You make life sweeter

Yesterday was my wedding anniversary, and here it the card I made for my husband.



I drew heavily on Nicole Heady's card from the last release. I cut out three scoops of Ocean Tides, Fine Linen and Hawaiian Shores felt. The frame was stamped using the Vintage Label set. I stamped the polka dots in the background.

The sentiment was heat embossed onto vellum using some Zing! powder. It's so fun!



The "Happy Anniversary" comes from Heart Prints.

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Melissa

Happy Anniversary!

Today is my mom and dad's 38th Wedding Anniversary! Congratulations, Mom and Dad and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Here is the card I made them:



The paper is from the new Echo Park line. I used the new Mat Stack 4 as well as Mat Stack 1, to create the focal image. The stamped portion is from Round and Round.

I'm really having a hard time not using Hawaiian Shores in everything I make...I guess that Fall will cure me of that?!

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Melissa

Love You Forever

It's my wedding anniversary, so I made this card for my loving husband. No ribbons or gems needed on this one.



The paper comes from a very cool digital kit called Vintage Tee Revival by Dysfunctional Design.

I cut a mat using the Mat Stack 1 and popped it up with foam tape, and heat embossed the sentiment using White Detail embossing powder. The hearts, from Heart Prints, were stamped with red Colorbox ink and cut out, adhered on with some dark chocolate Baker's twine.

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Melissa

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary to my brother and sister-in-law! Hope you have a wonderful day!

This is the card that I made for them. It is based off of the 2S4U , Sketch #34.



I used some Making Memories, Chloe paper and the stamp set, Heart Prints from PTI.



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Melissa

"Happy Anniversary" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Heart Prints
Paper: Chloe (Making Memories), Lemon Tart and Enchanted Evening
Ink: Enchanted Evening and Summer Sunrise
Other: Lemon Tart satin ribbon, gems, dimensionals, Coluzzle, EK Sucess Small heart punch

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge- Week 6

Another fun challenge from Dawn! These colors are beautiful together! I ended up making two cards with all my stuff already out.



My first card is a Congratulations card, could be used for graduation, job promotion, or to celebrate any of life's happy moments! I used PTI's 2009 Anniversary set to stamp the star background, as well as the little star cluster in dark chocolate from Out on a Limb. The sentiment comes from Dawn's own set, Scattered Showers.



The second one is an Anniversary card using Heart Prints as the background, stamped with aqua mist ink on aqua mist paper ( I notice now in the picture how much the ink is fading...)

Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

"Congratulations"(all product PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Everday Classics, Out on a Limb, Scattered Showers
Ink: Berry Sorbet, Aqua Mist, Dark Chocolate, Versamark
Paper: Berry Sorbet, Dark Chocolate, Stampers' Select White, Aqua Mist
Other: Ribbon (American Crafts), star punch (?), Filigree Embossing Powder

"Happy Anniversary"
Stamps: Heart Prints
Ink: Aqua Mist and Dark Chocolate
Paper: Aqua Mist, Berry Sorbet, Dark Chocolate, Stamper's Select White
Other: Aqua Mist satin ribbon

March PTI Blog Hop!

Our challenge this month on the PTI blog hop was to design our own background pattern and then use it in a project. Here is my background using the anniversary set, Everday Classics (although I forgot to take a photo with the full sheet, I did have a bit left after making my cards).

Here is the first card I created, a wedding/love card

and the second is a birthday card

Here is a closer view to the front


Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

"Happily Ever After" (all products PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Everyday Classics
Ink: Hibiscus Burst, Sweet Blush, Dark Chocolate, Walnut Stain Distress and Antique Linen Distress (Ranger)
Paper: Dark Chocolate, Stamper's Select, Sweet Blush
Other: Spellbinder's Oval dies, Filigree white EP, Dark choc satin ribbon, sponge, dimensionals

"Wishing You a Happy Birthday"
Stamps: Everyday Classics
Ink: Hibiscus Burst, Sweet Blush, Dark Chocolate, Walnut Stain Distress and Antique Linen Distress (Ranger)
Paper: Hibiscus Burst, Stamper's Select, Sweet Blush and Bitty Dots
Other: sponge, pearls, dimensionals

PTI and Dawn's Favorites Color Challenge

For Dawn's favorites color challenge I chose a card from Dawn's post on this day as my inspiration. Scroll down to the "hello friend" card. See Dawn's card here .

It uses vintage cream, raspberry fizz, kraft and what I thought was black, but actually is dark chocolate! Here is what I came up with.


Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

"Love You Forever" (all product PTI except where noted)
Stamps: Heart Prints
Ink: Raspberry Fizz
Paper: Vintage Cream, True Black, Raspberry Fizz and Kraft
Other: Fiskars Threading Water punch, EK Success small heart punch, Raspberry Fizz ribbon

I still can't figure out how to link things properly...anyone have suggestions?