APearly anniversary wishes

Second card today, two challenges! Love that.

Combining the SFYTT and the inspiration photo from the City Crafter's challenge blog, I came up with this anniversary card.

I had these gorgeous Heidi Grace papers that I thought fit the inspiration challenge to a "t", pink and purple flowers and pearls. I used the SU birdie punch to create the bird above the pretty Verve sentiment. I had the lace in my stash and added some pearls to the points of this teeny and narrow lace. The purple cone flowers are some that I purchased a while ago from the UK at this shop and the larger pink flower is a Prima that I had and I used my sponge dauber to brush along the edges in SU perfect plum. Another very easy card!

Thanks for visiting!

Chriss

~Seeds in my cup~

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stamps ~ Verve from Wishful Elegance

paper ~ Heidi Grace "Forever Love"

ink ~ Memento Tux. black, SU perfect plum

access. ~ Prima flowers and paper cone flowers, Nestability oval and label dies,

SU bird punch, lace, pearls, purple rhinestone

Pot of Gold!

Hello again,

I was able to finally complete this sketch from Jen (the 1st in a series of 4) for the big prize that she is giving away. I am all caught up now, waiting for the next Saturday sketch.

I guess you won't be totally shocked that I have, yet again, used some of the Basic Grey Origins dp and some K and CO. too!

I wanted to make a few more St. Patrick's Day cards and this is one of them. The card is pretty self-explanatory and I made some more of these ruffled flowers. They are a lot of fun to make because you get to use some of your smaller pieces of dp scraps.

The sentiment is from the PTI set "Luck of the Irish" and I cut the ring from the circle sentiment using my round Spellbinder dies.

The ribbon is a new treatment, for me at least! I wrapped it under the card front before adhering to the card base and I just created the folds in the ribbon, tacking them down as I went with my tape runner.

Thanks for peeking in again,

Cheers!

Chriss

Birthday bird and a SFYTT

Hello out there. I had time today to play along with Jenn's ~sketch for you to try~ and this is what I came up with...

I have not shown any love to my BG Urban Prairie paper pad lately (so many neglected collections that I have to put to good use, a new year's resolution for sure!) and it is such a pretty collection of papers, so I pulled it out and started mapping out my card with this great sketch from Jenn. More details for this can be found on the iheart2stamp.com blog.

I made my panels with the pink print and solid pink (this one I placed in a Quickutz Retro Diamonds embossing folder and backed them with the solid blue and adhered to the pink pirouette card base.

I made some circles and ovals using my Spellbinder Nestability dies, alternating the paper patterns. To these I added a punched MS bird, a SU birthday sentiment and a Serendipity cake image that I stamped with Tuxedo black Memento ink and coloured with my Copic markers. This has a lot of colour in it and I am wondering if it has a little too much going on. Well, that's it for now...

cheers,

Chriss

Special friend tea card/ a 2 challenge card!

My second post today, I know, I will try to be more regular, but this was one challenge that I could not pass up!   It was issued on Nichole Heady's "Capture the Moment" blog (owner of Papertrey Ink stamps) and it really spoke to me.  There are several photo's that the designer team each used as inspiration to create something.  Nichole passed on the challenge to her readers, so here is mine!  I chose Heather's photo (love the greens and blues and the little cup of tea) and created a card with the best little teapot image set and sentiments that I have seen.  My colours are a little darker than the inspiration piece, but I love these richer tones.  I was able to use the cute "Tea for Two" set released in April from Papertrey INK and the Itty Bitty Dots 8" X 8" paper pack.  Lovely colours in the package!  I also paired it with another paper pack I have had for a little while from SEI, "Black Orchid"  For this card, I stamped the teapot onto the SEI paper that has a hint of a mini diamond bg on the paper.  It reminded me of an enameled teapot.  I have been hoarding this May Arts ribbon for a very long time and actually did use it on a Mother's Day card in a previous post, but today I layered 3 strands of MS baker's twine (another hoarded product)in the center of the tiny spring green daisies.  Although I love this ribbon's design, I do find the green a little, well, green.  The green isn't so bad with the added twine imho ;)   I also used the twine with a few buttons that I had in my stash (not a trendy crafter's button stash, just some buttons that have fallen off of clothes over the last 30 years and I think the turquoise one was from a shirt in the early 80's, geesh I am such a hoarder)  Well, here's the card.  I also used a sketch layout from Jen del Muro's blog i{heart}to stamp SFYTT  Hope you like it.  I had such a fun time creating this!

~recipe~

stamps Papertrey Ink

paper Papertrey Ink Itty Bitty Dots, SEI Black Orchid

ink SU basic gray

access. buttons, MS baker's twine, CB Swiss Dots, May Arts ribbon

Ch{{rs!  chriss

Charming gardeners' SFYTT

Jen del Muro has a fun "Sketch For You To Try" over on her blog I{heart} to Stamp blog (see it at the end of this post).  This one came together very quickly for me.  When I saw the sketch, I knew exactly what I wanted to use as a theme (gardening) AND Jen is planting her gardens at her home.  

The only thing I would change would be this background paper. I originally chose it because of the colours, but I think I will make another with richer colours and a less busy background. (stay tuned for that one, hope you won't be bored with the same card!)

Thanks for taking a peek!

Thanks Jen for a really fun sketch!!!

~recipe~

stamps SU So msny sayings, Blooms and Bulbs wheel

paper         SU barely banana,ret. soft sky dp from a nursery paper pad

access  Spellbinders Dahlia, Copics, Jolies stickers

                Ch{{rs!  chriss

Sparkly berry happy birthday

Here is my interpretation for Jen del Muro's SFYTT.  Click on the link to the right for more details on her blog i{heart}tostamp. She is having a little contest! I had a lot of fun making variations of this birthday bird.  I am loving this Urban Prarie from BG, so cheery and fun.  I stamped the bird from SU! "a little birdie told me" set right onto the dp and cut out.  The background green from Bazzil was put through the floral fantasy CB folder.  Love, love, love the ferns in this folder!  The flower is a prima paired with a CB die flower that I used some of the same dp and the center of the flower is also cut out from the dp.  I guess you can tell that I really do love this BG Urban Prarie ;)  I am starting to be more comfortable in selecting /making embellishments for my cards and at the last minute, I decided that the berries needed a little something, so...I reached for some MS glitter.  I like the way the card turned out.  Let me know what you think and big thanks to you for taking a p{{k!

Ch{{rs,

Chriss 

Here is a close-up of the flower and glittered berries.

recipe for this card:

paper        - Bazzil textured, BG Urban Prarie

stamps      - SU a little birdie told me, it's your bd

accessories- MM brads, CB flower die & FF folder,                     MS glitter

SFYTT

I have been trying to participate in one challenge a day and so far I have been able to keep up!  Here is my try at another sketch challenge (they are my favourites) from 

Jen del Muro's I(heart)2stamp.

I had some difficulty with the proportions on this, at least, I don't think my proportions are ideal, but here is the end result and a close-up of the brads.

 I used the Sabrina line of designer papers again and I am loving these 6" X 6" smaller patterns.  I can hardly wait for the new Basic Grey lines to be available!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,

Chriss