Wishing you...

Hope you're having a great weekend!





I'm playing along with this month's PTI blog hop (interactive cards) as well as the week's Make It Monday (glittered buttons). Fun!



I stamped a background using the new Pretty Peonies set--stamped the outline and inside of the larger flower as well as the smaller outline, and colored a bit with Copics. The beautiful frame is also from that set, which I cut out by hand.



Here is a close up of the glittered buttons! The sentiment is from Movers & Shakers: Sentiments. Under the zipper it reads "a birthday as special as you are".

Thanks for coming by!
Melissa

"Wishing you" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Polka Dot Basics, Movers & Shakers: Sentiments, Pretty Peonies
Ink: Vintage Cream, Spring Rain, Rich Cocoa (Memento), Copics
Paper: Spring Rain, Vintage Cream, Kraft
Other: Zipper Dies, Spring Rain buttons, Diamon Glaze, Glitter, Foam Tape

Harvest Berries card set

I've been working on some sets of cards that will be donations to our preschool's silent auction.

Here is the first one: a set of cards using Harvest Berries. This may look familiar, and it is! I copied myself and redid this card .





I used sentiments from the Year of Flowers series, and the little butterfly from Round and Round. I used Berry Sorbet ink and ribbon, Aqua Mist ink and ribbon, Autumn Rose ink and ribbon, and Grape Jelly (Memento) ink and Royal Velvet ribbon, along with kraft ink and cardstock, and Vintage Cream cardstock.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Happy Easter, Happy Spring...

Hope you had a great weekend! (I guess it's actually Monday already, but it's been a long weekend for us here).



As soon as I saw Nichole's card during the Anniversary countdown using the base of the Cupcake shaped card-die as a basket, I knew I wanted to try it! I used a ribbon instead of a strip of cardstock.

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

You make the world a better place

I'm hosting the next Card Caravan challenge, brought to you at The Hybrid Chick .

Here is the color inspiration photo (from Design Seeds):


And my card:



I used the digital kit Time Well Spent by Elise's Pieces. The teal piece is from the kit, as well as the little berry and yellow circles, which I punched out with a tiny hole punch.

I heat embossed with white detail powder the leaves and sentiment, which come from Harvest Berries and Year of Flowers: Roses.

I hope you'll check out our challenge!
Melissa

Thinking of you, always

Today's PTI Anniversary challenge is to make a card with leaves and butterflies, so I pulled out my trusty Harvest Berries stamp set.



The little butterflies in Berry Sorbet are from Round and Round (Anniversary set), and the leaves are stamped with the new Kraft ink! Sentiment is from Year of Flowers: Lily of the Valley.

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Class Valentines

I'm back with my project for Day 7 of the PTI anniversary celebration!

My son and I got busy making valentine's for his class today, and they all had hearts!



We cut the patterned paper using the Lunchbox Note die, and then I puched a hole at the bottom for the lollipop. My son stamped and colored some images and the "to and from" from the set Tiny Treats: Valentine.



Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Happy Valentine's Day

Another PTI card! This one is for Sketch #4. I used Betsy's technique for cutting a frame out of the Quatrefoil Cover Plate. Thanks for sharing that, Betsy!



The sentiments and hearts come from Heart Prints.

Have a great night!
Melissa