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