Love x 3

Happy Saturday, Poppy Peeps!

Today on the Poppystamps blog, I'm showing 2 cards made with the new

Seed Heart die.

1st up, a glammed up glitter Valentine.

And 2nd, another using the negative space showcasing the wonderful seed heart.

Hope you'll drop by for a visit. Love Love Love by Nancy Penir

Quick and easy!  Measurements are on the Poppy blog!

Happy Crafting!

You Have my Heart

Hello Blogland!

I just got my computer back after a long week without it. My phone could only do 

so much and thankfully and hopefully my computer drought is over. 

The first card I'm posting since my computer's return, is this Valentine for PTI's MIM, 

this week hostessed by Michelle Leone. 

She has a lovely video showing how to use 'Lotsa Letters' on our cards.

I gathered some of my seasoned PTI stamps and dies, and worked around a banner

featuring Wet Paint Alphabet letters.

The background is stamped with an oldie called Alphabet Soup. (It's currently 

marked down in the shop!) I forgot how fun this stamp is. The hearts and 

sentiment within the heart are from You Have My Heart, another oldie

with a lot of heart (excuse the punning around!)

That wonderful stitched heart is part of the dies included in the die package. 

The white heart is a Limitless Layers heart.

The Wet Paint letters fit perfectly on the Large Banner. Just a touch of ombre

on both the bg letters and the word Valentine.

You'll find links to the stamps and dies I used below.

Hope your week is full of crafty goodness!

Alphabet Soup Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - You Have My Heart Die

You Have My Heart Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Layered Banner Die

Papertrey Ink - Wet Paint Alphabet Die

Papertrey Ink - Wet Paint Alphabet Upper Die

Perfect Match Berry Sorbet Cardstock (24 Sheets)

Bitty Big: Berry Sorbet Color Collection (24 sheets)

Love You

Day 5 of Papertrey's Anniversary celebration asks us to pick from a list

of retiring sets and use them on our cards.

I chose one of favorite sets: Love & Marriage.

It's been my 'go to' set when I make a wedding card. Just love that 

lovely tree. And it has so many images and sentiments to create a card

full of well wishes, both for Valentines and for a happy couple.

This card isn't for any couple in particular. I'll save it and have it when needed. 

One of the things I love to do is stamp the open heart

from the set and add the initials of the two getting married .

I stamped the tree with platinum powder, and put it over a dotted vellum.

Over it is the Ivy & Bloom die cut with a few of the flowers in the corner.

The sweet little love you tag sentiment is also in the set.

Are you playing along with all the challenges? 

Many of the sets that are being retired, I have in my collection.

Looking forward to seeing what you all used on your cards.

           11th Anniversary Day 5: 2018 Retirement List + February Sneak Peeks + 2 Challenges!           

You Have My Heart

It's a floral challenge today on PapertreyInk' blog, celebrating their

11th Anniversary. 

Mix and match florals on a card. The folks at PTI are definitely hitting

my favorite things buttons!

11 years... WOW! Congrats to team 2018!

A card with a mix of florals, I could do in my sleep.

1st of all, PTI has so many flower sets to choose from,

and 2nd, they most mix beautifully!

Mix & Mat: Hearts die on a Hibiscus Burst card base, has a Pure Poppy shadow behind

the hearts.

Farmer's Market Florals hasn't left my worktable since it hit my front door.

It's mixed with Gran's Garden, Garden Party and Ivy & Bloom on a vellum sentiment strip

from You have My Heart.

Are you playing along with their celebration?

Check it all out on the PTI blog.

           11th Anniversary Day 4: 2018 Anniversary Stamp Set + Stamp-A-Faire + A Floral Challenge!           

Love You

It's such a beautiful day today. Not at all like our winters in the valley.

Plenty of cool, crisp sunshine has me dreaming of my roses' first blooms.

PapertreyInk has a sketch challenge on their blog celebrating their 

11th Anniversary!

Each of the team members has a sketch recipe for us to choose from,

and I chose Dawn McVey's.

I loved Dawn's arrangement of flowers and layers on a stenciled 

background, and had fun with combining Farmer's Market Florals with

Dawn's own Gran's Garden leaf fronds.

I created the stenciled bg with one of the Modern Background Stencils,

inked with Distress Oxides: Peacock Feathers & Frayed Burlap.

The 'love you' banner is from Stemmed Statements with a sentiment from

You Have My Heart.

Here's a peek at the inside, stamped with images from You Have My Heart.

Sending this card out today, so I did a coordinating envelope, and inked the edges.

Thank you for visiting today, and hope your day is a 'crafty' one!

My Heart Poppystamps Challenge

Good Morning! I'm up on the Poppystamps blog today, with our

Challenge reminder, 'My Heart'

You Make My Heart Flutter: Challenge Reminder by Nancy Penir

My card uses a few of new dies, among them the wonderful,

Rose Stem die, cut twice, once in white and once in red.

Stop by the blog to see how I made this card, and be sure to visit the challenge to enter!

Have a wonderful week, and Happy Crafting!

Valentine for CTS

CAS(E) this Sketch has this sketch challenge for us 

Such a simple statement of elements and sentiment.

I took some liberties with the horizontal stripe, and first put a swatch of

 Finetec Pearl watercolors on a Smokey Shadow card base, with plenty of

 'white space' (charcoal) showing.

