It's Party Time!

Hello. It's been another week! Only a few days until I go back to work, closely followed by the kids coming back. Today I'm sharing a card that I made for a challenge at the Paper Arts Club I attend. Back to my vintage and layered roots with this one.

I used papers from the Graphic 45 Time to Celebrate collection for this card. Graphic 45 is my all-time favorite paper crafting company. I think I own close to every collection they've ever made. Hoarder, you say? Must definitely! Their papers are just too gorgeous to cut.

The cut-apart pages are ideal for making cards. After wrapping a length of white seam binding around the balloon paper and tying a multi-loop bow, I adhered it to my card base. A paper doily was then added. I used foam squares to add the cut-apart over the doily. The balloons were fussy cut from a bit of the balloon paper and also added with foam for dimension. A button tied wth twine was adhered with a glue dot to the bow.

Love all the layers on this card, yet it was quick and easy to make. Hope you like it, too.

Wishing you all a wonderful week. Enjoy!

                                                                       Pam

CAS Birthday Balloons

Another week flew by. It was my first week of 2 1/2 weeks off between summer school & the upcoming school year. I was busy spending time working on my new Nerium skincare business and catching up on some projects. Today I found some time to make some cards for my Paper Arts Club meeting and swap this coming week.

For this CAS birthday card I masked a strip down the side of my card base. Then I stamped a balloon stamp in rainbow colors down the strip. After removing the masking tape, I stamped the sentiment and my CAS one layer card was finished in very little time.

I would like to enter this card into these challenges -

     One Layer Simplicity Challenge #19 - Strip Down

     AAA Card Challenge #46 - Maskerade

     Happy Little Stampers August CAS Challenge - Masking

     Seize the Birthday - with toppings "Anything that Flies"

I have another busy week ahead of me, but I did make more cards today that I  will share later in the week. Have a great week. Enjoy!

                                                                                Pam

Who's Turning 40?

Hello. Yes. It's me. Finally. Summer school is over, my new skincare business is started, the surprise 40th birthday party was celebrated and the scrapbook was given to the birthday girl (to be completly finished later). I feel like I can breathe for the first time in weeks. Here's the birthday girl's card -

Of course, I had to use CAS-ual Fridays WTF stamp set. It's my go-to set for every 40 or 50 year old birthday card I make. I used a rainbow of ink colors on my repeated pattern of 40s surrounding the WTF sentiment. Once again I die cut the panel with SSS Stitched Rectangle Dies and mounted with fun foam onto a card base. For the finishng touch, I added a sprinkling of Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

I would like to enter this card into these challenges -

     Seize the Birthday - no toppings for me

     CAS-ual Fridays Clean & Simple Challenge #142 - Pretty Patterns

Thanks for stopping in and have a great week. Enjoy!

                                                                      Pam

Happy Retirement

Hello. I'm finally back! I've been so busy that half of the summer slipped away and I haven't posted in 2 weeks. I've tried to keep up with everyone's blogs, but if I've missed some lately, I'm sorry. Summers are so busy for all of us, aren't they?

I did find a few minutes to play some more with the Altenew Painted Butterflies and their new ink collections. I used two of their yellow inks to stamp these lovely layered butterflies. Then I used black ink for the outline stamp. The 'happy' is from the  Winnie & Walter The Big, The Bold and The Happy stamp set. I love w&w's Big, Bold series of stamps. You can create any sentiment with all those words. The 'retirement' is from Sweet 'n Sassy Retirement Sentiments. Once again I die cut the panel with Simon Says Stamps Stitched Rectangles and adhered it to a card base. The sequins I used for embellishing are from Pretty Pink Posh. I love Paulina's sequins!

I am entering this card into these challenges:

     Virginia's View Challenge #17 - All Things Embellished
     Shopping Our Stash #212 - Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend - use bling
     Crazy 4 Challenges #297 - Admit You're Happy - use the word 'happy'

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hopefully, I'll be back soon. Enjoy!

                                                              Pam

   

Thanks So Much Butterfly

I have another card to share today using the gorgeous Altenew Butterflies and Prima Brush Strokes stamp sets.

