Happy Birthday Brock!

Tomorrow is my son's best friend's birthday...Happy birthday Brock! He is having a Star Wars party, so I tried to fashion a card with that theme!



I used several sets: Off-Beat Backgrounds (Waltzingmouse Stamps), Boy (Sandylion) and Mother and Fresh Alphabet (PTI). The colors used are the new formulation of Spring Rain (Love it!), Pure Poppy and Starlite Silver (Brilliance Dew Drop)

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

"Happy Birthday Brock" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Off Beat Backgrounds (Waltzingmouse Stamps), Boy (Sandylion), Mother and Fresh Alph
Ink: Pure Poppy, Spring Rain, Starlite Silver (Brilliance Dew Drop), Black (Memento)
Paper: Stamper's Select White, Pure Poppy, Shimmer Silver, Spring Rain
Other: sewing machine, Copic markers

Joy

I made this card for the "Just us Girls" Challenge Week 3 .

The colors are Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy and Vintage Cream and I used Snowflake Serenade.



Thanks for stopping by!
Melissa

"Joy" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Snowflake Serenade
Ink: Aqua Mist (new formulation), Pure Poppy
Paper: Vintage Cream, Pure Poppy, and Aqua Mist
Other: Aqua Mist Satin Ribbon, Kasiercraft Gems

Embellish the Cure Challenge

I'm back today with my card for the Embellish the Cure Color Challenge , which, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), is to use two shades of pink, with gray and bling!

I made a card with a new (to me) and quite possibly the most beautiful snowflake set ever, Snowflake Serenade. I also made a notepad using the same snowflakes and the new set Take Note. Here is the notepad open:




And here it is closed.



Thanks for looking!
Melissa

"Peace" and "Holiday Planner" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Snowflake Serenade and Take Note
Ink: Smokey Shadow, Sweet Blush and Raspberry Fizz
Paper: Vintage Cream, Smokey Shadow, Sweet Blush, Notepad
Other: EK Sucess Scallop Punch, Raspberry Fizz Satin Ribbon, Kaisercraft Gems, Copic Marker RV19 (to color gems), foam tape, Scor-Tape

Sweetest holiday wishes

My new Papertrey Ink order arrived and I had to stamp something! I love this holly image with the polka dots. I paired it with a bit of Holiday Cheer patterned paper, which I sewed onto the card.

I'm sure I'll be back soon with lots more!
Thanks for coming by!
Melissa



"Sweetest holiday wishes" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Holiday Button Bits
Ink: Ripe Avocado and Scarlet Jewel, Walnut Stain (Ranger)
Paper: Vintage Cream, Ripe Avocado and Holiday Cheer PP
Other: Scarlet Jewel buttons, sewing machine, sponge

Dog Frame

Dog Frame, originally uploaded by madtown17.

I made this frame for a friend's daughter who loves dogs. When I saw the dog paper in the Basic Grey JuneBug collection, I knew I had to make this!

I traced the frame onto the paper for the pink polka dot mat. I cut out the dogs and the "speech" bubbles, inked the edges and added those with foam tape to the frame. I then added the threaded buttons randomly.

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

"Believe" in plaid

Hi everyone! We are having a cold rainy day here, but both my kids are off at preschool, so I'm happy! I've been trying to make a card for a few days now, but nothing seemed to be working...tried different colors, different stamps, it all looked bad! I'm not super excited about this card, but at least I finished one, LOL! Hopefully I'll be feeling more inspired soon!



Believe or not, the plaid (from Waltzingmouse Stamps) is stamped with Enchanted Evening and raspberry fizz--it looks more like Scarlet Jewel to me, so I think I may have overdone it with the reinker, oops! The Santa and sentiment are from Believe (PTI).

Thanks for looking!
Melissa

"Believe" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Off-Beat Backgrounds (Waltzingmouse Stamps), Believe
Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Enchanted Evening, Vintage Cream, Versamark
Paper: Vintage Cream, Enchanted Evening
Other: Scarlet Jewel Copic Trio, Scarlet Jewel buttons, Clear Detail EP (Filigree), heat tool, foam tape, Sewing machine, Label 1 Nestabilites, Liquid Applique