with sympathy...

Here is my card for the last Viva la Verve challenge for the month of July. It's for Andrea Ewen's sketch and you can find all of the details here.

I also made it fit for one of the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges that are underway for Splitcoast fan club members right now. They're lots of fun! I'm winking at Andrea for this one! Check out the blinky on my sidebar for more details.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Botanical Silhouettes, Round & Round (sentiment)

Paper: PTI white, aqua mist, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline DP

Ink: SU! Rose Romance, Old Olive, Choc Chip

Accessories: oval nestabilities, crochet lace, MS butterfly punch, pearls Have a great day! Melisa

hiking with dad...

I made this card for my dad for his birthday and it also fits for one of the Dare to Get Dirty challenges going on this week. Last year I made a card for each and every challenge. This year I'll have time to make a few. Check out the challenges if you are interested. You have to be a fan club member to do so... but it is so worth it. Lots of fun! Check out the Splitcoast blinky on my sidebar for more information.

I scanned an old photo of my dad and me and my sister and brother and cut it out to make it look like a polaroid photo. Got this idea from my friend Maureen who makes wonderful photo cards for her family.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Verve Making a Statement

Paper: My Mind's Eye Kraft Funday and Miss Caroline DP, SU! crumb cake

Ink: SU! Choc chip

Accessories: crochet thread, dimensionals Have a great day! Melisa

... a little birdie told me...

...about this week's CASE Study Blog challenge. This is the last week with muse Kristii Lockart. Here is my card.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: SU! A Little Birdie Told Me

Paper: SU! crumb cake, PTI aqua mist, Simple Stories 100 Days of Summer

Ink: versafine onyx black

Accessories: Wilton doily, crochet thread, button Here is Kristii's card that inspired my card. I was inspired by Kristii's bird and her embossed doilies and went from there. I pulled out an oldie but goodie Stampin' Up! stamp set: A Little Birdie Told Me. Have a great day wherever you are! Melisa

Cast all your cares on him...

I really like the Mojo Monday sketch this week. It was perfect for this Verve plain jane verse. I got to use my MME DP and the loopy blooms {again}!!. Love the woodgrain papers in this pack.

Here is my card:

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Verve 1 Peter 5:7, Making a Statement

Paper: PTI vintage cream, SU! sahara sand, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline Dilly Dally 6 x 6 DP

Ink: versafine onyx black

Accessories: nestabilities, Verve loopy blooms dies, buttons, dimensionals Enjoy your Sunday! Melisa

Verve Birthday Diva Dare

Here is my entry for the Birthday Diva Dare going on at Verve right now. The dare was to make a card or a project with a birthday theme to celebrate a number of divas that are having birthdays in the month of July. The owner, Julee, is included in this. I decided to make a card and a gift bag for this dare. I decorated a glassine bag with lots of yummy DP from Simple Stories Fabulous. Love these stickers from this collection: so cute with their little sayings.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Verve Making a Statement, Chicks Rule, Blue Skies, Tag Time

Paper: SU! crumb cake, PTI vintage cream, aqua mist, Simple Stories Fabulous DP

Ink: PTI aqua mist (stamped off once), SU! choc chip

Accessories: Verve dies, Simple Stories stickers, SU! seam binding, library clip, button, crochet thread, cotton lace (Ellen Hutson) Have a great day! Melisa

wishing you sunny days!

I hope that you are enjoying sunny days in your corner of the world! This card is for two challenges over at Splitcoaststampers. The first is a sketch for the CAS challenge of the week and the second is this week's colour challenge to use real red, island indigo and wonder wisteria. At first I didn't know what I was going to do to match the colours, but then I discovered that I had bought a sample pack of the SU! in-colors last fall. Yay! I made the square frame by embossing a square nestability on the card front. The stamps and die-cuts are Verve. I'm loving these loopy blooms!

         
          Card ingredients:

Stamps: Verve Making a Statement (flowers), Sunny Days (sentiment)

Paper: PTI white, SU! real red, island indigo, wonder wisteria

Ink: versafine onyx black

Accessories: Verve loopy bloom dies, square nestabilities Enjoy your day! Melisa

Happy Birthday, sweet thing!

This week's Play Date Cafe challenge is to use the following colours: mint, tulip, coral and soft yellow. I was stumped by this challenge, but then the idea of an ice cream cone came to me. I only seem to use Papertrey Ink's Sweet Thing stamp set in the summer and I hadn't used it yet this year. It was high time!

Here is my card:

Although I used the colours for the challenge, I didn't stick to the inspiration photos. My colours seem a lot brighter. As I said in an earlier post, you just never know where the inspiration will take you when you are creating a card!

Card ingredients:

Stamps: PTI Sweet As Can Be

Paper: PTI white, Bitty Dot Basics DP, SU! crumb cake

Ink: versafine onyx black

Accessories: PTI Sweet As Can Be dies, texture plate, dimensionals Have a great day! Melisa



Friends to the End ~ Case Study Challenge

I finally had some time to participate in a Case Study challenge. It took me a long time to figure out how I was going to make my card inspired by this month's muse, Kristii Lockhart. I really wanted to create a little scene like the one she created, but I ended up going clean and simple. I'm happy with the results. You never know where you will end up when you start making a card. That certainly adds to the fun.

