My Favorites of 2012

Happy New Year's Eve!

I love looking through the end of the year posts, so I thought I'd do one too!

I'm going to be totally lazy and just do photos, no back-linking or explanation. ;) These start toward the beginning of 2012.























Can you tell I love purple and impression plates??

2012 was, in many ways, an amazing year for me, although there were some hard times too. I'm hoping that 2013 will be a good year!

Thanks for stopping by to visit and Happy New Year!
Melissa

Congratulations

Hope all that celebrate had a Merry Christmas yesterday!

I found a few minutes to play along with the December PTI blog hop.



I used the new Man and Wife Dies to cut this bride. I impressed her dress with the Linen Impression plate, and impressed the base cardstock with the Quatrefoil Cover Plate. The sentiment is from Delightful Dahlia.



Thanks for taking a look!
Melissa

Believe in the Magic of Christmas

There's a fun card using Mama Elephant's set "Believe" and PTI's Tremendous Treats. To create the background, I stamped it using PTI's Super Stripes.



I also added my new favorite embellishment, Enamel Dots!

Have a great day!
Melissa

Happy Hanukkah

I just love Suzanne's sketch this week for the latest Retrosketch challenge!



I used PTI's wine bottle tag die to cut my shape, and then cut again with the menorah die.
The background white cardstock is impressed with the Woodgrain IP, and a strip of Aqua Mist polka dot paper is peeking from under the white ribbon. I opted to stamp the sentiment inside the card and leave the front very clean.



Thanks for looking!
Melissa

Warm Holiday Wishes

Happy Thursday! I had some time to stamp yesterday and made this card based off of Renee's wonderful sketch!



All the lantern parts are from Bright Season by Waltzingmouse Stamps and the sentiment is from Mama Elephant. The papers come from a patterned paper by PTI.

Hope you have a great day!
Melissa

Chocolate-inspired card

Almost forgot to post this! Our last challenge for The Card Caravan was to create a card in honor of "National Chocolate Day". (I know that many of you missed this important holiday, so feel free to indulge now to make up for it ;) )



I used some digital papers and elements from eNKay Designs Sweet Summer kit, and then added buttons, resin flowers and twine. That brown paper just screamed "chocolate bar" to me.

Hope you have a great day!
Melissa

The Compliments of the Season to You

It's November!!!

Just a quick post to add my entry to this week's WMS Sketch Challenge. Here's the sketch:


And my card using Bright Season and the sentiment is from the set Compliments of the Season.



Have a great day!
Melissa