Happy 1st Birthday

Happy Sunday!



I used this week's retrosketch in making a birthday card for my niece.



The paper is from the new Maggie Holmes Crate Paper collection.

Thanks for coming by!
Melissa

Happy Birthday

Have you seen the new Monday Mood Board hosted by Dawn at Wplus9 ? Here is this week's gorgeous photo:


I really love these colors together! Navy and coral are beautiful together. Here's what I made, and it reminds me of my Mom's Willow Pattern china.



I used two images from Wplus 9's Chantilly Trim to stamp the background using A Muse studio's Navy ink. The tag was stamped with Embroidered Bouquet (also Wplus9).

Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

Happy birthday

I'm back with another card! On this one, I cut out the "Sofia" using my Cameo. I heat embossed the "happy birthday" (from Women of Life- PTI) before adhering the name.



I mixed and matched some papers on this one, and I'm not really sure which collections they are from! (Can you tell how organized my paper must be!?)

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Happy Birthday and Thanks

I'm back after a break with some cards that I made for our pool's silent auction this weekend.

I made a set of cards using Wplus9's Happy Harvest. It is so cute! Check out those adorable sunflowers!



I had a "cheap attack" (ahem...Suzanne ;) ) and didn't buy the dies, but the images were very easy to cut out. For the first card I used PTI's woodgrain impression plate on the background kraft cardstock. The square and layer were cut with PTI's Limitless Layers Square dies. Sentiment from Happy Harvest.



Same idea, different impression plate. This time I used PTI's Linen one on the Simply Chartreuse layer. This sentiment is also from Happy Harvest.

I made one other one with the exact same design and a "thinking of you" sentiment. I'll be back later to show the super cute scarecrow cards made using the same set.

Hope you're having a great week!
Melissa

Happy Birthday

It's another Card Caravan Challenge! This week's theme is paper piecing.



I used a PTI stamp set, Baby Button Bits, and stamped the flowers onto this pretty digital paper from Stellajane Design's Summer Rain paper pack . Each flower and leaf was cut out, and after stamping the flowers a second time onto white cardstock, I adhered each in place.

I hope you'll check out our latest challenge over at The Hybrid Chick!

Happy Birthday

So happy to be participating in the Waltzingmouse Stamp's August Blog Hop!



This month's theme is birthdays: and funnily enough today is my birthday!

We are actually on vacation so I may not be able to hop around to visit all the projects until our return next week.



I stamped the checkered portion using Off Beat Backgrounds onto kraft cardstock. The sentiment is from Say It Loud, and the flowers come from Asian Gardens.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Wishing you...

Isn't that a gorgeous bouquet!!

I decided to pull out an old favorite floral set, Beautiful Blooms II for this month's blog hop. (In all truth, I made this card while a bunch of my stuff was already packed for SAF, and I was too lazy to unpack and repack) ;)



The sentiment is from Movers and Shakers: Sentiments.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Stamp A Faire: Card Set challenge

What a fun day we had yesterday! I only made a couple of cards at our East Coast get together, but had a blast and ate way too much! Met some new friends and chatted with some old.

I did manage to make a few more projects today to enter into the challenges. Here is my card set, inspired by Dawn McVey.



I used the wine bottle tag die to cut the patterned paper (from October Afternoon). The oval focal images are from 2012 Birthday Tags, stamped in Cranberry Amuse Studio ink (LOVE that ink!).



I added some ribbon tails behind each focal image. There is one card with a vertical image in the set.

Hope you had a great weekend!
Melissa

Happy Birthday

Happy Monday!

I played along with the latest Retro Sketch Challenge , #20 and here it is:


And my card:



I went fairly literal with the sketch and used hexagons and flowers. I can't seem to stop using these colors together, love them!

ETA: I also entered my card in the Moxie Fab Hooked on Hexagon Challenge . Thanks, Tenia!

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

"Happy Birthday" (All PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Happy Hexagon, flower block from Strawberry Patch
Ink: Royal Velvet, Hawaiian Shores and Winter Wisteria
Paper: Royal Velvet, Aqua Mist patterned paper, Winter Wisteria and Rustic Cream
Other: resin flowers, twine, Hexagon Cover Plate, foam tape

On Cloud 9...

