Quick Birthday Card

Hey!  It's Friday and we've had some snow flurries!  I am not ready for snow.  Heck, the trees just started turning for fall, now its snowing.  Ugh!  I do in home care for seniors during summer breaks and on Sunday's.  I have an elderly lady that I have been working with since last June, and her birthday was yesterday.  She loves her coffee, so I thought this was fitting.

I used all scraps for this card, expect for the die cut coffee cup and label.

I am entering this into the Seize the Birthday.

Have a great weekend!

Heather

Sending you Sunflowers and Sunshine

Good morning!  It's the beginning of September and the shorter days and cooler temps have me thinking of fall.  I adore this set Simple Sunflower stamp set from PTI.  I have used it countless times over the years, and it continues to be one of my favorites.  I was playing around with my Tim Holtz Distress markers with this set.  I colored the stamp and misted with water, which gave it this pretty washed out look.  I played around with different colors for the sunflowers trying to decide which one I was going to go with.  Well, I decided that I loved them all and made three different cards with varying color schemes.   

I am entering the top card in the Sisterhood of Crafters for the "anything goes" challenge.  

I used several PTI dies for each card, and some pretty foiled vellum accents.  The flowers were inked using Tim Holtz Distress markers, misted with water,  and stamped on Tim Holtz watercolor paper.

This one turned out to be my favorite.  I am also entering this one into the Seize the Birthday challenge.  

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather

Birthday Balloons

Happy Saturday!  I am back with a card to share that I created using some of my new PTI stamps and dies.  I layered this darling little tag and topped it off with a couple balloons.  I was going for a more CAS card as the recipient is a no frills kind of gal.  Even the colors were outside of my comfort zone.   

I am entering this into the Seize the Birthday "anything goes" challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather

MFT Color Palette Challenge #3

Spring break has finally arrived and I am off through the 23rd of March.  I know most people travel, but I will be spending my mornings at the gym and afternoons in my craft room.  With all the cold weather we have been having I have gout out of my usual routine of 5-6 days a week at the gym, it has been more like 2 days a week.  When I wake up to negative temps and fresh snow on the ground, it doesn't make me feel like getting out and going to the gym.  Now they are saying we are going to have a cold spring.

I did spend some time this afternoon in my craft room creating for the Mojo Monday sketch challenge and the MFT Color Challenge.  I love these colors so much that I think I will make another tomorrow, using mostly Grapesicle with smaller accents of the other colors.  I know I was supposed to use kraft, but I am not very partial to the darkness it lends to my cards, so I used Natural instead.

SUPPLIES:

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I am not one to link to several challenges at once, but this time I used three.  I wanted to do all of them and it worked.

                                        MFT Color Palette Challenge #3

Mojo Monday sketch Challenge

Seize the Birthday Challenge "Stitching"

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather

Banner Birthday

I have a quick card to share with you that I made last weekend.  There is a super cute banner stamp set and matching die-namics from MFT that I was eager to use.  This was super easy to put together.  It took me longer to decided how I wanted to hang the banners from the twine, than it did to put the rest of the card together.

Seize the Birthday has a challenge going on right now that calls for chevrons.  This MME patterned paper and MFT die-namics was the perfect combination for this challenge.  

SUPPLIES:

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Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather

MFTWSC156

Hello and happy Monday!  How is the weather in your neck of the woods?  It is cold and snowy here.  That didn't stop my friend Marsha and I from getting together for lunch and then some crafty time.  We decided to play along with the MFTWSC sketch.  My sweet blog friend Lisa and I had decided to play along via the internet as well.   

I am in love with my Sweet Roses stamp set from MFT.  I always seem to use these flowers and not the others in the set.  While I still have it out on my desk, I am going to use them next.

Marsha brought over her SU ink pads and let me use them.  I don't have a lot of colored ink pads, just a few I picked up at my local craft store.  I have been doing a lot of coloring the last few years and didn't really need a lot of colored ink pads.

SUPPLIES USED:

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Here is the current sketch over on the MFT blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather