Girlie Happy Birthday

Hey there friend!  Thanks for stopping by today.  I have a card to share today using Cardabilities latest sketch #26.  I did a pretty loose interpretation letting my patterned paper do the work for me!  I hope you give the sketch a try!  Also, so excited that I am a guest designer over at Skipping Stones Design this month!  I just love their stamps and hope you will stop by the blog for fun sketches and inspiration!

Started with Sweet Blush cardstock, layered my patterned paper onto Vintage cream.  I shabbied the edges with a bit of distress ink in Stormy Sky. 

Before I adhered the panel, I put some lace trim and gingham ribbon onto the panel.

Lastly, I threaded some bright pink buttons on some twine and adhered those with glue dots, stamped my sentiment in black and added a rhinestone.

Thanks again for coming by!  Have a great day!

Lindsay

Supplies:
Paper: Sweet Blush, Vintage Cream Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper: Hollywood Vogue Webster's Pages
Stamps: Sentiment Papertrey Ink
Ink: True Black Papertrey Ink, Stormy Sky Distress Ink Ranger
Embellishments: Twine, Hibiscus Burst Buttons Papertrey Ink, Rhinestone Kaisercraft

Happy Happy Birthday

Happy Saturday friend!  I am back today with Card Patterns newest sketch.  I hope you all enjoyed this past weeks Anniversary festivities, your comments were fun to read and much appreciated!  The winners will be posted shortly so stay tuned!  Now, onto my card:

Started with brown card base, adhered a patterned paper strip and chipboard pennant sticker.

Cut a yellow panel, adhered my patterned paper squares onto white cardstock and attached them together.

Threaded chipboard and real buttons with twine, adhered them in various places on my panel.

Lastly, I stamped my sentiment onto white cardstock and cut it out, popping it up with foam adhesive.

Thank you so much for dropping by!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Lindsay

Paper: Dark Chocolate, White, Lemon Tart Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper: Fine & Dandy My Mind's Eye
Stamps: Fillable Frames #1 Papertrey Ink
Ink: Chestnut ColorBox
Embellishments: Harvest Gold Vintage Buttons Papertrey Ink, Chipboard buttons MME, Twine PTI, Westrim Crafts

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop-Scallops!

Hey there friend!  It is Friday AND my fav time of the month, the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop!  For my card today, I decided to make my scallop usage be in the form of my focal point, I know, original!  I also have need of baby cards, so went with that.

Started with a lemon tart card base of 4 1/4 x  4 1/4, covered the top with My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy. 

Die cut my circles, stamped my ticket and sentiment and adhered them together.

Tied on some Vintage Cream Satin Ribbon, Lemon Tart button and some twine.  Lastly I stuck in some stick pins from My Little Yellow Bicycle.

Thank you so much for dropping by to see my creation!  I hope you have an incredible Friday friend!

Lindsay

Paper: Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist
Patterned Paper: Fine & Dandy My Mind's Eye
Stamps: Just the Ticket
Ink: True Black, Orange Zest, Dark Chocolate
Embellishments: Vintage Cream Satin Ribbon, Twine Westrim Crafts, Stick Pins My Little Yellow Bicycle, Harvest Gold Vintage Button
Tools: Corner Rounder We R Memory Keepers, Scallop & Circle Die Spellbinders

Floral Birthday Notecard set & Bag

Hey there!  Thanks for dropping in today!  To me there is nothing better than using my love for papercrafting to bless my friends and family with cards and gifts.  We celebrated my sister's birthday yesterday and I was so excited to give her the gift that I made...a notecard set!  I love making these because they are really inexpensive and they mean a lot to the recipient.   

I started with white cardstock and cut them all down to a standard size card.  I stamped them with flowers in multiple colors and various sentiments.

I stamped my flowers in the lighter shade and then rolled the edges around into a darker color, stamped.  Very easy and they didn't take that long to do.

Added some green rhinestones to the middle of the flowers to give it a little dimension.

Now, you can't have a fun notecard set in a plain ol' bag!  So, I stamped the same design onto my white gift bag and added some coordinating colored twill tape and twine to the handle. 

She loved it, and that makes me happy indeed!  I hope you have a fabulous day my friend! 