After stamping my brush strokes in some of Altenew's new inks, I used my MISTI to stamp the butterfly with the same inks. I stamped the large solid image first, followed by the outline stamp. I love the look of these beautiful layered stamps and the MISTI makes lining up the layers so easy. Love that fabulous tool and I don't know how we managed without it. 

The sentiment is an old wooden stamp from my stash. The panel was die cut with a SSS Stitched Rectangle Die, creating a frame around the panel. Lastly, the panel was adhered to the card base with fun foam. 

I am entering this into the following challenges:

     Time Out Challenge #35 - Nature with the Optional Twist of Animals

     The Paper Players # 254 - Laurie's CAS Challenge - Frames

     CAS on Sunday #63 - sketch below

Thanks for visiting! Your sweet comments always brighten my day. Have a wonderful week. Enjoy!

                                                                       Pam

July Paper Arts Club Cards

Hello. I set aside some time today to make my cards for my local Paper Arts Club meeting this week. I always enjoy my one evening out every month with friends making cards designed and taught by Lyn Bernatovich of Lyn's Paper Petunia. It's always a fun time creating and learning new techniques.

My 1st card actually turned out to be my least favorite. I was excited about our "Summer Theme" for our swap card, but after many attempts landing in the bin, I settled with this one. The stamp is a NBUS set, Stamplorations Beach Therapy. I attempted to create a beach scene with distress inks, but my antique linen sand looks white in the photo. The images are colored with distress markers. My panel was die cut with SSS Stitched Rectangles, layered over black die cut CS and added to a Hero Arts Earth Notecard.

My second card is for our Everson Museum Christmas tree we decorate and donate every year. I used another NBUS set, SSS with Wplus9 Many Thanks, on my one layer card. Clear Wink of Stella was added for some sparkle, along with sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. You can see the WOS a little better in this photo -

Lastly, my third and favorite card!

Of course, I had to use one of my Bird Crazy birds and my Zig Clean Color Brush Markers. We have a challenge every month and this month was to use this Tic-Tac-Toe board.

I actually combined two lines in my card - the left line down and the diagonal line from bottom left to top right. I watercolored my bird and popped it up on the panel. The sentiment is from the same set I used in this post and was embossed with black EP. Her cute little party hat is also black heat embossed. Once again, I used a stitched rectangle die on the panel that is also adhered with foam. I used another NBUS stamp for the background on my card base, Create A Stamp Arrows. In hindsight, I should have die cut a smaller rectangle so the arrows would show more. Next time. 

I'm entering my cards into these challenges:

Card 1 - Less is More: Week 233 - Life's a Beach!

Card 2 - Color Throwdown #351

              Freshly Made Sketches #195

              One Layer Simplicity - Sparkle & Shine

Card 3 - Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

              CAS-ual Chic: Utterly Adorable Layers #1 - Embossing

If you're still with me, thanks for hanging in! Playdays are always fun. Have a great rest of the weekend. Enjoy!

                                                                         Pam

You Know You're Getting Older

I'm still here! Sorry I've been absent for so long. Almost 2 weeks without a post! Between summer school starting and getting a new skincare business off the ground, I've had very little time to play. Today I'm finally sharing a birthday card I made for a friend and retired co-worker.

Don't you just adore this Art Impressions Deep Breath Birthday stamp? Hobby Lobby now has a few AI stamps in stock. My dear stamping buddy, Rosalie, knew I love this one and grabbed it for me recently. Thank you again, my friend! 

Once again, I used my Zig Clean Color Brush Markers to watercolor. I am totally in love with these markers. The sentiment is is from CTMH Just a Number Occasions set. The inside of the card says -"the candles cost more than the cake!". Too funny!

I am entering this into these challenges:
     Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes!
     Virginia's View Challenge #16 - 100% Stamped
     Take It Make It Challenge: July - 'Take a Stamp' Anything Goes!
     Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Anything Goes!

Thanks for stopping by. I always love reading your comments. Happy Friday tomorrow. Enjoy!

                                                                     Pam