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

Card Set

Happy Monday evening!

Every year, I make a set of cards to donate to our preschool's silent auction. This is the first year we are not at the preschool :(

I made this set using PTI's Stitched Sentiments for the floral portion, and Wplus9's banner die and Written on Ribbon.











I had so much fun making these. Thanks for looking!
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

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

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 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

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

With Sympathy

Another sympathy card that I sent to my mom!



This one uses Folk Art Florals from Wplus9 to stamp a background. The sentiment is from PTI's Think Big Favorite series.

Have a great day!
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

Get Well Soon

Do you ever create a whole card and then really dislike it when you're finished??

That would be this card for me! I wanted to make something to enter the latest Make It Mondays challenge--to use a vellum sentiment strip. I had the idea to have several strips of vellum laying diagonally across the card. So far, so good.



I heat embossed "Get Well Soon" onto the lowest of the three strips. I stamped the background dots. I cut the bottom part of the three layers of cs with Edgers #1. Sewed the bit together. Still okay.

Then I added a ribbon diagonally, thinking it would draw the eye. Don't like it.

And then I die cut and stamped the butterflies and positioned and repositioned them about 14 times. Don't like them. I couldn't get them in the right place, and I feel they are too big also. The last step was to color some gems with a Copic marker and add them to the card.



Oh well, it's a learning experience, I guess! This card uses the latest WPlus9 color challenge . (Kraft, Lilac, Turquoise and White).

Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

"Get Well Soon" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Love Lives Here, Healing Touch, Round and Round Anniversary Set
Ink: Lilac (Colorbox), Hawaiian Shores, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain (Ranger)
Paper: Kraft, Stamper's Select White, Lavender Moon, Vellum
Other: gems, Copic marker, glue dots, Edgers #1, sewing machine, sponge, Hawaiian Shores satin ribbon, White detail embossing powder (Filigree), heat tool