Have you heard about the new blog hop? My friend Suzanne has organized a new, monthly blog hop to share cards using Wplus9 products! Check it out here !

Here's this month's inspiration photo...pretty!



I loved the bright colors and used those as well as the flowers to inspire my background stamping. I used the sets Folk Art Floral and Fresh Picked.



This card got an addition of a flower (made with Beautiful Bloom Dies from PTI).




And a strip of cardstock and ribbon was added to this one.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Happy Birthday

Another Happy Hexagon card--this time with a very feminine color combo.



This sentiment is from Movers and Shakers: Sentiments. The ribbon is Hibiscus Burst satin.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Melissa

Birthday Wishes

Another card from my Lovely Layers marathon session. Do you think I should add two strips of cardstock at the top, similar to those at the bottom?



This stamp set can do all styles, and I haven't even used all of the stamps yet!

Melissa

Happy Birthday

Happy Sunday!

Hope you're having a fabulous weekend! I'm sharing my card for the latest Card Caravan challenge.  Our challenge was to use stitching.



I printed off some pretty papers from Quirky Twerp's Summer Day Scrapbook Kit , and cut them out with my Hexagon Cover Plate (PTI). The sentiment comes from Beautiful Butterflies (PTI).

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Sweet birthday wishes

Hope you had a great weekend! I received my first order from Wplus9 on Friday afternoon, and made this card today. I used some of the tiny leaves from Folk Art Florals, the frame, sentiment and berries are from Fresh Picked. I think I have plenty of berry stamps now :)



Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

"Sweet birthday wishes"
Stamps: Folk Art Floral and Fresh Picked (Wplus9)
Ink: Simply Chartreuse, Enchanted Evening, Royal Velvet and Scarlet Jewel (PTI)
Paper: Royal Velvet and Stamper's Select White (PTI)
Other: Royal velvet satin ribbon, foam tape

Card Caravan: Flowers

Happy Birthday

It's PTI's April Blog Hop and here's the inspiration photo:

And my card:



I stamped the background using Damask Designs onto Vintage Cream cardstock. The flowers and leaves are from Rosie Posie, some cut by hand, some using the dies. The sentiment is found in Enjoy the Ride. I stamped a lined background onto the piece of Spring Rain cardstock using the little frame from Luck of the Irish.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Wish Big

It's March Blog Hop time!

Here is this month's gorgeous inspiration photo:



I loved the color scheme, and went with that as my inspiration. The background of my card was created by adhering strips of the star border die cuts in Aqua Mist onto the Aqua Mist base.



The focal image is from 2012 Birthday Tags, which I stamped twice.



Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Celebrating your Birthday

Hope your having a great week!

I've been seeing lots of gorgeous photos on pinterest with gray and yellow, so I decided to make a card with those colors!



Thanks for coming by!
Melissa

(all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Movers and Shakers: Sentiments, Bitty Backgrounds
Ink: Smokey Shadow, Versamark
Paper: Smokey Shadow, Soft Stone
Other: Lemon Tart twill tape, Lemon Tart buttons, Clear detail embossing powder (Filigree), Button card die

Happy Birthday

While playing around with my dies for my Make It Monday card yesterday, I cut apart a couple of my Rosie Posie dies. Then, I decided to make this card!




I stamped the flowers onto the Sweet Blush cardstock using a pink Brilliance ink, and added some shading with my Copics.



The Soft Stone layer was impressed with the Woodgrain impression plate.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Welcome Spring and Happy birthday

Welcome Spring!



Uses Hop, Skip, Jump digital kit by Jenn Barrette, sentiment from Sweet Spring (PTI), and cardstock and ribbon from PTI.

I have another card also using new digital releases from The Digichick . This one uses Love is All Around by Elise's Pieces and a great ribbon slide by Paper Garden Projects included in Making Some Waves card parts cutting files.



Thanks for looking!
Melissa

also used :
PTI cardstock and ribbon
Movers and Shakers: Sentiments (PTI)
Sweet Spring sentiment (PTI)
gems
white detail embossing powder (Filigree)