Bits and Pieces

Hi everyone. We've got guests coming for dinner in 15 minutes so I'm just going to have to make this quick. I've made a few cards in the last couple of days that I'd like to share.

  

My mother has given me the ultimatum (?) to make lots of pretty cards this week so she can show off to my aunt LOL So I'm going to be casing a lot of pretty cards I've been eyeing for some time now.

  

Anyway, the cards... I have been trying to resist using my mist too much, but this first card needed that extra touch hehe. It's just a plain white cardstock with Dewey mist over it for the background. Then some cloud die cuts and Fly Away plane and voila! I'm waiting for the day my Fly Away die arrives on my doorstep so I don't have to cut it by hand!!!

   

      

Here's one fresh off my desk-space. I wish I had some neutral buttons! Only just now I have realised I don't have any basic colours for buttons!!! So I had to coordinate it with the base cardstock.

  

  

    And one more for good measure. This one's a case of Nichole Heady's card that I love so much. My Banner Builder set needed some more love recently.

    

 

Ok, better get going. That was some serious speed blogging! Thanks for coming by :)

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

{Happy Birthday Fly Away}

STAMP: [PTI] Fly Away

INK: Versamark (for embossing)

PAPER: [PTI] Stamper's Select White

OTHER: [PTI] Clouds die collection; [Palette] Filigree embossing powder (black); [Copic] Sketch Markers; [Studio Calico] Mister Huey's Color Mists (Dewey, Calico Shine)

{Live Love Laugh}

STAMP: [PTI] Embellishments, Damask Designs

INK: [PTI] Spring Moss, Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo; [SU!] Early Espresso; Versamark

PAPER: [PTI] Vintage Cream, Simply Chartreuse, Berry Sorbet

OTHER: [PTI] Buttons (Simply Chartreuse), Half & Half die collection, Button Twine (Jute); [We R Memory Keepers] Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper (aqua)

{Celebrate Today Banners}

STAMP: [PTI] Fancy Flourishes, Banner Builder, Cupcake Collection

INK: [PTI] Spring Moss, Smokey Shadow; [SU!] Early Espresso

PAPER: [PTI] Vintage Cream, Spring Moss, Aqua Mist

OTHER: [PTI] Banner Builder die collection; [KaiserCraft] Rhinestones; [We R Memory Keepers] Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper (aqua)

 

 

Simplified

Hello again! 

Classes have started again and I haven't much time to share cards for the next couple of months, but I still have a couple left in the stash!

Here's a ridiculously simple looking card I made end of last week with Papertrey Ink's Banner Builders set. I love the set, but I have yet to discover more creative uses for them.

Kraft cardstock & yellow went so well together. I love this card. It is a little fiddly punching holes into the die cuts and putting baker's twine through with buttons and all. Some corners ripped as I tried to pierce holes into them :(

Banners are heat embossed and it turns out clear embossing on Lemon Tart cardstock = subtleness to the max. I also heat embossed the "celebrate" sentiment from Fillable Frames #5 with clear embossing powder at the bottom too. I overheated towards the end and hence the sort of cool looking gradient effect. It was unintended. LOL.

Thanks for coming again and hope everyone has a great week :)

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

STAMP: PTI Banner Builder & Fillable Frame #5

INK: Versamark (for heat embossing)

PAPER: PTI Kraft, Lemon Tart & Summer Sunrise cardstocks

OTHER: Baker's twine, buttons, PTI Banner Builder dies, Filigree clear embossing powder