August Card Kit

Hello! Well-the summer has officially flown by and I'm back (on time this month) with my cards from our latest card kit. Jen sent us this amazing kit full of my favorite colors and some fun goodies that were new to me!









I still have a few more ideas for cards with what I have left from the kit. I really love getting these in the mail, thanks again Jen!

Hop around to see more cards from the rest of the group!
Melissa

Jen Carter

Cheryl Knutti

Melissa Ladd

Maggie Haas

Kristii Lockart

Joan Bardee

Leigh Penner

May PTI Blog Hop

I finally found an hour to make a couple of cards and played along with this month's blog hop. I chose the color combo above and used a few different floral sets.



Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Cloud9

I'm playing along with this month's Cloud9 Blog Hop . Isn't that photo gorgeous?

I was inspired by the colors and made two cards.



For the first, I stamped a background using different images from Folk Art Floral and Embroidered Bouquet. The sentiment is from Written on Ribbon.


I stamped the square image from Chantilly Trim four times, overlapping. The sentiment is from Quite Like you. I then stamped and cut out a trim image, also from Chantilly Trim.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Wonderful Friend

I had so much fun making this card! I used Wplus9's Chantilly Trim and heat embossed the lace image. I then stamped and cut out the floral images, and stamped the sentiment onto the Winter Wisteria layer before impressing it with the coverplate.

This card is off to a super sweet friend!

Thanks for taking a look!

Melissa

thank you Friend

Happy Monday!

Yesterday I had a marathon card-making session....it was so nice! I made a card to play along with the new RetroSketch.



I used Wplus9's Embroidered Blooms and heat embossed the image onto Royal Velvet cardstock. The sentiment comes from the same set.



Have a great day!
Melissa

Hello

Hope you're having a great week! I made two cards recently with the same layout and elements. I just switched out the papers, colors and sentiments.





Those gorgeous buttons are from Neat and Tangled .

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Thank you

I decided to play around with color combos, and came up with a set of thank you notes. I also wanted to try out my Bloom Builder die, since I have a metal shim now, and I was hoping that it would cut much more easily, which it did!



All the inks used are Amuse Inks. This card uses Winter Wisteria cardstock for the flower, and a strip of Royal Velvet patterned paper. The stamp for the background comes from First Fruits (PTI).



Orange Zest patterned paper, and A Muse ink and cardstock for the maroon-ish color.



Aqua mist patterned paper and Dark Chocolate cardstock for the bloom.



Lastly, Blueberry Sky patterned paper and Enchanted Evening cardstock.

Have a great weekend!
Melissa

More Happy Harvest

Here are two more cards from the set I'm making for our pool fundraiser.



I had a lot of fun stamping this scarecrow (from Happy Harvest, Wplus9)! I used PTI's sunrise impression plate on the red cardstock background. The squares were cut using PTI's Limitless Layers: Squares dies, and the bottom piece with the sentiment was cut with a Fabulous Frame die.



I impressed the blue cardstock with PTI's Picnic impression plate, and used the banner die from Fabulous Frames. Both sentiments are from Wplus9's Happy Harvest.

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

Thanks just doesn't seem like enough

Happy weekend! Hope you're having a great one so far. I just came back from running 8 miles--my longest distance yet! I'm training to run a half-marathon on September 9th and 13 miles still seems soooo long!

I'm playing along with the latest Play Date Cafe color challenge and also decided to make a square card for the next CASual Friday challenge .



For my card, I cut out strips of varying widths of Raspberry Fizz, Orange Zest and Harvest Gold cardstock. After adhering them onto my cardstock, I heat embossed a medallion from Mehndi Medallion with white powder, and added a sentiment from Autumn Abundance.



This card is being sent to someone to whom "thanks" is not enough!

Have a good day!
Melissa

Thanks for being so sweet

It's Cloud 9 bog hop time!

This month, our challenge is to use the sketch as our inspiration.



I used Berry Sweet to stamp the frame, a cluster of raspberries (which I masked) and the sentiment. The green paper is from a digital kit called Summer Wildflowers by Wishing Well Creations.



I used my A Muse Studio inks again, they are awesome!

Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

Thank you

Hope you're having a great weekend! I made this card using Natural Beauties, the new set from PTI.



The background was stamped with leaves, and then I ran it through my Woodgrain impression Plate. I stamped and cut out the flowers, and added a little tag (from Fabulous Frames) with a sentiment from Mat Stack 1.

Thanks for coming by!
Melissa

Thank you

This week's Make It Monday from PTI is a fun one! I rolled the die to get this combination.