Lindsay

Supplies used:
Paper: White Papertrey Ink
Stamps Beautiful Blooms II Papertrey Ink
Ink: Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores, True Black, Ripe Avocado, Summer Sunrise Papertrey Ink Yellow Cadmium ColorBox
Embellishment: Green Rhinestone Kaisercraft

Floral You're So Special

Hello friend!  First off, I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your kind and encouraging words about the Spellbinders Contest.  They made me feel uplifted and loved.  Thank you!

For today I wanted to pop in here and share a card I made using the super fun Tuesday Trigger Cath has up over at the Moxie Fab World blog!  I was able to get a few new Hero Arts stamps yesterday and knew that that flower was perfect for HA new stamp set, Layered Flowers. 

I heat embossed my floral images with white embossing powder, added a little shading with Copic markers, cut them out and adhered them to my card front.

I stamped my sentiment onto white cardstock, cut it out and popped it up with foam.

Lastly, I added a little bling to the middle of the flowers!  I hope you've enjoyed my little card today.  Have a fantastic day!

Lindsay

Supplies used:
Paper: White, Plum Pudding, Hawaiian Shores, Orange Zest Papertrey Ink
Stamps: Layered Flowers, Messages Hero Arts
Ink: Versamark Tsukineko, True Black Papertrey Ink, Copic Markers
Embellishment: Clear Rhinestones Me & My Big Ideas
Tools: White Embossing Powder Hampton Art

Spellbinders Design Team Contest Entries

Hey there friend.  Unfortunetly, I did NOT make the Spellbinders Design team and wanted to share my projects with you.  I honestly didn't think I would make it to the third round of the contest.  It was a really great experience and I wouldn't trade it.  I know there is a reason I did not get chosen, God has other plans for me appearently.  It is what I have to believe to keep from tearing up!  So, without further ado...

Round 1:  Christmas Tag Garland

Round 2: 12x12 Layout

Round 3: Coordinating Scrapbook page & card

Thank so much for all of your encouragement and love!  You are the best blog friends I could ever ask for.

Love,
Lindsay

Bright Happy Happy Birthday...TO CARD PATTERNS!

Welcome welcome!  I am so glad you stopped by to celebrate Card Patterns second birthday with me!  Our wonderful sponsor today is the PaperWorks Co.  Be sure to comment here to win their awesome prize! Now onto my card.  This sketch is perfect for any style!  I chose to go clean & graphic.

Started with a white card base, die cut three black circles and three white circles.  Stamped an argyle pattern in different colors on each white circle, adhered to the black circles and attached them to my card base.

Threaded coordinating buttons with black embroidery floss and adhered them onto the die cut circles.

Lastly, stamped my sentiment on white, cut out and popped up with foam.

Here is the sketch:

I hope you play along with us this week at Card Patterns, be sure to get all of the hop details here!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Lindsay

P.S.
Winners will be announced on February 28th, so be sure to check back to see if you won!

Supplies:
Paper: White Papertrey Ink, Black TPC
Stamps: A Little Argyle, Fillable Frames #1 Papertrey Ink
Ink: Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz Papertrey Ink
Embellishments: HS, SS, RF Vintage Buttons Papertrey Ink, Black Embroidery Floss DMC
Tools: Standard Circles Sm & Lrg Spellbinders

Happy Birthday Card Patterns!

Hey there friend!  Just wanted to pop in and tell you to be sure to stop over at Card Patterns today because we are celebrating two years of sketchy awesomeness!  There are some really fabulous sponsors too, check it out:


Here are the rules to play along with us this week:


The blog hop runs from February 19 until February 25, 2011.

Each day we will post one design team member and that you should hop to, to see that member's take on the sketch (we will post the design team member's photo plus a link to their blog).

Each day there will be prizes from our wonderful sponsors. To qualify for that day's prize, you must leave a comment on that design team member's blog by Friday, February 25, 2011.

We will randomly select the winners for each prize from comments received on each design team member's blog.

To qualify for the Guest Designer spot or if you would like to play along for fun, simply link up your card using the Mr. Linky tool at the bottom of this post. You must link up your creation by Friday, February 25, 2011 at 11:59pm EST.

We will announce the winners of the prizes along with our Super 6 and Guest Designer on Monday, February 28, 2011.

Fun, I know!  Today's sponsor is none other than Hero Arts! 

Please join us! 

