Be Strong and Take Heart

Good evening!  It was a bright, sunny albeit COLD today today…the perfect kind to be by a warm window in a cozy studio :)  Once dinner went into the slow cooker, I dove into some card making, making good use of the fabulous daylight.  Today’s card is for Stacey’s Curtain Call Colour Challenge.  I needed some more sympathy cards and love using Verve’s Scripture Plain Janes for the them.  This is my newest one :)  Eek!! It’s almost February…this month sure felt long, didn’t it?  Hope your weekend went well.  I was drooling at all the CHA posts over on the Moxie Fab blog…so fun!  One day I’ll get there…it’s on my bucket list :)  Hugs and sweet dreams…

 

what’s in it?

stamps: verve plain jane Psalm 31:24

ink: su chocolate chip

paper: pti white, lavender moon, bitty dot dp, su really rust, espresso

accessories: circle and lacey circle nestabilities, gemstones, seam binding ribbon, thread, pti button

Ticket to Love Forever

 

Good morning dear friends…here is my late Saturday morning post :)  It snowed last night and I’m comfy cozy in my jammies with a coffee, creating the LAST challenge in the Moxie Fab challenges.  It’s for the Monochromatics Color Challenge for Color Inspiration for Card Makers Week in the Moxie Fab World.  And this last one WAS a challenge.  Yes, I’m a “pink” girl, but to juggle only 3 pinks on one card and keep it from looking like I spilled Pepto Bismol in the studio is a challenge.  I’ve been thinking about this card all week and finally sat down to start it last night.  In the morning, with better light, I changed the paper to this PTI pastel paper and added the Tickets to Love :)  I found with a monochromatic cards, it’s best to KISS!!  KWIM?  lol  I was so happy to be able to use this Just the Ticket set again.  It was so fun to mix the little stamps to make tickets :)  I was going to staple the ticket strip down, but forgot!!  I think it looks fine without it…maybe next time.   Yay!!! I’m so happy with how it turned out :)  Now I can go do my Saturday workout in peace!! lol  Have a wonderful day!!

 

what’s in it?

stamps: pti just the ticket

ink: su rose romance, pti raspberry fizz, versafine onyx

paper: pti cream, hibiscus burst, sweet blush, pretty pastels dp

accessories: pti ticket die, heart button (Michaels), bakers twine, gemstones

Love Will Keep Us Together

Yay!!! TGIF everyone!!  Or maybe just if you are a working Monday to Friday gal like myself :)  In the summer, when I’m off, I actually like the week better than the weekend…weird, eh?  First up, thanks so much to EVERYONE for such lovely comments about my debut Diva Dare post yesterday.  You are too sweet :)  Next up is the first February Viva La Verve challenge!!  Yes, we have 4 more days of January, but hey, let’s start the month of Love early!!  I warned Amber it was going to be a girly girly card and here it is! LOL  To pick a stamp for my card, I looked at my new Love Notes set and picked one that hadn’t seen ink yet…trust me, this was difficult as most of them have seen ink and more than once! LOL  I am so in love with Echo Park’s Be Mine collection right now.  This card uses a lot of the pinks so maybe I need to get a little edgier next week with the neutral blacks and greys of this paper!  How do you like that blinged out ribbon?!  LOL  After tying this bow, there was/is glitter all over the studio!!  I also tried another chipboard frame using my labels 16 and square nestabilities dies.  It took 3 passes through the Cuttlebug again like this card, but cut cleanly with a little help from my exacto knife :)  For all the deets on this fun Viva La Verve challenge, head over to the Verve Forum on Splitcoast.  Submit cards for all the month’s challenges and you could win the whole next Verve Stamps release….suh-weet!!  Hope your weekend is starting off right!!  We are skating again this afternoon so it should be a quick, fun day :)  oh, and remember there’s one more day to get your Diva Dare challenge done AND make comments on the other Diva’s posts to win more Verve!  Fun, fun!! 

what’s in it?

stamps: verve love notes

ink: versafine onyx

paper: pti kraft, lavender, raspberry fizz, echo park be mine dp

accessories: circle, square, and labels 16 nestabilities, chipboard coaster, su scallop punch, stitching, blinged out glitter ribbon (Michaels), pti buttons, thread, gemstones

You Go Girl! My January Diva Dare

ETA: the deets about the flowers are at the end of this post :)  Thanks for the overwhelming interest!!

Good morning!!  Today’s post is a special one as it’s my debut on the Diva side of the fabulous new Diva Dare Challenge.  I’m wrapping things up over on the Verve Blog today.  Being the youngest in a family of 6, I’m used to being last…last to grow up, last to graduate, WAY last to get married (lol!).  My ideas for this one kept changing over the week…UNTIL I noticed one of my 7 year old female students wear the sweetest little zippered flower party shoes to school.  I just had to take a picture of them and she kept asking “Why do you need a picture of my shoes?”  Aren’t they fun?

I then thought of my sweet little niece, Ava, who is around the same age.  She is the last girl grandchild in our family so her (and her twin brother!) are the “babies,” no matter what age they are! LOL  So with “zippers,” my sweet and patient-with-the-boys-in-our-class girl students and my sweet “baby girl” niece in mind, I created this card.  I used a stamp from Text Objects to make a black border, then stamped “Baby Girl” from To the Moon in different colours to match the zipper.  I love this “You Go Girl” sentiment from the same To the Moon set.  With zipper flowers on my brain, I wanted to make (YES “make with my own hands with the help of an Etsy tutorial!” lol ) a fun zipper flower hair band to wrap up as a little gift.  I have only one son so I’m always fascinated by how my girl students and niece are wearing their hair on any given day.

Of course, the hair band needs to be wrapped in some fun packaging with a fabulous matching tag…

Oh, I just love using this Sweet Treat stamp with the Sweet Scallop die :)  Here’s a closeup…

I know some of you have already entered this fun, fun contest…but if you haven’t, you have until Midnight (MST) Saturday to do so and win some Verve Goodies…see all the deets on the Verve Blog.  Do you DARE?  lol….just had to add that :)  Have a great Thursday :)  Come back tomorrow for my Viva La Verve card…warning..it’s pretty girly girly!! LOL  Hugs!!

what’s in them?

 

{You Go Girl}

stamps: verve text objects, to the moon

ink: versafine onyx, pti raspberry fizz, su taken with teal, kiwi kiss

paper: pti white

accessories: pti felt, stitching, gemstones, su ribbon, pti button, zipper, bakers twine

 

{Just for You tag}

stamps: verve sweet treats

ink: pti raspberry fizz, versafine onyx

paper: pti raspberry fizz, cream, black, red, basicgrey sugar rush dp

accessories: verve sweet scallop die, pti tag die, circle punch, pti button, ek success border punch, bakers twine, MS felt heart, gemstones, stitching

zipper flower on card tutorial HERE
zipper daisy tutorial bought HERE on Etsy