Fabulous Day...

Hello! Today I have a card that I made for the Moxie Fab Doilies and Lace challenge. I pulled out my Teresa Collins Posh collection. It was perfect! My sentiment is stamped in black and is from the PTI signature series collection. I added some pink gems around the sentiment and there you go! A quick and easy card sure to put a smile on the face of friend.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

Butterfly Birthday...

Hello! It is a beautiful sunny, hot but breezy day here. I plan on spending some time outside reading while boys are at school.  I have to take advantage of those "quiet" moments that will be few when school lets out.  Yes, I will miss my quiet afternoons, but I am excited to have them at home with me all summer.  We recently purchased an RV, and I am excited to take them camping.  Camping was such a big part of my life growing up, that to share it with my boys is thrilling!

Okay...on to the card.  I participated in the color challenge over on SCS-Rich Razzleberry, daffodil, and pacific point (or close equivalents).  I used some scraps of pink paislee and Lily Bee designer papers, along with some ribbon from my stash.  I also used a PTI die that I won from my friend Lynn's blog a while back.  I added some burlap string and a memo pin and vintage button.  The decorative tab I created with a Tim Holtz edge die. The sentiment is from TSOL.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

Flutter by butterflies....

Stamps:   PTI Signature series

Hello!  Here are a couple of cards I made using butterflies!  Both are CAS cards yet very different.  Both of them use some of my older patterned papers, too! HOORAY for me! I have been trying to justify the big bunch of new paper collections I just ordered, so trying to use up a bunch of my older stash!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Emily

My PTI favorite from the past year....

Hello! PTI is having a HUGE contest to celebrate their fourth anniversary.  One of the ways to enter is to post about your favorite project from 2010.  This set of holiday thank you cards has got to be my favorite!  If you would like to enter this most fabulous contest click HERE.  OMGosh, how I would love to win all of those PTI goodies! Sigh........

My original post with all of the details can be found HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

Moxie Fab Metallics Challenge

Hello! I am squeaking out another of these Moxie Fab challenges by the hair of my chinie-chin-chin!  For the metallic color challenge we were to use Gold Leaf Metallic, Satin Wedding White, and Pinkini (or very close equivalents)!

For my white, I used some of my old Stampin' Up Shimmerz paper.  IRL, it looks really beautiful!  The card base is Pink Pirouette.  I stamped a sentiment from PTI's Fillable Frames #4.  I hand cut some hearts and then punched a hole through them to string on my gold cord.  I then added the gold rhinestones, once I had them in place on my card.  I used my scor-pal to make the diagonal lines on the white panel.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Emily

Holiday Thank You cards....

Hi there!  Today I have a trio of thank you cards I made for hubby to give to some associates at his work.  I wanted them to be festive but a little masculine, too!  I used patterned paper from Basic Grey's Jovial collection and PTI's Fillable Frames #10.  I LOVE that these are so reasonably priced.  You can get the stamps and the matching die for only $10!!!! LOVE that!  I used distress inks on my card base and on the very edge of the frame.
On the first photo you can probably see the small little "boo boo" on my frame!  That would be from a certain 4 year old slapping some adhesive down on top to "help" me!  What a little booger!  I didn't really have time to remake one, so I just added some felt snowflakes to accent the frames.  I bought these at HL about three years ago.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Emily

Who is "handmade" card worthy? A card and some thoughts....

Hello!  WOW! Two posts today!  I couldn't resist the yummy color challenge over on SCS-gray, concord, and marina mist.  I don't own the new SU colors, but I knew that Basic Grey's Wisteria would perfect for this challenge.  It was a good excuse to use some of my new PTI goodies that have sat unloved on my desk until today!  I am loving the new Signature Series.  The mini stamp sets and matching dies are perfect for quick, easy, elegant cards!  LOVE that!

I REALLY need to get my Christmas cards in the mail. They are stacked and ready to go, but addressing them and putting the stamps on them is the tedious part.  So....did anyone read the Dear Abby yesterday, about the lady who used to make handmade cards with her niece?  And how someone sent her a check the next year so she could "afford" to go buy "real" cards????  OMG!  How awful is that?  What a snotty witch!!!  If people only knew how much MORE it cost to make handmade cards.  I definitely have parred down my Christmas card list, because some people are just not "handmade" card worthy. KWIM?  I am guessing this lady is one of "those". LOL!  If anyone wants to read the actual letter and what Abby had to say about it go HERE.  It is the second letter so you have to scroll down.

That's all I have for you today!  Off to work on those cards.  YIKES!  I will definitely be thinking and re-thinking about who I send them to!

Emily

H{ippity} Hop-A Valentine Tag...

Hello!  I have been on a crazy Valentine card making, gift making kick!  Soooooo....I have this felt tag for you today.  The key, sentiment and music background are all from the Music Of My Heart set.  I used a die from PTI for the background shape and also for the banner.  I sponged all of my papers with distress inks.  I used a Sakura gel pen to color in my key, and I must say, I LOVE how it turned out.  Super sparkly!  I bought the felt heart tags years ago at Hobby Lobby.  They have been sitting on a shelf collecting dust until recently.  I guess I was inspired to make a tag since I have been salivating over Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas!

I hope you have a fun hippity hop!  Thanks for stopping by!

Emily 

celebrate today!

I finally inked up a stamp set I bought from Crescendoh a while back.  I just love paper piecing these vintage little dresses.  Too much fun!  You need to check out the yummy goodies in the Crescendoh shop.  Very different quirky kind of stamps and art kits.
My card base is Baja Breeze.  I paper pieced the dress with some DP from The Little Yellow Bicycle Laundry Line collection.  I used my baja breeze reinker and a spray bottle to make my hand dyed seam binding (so much fun to make!).  I added a pearl accent to the center of the bow and the dress sash.  The sentiment is from PTI's Mixed Messages set. 

I am so happy you stopped by!

Emily

Birthday Wishes

 

Hello! I have a birthday card for you today! All products used are from the Paper Maniac store! Make sure you check out all of the great deals!  I don't know about you, but I am starting to get tired of making Christmas/holiday themed cards.  I did however make this with DP from Niki Sivils North Pole Nights.  I love this paper because it can be used for the holidays, or for other occasions.  It worked PERFECTLY with this fabulous May Arts reversible satin ribbon in fuscia/olive,  and a glittery button from the Sherbert collection.  I really wanted to showcase the paper and the ribbon, so I kept my stamping to a minimum....just the sentiment in the corner.The sentiment is from PTI's Out On A Limb.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

Pocket full of Posies...SBSC171

Being the mom of three boys, I jump at the chance to scrap photo's of my niece. She is my only niece for the moment! I like to pull out the frilly girly stuff once in awhile. Thank Heaven for little girls, right?



This is for Sally's SBSC171 found HERE. You can see a photo fo the layout below. I think I sorta went a little overboard on this. It is crazy busy, but oh well! I love the new raspberry fizz DP from PTI, because it is so similiar to purely pomegranate. I also had to bust out another of my retired favs-wild wasabi. LOVE that color combo!




Stamps: Fanciful dots and fanciful border by UNITY




Paper: Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate(SU), Raspberry Fizz DP(PTI)




Accessories: decorative brad, satin ribbon, nesties, chipboard accents(UNKNOWN) and circle and word window punch (SU), prima flower.




Happy Stamping!

Emily