Live your bliss

I also decided to play along with Tammy's Little Red Wagon challenge this week: repeat a shape. I repeated this hot air balloon shape three times as well as repeated cloud shapes. 

Thanks for a fun challenge Tammy!

stamps~ PTI, Hampton Art
PP~ Simple Stories

Just for you

What fun I had making this card and envelope! I started with a spring-y themed card with lots of washi tape and stamped and die cut butterflies. I wanted it to look like the butterflies were flying off the edge of the card.

That meant that it wouldn't fit in a regular envelope. So I made a sleeve from vellum. I repeated the colours with the butterflies, tag and washi tape.

And here's the finished package.

I liked up with PTI's Make it Monday challenge to make an envelope for oversized embellishments. And I just had to play along with the Simon Says Stamp challenge to use washi tape!

Thanks for checking out my project!

stamps, ink, dies, pp and cardstock~ PTI
washi tape~ MME, Queen and Co., Recollections
gems/pearls~ Queen and Co.
vellum, doilie and seam binding~ my stash

Black and White with Splash of Colour

I made one last card this weekend...for the Simon Says Stamp challenge...black and white plus a splash of colour.

I wanted to use a new embossing folder so that made a nice backdrop for the PTI polka dot paper. And the splash of colour comes from the herringbone pattern stamped on the mini hearts.

A splash of colour is certainly needed on a grey old day like today!

Celebrate

I made another card today! I had wanted to play along with the PTI Make it Monday challenge so I found a bit of time today. The challenge was to use one of the rainbow colour schemes and use a repeating pattern of die cuts or stamps. Here is the colour scheme I chose...

And I had been wanting to play with my Happy Hexagon set so what better way to repeat patterns! I love how bright and cheery these colours look, especially on a dreary day like this.

Happy Sunday!

Danke!

I always seem to need thank you cards so I decided to take the Passion for Papertrey challenge and use some of my new PTI stash to make one.

I used my new Mehndi Medallions set along with my German sentiments. The pp is also PTI (Raspberry Fizz and Men of Life). I added a bit of glitter and a seam binding bow to top it off.

Danke for stopping by!

We are family

I seem to have been only posting cards lately! That is kind of funny since I used to only post layouts. Today I decided to post a fun layout from our trip to Australia in 2011. I used ancient product from Basic Grey that I "liberated" from the basement stash of my scrappy friend Avril. I just loved the colours of this collection, Urban Prairie. 

In honour of this "oldie but goodie" Basic Grey stash, I decided to link up with the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge, "Embrace the Old."

Thanks for stopping by!

PP and rub ons~ BG
Thickers~ AC
mists~ Tattered Angels

Celebrate

Happy New Year! It's been too long since I played along with any challenges. I made this birthday card with my new happy harlequins PTI set. I can't wait to try some other things with it as well.

I linked up with Simon Says Stamp "something new" challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

inks, dies, stamps~ PTI
button~ Basic Grey