Merry & Bright

I crafted another card inspired by Wendy Vecchi over at Simon Says Stamp and Show.  I just loved the way she stamped those pointsettias! I kept it pretty simple this time.

Stamps~ Hero Arts, My Stamp Box
pp~ PTI

Happy Sunday!

thanks friend

My friend Dee showed me this tutorial for ombre felt flowers. So I just had to try it!

ink, pp, cs and stamp~ PTI
twine~ American Crafts
dies~ Impression Obsession and Spellbinders

I also decided to link up with the Passion For Papertrey challenge blog this week. The theme is friends!

thanks for peeking!

Merry Christmas

The challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp and Show is inspired by Wendy Vecchi. I loved her stamped pointsettias and and leaves so I tried it out!.

stamps~ Hero Arts, My Stamp Box
pp~ October Afternoon
twine~ American Crafts
rub on sentiment~ Pebbles

Thanks for looking!

PTI October Blog Hop Challenge

I had a chance to play along with PTI blog hop for the first time. But I got home too late from an extremely fun cross border day to participate. My sides still hurt from the laughing! (thanks girls!)

Oh well...here it is anyway...

I am right in the swing of my Christmas card making so this blog hop challlenge was perfect timing. I played with my growing collection of PTI inks, dies and patterned papers.

For the first colour scheme I used some Raspberry Fizz paper for the background tag and then stamped with the other three colours to make these fun coffee holders.

pp~ PTI
ink~ PTI
stamps~ PTI and Hero Arts
ribbon~ American Crafts

For this next colour scheme I kept it simple with a one layer card.

I don't have any PTI snowflake stamps yet but I realised I have many in my stash! These inks really went well here.

inks~ PTI
stamps~ PTI and various

And I went back to my Heart 2 Heart coffee set for this last colour scheme. The background tag is Harvest Gold patterned paper Distressed Dots, the holly and berries dies are cut with Spring Moss and Berry Sorbet Bitty Dots paper. The coffee cozy is stamped in Melon Berry. Fun!

pp, ink, dies~ PTI
twine~ American Cafts

Thanks for the great inspiration!

Fall Colours

I have been working hard trying to make a few Christmas cards each week. Last night I made this one and realised the colours were pretty fall-like! Must be something in the air. I was inspired by my very talented friend Regan! She made much nicer cards than this at a recent crop. I loved her idea of stitching a wreath shape. Genius!

I decided to link up with the Allsorts Challenge this week: fall colours.

cs, pp, dies ink~ PTI

Thanks Regs for the inspiration!

Joy

I had time to do one more "Favourite" for the Simon Says challenge this week. Same MME line, same non traditional colours!

pp~ MME
ink and stamp~PTI
twine~ American Crafts
trim and doilie~ my stash

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Joy to the World

This week Judy over at LRW is asking for bows! Well I seem to be adding twine bows to everything lately.

Here's a Christmas card I made using a big chipboard snowflake over layers of washi tape. Fun! And of course a bow with my favourite American Crafts twine.

washi tape~ Queen and Co.
chipboard~ My Little Yellow Bicycle 
twine~ American Crafts
button~ Basic Grey
cs, stamp and ink~ PTI
stickles

Thanks for a great challenge Judy!