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Laurie's Fabulous Favorites this week focuses on framing our sentiments.

My card took on a life of it's own when I found this monogram stamped 

panel I made a while back. 

I added the panel to a piece of card stock included in the Don't Forget

to Write set, and defined it further with Nesting Basics: Rectangle and

Nesting Basics: Pierced Rectangle.

It's been a while since I've sent a monogram card. It's a nice way to personalize a

message to someone. And it's nice to enhance the letters with framing.

I also added a few elements from Community Garden. A bit over what I 

started to create, which was cleaner and simpler. Alas, just not cards I enjoy

doing or sending ~ The more the Merrier is definitely my style ~

Laurie's challenge can be found on Ink to Paper's blog with a 100. gc for 

the winner!

Wishing You...

It's time for a new challenge at the Card Concept, and we have this 'beachy'

 scene to inspire you!

I was instantly drawn to the shells and sand on an aqua background.

I used real sand on top of a Nichole Heady Sand Swatch stamp set, so I'm

going with a Mixed Media Card. The aqua bg is a piece of 12 x 12" wood print

designer paper that I had, but it was tan colored.

To change the color to aqua I brushed on Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst: Tiffany Lou Blue.

It has a lustrous gleam in real life.

A few of PTI's raindrops look a bit like water bubbles to me, so I added them.

All PTI product today, with the exception of the dp and sand.

My list will take you to the PTI store, where they still have all stamps and dies

at a discount. 

Salt Air: Flora Stamp Set

Sand Swatch Mini Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Simple Seashells Die

Simple Seashells Stamp Set

Recollections White Washed Woodgrain Scrapbook Paper

Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst: Tiffany Loo Blue Spray

Beach sand

Challenge #111-Scattered Seashells

PTI January '19 Blog Hop

Welcome!

It's Blog Hop time at PapertreyInk, and we were given this inspiration:

Didn't stray far from the photo, and came up with a cake set in layers of black

& white & gold.

The stylized 'Happy Birthday' script is one of my PTI favorites!

Play along all day on the PTI blog. Always so much to inspire!

All product links take you to the PTI shop!

2018 Anniversary Stamp Set: Mixed Bouquet

Papertrey Ink - Mixed Bouquet Die

Papertrey Ink - Shape Shifters: Square 2 Die

Papertrey Ink - Bold Borders: Arabesque Die

Papertrey Ink - Noted: Scalloped A2 Die Collection (set of 9)

Paper Basics - Luxe Gold Cardstock (5 sheets)

25 Days of Christmas Tags: Day 21

It's the last day of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas tags, and I have one more set of tags

to post.

I used Carol Mayne's set of four colorful tags for my muse.

PapertreyInk's Holiday Tag Along with Tremendous Treats: Christmas provided all the 

goodies for my tags.

Last day for posts by Tracey and her team, and all the marvelous holiday

inspiration by the companies, but you still have time to add your tags!

Check out all the details here:

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Sending You Birthday Hugs

It's Laurie's turn at Papertrey's Make It Monday, and she shows us a technique 

called, 'Creating Shadow Backgrounds'.

Going through my stampsets, I ran across one that hadn't seen ink in a while,

Better Together. Just the line drawn images I thought would look good for Laurie's

tutorial. Once the bg was stamped, I used watercolor cardstock for the popped up

die cuts, and watercolored them with Zig Clean Colors.

See Laurie's video on the PTI's blog.

All PTI products are linked to the PTI store.

Better Together Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Better Together Die

Papertrey Ink - Birthday Cheer Die

Papertrey Ink - Noted: Simply Stitched A2 Vertical Die

Hope your week is filled with crafty goodness!