight Muse ink from Stampin' Up! I stamped the images using additionally Aqua Mist, Tropical Teal, Harvest Gold and Honey Nut. I used the Stitching Garden and Sending You stamp sets adding a bit of sparkle with yellow sequins. 

Hope you have a great day! I'm wishing you a burst of goodness and happy hugs. 

Be yourself

     Delight in your craft 

        Make something beautiful!

Papertrey Tuesday: Stitched Stems

Hello, and welcome to a new week.  I'm getting my stamping done on this coolish cloudy day because I have some extra fun happenings coming up at the end of this week. Don't worry, I'll clue you in as the day gets closer. 

Today is my day to make something with my beautiful Papertrey products and again, I'm stamping along with the Make It Monday challenge, hosted by Michelle Leone. Her video showed us the fun technique of stitching with thread or floss along the stem for a lovely textured accent on a floral card. 

I realized that in my frenzy of purging sewing supplies, I had very few options left so gold thread was my best pick. I used it to backstitch along the center of the largest leaves, adding lines drawn along the sides with a gold Spica pen. With the same pen, I added dots to the flower centers. 

In keeping with the gold elements, I also embossed the sentiment and added gold die cut leaves. 

I'm happy to have a Mother's day card ready well in advance of the day. Now I must just manage to get it mailed on TIME, lol! 

Thanks for visiting me, I really love hearing from you! I've listed most of the supplies below. 

Be yourself

     Delight in your craft 

        Make something beautiful!

Supplies used:

Stamps: PTI - Stitching Garden and matching dies, Sentiment SU - retired

Paper: Neenah Solar White, SU - Coastal Cabana (placed inside card back)

INK: PTI - Pale Peony, Berry Sorbet, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise, Hawaiian Shores Versamark

Accessories: Gold embossing powder, PTI - Shape Shifters Oval 1 Die used to cut foil die cuts and die cut card front

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Papertrey Ink March Blog Hop Challenge

Good day to you all! 
I'm glad to be able to share my card made for the March Blog Hop 2018 at Papertrey Ink which takes place today. I've wanted to play all week long and I'm grateful to have found a bit of time to stamp over the weekend. 
The hop always begins with a photo to inspire us. I loved the one for this month. 

I was drawn to the cascades of pink blooms, an assortment of textures in the plate, old desk and the basket, and the warm homey feeling of all that blue. 
It seemed cozy as a favorite quilt to me and inspired me to make my card with a country feel. 

I began by stamping the roses from the new set Stitching Garden in layered inks on white card stock. I love the possibilities just waiting for me with these stamps! 

These are beautiful in bold colors but I wanted to have a soft pink to contrast with the medium blue. I found that sometimes stamping a layer twice in the same color, or changing the order in which I stamped the layers gave different looks to the roses. My desk is sprinkled with an array of them! 

I knew I only wanted to focus on those flowers for now, with added layering. I brought out blue card stocks, stamping them with Blueberry Sky ink, one with the woodgrain stamp, and the other with one of my favorite floral clusters. 

I used die cuts to layer and embellish with the florals and a tag with a sentiment.  The tag was kind of an afterthought, but I liked adding brownish floss to put in another bit of texture similar to the basket.

This post is getting long, so I will be sure to list the supplies at the end. 

Thank you so much for coming today and for your kind comments. 

Be yourself

     Delight in your craft 

        Make something beautiful!

Supplies used are PTI unless noted 

Stamps: Stitching Garden, Stampin' Up! - Woodgrain, Elements of Style

Paper: Neenah Solar White,  Blueberry Sky, Spring Rain, Vellum

INK: Blueberry Sky, Sweet Blush, Pale Peony, Hibiscus Burst, Simply Chartreuse, Versamark

Accessories: Stitch in Time Dies, Stitching Garden Dies, Shape Shifters - Oval, Dew Drops, White Embossing Powder