Inspired By All The Little Things #54

Today, I have a card to share for 

Inspired By All the Little Things #54:

I've been taking over for posting for Lesley who just had her baby

-- so excited for her!

I fell in love with this cool shelf when I spotted it on Pinterest and thought 

it would make a very fun inspiration photo for

Inspired By All the Little Things this week.

Here's my card:

I started with some stamper's select white and aqua mist cardstock.

I diecut my rectangular stitched die (from PTI's Shakers & Sprinkles kit) from white cardstock

twice, as well as the PTI Fancy Foliage dies.

On the inner rectangle that got diecut when I diecut the frame,

 I blended Altenew Mango Smoothie ink. 

I stamped the waterman from Papertrey Ink's Inspired: Hope. 

Visit Inspired By All the Little Things to see the rest of the DT's takes 

on the inspiration photo and to play along, if you'd like.

You have until Friday, May 5th to link up your card.

You can also see who I chose to be featured on the blog this week!

Thanks for looking!

2016 Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop & MFT Wednesday Sketch 310

Well, I had a very productive weekend -- Christmas-wise.

I got the last of my shopping done. 

I wrapped most of my presents (just waiting for one more to arrive in the mail)

-- and got all of my tags made (I'll be sharing these later this week!) --

and packaged up the presents to send to my brother and his family in Montreal.

I also packaged up my gift for a crafty secret Santa exchange...

We did a little Chrstiams baking.

And I got a few cards made, too!

The card that I'm sharing today is for two challenges....

the 2016 Winter Coffee Lover's Blog Hop:

& MFT Wednesday Sketch 310:

Here's my card:

I started by stamping by background using MFT's Snowflake Flurry in 

Altenew Mountain Mist.

I diecut my tag and stamped in in Altenew Espresso using MFT's Hand Lettered Holiday.

I diecut my border using my new Neat & Tangled scalloped frames.

I diecut my mug using MFT's Winter Warmth dies and stamped it in black.

I stamped the "coffee" in versamark and heat embossed it in Zing! brown 

embossing powder.

I heat embossed the snowflake (from Snowflake Flurry) in white.

Thanks for looking!

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My Mom's Birthday

Today is my mom's birthday.

To celebrate, we're going to Winnipeg

and taking her out for lunch at Santa Lucia.

Here's the card I made for her.

I used some gorgeous (& fun to use!) new stamps from Altenew called Painted Flowers.

The sentiment is Wet Paint from Papertrey Ink.

The sequins are Pretty Pink Posh (6mm Pink Blush, 4mm Pink Peonies).

After lunch, I'm taking the kids to go and see

How To Train Your Dragon 2-- should be a great day!

I'm also linking all three of these cards to this week's 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Thanks for looking!

PTI September Blog Hop

Note: this is my second post for the day. 

To see my September release post for Fresh Squeezed Stamps, please scroll down.

It's the 25th, which means it's time for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.

This month's challenge is wreaths.

I decided to make a card and a layout for the challenge.

First up, my card. I used my Wreath for All Seasons stamp set. 

I stamped the branch stamp in Versamark and then heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. Then I stamped the berries and heat embossed them with red embossing powder. 

I diecut a double-ended banner die from pure poppy cardstock and heat embossed my sentiment in gold. 

I layered the patterned paper panel over some gold shimmer card stock.

I'm also linking this card up to the Moxie Fab World All That Glitters is Gold Challenge
and Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes Challenge.

When I'd first seen the challenge, I'd been toying with the idea of creating a layout using the theme. 

Here's what I came up with.

Can you guess what I used to make the wreath?

It's the Might Oak cover plate-- the tree trunk. I diecut 10 of them from some dark woodgrain Echo Park patterned paper and layered them on my Teresa Collins patterned paper. 

Here's a close up.

I added some leaves that got diecut along with the tree trunk... I just flipped them over first. 

Then I added a few groups of buttons.

For my title, I stamped my sentiment from Counting My Blessings.

I diecut the "grateful" from aqua mist cardstock. 

Then I stamped it with a WMS feather stamp and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Around my photo, I added some more feathers, which I stamped first with versamark and then heat embossed with clear (aqua mist) and white (rustic white) embossing powder. 

A few large buttons finish it off.

Thanks for looking!

And another Mother's Day card...

Hi there, I'm just popping in quickly this morning to post another Mother's Day card that I made using another one of Nichole's colour combinations for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink.

I also used the most recent sketch at Retro Sketches.

Here's my card:





I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (rustic cream, sweet blush, canyon clay, melon berry, new leaf), buttons, twine, stamps (flower fusion #3, pretty peonies) and dies (heart border,  flower fusion #3, turning a new leaf). For the yellow stamped circles, I stamped them and then covered them with Glossy Accents.

Well, we're off to our taekwondo promotion test this morning.... Jonah's testing for his red stripe.

Thanks for looking!

Thanks for looking!