So, I ended with Simply Sunflower as my main images and On the Couch as my sentiment/supportive images. I used a sheet with color combos that PTI gave out in the past, and got Fine Linen/Berry Sorbet/Aqua Mist/ Hawaiian Shores/Simply Chartreuse. My embellishment is twine.



I'm actually pleased how it turned out! I would have never chosen those colors to use with Simply Sunflower, but it works!

Thanks for coming by!
Melissa

Papertrey and Pinterest

Today's anniversary contest for Papertrey Ink is to use an inspiration photo from Pinterest to create a card.



I used the daisies from Friendship Jar and stamped them twice: once onto cream cardstock and once onto some patterned paper. I heat embossed my favorite border image (from Waltzingmouse Stamps) on the side of the Hawaiian Shores Cardstock. Sentiment is from Happy Trails.




Thanks for coming by!
Melissa

Rosie Posie fun

Happy 2012! Life has been good and busy, so I haven't been able to post much here. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.

I've enjoyed playing around with my new set, Rosie Posie, and here are three cards that I made.


The first one was heat embossed onto Lavendar Moon cardstock, and I added the sentiment from Happy Day.



The second uses papers from October Afternoon, sentiment from Damask Designs, and Mat Stack 4 die.



Finally, a bold,one-layer card. The sentiment from this comes from WMS's Say It Loud.

Thanks for coming by!
Melissa

Harvest Berries Mania!

I went a little Harvest Berries crazy today! I *love* those gorgeous leaves and just kept on stamping. This set makes for some easy and pretty one-layer cards.



First up is a Simply Chartreuse version, with a Think Big sentiment.




Secondly, is Hawaiian Shores (smaller leaves in Aqua Mist) with another Think Big sentiment.



And lastly, and my fav of the bunch, is a pink version using Rouge ink by Colorbox, smaller leaves with Sweet Blush and sentiment from Happy Trails.

And maybe now I can try stamping with something different?!

Melissa

Thanks

Happy Saturday! We made it through the first week of school...but we still haven't added homework or preschool into the mix, so next week will be the real test!



I made this card recently and wanted to do something simple. I stamped the mat from Modern Wood Mats onto Aqua Mist cardstock, using Hawaiian Shores ink. The sentiment (from Say it Loud, Waltzingmouse Stamps) fits perfectly in the mat. I added two little flowers on each side.

Have a great weekend!
Melissa

Thanks so much

Happy Monday, and happy first day of school for us! After the earthquake and hurricane last week, I was a little concerned about what would be next, and also that school may not start on time! But it did, and I can't wait to hear how the first day went in about an hour.

I'm working on thank you cards for recent birthday gifts, and here's one I made with new PTI goodies.



I love how easy it is to stamp the background houndstooth! For some reason, you can't see the leaf images that I stamped onto the die cut. And I used the Bloom Builder 3 for that fun flower! The sentiment is from Table Service.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Let's Party!

Today I'm sharing all the birthday things I created at the end of July for my daughter's 4th birthday party. We held the party in a "train" party room, and took a ride on a historic minuature train in a local park. Kennedy is a girl of varied tastes: she likes cars, trains, dolls, princesses--but all in pink! So, her pink train birthday party was born!

Here's a look at her invites: pink, with more pink, of course!

Thank you notes, style #1: (and these are actually all in the mail, too!!)


Thank you notes, style #2:


Banner, of which I made three for the party:




You'll notice I added the little lion from Tiny Treats, well Kennedy is never without her "Mr Lion" (her stuffed animal, aka our third child), so I knew she be thrilled if I included him on her birthday banners. The scale worked perfectly!

Goodie bags (they were looking much less wrinkled several weeks ago, LOL):


And little Miss Pinkalicious herself (with her new pink rollerskates):


I want to say a huge, huge thank you to Deb who lent me her Train Tracks stamp set! It was a fun birthday for our little girl.

Let me know if you have any supply questions...
Melissa

A note of thanks

Just popping in quickly with a card for this week's Make It Monday's technique.



I enjoyed trying the decreasing aperture technique, and thought it was a perfect place to showcase this beautiful cameo resin piece given to my by Rose!

This card is heading out to a sweet friend as a thank you for a great little gift.

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

"A note of thanks" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Happy Trails
Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento), Walnut Stain (Ranger)
Paper: Ripe Avocado, Ocean Tides, Vintage Cream and Basic Grey patterned paper
Other: Mat Stack 4 die, Limitless Label dies, sponge, sewing machine, corner rounder, Hibiscus Burst satin ribbon, Cuttlebug embossing folder