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

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

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

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

Keep fighting!

I made this card for a close friend who has just been diagnosed with cancer. I was inspired by Andrea Ewen's card here. I sure wish that I didn't have to make this card... :(



Card ingredients:

Stamps: Verve Blue Skies, Words of Wisdom
Paper: PTI white, Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety DP and unknown DP, coredinations cardstock
Ink: Versafine onyx black
Accessories: Verve I heart U and rounded scallop frame, toothpick, paper twine

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Monochromatic Viva la Verve

Here is my card for this week's sketch in Viva la Verve's July sketches. Maureen put together a really neat one this week. I didn't start out with the idea of doing a monochromatic card, but this is where I ended up.

Here is the sketch. As you can see, my square is a little tilted and lower than it should be.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Verve love notes
Ink: SU! baja breeze
Paper: PTI white, SU! baja breeze, SU! greenhouse gala DP
Accessories: SU! pearls, seam binding, button

Have a great day!

Mojo Monday Congrats...

The Mojo Monday 200 sketch this week was perfect for a congratulations card that I wanted to make for my sister. The only thing is, I tilted the square panel to make the notepaper look like it would be on a desk... She just finished her special education diploma, so I wanted something that had to do with school on the card.

Here it is:

Check out this week's sketch. Julee is celebrating the 200th Mojo Monday sketch with prizes.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Verve Blue Skies, Seeing Stars, To the Moon

Ink: SU! Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi, Ruby Red, Versafine onyx black

Paper: PTI white, SU! Ruby Red, Basic Grey Life of the Party DP

Accessories: PTI small limitless layers dies, pinking shears, PTI satin ribbon

Have a great day!