Here is my card:

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Out on a Limb, Mega Mixed Messages, Verve Making a Statement (birds)

Paper: SU! crumb cake, riding hood red, PTI white, bitty dot basics (birds)

Ink: SU! choc chip, old olive, versafine onyx black

Accessories: nestabilities, dimensionals I'm on track with my cardmaking goal: 23 so far this summer. Stay tuned for another couple I made for two other challenges. Have a great day! Melisa

MOJO Monday 250 {Dream}

Here is my card for this week's Mojo Monday sketch. I had a lot of fun with these new papers from My Mind's Eye. I can see myself using lots of these in the near future if I can find the time. So far I am pretty much on schedule for making, on average, a card a day this summer. I have to admit, though, that 10 of those were for a set for my MIL for her birthday. Oh well, that still makes 20! Plus two more later on today! ;)

Here is the sketch:

Card ingredients: Stamps: Verve Blue Skies

Paper: PTI white, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline Dilly Dally DP

Ink: versafine onyx black, circle nestabilities, Wilton doily, SU! ribbon, PTI ribbon, PTI felt

Accessories: PTI flower die Have a great day! Melisa

Celebrate!

Here is a card that I made for a friend that recently got a new job she's been working towards for months. I'm just starting to experiment with Copics. I only had one brown copic, so instead of working on shading, I tried to imitate the plush on a stuffy using the blender pen. The effect looks better in real life! I know which colours I need to buy next: more brown! ;) Love these banner dies from Verve.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: The Cat's Pajamas A Beary Good Year, PTI mega mixed messages (sentiment)

Paper: PTI white, Echo Park Hello Summer 6 X 6 DP, SU! Old Olive, Xpress It Blending Card

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Verve die banners, MFT grass die, copic markers, toothpick, baker's twine Have a great day! Melisa

Queen for a day!

Here is my card for this week's Splitcoaststampers CAS challenge: Fairy Tales. I've been wanting to create a vanity plate with My Favorite Things Vanity Licence Plate set for awhile. I think that I will make this card in a variety of colours and put it together as a set of cards to give away. The possibilities are endless! Check out the challenge here.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: My Favorite Things Vanity License Plate, PTI Enjoy the Ride

Paper: PTI white

Ink: SU! melon mambo, versafine onyx black

Accessories: MFT vanity license plate die, Michaels Recollections crown glitter shape. Thanks for visiting! Melisa



Happy Birthday, little gardener!

I had so much fun with this week's Mojo Monday sketch. I made the sketch square, though, to fit the glassine bag I wanted to include on the front with a little tag.

 
Card ingredients:

Stamps: Verve Making a Statement, Big Wish, My Favorite Things Pure Innocence Mud Buddies

Paper: PTI white, SU! crumb cake, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline 6 X 6 DP

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,

Accessories: SU! scallop edge punch, Verve loopy flowers dies, SU! seam binding, buttons, PTI glassine bag I loved the sketch so much that I made another card for my brother's 40th birthday. Used lots of different stamps on this one: Verve, Papertrey and My Favorite Things.  Card ingredients: Stamps: Verve Seeing Stars, PTI Birthday by the Numbers, My Favorite Things Ticket Die-Namics Paper: PTI white, SU! sahara sand, Echo Park A Boy's Life 6 x 6 DP Ink: versafine onyx black, SU! wild wasabi, real red, summer sun Accessories: SU! ribbon, MFT ticket die, PTI glassine bag, PTI polka dot ribbon Here is the sketch if you are interested in playing along:

Have a great day!

Melisa

Welcome sweet little baby...

I found some time to play on the weekend and I was able to participate in two of Viva la Verve's sketch challenges. This card is for Week 2 for July. You can find all of the details here.

Here is the sketch:

Stamps: Verve To the Moon

Paper: PTI white, My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline 6X6 DP

Ink: SU! Rose Romance

Accessories: Nestabilities, PTI flower dies, button, eyelet lace Have a great day! Melisa

Handmade Button Bits

Yay! It's summer time! After a busy school  year, I now have a little more time to make cards! Looking forward to making a card a day before school starts again in the fall. Today, I made a card for the Splitcoaststampers CAS challenge from last Monday. The challenge last Monday was to use navy, olive and white on a card. Here is my creation:

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Blooming Button Bits, and  Button Boutique, Verve Sunny Days

Paper: PTI white

Ink: SU! old olive, night of navy

Accessories: PTI button card die, buttons

Have a great day!

Melisa

Late to the party!

I found this MFT Wednesday sketch, thinking it was the current one, and used it for a birthday card I needed to make for an 11 year old friend. Oops, I'm a week late! In any case, I had a lot of fun!

Card ingredients:

Stamps: My Favorite Things Tweeny Teen Rock, Verve Make a Statement (sentiment)

Paper: PTI white, Basic Grey Lauderdale, SU! pacific point

Ink: versafine onyx black, SU! markers

Accessories: SU! scallop border punch, PTI button, cotton thread

Have a great day!

Melisa

Spring is almost here!

I found a little free time to make a card today for my SIL's birthday. I had fun watercolouring these tulips from Papertrey Ink's Friendship Jar Spring Fillers. Love this mason jar set. I've got quite a few of the sets that go with the jars.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Friendship Jars and Friendship Jar Spring Fillers, Verve Enjoy Today sentiment (freebie with order!)
Paper: PTI vintage cream, SU! crumb cake, PTI DP
Ink: SU!  old olive and melon mambo re-inkers, versafine onyx black
Accessories: PTI tiny tags die, dimensionals, PTI ribbon, other lace trim, SU! damask embossing folder

Enjoy your day!

Melisa