Then some Wendy Vecchi Metallic Gold Embossing paste over a handmade stencil

created with PTI's Stripes Diagonal Die.

Heart, Square Frame & Valentine sentiment die: Poppystamps

PTI: Fancy Foliage Details painted with Finetec Pearls.

CAS(E) this Sketch #255

Theres plenty of time to join in, with some great inspiration from their designers.!

Enjoy your week!

Dearest Valentine

Create Along With Us, Papertrey's challenge to pick from all 

their designer's fabulous release creations, and choose one to case.

I challenged myself this month, to come as close to a Melissa Phillips creation

as I could, with the stamps I had.

I'm such a fan of her work. Layers of lovely images, that seem to be put together

effortlessly yet perfectly!

Melissa's card, using the new bird from Brushed Birds.

My case of Melissa's card:

My case doesn't fall far from the source. See the bottom script?

I adore that about Melissa cards. Little touches of whimsy tucked in and around

that create interest wherever the eye falls.

Heart: Limitless Layers & Limitless Layers: Heart Stitches

Stamp A Faire 2014: Regency Era (Image stamped on heart)

bird: Nesting

flowers & leaves: Garden Party

Valentine sentiment: Birthday Classics: February & Regency Era

You & Me: The Best is Yet to Be

That's it, my case of Melissa's beautiful card.

I have a PTI bird, and I have so many florals to choose from.

Did I feel I had to order the new Brushed Birds? You bet!

Happy Crafting!

From the Heart

I'm so excited to be playing along with a new challenge to me, 

Cas(e) this sketch. Don't think I've played there before.

Their designers are the best, and just look at this sketch that we

have for inspiration.

Leigh Penner gave us this beauty, with so much richness, couldn't resist playing along.

PTI's: To Have And To Hold, Bloom & Grow, Beautiful Berries: Spring

banner: PTI's Cloche Quarters

Poppystamps: Double Stitch Scalloped Rectangle Frames

There are 3 ink colors I used for the wreath, a trio of corals from The Ton:

Peach Blossom, Coraline & Spiced Chai.

My card has a bit of a vintage twist with the colors and layers. No excuses, it's what I 

love. Sweet and floral. What could be better?

Play along here:

CAS(E) this Sketch #254

Thanks for the visit, and happy crafting!

Pink Mailbox

Happy New Year!

And just so happy to be back in my craft room.

Had a houseful over the holidays, and enjoyed a trip to Tahoe, 

only to come home to my mom very very ill. 

So the craft cave was eerily quiet for a while.

Just means I LOVE being back, well, doing what I love!

PTI has been going through some changes lately, but one thing that is the same

is their yearly 'A La Carte', where we can choose from the many wonderful MIM tutorials

and play again with a favorite.

I choose a few to combine, Melissa's Background Stamping, and Laurie's Love of Layers.

Now, truthfully, I'm all about layering, and combining my sets, which just seem to all

play well together.

Hope you enjoy a little crafting too. It just starts the year off great!

Make It Market: Post & Parcel,

Make It Market Mini Kit: Bloom & Grow

To Have and to Hold

Love You to Pieces: Additions

PTI inks & cardstocks. 

Off to visit the craft room.

Valentines will be here before we know!

           Make it Monday #308 – 2017 A La Carte           

PTI's 10th Anniversary: Love

We're celebrating 10 years of stamping with PTI, and 

todays focus is stamps produced in 2009.

I didn't have any of the 5 sets hi-lighted, but chose to be 

inspired by Dawn's premier set, Damask Designs.

Using another of her sets, Enclosed: Hearts, I made a shaker

with the flower stamp encircling the masked die cut heart.

The stamps in Damask Designs could be used any which way,

and I think that's also true of the sweet little flower stamp in

Enclosed: Heart.

Berry Sorbet, Vintage Jadeite, & Pure Poppy Inks.

Plaid paper from PTI's Beautiful Beads Pink & Orange Mix.

(Remember when we all made paper beads?)

Celebrating the Past, Present and Future: 2009

Any Day with You...

Good Saturday Morning Blogging Friends!

Julie Tilman has created a digital freebie on the Verve Stamps blog,

and is challenging us to participate in their giveaway, ($40.!!! twist my arm!)

After printing all these sweet sentiments and images,

I put together this card,

Just because any day blogging with all my peeps is definitely a favorite day! 💖

I cut the digital sentiment with PTI's new Gathered Garden frame,

love that quirky shape!

Added a couple of hearts to anchor the frame (PTI's Stitched Primitive Hearts),

and then added a 3rd heart with the heart duo from the printout,

which was watercolored and GA-ed.

Bg is stamped and embossed with a tiny flower from PTI's 

You've Been Framed, and Craft Concepts' In Stitches.

Hope your weekend is full of fun! 

We have a dry one right now,

but more rain on the way!

Love from Me Digital Freebie and a Giveaway

Interlocking Hearts

2 Posts in one day, whoo hoo!

Don't you love that sentiment die?

Just perfect for the Fusion Card Challenge,

where the photo features this beautiful quilt with interlocking hearts. 

I cut Text Block: Love from PTI's Sweet Blush, 

slightly elevated with foam tape

over dp from Vintage Linens (also PTI).

PTI: Vintage Linen stamps and dies

Spending the day tomorrow handing out Valentines to family.

This one might just go hubby.

What an adventure we've had over 47 years! (Next month is

our 47th).