Paper Smooches Sparks

Time for some SPARKS! I never would have created a card like this before seeing the inspiration photo, but I love how modern it turned out, and the orange accents make this card the perfect anniversary card for my sister's 5th (her favorite color is orange). Check it out:

Here's the inspiration photo from this Sparks challenge:

The ink is all from SU. I used Taken w/Teal and Dusty Durango. The black is Memento.

The satin bow is PTI Hawaiian Shores and the rolled flowers were made for me by my stampin' friend, Gerry, out of PTI Canyon Clay and Aqua Mist felt. Aren't they so pretty??

The card base is PTI Aqua Mist, and all sentiments are from a mixture of 3 different PS Sentiment sets (my collection has grown a bit ;)

There's still time to play, so why don't you check it out, too? Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Challenge #84

Suzanne came over last night after a long hiatus from our Wednesday night crafting nights and it was so nice to have her here! I made two challenge cards with PTI's new Beautiful Butterflies while she was here, and this is the first one for an anniversary that I created:

I used this sketch from this week's Paper Players Challenge:

The sentiment wouldn't fit on my little label, so I got out the large PTI Christmas label die and used the stamp set, too.

The patterned paper is all from a DCWV paper pack, and the cardstock is all from PTI. The twine is from the Twinery. The mini red pearls are from Q & Co.

I'm glad that I used the red and blues because this is also for a man, and I didn't want to make it too girly, so I think that he'll be okay with the blue butterfly, lol. I'll put the other card that I made while she was here up in a couple of days. In other news, we finally got snow over night that stuck! Did you?