Garden Variety - Thanks so Much

Hello, today I have another card using the PTI Garden Variety set. I'm having fun creating with this stamp set, I love all of the fun garden images it contains and I can't seem to get enough of the cute picket fence die either.

Other than using the Garden Variety set for my card I also used the flower/fence image from the Friendship Jar Spring Fillers and stamped and colored the image with Copic markers. Then I die cut the GV seed packet frame, stamped and sponged the edge with crumb cake ink and attached my image. It may be difficult to see but for the picket fence I used the wood grain impressions plate on some early espresso cardstock and then die cut the fence.

Supplies: Garden Variety & coordinating die, Picket fence die, Wood grain Impressions Plate, Friendship Jar Spring Fillers, Buttons, Linen Thread, Copics, Ribbon, My Mind's Eye dp, Mega Mixed Messages, Tag die, Foam tape.  Colors: Early Espresso, Really Rust.

SSSC125 - Let Us Be Grateful...

It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #125.  For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Garden Variety along with the coordinating dies and the set Inside & Out Thank You.  As you can see I ended up flipping Karen's sketch only because I wanted to use the combination of the Garden Variety set along with the sentiment I picked out from the Inside & Out Thank You and the only way I could get it to work was to flip it.  This "Let us be Grateful" sentiment is one of my favorites, I actually have a Mary Engelbreit (love her work) print in my laundry room with this sentiment on it (see photo below) and thought it would work well with the GV images.

Supplies: Garden Variety with dies, Inside & Out Thank You - PTI, My Mind's Eye Stella Rose DP, Circle Nesties, SU flower punch, Brad, MS Picket Fence punch, Linen Thread, Foam tape.  Colors: Early Espresso, Really Rust, Taken with Teal, Old Olive.

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 
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

Botanical Silhouettes - With Sympathy

Hello!  I hope all you who celebrate the 4th of July enjoyed your weekend!  We took a road trip up north to spend three and a half days with family and enjoyed our time catching up with family, the lake, sun, boating, a beautiful fireworks display and so much more.

Today I have a sympathy card to share, it's never fun to create a sympathy card when you actually need one and yesterday that was the case for this card.  My husband's uncle passed away Tuesday and I wanted to create a card for the family.  I used the Papertrey Ink anniversary stamp set Botanical Silhouettes and kept my card clean and simple.  I popped up one of the stamped blooms and added black glitter to the centers of each flower, stamped the sentiment onto vellum, notched out an area on the image and added a black button and used the lattice embossing folder for a textured background.

Have a great Thursday!

SSSC124 - Celebrate Today

Happy 4th of July weekend to everyone in the states!  Today is Sunday which means it's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!

The card that I have for today is a birthday card for my mom who's birthday is July 5th.  Some times I create birthday cards for my mom that are flowery and pretty but today I went with the whole patriotic look and hope she likes it.  I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Cupcake Collection along with the coordinating dies, some red white and blue designer paper that I've had in my stash forever, ribbon, an SU star punch and a button with red white bakers twine.

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 
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

Enjoy the rest of you weekend!