SSS Wednesday Challenge Winter Birthday

Good morning to you all...

After yesterdays beautiful sunshine we are faced with a dull and grey day. Good time to work on a card. :)

I am playing along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week and the theme is Winter Birthday with the use of Lawn Fawn stamps if possible.

I do not have very many Lawn Fawn stamps but I do have a few and managed to use one that worked.

Started with a basic white A2 card. Found this pattern paper from an old paper pack in my stash (you never know what you will find as rarely is anything thrown out) and that seemed to work nicely.

I have used the cute wee penguin from the Lawn Fawn Toboggan Together stamp set with the coordinating die, stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured up with the grand total of three Copic markers. :)

The snowflakes are cut using Spellbinders dies and I have added some Stickles to make them sparkle which I hope you can see in this photo.

The "happy birthday" portion of the sentiment is from the Lawn Fawn die Happy Birthday Border. I simply cut off the end of it and then used the sentiment from the Toboggan Together stamp set.

That is all from me for the moment. Thanks a lot for stopping by and most especially for leaving me your comments. I really appreciate it. Cheers.

  ~  Melanie  ~

Power Poppy Power and Spark Challenge January

And hello once again. :)

It is a glorious day here in eastern Ontario with brilliant sunshine reflecting off the snow. We had a huge storm yesterday that dumped about another 6" of snow on us. If you stand in the field beside my house it is about up to your knees now. So after a walk in the sun and a visit to my chickens to let them have their turn in the sun I headed back to make another card.

This one is another for the Power Poppy Power and Spark Challenge for January. I watched a video on Jennifer McGuire's blog the other day and have used her technique for this card. Thank you for the idea Jennifer. :)

I chose to use that beautiful spray of blossom and pussy willows from the Bloomin' Wonderful stamp set. I stamped on white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then coloured in the image with the Copics shown below.

In her video Jennifer used a coordinating die to cut out the aperture in the two gate fold flaps on the front of her card. Since I did not have a die to use and being the sort of person who occasionally likes to make things as difficult as possible for herself... I chose to fussy cut the opening. 

After tweaking it to my liking several times I passed the two pieces through a lovely swirly embossing folder and adhered to the card. I felt that something was missing so I edged all around the two front flaps with a silver Pilot marker. 

And finally, in order to close it, I added a vellum belly band stamped and embossed in white with the sentiment from Potted Primroses. I did not make the belly band very tight as it would be too difficult to get it past all those little cut out bits. The card more or less stays closed, certainly enough to pop it into an envelope.

Here is a close up of the floral spray inside the card. I do love the look of pale coloured flowers so kept the crocus a pale yellow and the snowdrops have just a tiniest touch of green.

And there you have it. Quite chuffed with the way this turned out and I know just who will be getting this for her birthday.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and of course leaving your comments. It means so much to me. Cheers.

  ~  Melanie  ~

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday 2016 a la Carte

Hello everyone,

I have a simple card, only one layer even... for the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday 2016 a la Carte. I have chosen to use Betsy Veldman's Reverse Stenciling technique. 

I used one of the stencils that came with that fantastic Make It Market kit Garden Gate. 

Over that I layered the leafy branch and the birds from the Songbirds stamp set. The branch and the larger bird were cut with the coordinating dies.

Memento inks were used for everything.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I would love it if you left me your comments. Have a wonderful day. Cheers.

  ~ Melanie ~

Power Poppy Winter Blooms Challenge

Hello everyone,

I have a very simple card that I did today for a dear friend of mine who is not feeling all that well. I decided to use the theme of the Power Poppy Winter Blooms challenge as my design.

I have used two Power Poppy stamp sets for the card. The focal image is one of the smaller little crabapples from the Happy Crabapple set and all the sentiments are from Daffodils. 

Basic 5 x 7 white card base over which I layered some very old pattern paper from my stash.

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured it up with Copics as shown below.

I cut out the crabapples and the mat with Spellbinders Labels 16 dies and popped up the focal image for a bit of dimension.

 A little bit of ribbon and a scattering of pale green pearls and it is done and I can pop it into the mail tomorrow morning.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day. Cheers.

  ~ Melanie ~

Papertrey Ink Create Along with Us December 2016

Hello there everybody,

I have been watching this months release from Papertrey Ink with great interest. I absolutely adore a lot of the stamps and dies this month.

So... for the first time, I am playing along with the Create Along with Us.

I simply love the posts from Kay Miller and Melissa Phillips. Both of these women do such amazing work so I have taken my inspiration from them.

 My card uses Spellbinders heart dies and also a rectangular die.

I used the Papertrey Ink Stitched Sentiments stamp set and tried to recreate the vine of flowers around the edge of the heart. I then added the teeny wee little flowers. I used Memento inks in Pear Tart, Summer Sky, Lulu Lavender and Angel Pink. The heart was stamped in Rose Bud.

The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink Banner Sentiments stamp set and I used Memento Tuxedo Black for that.

I layered everything up using fun foam and a piece of pink ginghamy pattern paper that is from my stash.

Thank you so very much for stopping by and leaving me your comments. Have a wonderful day. Cheers.

 ~ Melanie ~

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #269

Hello everyone,

I have just managed to get this card done in time to get it in the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday challenge and also for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. 

I have used the Papertrey Ink In the Meadow stamp set which is one of my very favourites. I have stamped the three focal images in black and then also stamped a number of the snowflakes which I have embossed in Detail White.

I have them used a Copic marker B93 to outline around he tree, deer and also the largest of the snowflakes. I then used several Tim Holtz Distress Inks to blend some colour onto the top of the card. I was going for the beautiful colours you often see in the night sky. Quite happy with the way it has turned out.

I then added some Stickles to the centre of the large snowflakes and also randomly on the tree.

Finished off with a vellum label on which I stamped the sentiment and embossed in white. 

I added a white snowflake brad to hold the sentiment in place. I bought a package of these brads ages ago and this is the first time I have finally gotten around to using them.

I am hoping that these last two photos will show the sparkle of the Stickles but very much fear that you can barely see them. :(

This was a really fun challenge and I am very happy with the way the card has turned out. Cross one more Christmas card off my list. :)

Thanks so very much for stopping by and leaving me your comments. I read them all and appreciate it so very much. Cheers.

 ~ Melanie ~

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #268

Hello everyone,

Thank you so much for stopping by to visit with me. I certainly hope that all our American friends have had their fill of turkey and thoroughly enjoyed their Thanksgiving celebrations. It is now full steam ahead towards Christmas.

With that in mind I have a tag that I made for the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday Challenge #268 - Double Layer Tags. I chose to make a Christmas tag.

At the moment I only own one Papertrey Ink tag, namely Tag Sale 4 and I used it for the top layer, then used an very old Sizzix die called Oval Combo for the bottom layer using paper from an old Michaels Christmas paper pack.

My focal image on the tag is from the Papertrey Ink stamp set Peaceful Pinecones and I cut out the image with the matching die and stamped it with Memento inks in Cottage Ivy and Rich Cocoa.

I used the Papertrey Ink Double Edged Banner die for the sentiment, also from Peaceful Pinecones, which is stamped in Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink. I added a small heart from Papertrey Ink Love Lives Here Holiday in the same ink. I just LOVE that stamp set.

I used a piece of twine at the top of the tags and also added a red button tied up with the same twine. A really fun and quick project and the second tag layer really adds some interest.

Well that is all from me for tonight. I hope you will take a moment to share your comments with me as I read them all and love hearing from you. Cheers.

  ~ Melanie ~