Lindsay

Get Well Soon

Happy Friday to you friend!  I wanted to share a little card I made using Tea For Two & Additions by Papertrey Ink.  I am terrible about using purple, so I considered it a personal challenge to make something with it.  Here it is:

Started with with the mat stack 4 die cut in True Black, scored a white panel in a diamond pattern.  Tied on a bit of Plum Pudding Grosgrain ribbon and attached with dimensional adhesive.

Die cut and stamped my tea cup and tea pot in Eggplant ink, along with a little lemon wedge (kinda looks like an orange) cut out and put on the cup.

Finished it off with a get well sentiment!

I hope you have a fantastic weekend my friend!  Be sure to stop over at Card Patterns tomorrow as we kick off our birthday celebration!

Lindsay

P.S.
Last but definetly not least for the Tiffany Doodles Release:

Paper: White, True Black Papertrey Ink
Stamps: Tea For Two & Additions
Ink: True Black Papertrey Ink, Eggplant Tsukineko, Orange, yellow Clearsnap
Embellishments: Plum Pudding Grosgrain Ribbon Papertrey Ink
Tools: Score tool Scor-Pal, Tea Cup & Pot Die Papertrey Ink 

You're So Sweet! Thank You

Hello there!  Thanks for dropping by!  I have a fun card to share with you today using Skipping Stones 64th sketch.  I just had to break out some patterned paper here to brighten it up!  Modern Homemaker by October Afternoon just makes me happy. 

Started with adhereing my patterned paper.  Next I cut a cream block, stamped the strawberry image from Friendly Fruit randomly in Pure Poppy ink. 

Mounted it onto Harvest Gold cardstock, attached a green scallop and tied on some twine.

Lastly I stamped my sentiment onto cream cardstock, cut it out, mounted onto more yellow cardstock and added a big red button! 

I hope you were inspired, have a fabulous day friend!

Lindsay

P.S.

Have you seen the newest peak from Tiffany Doodles?  More birdies coming your way!

Supplies:
Paper: Vintage Cream, Harvest Gold, Pure Poppy, New Leaf Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper: Modern Homemaker October Afternoon
Stamps: Friendly Fruit Skipping Stones Design
Ink: Pure Poppy, True Black Papertrey Ink
Embellishments: Twine Westrim Crafts, Pure Poppy Buttons Papertrey Ink
Tools: Scallop Border Punch Fiskars

Thinking of You

Hey there friend!  I just wanted to share my card using this fabulously spring-y color combo over at CR84FN!

I started with a Soft Stone card base, stamped my frame. then masked the outer portion and stamped my leaf image. 

I die cut some flowers, stamped them with the coordinating stamp and added a button and twine.

Die cut a frame, stamped my sentiment gradient style and added another flower with button. 

I hope you have a lovely day friend!

Lindsay

Supplies used:
Paper: Soft Stone Papertrey Ink
Stamps: Beautiful Blooms II, Turning A New Leaf, Fillable Frames #4 Papertrey Ink, Frame-It Waltzingmouse Stamps
Ink: New Leaf, True Black, Hawaiian Shores Papertrey Ink, Yellow Cadmium Clearsnap
Embellishments: Rustic Jute Twine, Hawaiian Shores Buttons Papertrey Ink
Tools: Beautiful Blooms Dies, Fillable Frames #4 Die Papertrey Ink

Love You Forever

Hi again friend!  I was going to take some time off posting but I wanted to post the card I made for my hubby for St. Valentine's day.  I just love that man, he is patient, kind and a wonderful provider.  So blessed to have him for my husband. 

I started with a piece of white cardstock, added distress ink, text, hearts and distressed the edges.  Mounted it onto Kraft cardstock.

I border punched red and cream cardstock, heat embossed my sentiment.

Die cut a kraft heart, stamped a heart in Fresh Snow ink, and another heart in Pure Poppy, then tied twine around it and adhered it onto my card.

Well, that is all for today!  I hope to catch up on some challenges, but I fear my neck might not allow it!  We shall see.  Have a great day!


Lindsay

Paper: Kraft, White, Pure Poppy Papertrey Ink
Stamps: Heart Prints Papertrey Ink, Text-It Waltzingmouse Stamps
Ink: Versamark Tsukineko, Pure Poppy Papertrey Ink, Barn Door, Antique Linen, Vintage Photo Ranger
Embellishments: Twine Papertrey Ink
Tools: Heart die Papertrey Ink, Bracket Border Punch Fiskars, White EP Hampton Art