A few cards to share

Today, I have a few cards to share.

Okay, well, I have eight.

Seven are mine and one is Sage's and they're all for the Anniversary Challenges at Papertrey Ink.

First up are the five cards that I made using the free printables that Nichole 
posted on her blog this morning.

(I just want to apologize for the "not so great" photos of my cards. 
I had to take them this evening, after 10pm, which made for less than stellar lighting conditions.)

For my first card, I used Heather's printable. 
I kept it fairly simple and paired it with my Femme Frames from Mama Elephant
and I added some enamel dots.

Next, I die cut Betsy's printable with my LL:oval die and added a scalloped frame in aqua mist.
I layered it over some card stock that I'd impressed with my book print IP
and added some buttons and twine to finish it off.




Then, I pulled out my smaller oval dies and used them for Dawn's printable.
On my background I stamped some Turning a New Leaf stamps with versa mark and
heat embossed them in white.
I layered my oval frame over a tag sale 5 tag and added some buttons and twine.

Then, I cut out Melissa's printable by hand and layered it over some card stock
and Teresa Collins patterned paper and added some enamel dots.

And lastly, I diecut Tiffany's printable with a Mat Stack 5 die and layered it over
some Echo Park patterned paper and added some buttons.

I also made two cards for the PTI 7th Anniversary, Day 1 Challenge, 

which is to use one of the 7 sketches on Nichole's blog and pair it with one of the 7 colour combos she's posted.

I paired this sketch:

With this colour combo:

I decided to use my The Sweet Life stamps again today, 

along with the Boutique Borders: Birthday stamp set.

And for my last card, I used this sketch:

And this colour combo:

I started with a piece of Pink Paislee Artisan paper that I inked with Fine Linen, 

after die cutting it in a circle.

I stamped a sentiment from Think Big Favourites #12 

and added a stamped Feather Finery die cut and some buttons.

And Sage wanted to play along as well, so she picked the same sketch

and paired with this colour combo:

 She didn't include the new leaf green though, and substituted some kraft instead.
Here's her card:

She used some PTI card stock (aqua mist, hibiscus burst), button and twine.

The heart is die cut with a Wplus9 heart die cut and the stamped sentiment is from

Reverse Confetti's Crushin'.

Thanks for looking!