Garden Variety

Happy Tuesday!  Hope you're doing well.  Today I have a card using the Papertrey Ink stamp set Garden Variety, this is a new set that just came out last month and I was excited to finally get my hands on it this month.  I started out with a kiwi kiss colored card base, some rose red and crumb cake cardstock and My Mind's Eye designer paper.  I also used the picket fence die, tiny tags die, seed packet frame and coordinating dies for the Garden Variety set.  This was a fun card to put together, I'm looking forward to creating with this stamp set again.

The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth,

One is nearer God's heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth.

~Dorothy Frances Gurney, "Garden Thoughts"

SSSC123 - Poppies

Good morning!  It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #123, Karen has another fantastic sketch for us this week and we hope you'll play along.

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink anniversary stamp set Botanical Silhouettes, the first time I saw this stamp set I thought of the red Oriental poppies that I used to grow at our first home.  Some of the blooms would get so large that they were the size of small dinner plates and so gorgeous to look at with the translucent petals that were a vivid red.  I started out by inking the stems in old olive ink and stamping off before stamping them onto my cardstock so that my sentiment would show up nicely stamped on top.  Then I stamped my petals in poppy parade (perfect color huh?) and added my outline using a fine black pen.  The two poppy parade squares were stamped with another stem image from the set in poppy parade ink and adhered to the front of my black card base. 

Once I tied on my green ribbon I adhered my image using foam tape and added four red rhinestones to the petals.

This photo is courtesy of Pinterest and you can find the link here.

To play along create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen’s blog The Sweetest Thing and link your card so we can all see your creation! 

Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this week’s sketch!

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse she's off this week, but stop on by and send her some love
Sarah-Jane Kale': Janeybell

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Jen Tapler: Jen Tapler Designs

Dana White: Dana's House of Cards

Karen Giron: The Sweetest Thing

Have a wonderful day!

Papertrey Ink June Blog Hop Challenge

Hello and welcome!  Today is the Papertrey Ink June Blog Hop and whether your going along with the hop or you've just stopped by, I'm glad you're here. 

This month for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge we were given the photo above as inspiration to create a card or project.  When I first saw this photo my head was swimming in different directions as far as how to start my card, but in the end I pulling two of the colors from the photo and focused on the cute little pair of boots sitting on the bench.  If you look close you can see that the boots are pink with roses and green leaves along the side.  To imitate the roses with leaves I used the PTI stamp set Blooming Button Bits along with the Beautiful Blooms die, the Mat Stack 3 die, Picket Fence die and Tiny Tags die.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

CPS120/CR84FN32 - Four of a Kind

Happy Thursday!  Today I have a card that I created using two challenges, the Card Patterns Sketch Challenge #120 and the CR84FN32 Color Challenge.  Combining these two challenges was kind of a stretch for me, I'm not sure whether I like the end results or not but I guess that's what a challenge is all about, mixing things up a bit.  I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Four of a Kind, tempting turquoise, garden green, daffodil delight cardstock and kept it clean and simple.

Thanks for visiting!